by kapow | Oct 10, 2019 | Authored Elsewhere, Latest News
Notice of Australian Coastal Society 2019 Annual General Meeting You are invited to attend the Australian Coastal Society\’s AGM being held at the South Australian Coastal Conference at the University of Adelaide. Members and non-members are welcome to attend....
by kapow | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Sediments
Coastal morphostratigraphy: two papers from Denmark An Australian example of barrier morphostratigraphy – Moruya (Source: Oliver et al 2014) Many years ago I was introduced to the concept of morphostratigraphy in reading the work of John Frye from Kansas...
by kapow | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Climate Change
Climate Change Attribution It is not unusual to hear of attempts to ascribe a certain extreme climate event to global warming. Much commentary has occurred in recent weeks on the unusual behaviour of the hurricane that devasted the Bahamas and how that behaviour was...
by kapow | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog, Contributor
Vale Jack Davies at age 97 – leader, teacher and mentor Beach ridge plain at Seven Mile Beach, Tasmania (Source Dr Tom Oliver) In 2016, Tom Oliver, Colin Woodroffe and I visited Jack at his home in Beecroft (Sydney) to present to him our just published paper in...
by kapow | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog, Sediments
Coastal erosion and accretion beyond the historical timescale in NSW A paper has recently been published in Geophysical Research Letters on the use of beach morphostratigraphic records to decipher past extreme coast erosion (Timura, T. et al., GRL, 7 May 2019). The...