GENERAL OBJECTIVES

The core challenge of the COST Action GESEM is to unify international efforts to develop and share simple, efficient, and robust tools for estimating and predicting shoreline change at temporal (storms to multi-decadal) and spatial (beach profile to national) scales necessary for coastal managers and public policy-makers

OBJECTIVES

    • Harmonize efforts and products, testing and improving the ability of models to predict
      shoreline changes.
    • Integrate cross-shore and longshore morphodynamic processes, preserving sediment
      balance and taking into account the climate change impacts.
    • Develop standardized and open-source tools, guidelines, and practices.
    • Validate methods and models.
    • Provide results of medium to long-term shoreline evolution at local and regional scales.
    • Dissemination of results.