by ACS.Admin | Aug 20, 2024 | Blog
Environmental Monitoring: Values, Applications and Consequences Years ago I came across a marvelous book that reinforced my enthusiasm/predilection for science-based field work: “Agassiz’s Legacy—Scientists Reflections on the value of field experience” written by...
by ACS.Admin | Aug 1, 2024 | Blog
California: Sea Level Rise Guidance 2024 There has long been interest in Australia of practices adopted in California in coastal management. Various federal inquires going back to 1979 were made aware of what was happening in that US state, but we never received...
by ACS.Admin | Jul 8, 2024 | Blog
David Hopley: Geomorphologist of the Great Barrier Reef David Hopley of James Cook University has inspired many through his teaching, research and writing. His passing is a great loss to coral reef science. David’s numerous contributions will remain as testimony to a...
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...