by kapow | Mar 5, 2016 | Authored Elsewhere, Blog
A Future of Fire The nature of fire changes the environment forever. In the South West of Australia, already in 2016 we have seen several large scale hot fires. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on the planet and in the South West we are experiencing an...
by kapow | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog, Government Policy
NSW Coastal Reform – update The ACS NSW Chapter recently made a submission into the NSW coastal reforms. Led by spokesman John Corkill OAM and with contributions from other State members, the submission highlights a number of positives and also a number of ideas and...
by kapow | Feb 26, 2016 | Blog, Contributor
COASTAL CHARACTERS Yaccaba Headlnad Walk, Myall Lakes National Park (pc: www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au) Do you have unforgettable characters from your past? I have many, but there are three I met as an undergraduate honours student in 1960 that I will never forget. I...
by kapow | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog, International
VON HUMBOLDT AND FRIENDS Alexander von Humboldt I have just finished reading a magnificent book by Andrea Wulf entitled The Invention of Nature; the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of Science. The author took the view that contemporary science and...
by kapow | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog, Climate Change
ENCROACHING TIDES OR VENICE EFFECT Some years ago after a visit to Venice, I wrote about the process of increased frequency of high tidal inundation as sea level rises. I called this the Venice Effect. Over the last 60 or so years the number of days per year when...
by kapow | Jan 10, 2016 | Blog, Sediments
KURNELL DUNES The Kurnell Dunes. (photo source: Teda Inc.) In my first year of high school my Maths teacher decided to take a group of us on an excursion to Kurnell. We travelled by tram (yes, tram) from Bondi to the city, then train to Cronulla before commencing to...