OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Spatial resilience is crucial in worldwide coastal theatres facing sea-level rise, stormy wave / rainfall intensification, biodiversity erosion and human densification. Sound adaptation requires informed management fueled by spatially-explicit observations, hindcast and forecast models. A living, “thick and wide” coastal interface, hosting structurally- and functionally-rich complexity, has the great potential to absorb coastal risks. We will establish how to render the spatial complexity of temperate and tropical coasts through cutting-edge remote sensing. The dynamics of the spatial resilience will be modelled and simulated across those study areas. The adaptive capacity and connectivity of the coastal systems will be discussed in light of hazards and assets’ exposure and vulnerability. Perspectives will finally be integrated into a nexus of scientific prospects and artistic percepts / affects.
Biography: Antoine COLLIN is an Associate Professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) within Université PSL (France). Founder of the Coastal GeoEcological Lab (Dinard, Brittany), he is a geospatial ecologist interested in interactions between coastal socio-ecosystems and their environment. Antoine’s experiences in University of Quebec, CRIOBE in French Polynesia and Tokyo Tech strenghtened his fondness to combine anthropocenic concepts and methods from benthic and wetland ecology, geomorphology, oceano-climatology, environmental socio-economy, remote sensing, as well as applied mathematics, statistics, complexity and art-science.
