2020年12月9-12日，团队师生参加了在浙江舟山由浙江大学等主办、河海大学等协办的8th International Conference on the Application of Physical Modelling in Coastal and Port Engineering and Science (Coastlab 2020)国际会议。Coastlab 2020是IAHR 85周年庆典的重要组成部分，该会议每两年举办一次，前七届均在欧洲召开，本次是第八届，也是首次在中国举办。来自59个国家或地区，超过一万人次的线上线下参会人员参加了本次学术盛会。
团队张弛教授、薛米安教授、管大为青年教授、时健副教授、连宇顺副研究员、隋倜倜副研究员、程林博士、张炫博士以及多位研究生参加了本次会议并作了学术报告。张弛教授作了题为“Beach safety accidents in Chinese mainland coasts”的特邀报告，并担任了“S4 Coastal hazards and integrated management options”分会场主持人。薛米安教授作了题为“Numerical study of porous material layer effects on mitigating sloshing”的报告，时健副教授作了题为“Practice and exploration of Chinese living shorelines”的报告，隋倜倜副研究员作了题为“Experimental study on the three dimensional scour around marine pipelines”的报告，连宇顺副研究员作了题为“Synthetic mooring ropes for renewable energy applications”的报告，张玉全博士作了题为“Analysis on the power fluctuation of tidal stream turbine in the turbulence flow combined with regular waves”的报告，曹祝宾同学作了题为“Observation of wave overwash on an artificial beach”的报告，陈树彬同学作了题为“Physical modeling of regular wave induced horizontal circulation over a reef-lagoon-channel system”的报告，张海明同学作了题为“Wave energy focusing due to three-dimensional bragg resonance with undulating bottom of V-shaped layout”的报告。团队参会师生与国内外专家学者开展了深入交流和讨论，在会议闭幕式上，郑金海教授指导的硕士研究生陈树彬同学获得由三位大会主席联合签发的“Second Prize Paper Award”。
