Call for Satellite/In Situ Coastal Observing Abstracts! American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2025

Call all in the coastal observing community!  We welcome you to attend the AGU 2025 meeting (December 15-19, 2025 in New Orleans, LA) and encourage you to submit an abstract by July 30th (23:59 EDT) to this CEOS COAST-VC and CoastPredict jointly sponsored session:  OS021 – Satellite and In Situ Observations in Support of the Prediction of Coastal Hazard Impacts for Enhancing the Resilience of Coastal Communities

Submit an Abstract to this Session HERE   

This session highlights the advancements in integrating satellite and in situ observations with coastal models to enhance community resilience to ocean hazards. Outcomes will focus on furthering Early Warning Systems for coastal hazards (eg., tsunamis, storm surges, marine heatwaves, biogeochemical hazards), AI/ML model training and climate downscaling validation/calibration. We invite contributions on relevant coastal models,
observations, data assimilation, applications, Digital Twins customized for driving forward science-based management practices and Nature Based Solutions. We also welcome trans-disciplinary contributions that showcase how science protects and strengthens coastal communities through combining environmental, socioeconomic, management and policy aspects of coastal resilience. Early Career Ocean Professionals and Global South researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts. The session is organized by the Program “CoastPredict: observing and predicting the Global Coastal Ocean” (affiliated with the Global Ocean Observing System), and the “Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Coastal Observations Applications Services and Tools Virtual Constellation (CEOS COAST-VC)”.

Primary Convener:  Vassiliki Kourafalou,  University of Miami

Conveners:  Paul M DiGiacomo,  NOAA;  Joaquin Tintore, Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB); Aletta Yñiguez,  University of the Philippines

Student/Early Career Convener:  Ivan Federico,  Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

Attending ESA LPS? Check out all the great stuff GEO AquaWatch is a part of from Sunday-Thursday!

🌐🛰️📣Arriving early to the ESA Living Planet Symposium #LPS25 in Vienna, Austria? CEOS COAST is hosting a FREE 80-minute tutorial, demonstrating novel coastal satellite data products. Learn more about what CEOS COAST has to offer coastal natural resource managers and decision-makers! 

📃F.02.20 TUTORIAL – CEOS COAST Demo: Novel coastal satellite data products

🗓Sunday June 22nd, 14:00-15:30 local time

📍Hall L3

⚒️Mobile device to participate in audience polling – no other equipment required

Moderated by Aurelien Carbonniere (CNES, CEOS-COAST Co-Lead) with demonstrations by @CNES, @NOAASatellites, @ESA, @Geoscience Australia, @CSIRO, @ISRO

As a new Virtual Constellation within the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, the Coastal Observations, Applications, Services, and Tools team work together across agencies to co-design new user-demanded coastal products and to test them in 6 pilot regions around the world. With stakeholders involved in the co-design process, the products are guaranteed to be useful and easy to use. COAST also works to improve the quality of existing coastal satellite data.   All products are freely and publicly available via the COAST Application Knowledge Hub, which provides access to a wealth of other publicly accessible data and information on coastal regions which may be of interest to coastal users. 

The tutorial will include:

  • Navigating the Application Knowledge Hub 
  • Shoreline mapping  and Intertidal Elevation products
  • Coastal water quality products 
  • Chlorophyll a and sediment products
  • Materials to take home to access the portal and products after the tutorial and meeting.  

Join us for the GEOValue Agora session, taking place on Monday 23 June from 12:30 at 13:15.   GEOAquaWatch members will serve as contributors and panelists!  F.05.06 GEOValue: an international community focusing on the value of geospatial information for decision making

  • Description: GEOValue is a multi-disciplinary international community pursuing evidence-based methodologies to assess the use and value of Earth Observations (EO). The community is managed by a steering committee with representatives from ESA, EARSC, NOAA, USGS and NASA and gathers together an extended network of experts and analysts. The group has been tasked by the GEO to develop an impact assessment toolkit that can help users and service providers to reflect upon the benefits of exploiting EO-based solutions for different purposes and across different organisations. The proposed session will call for people at the LPS (companies, agencies, researchers, consultants) interested in the topic of EO impact assessments to discuss with GEOValue experts how they might apply the toolkit to assess the impacts of their activities on users and society.

SeughHyun Son (UMD) et al., poster: Satellite Observations of Long-term Water Quality Properties using Improved Algorithms in the Chesapeake Bay
A.08.10 – POSTER – Coastal Ocean and Land-sea interaction
Date: Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025 (Day 3)
Board: G07               ID: 5489
https://eo4society.esa.int/lps2025/PostersLPS.pdf


@CSIRO’s Alex Held is also co-chairing a special session titled “The Role of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy and Drone-based Calibration Data for Integrated Freshwater and Coastal Monitoring”:

📃B.02.09

🗓Thursday June 26th, 14:00-15:30 local time

📍Hall G2

Based in the Americas? Join us for AMERIGEO Week August 11-16 (in person and hybrid)

If you are based in the western hemisphere (North, Central, Latin America  US/Canada/Caribbean) you may wish to join us for the FREE hybrid AMERIGEO meeting!  All Earth Observation aspects will be shared in these special sessions over several days, including some applicable to water quality!  All are welcome.

AmeriGEO Week 2025 website (https://www.igac.gov.co/semana-amerigeo-2025) and registration link (https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/f863d3713be840599c2061fa59f6afc9) are now live.

Please note that AmeriGEO Week 2025 is hybrid (with English/Spanish simultaneous translation), no cost, and open to the global community.  The AmeriGEO leadership team will soon share the call for poster abstracts for the hybrid presentation session at the event.  We encourage all members (from students to seasoned researchers) to share their work through this hybrid poster session!

Upcoming meetings for AFRIGEO, EUROGEO and AOGEO are also scheduled for researchers who work on Earth Observation in other parts of the world.

Attending ESA LPS 2025? Check out the CEOS COAST-VC Tutorial and AquaWatch Australia Special Session!

 

🌐🛰️📣Arriving early to the ESA Living Planet Symposium #LPS25 in Vienna, Austria? CEOS COAST is hosting a FREE 80-minute tutorial, demonstrating novel coastal satellite data products. Learn more about what CEOS COAST has to offer coastal natural resource managers and decision-makers! 

📃F.02.20 TUTORIAL – CEOS COAST Demo: Novel coastal satellite data products

🗓Sunday June 22nd, 14:00-15:30 local time

📍Hall L3

⚒️Mobile device to participate in audience polling – no other equipment required

Moderated by Aurelien Carbonniere (CNES, CEOS-COAST Co-Lead) with demonstrations by 

@CNES, @NOAA, @ESA, @Geoscience Australia, @CSIRO, @ISRO

As a new Virtual Constellation within the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, the Coastal Observations, Applications, Services, and Tools team work together across agencies to co-design new user-demanded coastal products and to test them in 6 pilot regions around the world. With stakeholders involved in the co-design process, the products are guaranteed to be useful and easy to use. COAST also works to improve the quality of existing coastal satellite data.   All products are freely and publicly available via the COAST Application Knowledge Hub, which provides access to a wealth of other publicly accessible data and information on coastal regions which may be of interest to coastal users. 

The tutorial will include:

    • Navigating the Application Knowledge Hub 
    • Shoreline mapping  and Intertidal Elevation products
    • Coastal water quality products 
    • Chlorophyll a and sediment products
    • Materials to take home to access the portal and products after the tutorial and meeting.  

@CSIRO’s Alex Held is also chairing a special session titled “The Role of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy and Drone-based Calibration Data for Integrated Freshwater and Coastal Monitoring”:

📃B.02.09

🗓Thursday June 26th, 14:00-15:30 local time

📍Hall G2