Category: Blog
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 […]
PhD Opportunity in Coastal Engineering at UNSW Water Research Laboratory – Sydney, Australia
PhD funding in the form of a research stipend is available to a highly qualified candidate interested in pursuing a research career in Coastal Engineering. All nationalities are welcome to apply: the research stipend is contingent on the successful candidate being admitted to the PhD program at UNSW and receiving either an International Postgraduate […]
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 […]
Ten reasons why becoming a parent has made me a better researcher…
-by Dr. Sarah Hamylton Over the last week I have been on three different university interview panels and considered 118 job applications. Many thoughts of scholarship, work ethic, attitude, pedagogy and teamwork have crossed my mind, but one comment has stayed with me: “I would question her research productivity because she has children” Hearing this […]
12th International Argus Workshop
In September the 12th International Workshop was hosted at the US Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility (FRF, http://www.frf.usace.army.mil/) in Duck, North Carolina, USA. An amazing venue, that holds special to Argus hearts as this marked 30 years of cameras at the Duck tower. The workshops occur every 18 -24 months and has previously been […]
Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference – Americas 2016
YCSEC-A 2016 was held at Queen’s University on the shore on Lake Ontario in Kingston, Canada! With over 50 participants that included 42 talks from graduate students and early career researchers, 3 industry talks and 5 keynote addresses, people from North and South America met to discuss coastal engineering and science. This included participants with […]