Project Overview

The SouthEast Asia Sea-Level program (SEA2) will integrate instrumental, historical, and geological sea-level datasets in Southeast Asia with sophisticated modeling capabilities to improve the accuracy of projections of sea-level rise and extreme sea levels, and to communicate the results to the scientific community, governmental agencies, and the public. SEA2 will assemble a multi-disciplinary team of leading experts in the fields of reconstructing past and present sea-level change, polar ice-sheet history, oceanography, geodesy, glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) modeling, and the statistical analysis and modeling of sea-level data. Through training, the SEA2 team will build a home-grown scientific community that can respond to Singapore and Southeast Asia’s need for future sea-level projections and their interpretation. SEA2 has identified five specific objectives to meet the challenge of understanding global and regional sea-level rise and extreme sea levels:

  1. To develop a comprehensive model for regional vertical land motion – from tectonics, subsidence from groundwater withdrawal, and other solid-earth processes – that can be incorporated into sea-level projections.
  2. To extend the record of sea-level change beyond the brief instrumental record to quantify regional processes.
  3. To measure and model the importance of annual to multi-decadal cycles in constraining the future of extreme sea level.
  4. To produce projections of global mean and regional sea-level change on policy-relevant (decadal) timescales.
  5. To quantify the potential impact of sea-level rise and extreme sea level on coastal communities of Southeast Asia and develop decision support tools for protective adaptation measures. 

Funding Sources

Ministry of Education, Singapore

Project Years

2020 to 2025

Recruitment

We are looking for new additions to our team and would like to invite prospective PhD candidates and post-doctoral fellows to join this exciting project under the SEA2 Program. Please email SEA2 lead PI, Professor Benjamin Horton, at bphorton@ntu.edu.sg to inquire for more details.

Research Interests

Sea-Level Rise

Our aim is to understand and integrate the external and internal mechanisms that have determined sea-level changes in the past, and which will shape such changes in the future. Our research impacts upon important ethical, social, economic and political problems specifically facing such coastal regions.

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Publications

Year 2020

A preliminary relative sea-level history from fossil corals at Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, Philippines

Anandh Gopal, Andrew M. Chan, Andrew P. Mitchel, Aron J. Meltzner, Chuan-Chou Shen, Gina M. Sarkawi, et al.

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The Viscosity of the Top 500 km of the Lower Mantle estimated using GPS, GRACE, and Relative Sea Level measurements of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment

Donald F. Argus, Benjamin P. Horton, Corne Kreemer, Geoffrey Blewitt, Matteo Vacchi, Richard Peltier, et al.

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Constraining Glacial Isostatic Adjustment models with the quality-controlled deglacial relative sea-level data from the Russian Arctic

Tanghua Li, Alisa Baranskaya, Benjamin P. Horton, Gordan R. Stuhne, Nicole Khan, Patrick P.C. Wu, et al.

The Team

Sherene TAN

Sherene TAN

Project Officer

Benjamin HORTON

Benjamin HORTON

Director, EOS

Emma HILL

Emma HILL

Principal Investigator

Adam SWITZER

Adam SWITZER

Principal Investigator

Aron MELTZNER

Aron MELTZNER

Principal Investigator

David LALLEMANT

David LALLEMANT

Principal Investigator

WANG Xianfeng

WANG Xianfeng

Principal Investigator

Iuna TSYRULNEVA

Iuna TSYRULNEVA

Research Fellow

Perrine HAMEL

Perrine HAMEL

Principal Investigator

LI Tanghua

LI Tanghua

Senior Research Fellow

Indraneel Kasmalkar

Indraneel Kasmalkar

Research Fellow

Lin Thu AUNG

Lin Thu AUNG

Research Fellow

YUN Sang-Ho

YUN Sang-Ho

Director, Remote Sensing Lab

Collaborators

Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dan Friess, National University of Singapore
Fiona Williamson, Singapore Management University
 
Collaborator(s):
Mueller-Wittig, SCSE, Nanyang Technological University
Ooi Seat Keng and Srivatsan V. Raghavan, TMSI, National University of Singapore
Kristine Larson, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Eelco Rohling, Australian National University, Australia 
Maureen Raymo, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, USA
Robert Kopp, Rutgers University, USA
Richard Peltier, University of Toronto, Canada
Ivan Haigh, University of Southampton, UK
Andrea Dutton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Natalya Gomez, McGill, Canada
Nicole Khan, Hong Kong University
Gayatri Marliyani, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Nina Lin, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Justin Dauwels, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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