Abstract submissions

Notes for applicants

An abstract should include no more than six authors, including one proposed presenting author. It should not exceed a single side of A4 (a second page is permissible if it includes images/figures).

Please read the submission guidelines to help shape your abstract.

Use the submission platform to send in your completed abstract.

The deadline for submissions is 11.59pm on Friday 28 August 2026. Abstracts will then be considered by the organising committee. It will inform the authors of its decisions in October 2026.

All accepted papers will be published after the conference.

Please note that all presenters will be required to buy tickets to attend the event.

If you have any queries about your submission, please email our abstract manager Lisa Gibb.

Submit your abstract

Topics

Submissions covering any of the following structures/systems will be welcome:

• Breakwaters – rubble mound, armour units, caissons, hybrid structures
• Ports, marinas, harbours, terminals, quays, piers, jetties
• Waterfront developments
• Seawalls and shoreline structures
• Coastal risks – erosion, flooding, shoreline change
• Shoreline features – beaches, dunes, saltmarshes, cliffs
• Coastal, oceanographic and estuarine processes
• Dredging and the use of dredged materials
• Nature-inclusive hybrid solutions
• Tidal and wave power
• Dikes and storm-surge barriers

Themes

Submissions are invited on the following general themes relating to the structures/coastal systems listed above.

1. Structural resilience, design and adaptation:
• Best practice in design
• Improving design performance
• New design/assessment/operating guidelines
• Monitoring and refurbishing ageing/failing assets
• Asset management and adaptation
• Nearshore and offshore marine energy structures, devices and systems
2. Construction methods, plant and temporary works:
• Best practice in construction and operations
• Construction methods and the use of materials
• Shaping practical solutions to problems
• Lessons learnt from working in marine environments
• Construction technology; remote and offsite working
• Material durability, inspection, whole-life performance
3. Climate change:
• Implications for coasts and maritime structures
• Responding to the growing challenge of climate change
• Sustainable practices and solutions – environmental, social, economic, technical
• Innovations towards net zero
• Adapting structures and operating methods to accommodate climate change
• Addressing the climate emergency in shoreline management
4. Changing coastlines, changing practices:
• Developing and implementing new solutions
• Low-cost and alternative solutions
• Risk-based assessment
• Investigative study and assessment
• Adaptive pathways and plans
• Delivering habitat creation, nature-based solutions, biodiversity net gain
5. The development and application of innovation, new technologies and techniques:
• The use of AI/data capture
• Advances in beach modelling
• The use of computational fluid dynamics
• Met-ocean studies, data and monitoring
• Advances in numerical and physical modelling
• Addressing knowledge gaps, uncertainties, risks and challenges