The kick-off meeting of the Mediterranean sheltered beach morphodynamics in the face of climate change, MICINN/FEDER project, will be held on October 7 and 8 at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) of the Balearic Islands. The meeting will be attended by Miquel Caballeria, a researcher of  Mechatronics and Modelling Applied on Technology of Materials Group (MECAMAT UVIV-UCC). He is also a member of the UPC Team that will work on the modelling of morphodynamic processes for performing an analysis of sheltered beaches under different climatic conditions.

The aim of the project is to achieve a better understanding of the response of sheltered beaches to different forcings and anticipating their behaviour under projected changes in marine climate drivers for the next decades. The project is a coordinated proposal of three subprojects devoted, respectively, to marine climate drivers, morphological observations and morphodynamic modelling. The three subprojects are undertaken by three research teams with complementary expertise. The research team of subproject 1 (marine climate drivers): Marta Marcos, Alejandro Orfila and Lluís Gómez-Pujol from Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA). The research team of subproject 2 (observational approach): Gonzalo Simarro and Jorge Guillén from Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Amanda Sancho from Universidad Católica de Valencia (UCV) and Araceli Muñoz from TRAGSA. The research team of subproject 3 (modelling approach): Albert Falqués, Francesca Ribas and Daniel Calvete from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Miquel Caballeria from Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVIC-UCC).