by kapow | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog, Water
Sydney Harbour Sea Fog – Summer of 2018/2019 Sea fog has been a regular occurrence this summer in Sydney Harbour. To hear fog horns sounding in the middle of the day is a rare experience. From our verandah we can see the fog as it rolls through the Heads into...
by kapow | Jan 5, 2019 | Blog, Climate Change
COASTAL RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION During this past year, I have had the opportunity of working once again with Don Wright, formerly a colleague at Sydney University now based in Florida. Don and colleagues have been involved in producing collaborative reports in the...
by kapow | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog, Sediments
CLIFF-TOP DUNES Ever since my undergraduate days, I have been fascinated by pits in sand deposits around the eastern suburbs of Sydney. I grew up in Rose Bay. Trevor Langford-Smith had me digging a pit in the backyard of our home in Roberts Street. This was part of a...
by kapow | Dec 15, 2018 | Blog, Climate Change
The whereabouts of climate change adaptation Since the late 1980s climate change adaptation has received limited consideration by the Australian Government. Mitigation continues to dominate the national discourse. Addressing adaptation challenges of the “new normal”...
by kapow | Dec 10, 2018 | Authored Elsewhere, Latest News
New book of coastal photos from Coast to Coast 2018 The idea for this book came out of a special session held in the 2018 Coast to Coast Conference held in Hobart, Tasmania. The session was called “Picturing coastal issues” and built on the idea that a picture is...