In a warming world with rising sea levels the densely populated North Sea coasts are becoming increasingly more susceptible to more intense extreme wave events. Therefore, it is crucial to reconstruct past event intensities and chronologies to better assess coastal risks.Unfortunately, our knowledge of the impact of past storm surges and tsunamis on the North Sea coasts is still limited. Geological investigations, including onshore and offshore studies and modelling approaches, can enhance our understanding of the impacts that such events have had in the past, their recurrence through time and the hazard they pose. This session welcomes contributions on all aspects of (paleo-)tsunami and (paleo-)storm surge research, including studies that use established methods or recent interdisciplinary advances to reconstruct records of past events, or forecast the probability of future events.