Assessing the multi-temporal coastal evolution in different morpho-dynamic contexts is a challenge of high scientific value in climate change studies. Considering that global sea level will rise over the next millennia with a magnitude depending on the warming level, it is fundamental to foresee the effects on the coastal areas around the world.
In this context, examining past climate changes is essential for generating possible future scenarios and determining the extent of human influence on these shifts up to the present-day. Although millennial changes in coastal landscapes were primarily driven by relative sea-level variations resulting from global, regional, and local forces (i.e. tectonics, isostasy, volcanism), and surface processes (i.e. erosion, transport, and sedimentation), human activity also played a significant role in shaping these changes.
Consequently, the collection of paleo-sea level and paleo-environmental records is crucial to shed new light on the impacts of past climate changes on modern populations and the effects of surface processes at the social level. These results can also be supported by the ongoing technological progresses that allow marine scientists to collect large volumes of data and the fast development of new Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning tools applied to data analysis.
This session that comes for the collaboration between INQUA-ONSEA project and Coastal Geoarchaeology IAG – Working group wants to face these very topical issues by welcoming contributions on recent advancements on Quaternary coastal paleo-landscape reconstructions from the onshore to the offshore, as well as studies on regional and local coastal modification that followed relative sea-level changes or extreme events in historical and recent times. The main topics are:
• From field data to modelling approaches for paleo-landscape reconstruction;
• Past to future Sea-level changes and coastal responses;
• New technologies and AI in marine and coastal studies;
• Response of past and modern urbanized coastal sectors against quick to sudden sea-flooding by extreme wave events (e.g. tsunamis, tropical cyclones, etc.)
• New perspectives for Geoarchaeological studies of coastal areas;
• Recent and past climatic influence on coastal modification;
• Analyzing coastal landscapes from backshore to offshore.