Western Australia's Capes Coast illustrates how inner shelf and nearshore features can modify sediment transfers: it is not just wave-driven littoral transport along the shore! The inner shelf structure provides a crucial influence on shelf-coast sediment exchange. Here rocky formations provide a spectacular coast, robust under severe storm waves. However, the sandy beaches and dunes have reduced resilience due to low sand supply, and under projected sea level rise, their str

Masterplanning is a phase done early in development, aimed to collate critical, multi-disciplinary elements that will enable a project hold together, without reaching the stage of detailed engineering for all elements. Foreshore masterplanning can be a challenge, as shores change over time. Implications for getting it 'wrong', even by a few metres, can include significant impact to foreshore amenity, or high costs to undertake retroactive stabilisation. It is not always easy

No... it's not a typo for the (anti?) charismatic megafauna which patrol our southern shores...