The Geomorphology and Active Tectonics Research (GEAR) Laboratory organized the second annual meeting of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) 725: Forecasting Coastal Change from 28 September to 4 October 2024. The 2-day conference (Sep 29-30) was held at the Ikeda Hall (Balay Kalinaw/Internasyonal) and gathered 80 coastal scientists and researchers from Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. The IGCP 725 meeting in the Philippines was funded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), International Geoscience Programme (IGCP), Past Global Changes (PAGES), UP Office of International Linkages, National Institute of Geological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, and Virginia Institute of Marine Science, with additional support from the Cordillera Exploration Company, Inc., Office of the Senate President, and Office of the City Mayor, Quezon City. The 2025 IGCP 725 Third Annual Meeting will be held in Ghana.
Local and international participants of the IGCP 725 meeting in the Philippines.
A 3-day post-conference field trip followed where participants visited coastal geological sites in La Union and Ilocos Norte from Oct 01 to Oct 04. Workshops on coral microatolls for relative sea-level reconstruction and foraminifera for coastal hazard studies were led by Dr. Aron Meltzner (Nanyang Technological University) and Dr. Jessica Pilarczyk (Simon Fraser University, respectively.
Participants visited the fossil coral microatolls in La Union, Holocene marine terraces in Ilocos Norte, and the carbonate boulder field in Ilocos Norte.
The IGCP Project 725 is a 5-year project funded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The key scientific aim of the project is to improve the predictive capacity of numerical models to fore- and hind-cast coastal change using appropriate and robust field and laboratory data, with a view towards directly informing management of the coastal zone. Through annual meetings, scientists from all over the world and from various sub-disciplines of geosciences come together to share and discuss the latest developments and ‘best practices’ in modeling coastal processes.
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