GEOS3009 – Kioloa 2018
We had a great fieldtrip to Kioloa Coastal Campus with our third year students from GEOS3009/3909. We measured topography of the beach and the inlet; assessed the sediment characteristics; and analysed […]
Category Archives: Field Work
Sculptures under water
The last days have seen some swell arriving at the eastern beaches of Sydney. They were big but not as big as the swells that battered our coast in early […]
USYD visits Heron Island Research Station
We’ve just returned from an exciting weeklong mixed undergraduate (GEOS3009) and masters (MARS5006/7) field trip to Heron Island Research Station (One Tree’s neighbour) in the Capricorn Bunker Group of the Great Barrier Reef. […]
#ICS2016 Fieldtrip to One Tree Island Research Station
As part of ICS2016 we offered the delegates the opportunity of coming and visiting One Tree Island Research Station. It was an optional post-conference fieldtrip and the opportunity was taken […]
Our new paper on Lady Musgrave
What do a group of scientists do when they get stuck on a boat in the middle of a reef???… measure everything they can!!! Last year Steph Duce was part […]
Bondi monitoring program
Sydney’s Bondi Beach was last week the site for surveying the first data point in an ongoing monitoring program. The Eastern Beaches monitoring program will encompass all ocean beaches from […]
Dating with Bec and Steph
Last week, my fellow Geocoastal Research Group member (Rebecca Hamilton) and I (Stephanie Duce) spent the week at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) Institute for Environmental Research […]
New reef coring campaign unlocks the climate change secrets of the Great Barrier Reef
The team from the Geocoastal Research Group (GRG) has just returned from a highly successful campaign to recover fossil coral reef cores from One Tree Island in the Great Barrier […]
Spur and Groove coring at Heron Island Reef
Last week Stephanie Duce and Belinda Dechnik from the Geocoastal Research Group (GRG) teamed up with fellow PhD student James Sadler from UQ to conduct an underwater coring campaign of […]
In The News! The Murray River’s Millennium Drought Failures
Recently A.Prof Tom Hubble and his team received some attention for their research on riverbank collapse on the Lower Murray River in South Australia. During the March 2015 field campaign, […]
