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
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Episodes
Jul 23, 2026
Jul 23, 2026
47 min
Julia Cisneros is an Assistant Professor of Earth Surface Processes at the Department of Gesociences at Virginia Tech (USA).
https://juliacisneros.com/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=beH9wIAAAAAJ&hl=en
https://geos.vt.edu/people/Everyone/cisneros--julia.html
Interview by Giovanni Coco gcoco@icm.csic.es and https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-coco-124847b9/
Jun 17, 2026
Jun 17, 2026
53 min
Larissa Naylor is Professor of Geomorphology and Environmental Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/larissanaylor/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dg6-mH4AAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larissa-naylor-ba5388b6/
Interview by Ana Vila-Concejo https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-vila-concejo-7aa946101/
Apr 21, 2026
Apr 21, 2026
57 min
Huib de Swart is Emeritus Professor in Physical Oceanography of Coastal and Shelf Seas at Utrecht University.
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~swart104/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1DR_80MAAAAJ&hl=nl
Interview by Giovanni Coco gcoco@icm.csic.es and https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-coco-124847b9/
Mar 5, 2026
Mar 5, 2026
41 min
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.
Feb 2, 2026
Feb 2, 2026
23 min
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
Jan 15, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
40 min
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
Dec 16, 2025
Dec 16, 2025
39 min
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/
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025
48 min
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
Oct 18, 2025
Oct 18, 2025
28 min
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/
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.