by kapow | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog, Climate Change
Climate Change Adaptation in Australia – A Loss of Momentum Over the past 10 years there have been a range of initiatives by federal and state governments that aim to improve the nation’s capacity to meet the challenges of climate change. Considerable attention...
by kapow | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog, Miscellaneous
SUMMERAMA Each summer we are privileged in Sydney to have a community program termed Summerama. This is coordinated by the Sydney Coastal Councils Group (SCCG) and involves programs run by ten councils from Northern Beaches to Sutherland and by the SCCG itself. The...
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...