by ACS.Admin | Aug 25, 2022 | Blog
Coastal Inundation: A Hazard Not to be Underestimated Sixty years ago, I had my first encounter with overwash deposits resulting from storm surges along the Gulf of Mexico in southwest Louisiana and Texas. It was a revelation. I had just commenced graduate studies at...
by ACS.Admin | Aug 9, 2022 | Blog
Beach Access – An International Perspective In the book edited by Derek Jackson and Andy Short on Sandy Beach Morphodynamics (Elsevier, 2020, I wrote on “Future challenges in beach management as contested spaces” (Ch.29, 711-731). Reference was made to a legal...
by ACS.Admin | Jul 27, 2022 | Blog
SoE 2021 and Coasts The 244 page Coasts chapter in the 2021 Australian State of the Environment Report has four key findings on Australian coasts: 1) they are a zone of concentrated biodiversity and productivity; 2) they are under pressure; 3) they will be profoundly...