by ACS.Admin | Apr 27, 2025 | Blog
2025 Coastal Storm Season: Waiting For The “Big One”? Ever since we started measuring beach profiles at Bengello Beach, Moruya, in the 1970s, Roger McLean and I have contemplated the recurrence of the 74-78 erosion phase. In the 50 plus years of record...
by Mitchell Harley | Nov 2, 2024 | Blog
Flood Insurance Inquiry: lessons for the coast? On 18th October, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics released its report following an “Inquiry into Insurers’ Response to the 2022 Major Floods”. The Inquiry was chaired by Daniel Mulino MP. The...
by ACS.Admin | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog
May-June Storms 1974: Part 3 – In Retrospect Looking back over the years we should be well aware of storm impacts along the east coast. There are now many records of such events. I was once shown a scarp at Boat Harbour near Port Stephens that was cut in the...
by ACS.Admin | Jun 3, 2024 | Blog
MAY-JUNE STORMS 1974 – PART 2 As I write this blog fifty years ago to the day, the first of the two great 1974 storms had abated. Little did we know that another was coming a week later. We soon started stewing over the role of higher sea surface temperatures...
by ACS.Admin | May 15, 2024 | Blog
May-June Storms 1974 Revisited Fifty years ago in NSW we experienced a sequence of storms that for many of us constitutes the biggest storms on record in terms of impact. In this and a following blog I will recount some of that experience. It was fortunate that...