South Coast Journey: 31st NSW Coastal Conference
South Coast Journey: 31st NSW Coastal Conference Eurobodalla Shire Council was selected this year …
Flood Insurance Inquiry: lessons for the coast?
Flood Insurance Inquiry: lessons for the coast? On 18th October, the House of Representatives …
Geodiversity Part 2: Kimberley Coast
Geodiversity Part 2: Kimberley Coast My blog on Australian coastal geodiversity prompted a reminder …
Australian Coastal Geodiversity And A Tribute To Andy Short
Australian Coastal Geodiversity And A Tribute To Andy Short Paul Donaldson kindly reminded me that 6 …
Coasts and Clean Seas: NHT Program 1999-2000
Coasts and Clean Seas: NHT Program 1999-2000 Many lament the absence of direct investment by the …
Environmental Monitoring: Values, Applications and Consequences
Environmental Monitoring: Values, Applications and Consequences Years ago I came across a marvelous …
California: Sea Level Rise Guidance 2024
California: Sea Level Rise Guidance 2024 There has long been interest in Australia of practices …
David Hopley: Geomorphologist of the Great Barrier Reef
David Hopley: Geomorphologist of the Great Barrier Reef David Hopley of James Cook University has …
May-June Storms 1974: Part 3 – In Retrospect
May-June Storms 1974: Part 3 – In Retrospect Looking back over the years we should be well …
MAY-JUNE STORMS 1974 – PART 2
MAY-JUNE STORMS 1974 – PART 2 As I write this blog fifty years ago to the day, the first of …
May-June Storms 1974 Revisited
May-June Storms 1974 Revisited Fifty years ago in NSW we experienced a sequence of storms that for …
Urban water quality monitoring
Urban water quality monitoring In 2007 Peter Cosier and I from the Wentworth Group of Concerned …
Impacts of warming oceans
Impacts of warming oceans A brilliant Wilcox cartoon appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 12 …
Coastal vulnerability: an alternative approach
Coastal vulnerability: an alternative approach Last month I had the pleasure listening to an old …
Coffee Rock
Coffee Rock In May 1956 on school holidays at Lake Cathie south of Port Macquarie, I encountered an …
Beachrock Enigma
Beachrock Enigma In the early 1960s I was introduced to debates about “beachrock” (sometimes spelt …
Coastal hazards, insurance and Federal powers
Coastal hazards, insurance and Federal powers The tropical cyclone season is upon us and like …
Need for federal intervention in Australian coastal management
Need for federal intervention in Australian coastal management My interest in a direct and sustained …
National and NSW Coastal Conference 2023
National and NSW Coastal Conference 2023 It has been a huge privilege and pleasure to regularly meet …
NSW COASTAL FLOODPLAIN PRIORITISATION STUDIES
NSW COASTAL FLOODPLAIN PRIORITISATION STUDIES In September it was very pleasing to hear that studies …
Curse of Cumulative Impacts
Curse of Cumulative Impacts There are many actions taken by individuals, corporations, and …
Sydney Shelf Sand Bodies: from Discovery to Metromix
Sydney Shelf Sand Bodies: from Discovery to Metromix In 1984 a paper appeared in an international …
Coastal Poetry from Sydney’s East
Coastal Poetry from Sydney’s East Recently Irene and I attended a poetry reading at the Waverley …
Heavy Mineral Sand Mining in Eastern Australia
Heavy Mineral Sand Mining in Eastern Australia In a previous blog I have commented on mechanisms for …