Category: Blog

Why do we need more women in coastal and how do we facilitate change?

This talk was originally presented by Tanya Stul, Chairperson of the National Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering (NCCOE) within Engineers Australia (EA). Address presented at the first Women in Coastal Geosciences and Engineering (WICGE) sundowner at Coasts & Ports 2017, 21 June 2017. I am the Chairwoman of the NCCOE. The only woman on the […]

WICGE Meeting at Coasts and Ports 2017

Apologies on the delayed posts. We’ve been busy! June was a big month for conferences in the Coastal Geosciences/Engineering space.  We posted last week on our event at Coastal Dynamics in Denmark. This week we’ll tell you a bit about our big event we had at Coasts and Ports in Cairns (Australia). Coasts and Ports […]

WICGE Meeting at Coastal Dynamics 2017

We had our first WICGE event at an international conference since the launch at the International Coastal Symposium in 2016! Over 300 delegates from more than 20 countries attended Coastal Dynamics in Helsingør in Denmark from 13-16 June 2017. The Women in Coastal Geoscience and Engineering Network ran an event during the lunch break on […]

Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference Deadline extended to June 30!

Coastal/oceanographer colleagues – Please consider submitting an abstract/sending a student to the 4th Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference – Americas (YCSEC-A), hosted at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, Aug. 21-23, 2017. Registration/abstract submission is open until 30 June! Details here: https://ycseca-2017.eventbrite.com The YCSEC-A mission is to bring together young scientists and engineers […]

2 PhD Opportunities at UNSW Sydney

The Scientia PhD program has announced its projects for 2018.  There is over 100 projects on offer in all areas of research. I’m bringing to your attention 2 in the water/coastal space.  We are currently recruiting for high quality students in 2 very different fields. Both ads are below. Scientia scholars will have a strong […]

The Future of UK Coastal Research – 13th UK Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference

Contributed by: Chris Blenkinsopp The 13th UK Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference (YCSEC) was held at Bath on 11-12th April as part of the University’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.  The conference was organised by the Water, Environment and Infrastructure Resilience (WEIR) research group and the Water Innovation Research Centre (WIRC) with support from our sponsors […]

ICCE 2018

Dear members, ICCE 2018 is fast approaching (hard to believe). Abstract submissions are now open and close on August 1. It would be great to see all of you leading papers at this prestigious international conference. We are working with the organisers to help promote WICGE and more women in STEM. More details to follow on […]

Two opportunities to join the award winning environmental engineering research team at the Water Research Laboratory, UNSW Sydney

A/Professor Will Glamore is currently advertising two Research Associate positions to join his team at WRL. The advertised positions will further expand WRL’s award winning research expertise in environmental engineering. One position is focused on climate change in estuaries (2 years FTE), while the other is on wetland restoration processes (3 year FTE). Based on Sydney’s […]

Job Opportunity in coastal management: Central Coast – Hunter region NSW Australia

The NSW Office and Environment and Heritage is currently recruiting for a coastal management position in the Central Coast – Hunter Region. The appointee will help councils in the Central Coast – Hunter region implement the government’s new coastal management framework.  The new Coastal Management Act and the Manual requires that management strategies be under-pinned […]

Coastal Pride: An LGBTI women’s experience of Coastal Geoscience

By Dr. Siddhi Joshi, coastal geoscientist and oceanographer As a coastal marine scientist and a global LGBTI rights activist,  I wanted to write a blog post which explored an LGBTI woman’s experience in coastal geosciences and engineering. My main motivation is to engage in dialogue over the aspects that haunted me throughout the early stages of […]

Embracing imperfections and rising in your career and life

with Dr Graziela Miot da Silva, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Hello blog world, here it is, my first time giving you a try. For some time I have thought about sharing the experiences I had when moving countries and starting new jobs. Within ten years I moved countries twice and started 3 new jobs, all while […]

Girls with drones – by Stephanie Duce

Girls with drones by Stephanie Duce, lecturer at James Cook University A quick google search of “girls with drones” currently returns more pictures of bikinis and bottoms than propellers and controllers… but that is something that will hopefully change in the near future particularly with the work of organisations like She Flies. Recently, I was […]

Encouraging the next generation in Engineering

Contributed by: Dr. Kristen Splinter, Lecturer, UNSW Sydney. I had the privilege of welcoming 100 female high school students to view my research and to get to know what it was like to be an engineer this past month. The site visit to the Water Research Laboratory (http://www.wrl.unsw.edu.au/news/unsw-women-in-engineering-camp-visit-wrl) was part of the girls’ 5-day intensive […]

WICGE at EGU, April 2017

The Women in Coastal Geo-sciences and Engineering (WICGE) network will be instrumental in achieving gender equality in coastal geoscience and engineering. WICGE works across age groups, genders, and career levels, in academia, government and industry. We have developed some practical objectives including inspiring women to pursue a career in STEM, work for gender equality at events […]

Member spotlight: Luana Stefanon, The University of Padova Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA)

I am a passionate researcher who has worked at the ICEA Department, the University of Padova (Italy). My research experience is characterized by the use of multiple approaches (i.e., laboratory experiments, mathematical modelling and field surveys) to investigate the interactions between morphodynamics and hydrodynamics in coastal lagoon environments. Everglades, Florida. I have completed my PhD […]