Conference: Understanding Projections of Sea Level Change and the Drivers

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Abstract

Sea level projections have impacts on coastal adaptation decision-making within the United States and around the world. Producing usable projections of future global, local and extreme sea-level change requires harmonizing and integrating information from different types of observations and models. It also requires assessing the likelihood of different outcomes under both different potential future scenarios and different sets of structural modeling assumptions. The goal of this workshop is to understand recent and ongoing progress related to projecting sea-level change and its drivers, as well as user perspectives on what has and has not worked in the use and communication of prior sea-level projections. The workshop will focus both on process understanding and on the ability to derive statistical and/or physical relationships from process understanding. The workshop will also feature discussions of prospects for future observations over the next couple of decades to reduce uncertainties in long-term projections. Early career scientists will be encouraged to participate, and mentoring opportunities will be provided. With this workshop, the American Geophysical Union aims to synthesize the current state of the science on sea level projections in a manner that builds an actionable roadmap to the next generation of integrated sea-level projections. To do so requires understanding of how models and observations are integrated, as well as assessing the probability of differe

Key facts

NSF award ID
2538932
Awardee
American Geophysical Union (DC)
SAM.gov UEI
QSTAN1HJRXJ5
PI
Billy M Williams
Primary program
01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS
Estimated total
$99,960
Funds obligated
$99,960
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
08/15/2025 → 07/31/2026