On 20 Nov, ERDC-CHL staff members Dr. Nicholas Kraus and Julie Rosati presented a paper titled, Sea Level Rise and Associated Hazards for Coastal Cities; Coastal Engineering Considerations, at the Coastal Cities Summit Conference in Tampa, FL. This international conference was attended by coastal city leaders, managers, academics, and practitioners from a wide variety of fields dealing with the changes and adaptations required by global climate change.

The context of the conference was that approximately 2.7 billion people, more that 40 percent of the world's population, live in coastal cities. In 1995, an estimated 50 million people moved to US coastal zones. Seventeen port cities in the US have populations exceeding one million. The CHL presentation gave examples of coastal engineering consequences associated with sea level rise for both navigation and shore protection.