海洋科学学术讲座预告第312期：How can we realise resilient and climate‐proof coastal protection？

报告内容简介：

One of the urgent challenges of our time is to prepare for the inevitable effects of global climate change. In densely populated deltas around the globe, hard structures such as dikes covered with asphalt are commonly used as coastal protection measure. Such structures are static and will not withstand the rising sea levels and increased storminess.

In this online lecture, I will introduce you into the Living Dikes project, where my team and I are working on a combination of laboratory experiments, field campaigns, model studies and data-mining techniques. We will lift full-grown wetlands into a water tank containing the most powerful wave generator in the world, and expose them to extreme wave conditions. We will deploy Wetland Umbrellas to induce drought-like conditions and deploy the most powerful Mobile wave Flume in the world in a natural wetland. We will record and model wetland behaviour at contrasting locations, enhanced by field data gathered by our Storm Chase Team. This will provide the validation data needed for the worldwide applicability. The Nature-Based Coastal Protection Academy will enable sharing of experiences and building up the research field.