Historic Design of Rock Coastal Protection Structures by WA Government
This presentation was developed as one piece of a review of coastal engineering practices, aimed to help develop guidelines for future facility design.
Getting UnReal: Coastal Adaptation
Coastal engineering, planning and adaptation are different facets of coastal management. Confusion between them continues to occur, even for good practitioners with decades of experience.Understanding how they relate to one another, and how they do NOT is important for building coastal resilience. Effective adaptation planning does not simply involve raising design criteria!
The Dearth of Technical Project Managers
Project management is a critical part of modern infrastructure delivery. From timesheets to real-time dashboards, countless project management tools have become critical for cost-effective delivery of large scale and multi-disciplinary projects. These have been inevitably focused on cost and time, with increasing targeting on capturing service quality. However, within this setting, there has been a decline of the Technical Project Manager role, a technical specialist with int
Where have the geomorphologists gone?
An academic competition asked the question “How do we get better at long-term coastal (morphodynamic) modelling?” My response was to express the opinion we’ve gone too far down one pathway, while substantially neglecting several areas of science, notably geomorphology. This opinion is built from watching the transition of science from the 1980s through to early 2000s, when the attempt to move ‘short-term’ modelling into ‘longer-term’ concepts was most heavily open to discussi
