Once again the east coast has experienced the impacts of an east coast low which swept down from south east Queensland last weekend along the NSW coast and then generated extensive flooding in northern Tasmania. Read More

This year we reflect back on 25 years of innovation in coastal management. We celebrate our silver anniversary as the country’s longest running coastal management conference – toast the good, learn from the bad, and avoid the mistakes of yesteryear. Read More

In 2009, Angus Gordon wrote a very important paper that appeared in the proceedings of the Coast and Ports Conference, Engineers Australia, Wellington NZ. The title was “The potential for offshore sand sources to offset climate change impacts on Sydney’s beaches”. Read More

I was very fortunate in being allowed to do my honours thesis in the Port Stephens-Myall Lakes area. The topic was on the geomorphology and Quaternary history of this area. In those days the student was able to spend the entire second term ( June to August) in the field. Read More

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 hike to Kurnell. Read More

Sargassum is a remarkable algae in that it undergoes a strong seasonal growth pattern. By the time we enter the waters in spring it is tall and in places towers above the bed. Read More

Over the past few weeks, I have been privileged to twice hear Rob Stokes, the NSW Minister for Planning, discuss the NSW coastal reforms. On the 13th November 2015 at the NSW Coastal Conference in Forster, he released the draft Bill of a new Coastal Management Act, an Explanation of Intended Effects (EIE) on a new Coastal Management State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP), and the background to a new Coastal Management Manual. Read More

Forster was the venue for this year’s NSW coastal conference. This is the 24th NSW conference. It was attended by 252 participants, a number slightly larger than usual. Read More

I was alerted this week by on-the-ball Phil Watson, Principal Coastal Specialist, at NSW Government Office Environment and Heritage, to a “unusual tidal phenomenon”. Read More

My father was a Manly boy, but mother came from Bondi. Fortunately for me they made a wise choice and moved to the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. This meant I followed my mother’s family and the beach of childhood was Bondi. Read More