by kapow | Jan 5, 2019 | Blog, Climate Change
COASTAL RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION During this past year, I have had the opportunity of working once again with Don Wright, formerly a colleague at Sydney University now based in Florida. Don and colleagues have been involved in producing collaborative reports in the...
by kapow | Dec 15, 2018 | Blog, Climate Change
The whereabouts of climate change adaptation Since the late 1980s climate change adaptation has received limited consideration by the Australian Government. Mitigation continues to dominate the national discourse. Addressing adaptation challenges of the “new normal”...
by kapow | Jun 27, 2018 | Climate Change, Latest News
Climate drivers for the redistribution of species Dr Gretta Pecl’s talk highlights the potential and benefits for climate change to be a catalyst for respect, collaboration, exchange and integration of Indigenous, Industry, Community-based and formal/academic...
by kapow | May 4, 2018 | Blog, Climate Change
Last Interglacial Marine Deposits at Mary Ann Bay, Tasmania It is always dangerous to comment on a famous geologic site without undertaking a detailed field study. But I must indulge myself on this occasion as the site is one of the most important in the Quaternary...
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 | 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...