Coastal Dynamics - Einzelansicht

This course is meant to provide future practitioners with a holistic understanding of coastal change and its implications. It is geared towards students in several fields taught at the university, including geoscience, remote sensing and geoecology

1) Skills:
The students will learn basic concepts of coastal geomorphology and coastal processes. They will learn about the relevance of these processes in the real world and the methods used to study and/or address them

2) Methods:
The students will learn how to quantitatively analyze wave dynamics, sediment transport and coastline dynamics

3) The students will be able to use the skills taught in the course to devise holistic studies of coastal dynamics, understanding coastal processes and their implications for coastal management 

The lecture will cover the following topics:

- Coastal classifications
- Shoreline definitions
- Tectonics and coasts
- Coastal landforms
- Sea level change / Bruun rule
- Wave theory
- Littoral sediment budgets and cells
- Wave energy and energy flux
- Wave refraction and wave breaking
- Wave set-up, set-down and run-up
- Shoreface profiles
- Cross-shore sediment transport
- Nearshore currents
- Longshore currents
- Coastal engineering and coastal protection
- Coastal ecology – aquatic ecosystems
- Coastal ecology – subaerial ecosystems
- Coastal biogeochemistry – natural carbon and nutrient influx
- Coastal biogeochemistry – anthropogenic fluxes and eutrophication
- Coasts and climate change - adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Legal statuses of coastal systems
- Coastal conservation
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
- Legal statuses of coastal systems
- Coastal conservation

1) Fachkompetenzen:
Die Studierenden kennen die Grundlagetheorie der Küstenmorphologie sowie der Küstenprozesse, kennen wichtige Anwendungsfälle und können die einschlägigen Methoden verstehen.

2) Methodenkompetenzen
Die Studierenden können Sedimenttransport und Küstenliniendynamik quantitativ analysieren.

3) Handlungskompetenzen
Mit den erworbenen Fach- und Methodenkompetenzen können die Studenten eigenverantwortlich eine integrierte Studie zur Küstenbewegung planen, die relevante Aufgabenstellung setzen und diese selbständig bearbeiten.

Die Vorlesung wird sich mit folgenden Aspekte der Küstendynamik befassen:
- Coastal classifications
- Shoreline definitions
- Tectonics and coasts
- Coastal landforms
- Sea level change / Bruun rule
- Wave theory
- Littoral sediment budgets and cells
- Wave energy and energy flux
- Wave refraction and wave breaking
- Wave set-up, set-down and run-up
- Shoreface profiles
- Cross-shore sediment transport
- Nearshore currents
- Longshore currents
- Coastal engineering and coastal protection
- Coastal ecology – aquatic ecosystems
- Coastal ecology – subaerial ecosystems
- Coastal biogeochemistry – natural carbon and nutrient influx
- Coastal biogeochemistry – anthropogenic fluxes and eutrophication
- Coasts and climate change - adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Legal statuses of coastal systems
- Coastal conservation
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
- Legal statuses of coastal systems
- Coastal conservation