by kapow | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog, Miscellaneous
Murray Valley: a recent visit Last week I was invited to participate in a panel discussion at a meeting of the Murray Basin Association (MBA) in Renmark. The topic was the future of the barrages on Lake Alexandrina near the mouth of the Murray River. For some time I...
by kapow | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog, Government Policy
The National Construction Code and coastal planning Over many years ACS and other organisations have been involved in discussions on ways the Australian Government could have a sustained role in coastal management. At many federal inquiries, and through work with...
by kapow | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Diverse Coasts
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...
by kapow | Sep 13, 2017 | Authored Elsewhere, Blog
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...
by kapow | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Storms
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...
by kapow | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog, Climate Change, Miscellaneous
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...