by kapow | Nov 19, 2019 | Authored Elsewhere, Blog
South Australian 2019 Coastal Conference and the ACS AGM The SA branch of ACS held its biennial Coastal Conference in Adelaide in early November. The conference attended by around 130 delegates was officially opened by Kaurna elder Rod O’Brien, who also gave a...
by kapow | Nov 6, 2019 | Blog, Coastal Conference
28th Annual NSW Coastal Conference – Terrigal, 2019 This year the NSW Coastal Conference was held at Terrigal and hosted by the Central Coast Council. In its 28th year, these conferences are always held at a location outside of Sydney. It is a testimony to the...
by kapow | Oct 27, 2019 | Blog, Miscellaneous
Coastal Incidents When will I get into the field to test all of this! Since I started wandering around beaches, cliffs, swamps and waterways just on 60 years ago, I have encountered any number of incidents that are memorable. The thrill of field work and the...
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...