Author: Shari Gallop

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 […]

Funding grants for women’s leadership development in Australia

   FUNDING GRANTS FOR WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT In 2016 Women & Leadership Australia is administering a national initiative to support the development of female leaders across the environmental sciences. The initiative is providing women in environmental science with grants for leadership development. More specifically, grant applications are open for women at three levels. Please click […]

Dr Shari Gallop, Co-Founder of WiCGE

Shari is an Early Career Researcher coastal morphologist and oceanographer. She has worked on coasts in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. Her research is focused largely on understanding interactions between coastal geology and structures, with met-ocean forcing, and sediment transport. She is particularly interested in physical processes on coasts with reefs, and also of rip […]

Associate Professor Ana Vila Concejo, Co-Founder of WiCGE

Ana is a marine scientist whose speciality is linking scales in coastal geomorphology. She looks at sediment transport and coastal change at different scales: immediate, event, decadal and Holocene. Her career started in Spain, then moved to Portugal in 1998 and came to Australia in 2005. She has worked on ocean and estuarine beaches, tidal inlet […]

Dr Sarah Hamylton, Co-founder of WiCGE

Sarah has worked on tropical coastlines for the last 15 years. She has been lucky enough to work in some varied locations, including Aldabra Atoll (Seychelles), Cocos (Keeling) Atoll, the Great Barrier Reef, Fiji, Belize and the Red Sea. Currently based at the University of Wollongong as a Senior Lecturer in GIS, Sarah enjoys building […]

Associate Professor (NTF) in Civil Engineering

Applications to be received by 12pm on Monday 26th of September 2016 From £45,066 p.a. (plus additional benefits including a shared equity scheme) The Department of Engineering Science intends to appoint an Associate Professor in Engineering Science (Civil Engineering) from 1 January 2017 or as soon as possible after that. The successful candidate will work […]

Have your say!

Undertake a short (< 5 minute) survey about your experience of gender inequality (or lack of) in coastal geoscience and engineering. This will add to an initial survey undertaken at the International Coastal Symposium in March 2016, which indicated that this is an instructive endeavour We would greatly appreciate your participation in this survey, which will help […]

What does it take to move from precarity to security?

For many of us, whether we are in academia, government, or industry, job insecurity and short-term contracts can become draining. Dr Dani Barrington is a Research Fellow jointly appointed by Monash University and the International Water Centre, and an Honorary Fellow at The University of Queensland. As her contract ends in a few weeks, Dani shares her thoughts on how […]

Women in Coastal update – July 2016

Hi everyone. It’s been a busy time of year for the committee with research, projects, teaching, field work, conferences, and family. Since the launch of WICGE in March, we have had our website updated with our new web address www.womenincoastal.org, and we now have a member form so that members can add themselves to the […]

Boosting Women in STEM – coming up in Sydney, September 2016

Women make up just 16 per cent of the 2.3 million STEM-qualified Australians. The most glaring gap is in engineering and related technologies which are just 14 per cent female. As a result, we see a waste in both talent and economy as many university-qualified women in STEM choose not to pursue careers in the […]

Member spotlight: Katherine Ratliff, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment

Member spotlight: Katherine Ratliff, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Division of Earth & Ocean Sciences at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment. My research focuses on landscape dynamics and the complex feedbacks within coupled human-landscape systems at the land-water interface. I seek to better understand […]

Position Vacant: Senior Project Manager (Coastal) Council of the City of Gold Coast

ouncil of the City of Gold Coast are advertising for a Senior Project Manager (Coastal). Please click on the link below for more details. https://erecruit1.mercury.com.au/GoldCoast/ViewPosition.aspx?Id=1sMI8nMaiUI=&mode=Preview#.V1i_f8pAH9k.email Kind regards City of Gold Coast Recruitment Team People and Culture City of Gold Coast  T: 07 5581 6221 PO Box 5042 Gold Coast Mail Centre Qld 9729 cityofgoldcoast.com.au

Research Fellow position at Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Gold Coast, Australia

A Research Fellow position is being offered at The Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, a research centre based on the Gold Coast Campus of Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. The Research Fellow will carry out applied research activities with a team of coastal engineers and scientists working on projects which support the development of effective management […]

PhD Scholarship Opportunity at Macquarie University

Project Name: Quaternary Sea-Level Rise and Australian Coastal Response An opportunity exists for a highly motivated student to join the research team at the Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University to work on the Coastal Sedimentological and Geomorphological Response of the Australian Coast to Rapid Sea-Level Rise During the Late Quaternary. The research will contribute […]