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THESEUS Project: Innovative Coastal Technologies for Safer European Coasts

Learn about THESEUS, an FP7 project working to create safer coastal areas in Europe as sea levels rise and climates change. Discover the aims, team, study sites, and innovative approaches.

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THESEUS Project: Innovative Coastal Technologies for Safer European Coasts

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  1. THESEUS in S. Devon- Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate Dr Dave Simmonds, Coastal Engineering Research Group.

  2. Outline: Project aims What is UoP / GB involvement? Activity in S. Devon study site Meeting label, Place , date

  3. THESEUS at a glance • FP7 - Large Integrated Project • 48 months • Started 01/12/2009 • 31 partners from 18 countries • Lead: Barbara Zanuttigh, Università di Bologna (Italy) • http://www.theseusproject.eu

  4. THESEUS team members (31 partners)

  5. Aim “deliver a safe (or low-risk) coast for human use/development and healthy coastal habitats as sea levels rise and climate changes and the European economy continues to grow”

  6. THESEUS baselines

  7. Novelty? S-P-R-C Linkage: engineering – ecology – socio-economics Decision Support Software

  8. Time slices: 2020, 2050, 2080 THESEUS workpackages

  9. Study sites Vistula delta plain Plymouth Soundto Exe estuary Elbe Estuary Scheldt Estuary Po delta and adjoining coast Gironde Santander Spit Varna spit

  10. THESEUS products • THESEUS software for defence planning strategies • THESEUS guidelines • Dissemination of results: risk communication implementation of EU Flood directive

  11. Decision Support System THESEUS kick-off meeting, Venice, December 9-11, 2009

  12. GB Site Team Richard Thompson Edmund Penning Rowsell Rob Nichols Dominic Reeve Simon Hoggart Raul Gonzalez Dave Simmonds Andrew Fox Shunqi Pan

  13. Study site : Teign Estuary

  14. SPRC methodology

  15. Offshore total sea level (TSL) Offshore wave climate source Boundary element River discharge Wave climate link Coastal wave climate node TSL+velocity node Level+velocity link Beach

  16. Overtopping inside estuary Mid-term conditions (2040-2069)

  17. Flood maps (present conditions – RP 1/200)

  18. Flood maps (mid-term conditions – RP 1/200)

  19. Flood maps (long-term conditions – RP 1/200)

  20. Habitat Map

  21. Habitat Teign Estuary Interaction between sea level rise and topography and the potential implications for habitat types. Sections A, B and C represent different hypothetical habitat types. Scenario 1 shows no change in area for each habitat type under an elevated sea level. Scenario 2 shows that the area for all habitat types is reduced under an elevated sea level. Scenario 3 shows that the area of habitat type C is increased under elevated an elevated sea level.

  22. Ecological enhancement Shaldon flood defence scheme

  23. Socioeconomic Consequences Railway Area Mid-term conditions (2040-2069)

  24. Thank you for listening THESEUS kick-off meeting, Venice, December 9-11, 2009

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