by ACS.Admin | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog
May-June Storms 1974: Part 3 – In Retrospect Looking back over the years we should be well aware of storm impacts along the east coast. There are now many records of such events. I was once shown a scarp at Boat Harbour near Port Stephens that was cut in the...
by ACS.Admin | Jun 3, 2024 | Blog
MAY-JUNE STORMS 1974 – PART 2 As I write this blog fifty years ago to the day, the first of the two great 1974 storms had abated. Little did we know that another was coming a week later. We soon started stewing over the role of higher sea surface temperatures...
by ACS.Admin | May 15, 2024 | Blog
May-June Storms 1974 Revisited Fifty years ago in NSW we experienced a sequence of storms that for many of us constitutes the biggest storms on record in terms of impact. In this and a following blog I will recount some of that experience. It was fortunate that...
by ACS.Admin | Apr 4, 2024 | Blog
Urban water quality monitoring In 2007 Peter Cosier and I from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists visited Eva Abal at University of Queensland to find out about water quality monitoring studies in southeast Queensland (SEQ). We had embarked on a project...
by ACS.Admin | Mar 21, 2024 | Blog
Impacts of warming oceans A brilliant Wilcox cartoon appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 12 March. She used two panels: on the left were reef tourists looking down from a boat at bleached corals; on the right was an actual sea surface temperature (SST) map of the...