California: Sea Level Rise Guidance 2024

California: Sea Level Rise Guidance 2024

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...
David Hopley: Geomorphologist of the Great Barrier Reef

David Hopley: Geomorphologist of the Great Barrier Reef

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...
May-June Storms 1974: Part 3 – In Retrospect

May-June Storms 1974: Part 3 – In Retrospect

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...
MAY-JUNE STORMS 1974 – PART 2

MAY-JUNE STORMS 1974 – PART 2

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...