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Notice of the Australian Coastal Society 2017 Annual General Meeting
You are invited to attend the Australian Coastal Society\'s AGM being held at the NSW Coastal Conference in Port Stephens on 8 November 2017 at 1235 (NSW time). Members and non-members are welcome to attend. Details of the meeting location and agenda are here: Notice...
Geomorphic evolution of Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth
Geomorphic evolution of Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Murray River entrance (Source: Murray Darling Basin Authority) Last week, Celine Steinfeld from the Wentworth Group and I had the pleasure of a field trip to the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth...
2018 Coast to Coast Conference – 16 to 20 April in Hobart, Tasmania
2018 Coast to Coast Conference - 16 to 20 April in Hobart, Tasmania For up to date information on the conference visit http://coasttocoast2018.org/ By ACS Communications Officer | Tuesday, September 19, 2017...
Queensland Coastal Conference 2017 – Ten years in the making
Queensland Coastal Conference 2017 - Ten years in the making A speech given by Peta Leahy at the 2017 Queensland Coastal Conference....it\'s ten years of coastal conferencing in Queensland! Cast you mind back ten years to the year 2007. I was a young Master’s student...
Hurricane Harvey and its implications
Hurricane Harvey and its implications I visited New Jersey a few months after super-storm Sandy and then before that was Katrina. Historically there have been many disastrous hurricanes along the US east and gulf coasts. Yet questions continue to be asked about the...
Gippsland (Victoria) and relative sea level rise
Gippsland (Victoria) and relative sea level rise Way back in 1972, Don Wright, Jim Coleman and I wrote a short paper on “Emerged tidal flats in the Ord River Estuary, Western Australia” (Search, 3, 339-341). It is a pity that a journal like Search no longer exists to...
US Office of Naval Research and the Australian Coast
US Office of Naval Research and the Australian Coast It is an interesting question as to the extent the Australian Defence system makes use of academic literature, in particular that involving coastal research. When I was on the Faculty of Military Studies (UNSW)...
Managing the unique wetlands of Gippsland Lakes
Managing the unique wetlands of Gippsland Lakes From a personal perspective, I am very indebted to all those who have undertaken studies of the Gippsland Lakes. In particular, I must pay tribute to Eric Bird. In 1960, I was shown a copy of his just completed PhD...
Lifecycle of coastal environmental law
Lifecycle of coastal environmental law “Environmental laws have a lifecycle, like any organism. In this body of law, there are five phases”. These are the words of James Thornton from his book with Martin Goodman entitled Client Earth (Scribe, 2017). This is an...
Charlie Veron – A Life Underwater
Charlie Veron - A Life Underwater Many involved in marine science regard Charlie Veron as a hero, one who has made a great difference in the understanding of life in the sea through incredible feats of individual endeavour. I am also of that view, not just from...
Coastal Sediment Management
Coastal Sediment Management I recently received information about the Californian Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup. It involves a collaborative taskforce of state, federal (US Army Corps of Engineers) and local/regional entities, concerned about adverse impacts...
Coastal walks -Malabar Headland National Park, Sydney
Coastal walks -Malabar Headland National Park, Sydney Over a decade ago, I was invited to join the Malabar Headland Interagency Working Group. I have to thank Geoff Withycombe of the Sydney Coastal Councils Group and Randwick Council for this opportunity to...