by ACS.Admin | Apr 27, 2025 | Blog
2025 Coastal Storm Season: Waiting For The “Big One”? Ever since we started measuring beach profiles at Bengello Beach, Moruya, in the 1970s, Roger McLean and I have contemplated the recurrence of the 74-78 erosion phase. In the 50 plus years of record...
by ACS.Admin | Jan 27, 2025 | Blog
A Dip Into The Past: Coogee 1959 Each January for the past 10 years or so, Sydney’s Randwick Council invites me to conduct a community excursion along the coast around Coogee. This is a two hour walk from the beach along the cliffs to the south towards Lurline Bay. I...
by ACS.Admin | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog
EPA and Estuaries Some of us were not too surprised when the Prime Minister pulled the plug on the passage of legislation to establish an environmental protection agency (EPA). Along with colleagues from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists (WG) and other...
by ACS.Admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Articles
Banksmeadow Revetment – Recollections of a young coastal engineer by Angus Gordon OAM In this special article of the Australian Coastal Society, esteemed coastal engineering Angus Gordon reflects on the challenging construction of the Banksmeadow Revetment, a critical...
by ACS.Admin | Sep 6, 2024 | Blog
Coasts and Clean Seas: NHT Program 1999-2000 Many lament the absence of direct investment by the Australian Government in coastal management. We have a long history of our federal government taking an interest for a short period then “switching” off. I have discussed...