Coast2Cast
Coastal geoscience is one of the most fascinating topics of research. Ana and Giovanni interview coastal scientists passionate about research in morphodynamics, bedforms, sediment transport and hydrodynamics. Join us to know about some curious research questions and some more curious non-research questions (https://coastalhub.science/coast2cast). Ana Vila-Concejo and Giovanni Coco are researchers at The University of Sydney and The University of Auckland, respectively. You can find them both in LinkedIn. Here are their websites: - https://coastalhub.science/ - https://grgusyd.org/ - https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/ana-vilaconcejo.html
Coastal geoscience is one of the most fascinating topics of research. Ana and Giovanni interview coastal scientists passionate about research in morphodynamics, bedforms, sediment transport and hydrodynamics. Join us to know about some curious research questions and some more curious non-research questions (https://coastalhub.science/coast2cast). Ana Vila-Concejo and Giovanni Coco are researchers at The University of Sydney and The University of Auckland, respectively. You can find them both in LinkedIn. Here are their websites: - https://coastalhub.science/ - https://grgusyd.org/ - https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/ana-vilaconcejo.html
Episodes

Thursday Mar 05, 2026
Coast2Cast #84 Giovanni Seminara
Thursday Mar 05, 2026
Thursday Mar 05, 2026
Giovanni Seminara is Emeritus Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the University of Genoa
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rmyo8SMAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-seminara-4617b4136/
Interview by Giovanni Coco from the Institute of Ciencies del Mar, CSIC.

Monday Feb 02, 2026
Coast2Cast #83 Gary Parker
Monday Feb 02, 2026
Monday Feb 02, 2026
Gary Parker is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Geology.
Website: https://esec.illinois.edu/directory/profile/parkerg
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oXOjPZUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Interview by Giovanni Coco

Thursday Jan 15, 2026
Coast2Cast #82 Curt Storlazzi
Thursday Jan 15, 2026
Thursday Jan 15, 2026
Curt Storlazzi is a research geologist at the Pacific Coastal and Marine Center USGS Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the coastal zone, from coastal erosional processes to sediment dynamics in the shallow coastal ocean, particularly on coral reefs.
Website https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/curt-storlazzi
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=fFOaP0QAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/curt-storlazzi-67aaa87b/
Interview by Ana Vila-Concejo

Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Coast2Cast #81 Nobuhito Mori
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Nobuhito Mori is a Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. He is also vice-director and Professor (cross-appointment), Typhoon Science and Technology Research Center, Yokohama National University, Japan.
https://www.oceanwave.jp/?Introduction/CV+in+English
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b-s0CvYAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nobuhito-mori-965181313/
Interview by Ana Vila-Concejo https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-vila-concejo-7aa946101/

Friday Nov 14, 2025
Coast2Cast #80 Heidi Nepf
Friday Nov 14, 2025
Friday Nov 14, 2025
Heidi Nepf is the Donald and Martha Harleman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/heidi-nepf/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Igpe-OcAAAAJ&hl=en
https://nepf.mit.edu/
Interview by Giovanni Coco

Saturday Oct 18, 2025
Coast2Cast #79 Michalis Vousdoukas
Saturday Oct 18, 2025
Saturday Oct 18, 2025
Giovanni interviews Michalis Vousdoukas from Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Mitilene, Greece. Michalis works for the European Commission at the European Joint Research Centre, developing tools and methodologies allowing to assess climate change impacts along the European and global coastlines.
https://www.vousdoukas.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michail-vousdoukas-a723a324b/

Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Coast2Cast #78 Giovanni Besio
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Giovanni Besio is a professor of Coastal Engineering at the University of Genoa. He is internationally known for his research in coastal morphodynamics and engineering.
Personal page: https://rubrica.unige.it/personale/VUZBX19g
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-besio-57a001a/
Interview by Giovanni Coco!

Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Coast2Cast #77 Kathelijne Weinberg
Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Ana Vila-Concejo chats with Kathelijne Weinberg, a Full Professor at the University of Twente, in the Department of Civil Engineering and Management. Her research interests include Coastal morphodynamics, nature-based engineering, coastal observation and video remote sensing, the natural coastal system and its response to human intervention, and anthropogenic shores.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathelijne-wijnberg-1a110160/

Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Coast2Cast #76 Donatus Angnuureng
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Ana interviews Donatus Angnuureng. Donatus is an expert in coastal Processes and Coastal Morphology at the University of Cape Coast in the Central Coast of Ghana. Donatus is interested in coastal geomorphology, coastal processes, shoreline, currents and remote sensing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/donatus-angnuureng-b2510013a/

History
In early 2021, Giovanni Coco and Ana Vila-Concejo (University of Sydney) decided to interview scientists around the world asking a similar set of questions with the purpose to know a bit more about their life and interests (from their hobbies to their favourite singer), and about some general research issues.
The idea is that, as covid madness continues, students and scientists around the world can still "meet" coastal scientists and hear directly from them.
The choice of scientists we interviewed has been a bit chaotic but we have tried to cover the whole planet and we have inevitably started by asking collaborators/friends/colleagues (hoping they would be kind enough to be interviewed). We definitely want to thank all scientists that have agreed to be interviewed, often at crazy times of the day. We also want to thank Maarten Kleinhans for providing the music for the intros and outros.
Feel free to contact us (ana.vilaconcejo@sydney.edu.au, g.coco@auckland.ac.nz) and suggest scientists you want us to interview.

