Science

Results, in the open.

Peer-reviewed papers, conference contributions and the data and tools the project will release. Our papers are published open access.

The mouth of the Misa River in Senigallia
Photo: EcoC2S project

Key findings

Four papers, year one.

Map of the Spanish Mediterranean coast coloured by compound flood potential
Del-Rosal-Salido et al. (2025), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Communications Earth & Environment · 2025

Where should Europe look first?

A composite index ranks 214 flood-risk areas along 1,600 km of the Spanish Mediterranean coast by their potential for compound flooding.

  • 214flood-risk areas ranked
  • 1,600 kmof coastline
  • 11%in the most severe class

Del-Rosal-Salido, J., Bermúdez, M., Ortega-Sánchez, M., Sanuy, M., Silva-Santana, M., Jiménez, J.A. — A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment

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Map of projected changes in compound flooding potential along the Spanish Mediterranean coast
Jiménez et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0

Communications Earth & Environment · 2026

Sea-level rise redraws the map

Projections of how rising seas will change the way rain, rivers and the sea combine to flood the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

Jiménez, J.A., Del-Rosal-Salido, J., Giaroli, F., Lira-Loarca, A., Ortega-Sánchez, M., Sanuy, M., Silva-Santana, M., Bermúdez, M. — Sea-level rise is projected to reshape compound flooding potential in microtidal environments along the Spanish Mediterranean coastline

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Workflow combining Sentinel-2 images and water indices to classify a river mouth as open or closed
Silva-Santana et al. (2026), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science · 2026

River mouths, watched from orbit

34 river mouths, about 100,000 satellite images and nine years show when and why Mediterranean river mouths open and close.

  • 34river mouths
  • ≈100,000Sentinel-2 images
  • 2017–2025period analysed

Silva-Santana, M., Bermúdez, M., Del-Rosal-Salido, J., Ortega-Sánchez, M. — Automated detection of river mouth opening and closure using cloud-based processing of Sentinel-2 imagery

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The mouth of the Misa River in Senigallia, between its two harbour walls
Photo EcoC2S project

Coastal Engineering · 2026

Where waves meet the river

How river currents and sea waves interact at microtidal river mouths — and why their timing decides how far a flood reaches — from a decade of observations of the Misa.

Brocchini, M., Marini, F., Baldoni, A. — Wave–current interactions within microtidal systems

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Publications

Everything we publish.

Articles, conference contributions, posters, reports and bulletins.

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2025

Conferences

On the road.

  1. 18–21 May 2027

    SchoolPoland

    XLIV International School of Hydraulics

    Co-organised by the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

  2. 23–25 Sept 2026

    ConferenceCádiz, Spain

    GEOLIT26 – XIII Jornadas de Geomorfología Litoral

    EcoC2S research on the intertidal areas of the Bay of Cádiz (UGR team).

  3. 17–18 Sept 2026

    ConferenceWarsaw, Poland

    5th National Hydrological Congress (V Krajowy Kongres Hydrologiczny)

    Assessment of coastal and river flood hazards in the Vistula River mouth region (Poland) using GIS (I. Kuptel-Markiewicz, M. Nones, E. Wróbelska).

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  4. 24–27 Aug 2026

    ConferenceBelgium

    ECSA 61 – Bridging the gap between science and policy in estuarine and coastal marine biodiversity

  5. 14–17 Jul 2026

    ConferenceVictoria Falls, Zimbabwe

    STAHY-ICGW 2026 – 15th International Workshop on Statistical Hydrology

    Poster: Quantifying Coastal Flood Hazard in Compound Flooding Systems: Evidence from Spain and Italy (I. Kuptel-Markiewicz, M. Nones, M. Fic).

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  6. 30 Jun – 4 Jul 2026

    ConferenceThessaloniki, Greece

    River Flow 2026 – 13th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics

    M. Brocchini on sea–river interactions at microtidal estuaries and their impact on flooding of estuarine cities; M. Nones on remote sensing for river management.

  7. 1–2 Jun 2026

    ConferenceBydgoszcz, Poland

    III Polish Water Congress (III Kongres Wodny)

    Presentation of EcoC2S to Polish water administrations, scientists and managers (I. Kuptel-Markiewicz).

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  8. 2025

    ConferenceSpain

    VIII Jornadas de Ingeniería del Agua (JIA 2025)

  9. September 2025

    ConferenceAlicante, Spain

    6th Annual Meeting of the SRA-Europe Iberian Chapter

    Poster on a community-based framework for flood risk assessment (Universidade Lusófona).

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  10. September 2025

    ConferenceBarcelona, Spain

    14th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM 2025)

    Talks by M. Brocchini (UNIVPM) on sediment transport in the Misa estuary and M. Silva-Santana (UGR) on the intermittency of river mouths from Earth observation.

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  11. 20–23 May 2025

    SchoolRadocza, Poland

    42nd International School of Hydraulics

    Presentation of the aims and activities of EcoC2S (M. Nones).

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Data & tools

Open data, coming soon.

EcoC2S follows open-science principles: publications in open access and data in public repositories.

  • Datahub

    Multidimensional data to characterise every component of the flood hazard in the two study sites, freely searchable.

  • Flood hazard of the case studies

    The integrated modelling results for the Bay of Cádiz and Senigallia.

  • Decision-support tool

    A tool to help put ecosystem-based resilience pathways into policy, at the end of the project.