by ACS.Admin | May 15, 2024 | Blog
May-June Storms 1974 Revisited Fifty years ago in NSW we experienced a sequence of storms that for many of us constitutes the biggest storms on record in terms of impact. In this and a following blog I will recount some of that experience. It was fortunate that...
by ACS.Admin | Apr 4, 2024 | Blog
Urban water quality monitoring In 2007 Peter Cosier and I from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists visited Eva Abal at University of Queensland to find out about water quality monitoring studies in southeast Queensland (SEQ). We had embarked on a project...
by ACS.Admin | Mar 21, 2024 | Blog
Impacts of warming oceans A brilliant Wilcox cartoon appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 12 March. She used two panels: on the left were reef tourists looking down from a boat at bleached corals; on the right was an actual sea surface temperature (SST) map of the...
by ACS.Admin | Mar 7, 2024 | Blog
Coastal vulnerability: an alternative approach Last month I had the pleasure listening to an old friend, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the Sydney Opera House. The occasion was one of his more serious operas, Idomeneo. The Director noted that the “wine-dark sea” of the...
by ACS.Admin | Feb 20, 2024 | Blog
“Big Swamp” in Northern Australia and Colin Woodroffe In early February I had the pleasure of attending a symposium at the University of Wollongong in honour of Colin Woodroffe. It was a great occasion to mark his retirement and allowed many of us to discuss a range...