by kapow | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog, Miscellaneous
Wave Energy Resource The renewable energy debate has been heating up once again. States and Commonwealth governments have been trading initiatives over recent months in how best to secure supply of electricity to various markets. These problems are said to get worse...
by kapow | Mar 15, 2017 | Blog, Storms
Clustering of Storms I read with interest the results of recent work by Ivan Haigh et al. on extreme sea level and storm surge events around the coast of the UK (Scientific Data, 2016, DOI:10.1038/sdata.2016.107). Robert Nichols from University of Southampton, in...
by kapow | Mar 15, 2017 | Blog, Diverse Coasts
Cape to Cape: A voyage around Botany Bay The organisers of the International Coastal Symposium, recently held in Sydney, kindly invited me to run a field excursion around the shores of Botany Bay. I have conducted this tour several times for students, but this is the...
by kapow | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog, Water
The “Venice Effect” Photographing king tides in New South Wales. Source: NSW Office Environment and Heritage, 2009. On my recent excursion to Port Stephens, I drove along Marsh Road between Salt Ash and Bobs Farm. This road runs parallel to Tilligerry Creek and is...
by kapow | Feb 27, 2017 | Blog, Miscellaneous, Sediments
Port Stephens Bioherms Map of Port Stephens showing the location of shell bioherms (green shading) forming shallow areas in the modern estuary. Source: NSW Geological Survey Report GS1974/093 Last week I was invited to give a talk at Salamander Bay on the geology and...
by kapow | Feb 9, 2017 | Blog, Contributor
Coast Ambassadors I recently returned from a trip to Adelaide in my capacity as a member of the Wentworth Group where I met members of a remarkable group. They refer to themselves as Healthy Rivers Ambassadors with the aim of “promoting a healthy, working...