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

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

While we commonly talk about tropical cyclone impacts in terms of wind strength, coastal impacts require further interpretation when we're looking at a forecast map. In order to interpret wave and storm surge, storm path and intensity are crucial factors, with impacts potentially strongly influenced by storm timing relative to tides.