9th Annual Irish Sea Level Meeting

Time

Speaker

Institute

Title

9.00-9.30

Registration, Tea - sponsored by 

9.30 – 9.40

Welcome – Prof. Laoise McNamarra, School of Engineering

9.40 – 11.10

Chair: Indie Olbert

UG

Session 1 – Global/regional modelling

9.40 – 10.05

Matthew Palmer

Met Office, UK

Keynote: Quantifying UK coastal flood exposure under future sea-level rise to 2300

10.05 – 10.20

Tomasz Dabrowski

MI

Tide and surge modelling in Irish waters

10.20 – 10.35

Ryan McGeady

Met Eireann

Science into Service: Coastal Flood Forecasting at Met Éireann

10.35 – 10.50

Enda O’Brien

ICHEC

High-resolution sea-level modelling

10.50 – 11.05

Mohamed Javad Alizadeh

UG

Development of AI- driven sea level forecast

11.05 – 11.35

Tea break - sponsored by  

11.35 – 13.00

Chair: Gerard McCarthy

Session 2 – Sea level observations

11.35 – 12.00

Xuebin Zhang

CSIRO, AU

Keynote: Progress and gaps in regional sea-level projections

12.00 – 12.15

Alan Berry

MI

Marine Institute’s Tidal and Sea-level Data: Collection, Curation and Collaboration

12.15 – 12.30

Patrick McLoughlin

MU

A Century of Mean Sea-Level Change in Ireland (1925–2024)

12.30 – 12.45

Robin Edwards

TCD

Modelling glacioisostatic adjustment in Ireland: implications for tide gauge records and the projection of future sea level change

12.45 – 13.00

Joanne Williams

NOC, UK

Extreme Events recorded by UK Tide Gauges, 1915-2025

13.00 – 13.15

Alexander Shchepetkin

UG

Irish tidal gauge analysis of long term extreme events

13.15 – 13.50

Lunch - sponsored by

13.50 – 15.15

Chair: Tomasz Dabrowski

MI

Session 3 – Local scale modelling of sea levels

13.50 – 14.15

Peter Robins

Bangor University, UK

Keynote: Impacts of sea level change in estuaries

14.15 – 14.30

Gerard McCarthy

MU

Hazard and exposure from sea level rise on Ireland’s coast

14.30 – 14.45

Steven Nash

UG

Evaluating marine vegetation as a nature-based solution for coastal erosion control

14.45 – 15.00

Vimalan Adaikalanathan

UCC

A Multiscale Computational Fluid Dynamics Framework for Simulating Extreme Wave Events

15.00 – 15.15

Tasneem Ahmed

 CNR, IT/ATU Sligo

High-Resolution Storm Surge Modelling for Sea Level Forecasting and Future Extreme Sea Level Projections in Northwest Ireland

15.15 – 15.45

Tea break – sponsored by

15.45 – 17.10

Chair: Niamh Cahill

MU

Session 4 – Coastal activities and NBS

15.45 – 16.10

Mohamed Oraby Omar

UCD

Adaptive Capacity of Oyster Reefs under Rising Sea Levels and Extreme Storm Forcing

16.10 – 16.25

Naga V Sudha Rani Nalakurthi

ATU

Sea-Level Rise, Storm Surge Extremes and Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Climate Resilience in Northwest Ireland: A Sligo Case Study

16.25 – 16.40

Md Sallaudin

UCD

Building Coastal Resilience with Nature-based and Eco-Engineered Coastal Protections under Changing Climate 

16.40 – 16.55

 Indiana Olbert

UG

Potential for climate adaptation in Galway City

17:10

End Day 1

19:00 -22:00

Dinner (self-funded)

Hardiman Hotel ‘MacNeills Restaurant’

Time

Speaker

Institute

Title

9.00-9.30

Tea – sponsored by

9.30 – 10.50

Chair: Robin Edwards

TCD

Session 5 – Socio-economic impacts

9.30 – 9.45

James Carrolll

Central Bank

Floodwater to Finance: Economic Impact Assessment of Coastal Flooding under Project TideLine

9.45 – 10.00

Tom Gillespie

UG

Assessment of flood damages

10.10 – 10.15

Ronan O’Reilly

GCC

Galway City flood defence systems

10.15 – 10.30

Niam Cahill

MU

Plans for estimating and projecting population exposure to sea-level rise in Ireland.

10.30 – 10.55

Sanne Muis

VU Amsterdam

Keynote: Projections of extreme sea levels and flooding for global assessment of damage and adaptation

10.50 – 11.20

Tea break - sponsored by

11.20 – 13.30

Chair: Robert Devoy

UCC

Session 6 – Is Ireland Prepared for Accelerating Future SLR?

11.20 – 11.40

Eugene Farell

UG

Managing Coastal Risks in Ireland

11.40 – 12.00

Karen Wiltshire

TCD

Getting Sea Level Rise information right- how do we move forward in Ireland?

12.00 – 12.20

Catriona Duffy

Met Eireann

Coordinating Sea Level projections from an NFCS perspective

12.20 – 12.40

Dervla McAuley

EPA

SLR, coastal risk, and the National Climate Change Risk Assessment

12.40 – 13.30

Robert Devoy

UCC

Session 7 – Panel discussion - Is Ireland Prepared for Accelerating Future SLR?

End Day 2 - Close