Schedule

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Day 1: Monday, June 25, 2018

Registration and Breakfast: 7:30-8:30, Campion Hall

Opening Remarks: 8:45-9:00 Campion Hall

Plenary Talk: 9:00-9:30, Campion Hall " Improving Forecasting through 4D-Var Data Assimilation and Observing System Impacts (or how I learned to stop worrying and love observations)", Brian Powell

NOTE:
All "A" sessions will be held in Pigott 101
All "B" sessions will be held in Pigott 102

Topic: 1A Specific Estuarine and Coastal Systems

09:45-10:45 Session Leader: Juan Rueda-Bayona

• 09:45 " Detailed hydrodynamic feasibility assessment for Leque Island restoration project", Adi Nugraha
• 10:05 " Investigating controlling factors of estuarine stratification over a tidal inlet", Linlin Cui
• 10:25 " Hydro-morphodynamic Modeling of a Tropical River Delta: Magdalena River", Juan Rueda-Bayona

Topic: 1B Coupled Systems

09:45-10:45 Session Leader: Christine Szpilka

• 09:45 " Total Water Level Prediction for Compound Inland and Coastal Flooding", Lei Shi
• 10:05 " Integrating Hydrologic and Storm Surge Simulation to Improve Evaluation of Flooding Risk in Amite River Basin", Shu Gao
• 10:25 " Community Resilience Planning for Coastal Flooding under Climate Change: Development and Application of a Coupled Model System", Christine Szpilka

Break: 10:45-11:15

Topic: 2A Specific Estuarine and Coastal Systems

11:15-12:15 Session Leader: Adi Nugraha

• 11:15 " Non-Traditional Haline Circulation in Newtown Creek, NY: Hydrodynamic Modeling and Data Analysis", Nicholas Kim
• 11:35 " Development of a 3-D temperature model for Hells Canyon Reservoir: A model application study", Adi Nugraha

Topic: 2B Coastal Flooding

11:15-12:15 Session Leader: Nathan Dill

• 11:15 " Storm surge propagation in small tidal rivers during storms of mixed coastal and fluvial influence", Liv Herdman
• 11:35 " Predicting Risk in a Changing Climate", Nickitas Georgas
• 11:50 " Monte Carlo synthesis of coastal flood hazards and probabilistic sea level rise projections for the Maine coast", Nathan Dill

Lunch: 12:15-13:30

Topic: 3A Water Quality

13:30-14:30 Session Leader: James Bowen

• 13:30 " Development of Plug-In Water Quality Libraries for Two and Three Dimensional Estuarine and Coastal Models", Dan Rucinski
• 13:50 " Simulating Phytoplankton and Assessing the impact of uniqueness of water quality model kinetic parameters on nutrient reduction in the tidal James River, Virginia, USA", Jian Shen
• 14:10 " Water Quality Model Calibration via a Full-Factorial Analysis of Algal Growth Kinetic Parameters", James Bowen

Topic: 3B Coastal Flooding

13:30-14:30 Session Leader: Matthew Bilskie

• 13:30 " Incorporating Rainfall into Storm Surge Prediction for Hurricane Irma using WRF and CaMEL", Kyra Bryant
• 13:50 " Development of Probabilistic Extra Tropical Storm Surge (P-ETSS) Past, Present and Future", Arthur Taylor
• 14:10 " Development of a Computationally Efficient Unstructured Mesh For Use in Real-Time Forecasting of Hurricane Storm Surge", Matthew Bilskie

Break: 14:30-15:00

Topic: 4A Water Quality

15:00-16:00 Session Leader: Alexey Katin

• 15:00 " High-resolution water quality model in the urban tidal freshwater Delaware River", Kinman Leung
• 15:20 " Cumulative Effects Assessment for Restoration Projects in the Skagit River Delta", Jonathan Whiting
• 15:40 " Modeling biophysical controls on hypoxia for the Neuse River Estuary using a Bayesian framework", Alexey Katin

Topic: 4B Coastal Flooding

15:00-16:00 Session Leader: Kendra Dresback

• 15:00 " High-Resolution Modeling of Surge during Hurricane Matthew (2016)", Ajimon Thomas
• 15:20 " Development and Application of a Parametric Rainfall Model, P-CLIPER", Kendra Dresback

Posters and Reception: 16:30-18:30 Silver Cloud Hotel-Broadway

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Day 2: Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Breakfast: 7:30-8:45, Campion Hall

Plenary Talk: 9:00-9:30, Campion Hall " Interactive, Scalable, Data-Proximate Analysis of Model Data in the Cloud", Rich Signell

NOTE:
All "A" sessions will be held in Pigott 101
All "B" sessions will be held in Pigott 102

Topic: 5A Data Assimilation

09:45-10:45 Session Leader: Fearghal O'Donncha

• 09:45 " A data assimilation scheme and its application coupled with ADCIRC tidal model", Lei Shi
• 10:05 " Impacts of temperature and salinity assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter on simulated chlorophyll and hypoxia in Osaka Bay, Japan", Masayasu Irie
• 10:25 " Scalable data assimilation schemes within nested recursive parallel programming model for advection-diffusion codes", Fearghal O'Donncha

Topic: 5B Coastal Resilience

09:45-10:45 Session Leader: Meng Xia

• 9:45 " Coastal Marsh Response to Sea Level Rise along the mid-Atlantic coast of the US", Karim Alizad
• 10:05 " Wave-current based storm surge modeling of a shallow lagoon-inlet-coastal system", Meng Xia

Break: 10:45-11:15

Topic: 6A Sediment Transport

11:15-12:15 Session Leader: David Fissel

• 11:15 " Sediment Transport Model Including Short-Lived Radioisotopes: Model Description and Idealized Test Cases", Justin Birchler
• 11:35 " New York/New Jersey Harbor Sedimentation Study", Tate McAlpin
• 11:55 " Modeling the Transport and Fate of Sediments Released from Marine Construction Projects in the Coastal Waters of British Columbia, Canada", David Fissel

Topic: 6B Operational Modeling

11:15-12:15 Session Leader: Malcolm Spaulding

• 11:15 " Real Time Decision Support with ADCIRC", Jason Fleming
• 11:35 " Coupling of Hazards to Evacuation/Sheltering Models: Development and Application of the Integrated Scenario-Based Evacuation Framework", Randall Kolar
• 11:55 " STORMTOOLS Design Elevation (SDE) Maps: including the impact of sea level rise", Malcolm Spaulding

Lunch: 12:15-13:30

Topic: 7A Numerical Techniques

13:30-14:30 Session Leader: Hansong Tang

• 13:30 " Development of a coupled modeling system to simulate ocean-wave-sediment-vegetation response to storms in a back barrier setting",Tarandeeep Kalra
• 13:50 " Tidal variation in sediment distribution in an idealized estuarine model in response to cohesive dynamics", Danielle Tarpley
• 14:10 " Towards high-fidelity simulation of coastal engineering flow problems", Hansong Tang

Topic: 7B Operational Modeling

13:30-14:30 Session Leader: Zizang Yang

• 13:30 " The near real time West Coast Operational Forecast System: sensitivity to open boundary conditions", Jiangtao Xu
• 13:50 " New Observational and Modeling Capabilities to Improve NOAA’s Real-Time Tsunami Forecast", Yong Wei
• 14:10 " Model Development of NOAA's Integrated Northern Gulf of Mexico Operational Forecast Systems", Zizang Yang

Break: 14:30-15:00

Topic: 8A Pollutant Transport

15:00-16:00 Session Leader: Phil Duzinski

• 15:00 " Three-dimensional Initial Mixing and Transport Modeling of Discharges through Dynamic Coupling with a Circulation Model: Salish Sea Plume Module Development", Lakshitha Premathilake
• 15:20 " Oil Spill Risk Analysis in the Gulf of Mexico", Zhen-Gang (Jeff) Ji
• 15:40 " Tidally-induced dispersion and tidally-correlated exchange flow transport mechanisms in the upper Delaware Estuary", Phil Duzinski

Topic: 8B Operational Modeling

15:00-16:00 Session Leader: Eric Anderson

• 15:00 " A Community-based Modeling Approach in Support of Integrated Water Prediction", Carolyn Lindley
• 15:20 " EFDC-MPI: An open source code for parallel simulation of hydro-environmental processes with data assimilation", Scott James
• 15:40 " Ice Forecasting in the Next-Generation Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (GLOFS)", Eric Anderson

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Day 3: Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Breakfast: 7:30-8:45, Campion Hall

Plenary Talk: 9:00-9:30, Campion Hall " ECM Past, Present and Future", Malcolm Spaulding

NOTE:
All "A" sessions will be held in Pigott 101
All "B" sessions will be held in Pigott 102

Topic: 9A Numerical Techniques

09:45-10:45 Session Leader: Pengfei Xue

• 09:45 " Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) Based Shallow Water Model for Large Scale Geophysical Flows in Cartesian and Spherical Coordinates", Gaurav Savant
• 10:05 " High-order transport scheme for unstructured-grids and its application in a cross-scale simulation coupling the eddying ocean and coastal waters", Fei Ye
• 10:25 " A Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Particle Model for Ecosystem Simulation in Sandusky Bay", Pengfei Xue

Topic: 9B Climate Change

09:45-10:45 Session Leader: Dmitry Dukhovskoy

• 09:45 " Effects of Climate Change and Port Development on the Fraser River Estuary", Albert Leung
• 10:05 " Circulation patterns for the North Sea at the end of the 21st century", Diana Martins
• 10:25 " Pathways of Greenland freshwater in coastal regions", Dmitry Dukhovskoy

Break: 10:45-11:15

Topic: 10A Numerical Techniques

11:15-12:15 Session Leader: Taylor Asher

• 11:15 " A Mass-Conservative Finite-Element Numerical Code for Three Dimensional Flows", Gaurav Savant
• 11:35 " Novel Data Assimilation Technique for Operational Storm Surge Modeling", Taylor Asher

Topic: 10B Tides and Energy

11:15-12:15 Session Leader: Surupa Shaw

• 11:15 " VDatum Spatially Varying Uncertainty in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico", Liujuan Tang
• 11:35 " Modeling Tidal Datums and Spatially Varying Uncertainties in Texas and western Louisiana", Wei Wu
• 11:55 " Ocean Energy: A Review of Approaches Affecting Site Selection", Surupa Shaw

Lunch: 12:15-13:30

Topic: 11A Waves

13:30-14:30 Session Leader: Zhaoqing Yang

• 13:30 " Assessment of two wave models on a coastal breakwater", Amin Ilia
• 13:50 " Modeling Storm Surge and Waves in the Salish Sea", Zhaoqing Yang

Topic: 11B Circulation

13:30-14:30 Session Leader: Tarang Khangaonkar

• 13:30 " Baroclinic Effect on Modeling Deep Flow in Brown Passage, BC, Canada", (Andy) Yuehua Lin
• 13:50 " Coastal Modeling in Support and Light Rail Operations on the I-90 Floating Bridge", Christopher Day
• 14:10 " Characterization of the Zone of Influence due to a Floating Structure in a Fjordal Estuary - Hood Canal Bridge Impact Assessment", Tarang Khangaonkar

Break: 14:30-15:00

Topic: 12A Analysis and Visualization

15:00-16:00 Session Leader: Richard Signell

• 15:00 " "gridded": Grid Agnostic Data Analysis and Visualization of Oceanographic Model Results with Python", Chris Barker
• 15:20 " A Temperature Forecasting System as an Adaptive Management Tool for Optimization of Power Generation", Venkat Kolluru

Topic: 12B Specific Estuarine and Coastal Systems

15:00-15:40 Session Leader: Keaton Jones

• 15:00 " A Study of Hydrodynamics and Mixing in the Saint John River Estuary Combining Field Data and Numerical Modelling", Ivana Vouk
• 15:20 " Numerical Modeling of the Lake Washington System", Keaton Jones

Planning for ECM16 and Closing Remarks: 15:40-16:00, Piggot 101

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Poster Presentations

• " NOS Operational Storm Surge Modeling", Yuji Funakoshi
• " Effect of local wind forcing on the accuracy of extreme wave prediction", Gabriel Garcia Medina
• " Hurricane Irma simulation at South Florida using the parallel CEST Model", Yuepeng Li
• " Oil Spill Risk Analysis in the U.S. Arctic Outer Continental Shelf", Zhen Li
• " Global tide-circulation-storm surge simulations by ADCIRC: A case study for Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico", Miaohua Mao
• " Behavior Analysis of Scum Deposited from a Combined Sewer System in Urban Rivers", Yusuke Nakatani
• " Co-evolution of Coastal Natural and Human-Engineered Systems: Making Decisions under Uncertainty", Donatella Pasqualini
• " Modeling wave-current interaction in Puget Sound", Taiping Wang
• " Analysis of Wave Climates in the U.S. West Coast using a Multi-Scale, Nested-Grid Modeling Approach", Wei-Cheng Wu
• " Application of Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI) to Providence and the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier", Emilie Zarba