Month: August 2017
Can we have it all? – by Peta Leahy
Being asked recently to contribute to WICGE was very humbling, but on what to blog about became very a very daunting task. A few ideas were thrown at me – my journey through the Australian Coastal Society of which I am now the first female Chairperson, my role as a senior researcher at the Griffith […]
New open access resource for teaching beach morphodynamics
A new teaching resource is available for teaching beach morphodynamics to university-level students: Gallop, S.L., Harley, M.D., Brander, R.W., Simmons, J., Splinter, K.D., Turner, I.L. 2017. Assessing cross-shore and alongshore variation in beach morphology due to wave climate: Storms to decades. Oceanography 30(3), 120–125. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.304 This open-access paper has just been published in Oceanography and consists […]
High School Coastal Teaching Resource Now Available
Are you or someone you know teaching in the high school space and interested in Coastal Processes??? Fellow WICGE members from the Water Research Laboratory in partnership with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, have developed a new ‘Coastal Management Guide’ designed for High School teachers involved in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) […]
Congratulations to our Inaugural WICGE Award Winner – Coasts and Ports 2017!!!
WICGE would like to congratulate our first winner for the WICGE Award for best paper lead by a female author at Coasts and Ports 2017, Ms Rosey Hart. We hope this award will be the first of many that acknowledges the achievements of women in our field, but also encourages the next generation to step […]
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. For future international conferences, ensuring the safety and well-being of key participants can be facilitated by […]