Source: http://oceanfit.com.au/figure-eight-pools-royal-national-park/ Wave Processes and Overwash Hazard on a High-Energy Rock Platform On one form of social media or another, you’ve probably seen images of the spectacular Figure Eight Pools rock platform in the Royal National Park. You may have also seen how hazardous these picturesque natural pools can be. At the upcoming COPEP seminar, Hannah […]
PhD candidate, Emma Austin, from the Centre for Water, Climate and Land (CWCL) in the Faculty of Science, has been awarded a National Council of Women New South Wales (NCW NSW) Australia Day Award. The awards recognise talented young women across NSW from a range of research fields. The NCW NSW provides these awards as […]
CASANZ invites you to submit an idea for presentation at the inaugural “Emerging Air Quality Professionals Symposium”. “The future of Air Quality and Climate Change: Big ideas for complex problems” The Symposium is headlined by Professor Tim Flannery, who will engage delegates with an inspiring presentation titled “Climate Change and the Third Way”. […]
University of Newcastle in collaboration with University of Waikato and Melbourne University are leading the way in ground breaking new research into South Pacific and Australian Hydroclimate History. Adam Hartland from Waitomo University, blogs about the fascinating work of our very own adventurous PhD student, Ebony Anderson. the Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project “South Pacific […]
Last year, at the annual conference for Water, Infrastructure and the Environment in December 2016, the winner was announced for the Engineers Australia GN Alexander Medal for the best paper in Hydrology and/or Water Resources published in an Engineers Australia publication. From more than 200 eligible papers 6 were shortlisted. Three of those six nominated […]
Recently a special issue of the Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science (JSHESS) was published that focuses on the Eastern Seaboard Climate Change Initiative (ESCCI) East Coast Low (ECL) projects (http://climatechange.environment.nsw.gov.au/Impacts-of-climate-change/East-Coast-Lows/Eastern-Seaboard-Climate-Change-Initiative). ESCCI is a government/industry/ARC funded program that the Newcastle University has been involved in since ~2010. As such there are 4 papers (attached) […]
East Coast Lows and the Pasha Bulker storm—lessons learned nine years on Danielle C Verdon-Kidd ¹, Anthony S Kiem ¹,², and Garry R Willgoose ³ [1] Environmental and Climate Change Research Group, School of Environmental and Life Sciences,Faculty of Science and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia; [2] Centre for Water, […]