by ACS.Admin | Mar 7, 2024 | Blog
Coastal vulnerability: an alternative approach Last month I had the pleasure listening to an old friend, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the Sydney Opera House. The occasion was one of his more serious operas, Idomeneo. The Director noted that the “wine-dark sea” of the...
by ACS.Admin | Feb 20, 2024 | Blog
“Big Swamp” in Northern Australia and Colin Woodroffe In early February I had the pleasure of attending a symposium at the University of Wollongong in honour of Colin Woodroffe. It was a great occasion to mark his retirement and allowed many of us to discuss a range...
by ACS.Admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Blog
Coffee Rock In May 1956 on school holidays at Lake Cathie south of Port Macquarie, I encountered an outcrop of indurated black sand on the beach. Ridges of cliffed rock extending below low tide making it difficult to access the beach north of the entrance to the lake....
by ACS.Admin | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog
Beachrock Enigma In the early 1960s I was introduced to debates about “beachrock” (sometimes spelt “beach rock”). I attempted to translate a paper in French by Andre Guilcher on the subject; this proved beyond me although it whetted the appetite to know more. A...