 Good morning students. Welcome to Module 10 on sea level rise. By 2100, sea level is forecasted to rise by about 60 centimeters. That's about this much. And that may not sound like a whole lot, but I'm standing here on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina and 60 centimeters takes us all the way from the shore where the waves are crashing all the way up to the base of these dunes here behind me. That's about 60 centimeters. So by 2100, the ocean level will be at base of these dunes and superimposed on that a hurricane with a storm surge of about 15 feet and that will take the ocean right into those condos that are right behind me there. So that's why folks up and down the east coast and elsewhere around the world are very concerned about sea level rise moving into this century. We'll be learning a lot more about that in this module and I hope you enjoy it very much.