by ACS.Admin | Jul 12, 2023 | Blog
Coastal Sand Mining – Background Southeastern Australia has been endowed (some would say cursed) with concentrations of a group of heavy minerals in coastal sand deposits. The geological history and geomorphological emplacement of these heavy minerals has...
by ACS.Admin | Jun 26, 2023 | Blog
Vale: Eric Bird—International Coastal Geomorphologist I am departing from my planned sequence of blogs on heavy minerals in coastal deposits to pay tribute to Eric Charles Frederick Bird. Eric recently passed away in Melbourne. Over many decades he has made enormous...
by ACS.Admin | Jun 16, 2023 | Blog
Mining and the Coast Coastal landscapes in many parts of the world have been transformed, or in other ways impacted, by mining. This includes oil and gas extraction. Any visit to Cornwall will provide a visual reminder of tin mining from ages past. Societies and...
by ACS.Admin | May 31, 2023 | Blog
Loss of Towns and Villages to the Sea Coastal policy discussion around adaptation to climate change frequently invokes the “holy trinity”: protect, accommodate, retreat. Such discussion provokes property owners at potential risk of coastal erosion/shoreline recession...
by ACS.Admin | May 19, 2023 | Blog
Mangroves from a Geomorphologist Perspective Before arriving in Baton Rouge to commence graduate studies at Louisiana State University in late 1962, I attended a lecture in Sydney by a mangrove ecologist named Bill Macnae. He was a South African visiting Australian...