In case you missed it: women in science
Just over a week ago, National Geographic published a thought-provoking article about the importance of women in science. They make the case that it is not only about social equality, […]
New GRG event: ‘Failure to Adapt! The US experience following Hurricane Sandy’
‘Failure to Adapt! The US experience following Hurricane Sandy’ Monday 17 November 2014, 6 – 7:30pm History Room S223, The Quadrangle University of Sydney I am happy to announce that […]
Update from Heron Island. Pulling up those fossil coral monsters!
After some initial mechanical troubles and bad weather, the Heron Island reef coring is now going well. Over the last days we have been recovering some beautiful sequences of insitu […]
Drilling begins! Unlocking the history of Holocene climate change and reef growth in the Southern GBR
Today the team from UQ has arrived at Heron Island to commence the drilling of the Holocene reef sequence. This is part of a joint UQ/USYD/QUT Australian Research Council Discovery (ARCD) […]
The Flipped Classroom
A bit of news from the teaching and learning side of things… Last week I attended the launch of the Education Portfolio’s #edtech talks at The University of Sydney – a […]
Guest appearance on The Landslide Blog!
This week my research has made a guest appearance on AGU Blogosphere’s The Landslide Blog run by Professor Dave Petley. Dave is a landslide expert and our international collaborator on this research […]
Uncovering the River Murray’s rivertrade past through multibeam bathymetry
Multibeam bathymetric datasets have been acquired of the lower River Murray as part of an ongoing investigation into widespread riverbank collapse that occurred during the peak of the Millennium Drought […]
88th ACRS Brisbane: A scientific adventure for Dan and Ana.
It has been a great 88th edition of the Australian Coral Reef Symposium in Brisbane. Dan Harris and I went and represented the Geocoastal Research Group and I think that […]
NEW SEMESTER, NEW PEOPLE, NEW PhDs AND OTHER NEWS
This second semester of 2014 we have started in full swing. First of all I would like to welcome all new members of the Geocoastal Research Group: Wellington Trindade is […]
The 7th Australian Stream Management Conference (7ASM)
Last week Tom Hubble and Elyssa De Carli attended The 7th Australian Stream Management Conference (7ASM) in Townsville. Tom presented a talk entitled “Geomechanical modelling of the Murray’s Millennium Drought river […]
