by kapow | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog, Storms
King tides and extreme events It was predicted that on 6 December last year and 2 January 2018 the east coast would experience very high spring tides (often referred to as “king tides”). Tide tables based on astronomical pull forces of the moon and sun around these...
by kapow | Jan 14, 2018 | Blog, Sediments
Coastal Geomorphology 101 Any course in coastal geomorphology today would be vastly different to what I experienced in 1959 at Sydney University. It was a year of great change in subject matter not just for me as a student but also for our lecturer, Trevor...
by kapow | Dec 29, 2017 | Blog, Government Policy
Bruce Thom Blog – Speaking Truth to Power In the summer edition of The Monthly, in an article on the former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, the comment was made on how little the work she had devoted most of her...
by kapow | Dec 20, 2017 | Blog, Miscellaneous
National Surfing Reserves On 2 December, 2017, there was a dedication ceremony to constitute Bondi as a National Surfing Reserve (NSR). As the headline in the Wentworth Courier stated: “It’s official: Bondi is iconic”. The article went on to say the ceremony will...
by kapow | Dec 14, 2017 | Blog, Sediments
Beachrock Way back in 1962, I collected a sample of calcareous sandstone on the beachface at Fisherman’s Beach, Collaroy. At this time I was heading to Louisiana to study at the Coastal Studies Institute. R.J.Russell was the Director and had an international project...
by kapow | Dec 9, 2017 | Blog, Miscellaneous, Water
Higher Tides Recently the NSW media was, well, awash with news articles on the high tides being experienced along the NSW coast. What caused the higher tides and how do they compare with historic tide levels? A couple of news articles from 6 December 2017 in...