by Mitchell Harley | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog
Climate Change Risk To Our Coastal Cities Confronting the nation’s coastal urban cities as it approaches 2055, 30 years on, will be both higher sea levels and air and water temperatures. And 50 years from now (in 2075) sea levels will be substantially higher (and...
by Mitchell Harley | Aug 17, 2025 | Blog
Nature’s coastal beauties: A selection A listener to ABC Radio NSW South Coast recently called and asked if someone could explain beach cusps. He had observed them at Wallaga Beach and knew they also occurred at Hyams Beach in Jervis Bay, and Pearl Beach just...
by Mitchell Harley | Jul 24, 2025 | Blog
Torres Strait Islanders Court Case and Climate Change Judgment in the federal court case involving traditional owners of islands in the Torres Strait against the Australian Government has recently been handed down. The decision by Justice Michael Wigney has attracted...
by Mitchell Harley | Jun 11, 2025 | Blog
Joint National C2C and Queensland Coastal Conference, Gold Coast, 2025 This year the opportunity arose for the Queensland Chapter of the Australian Coastal Society to take on the task of organising a joint National and Queensland Coastal Conference. It was held at...
by Mitchell Harley | May 24, 2025 | Blog
Last Interglacial Sea Levels I recently attended a talk by Professor Chris Turney, now at the University of Technology Sydney, on his research in West Antarctica. He spoke of work on the response of the Antarctic ice sheet to rising temperatures alluding to...