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Ian Turner
Ian Turner
Professor Ian Turner named as Australian Leader in the field of Ocean
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Sand, surf and STEMM: what's on a coastal engineer's mind
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ARC Linkage funds for major project
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Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) visit to WRL
The UNSW Water Research Laboratory and UNSW Global Water Institute
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Coastal Engineering students visit Botany Bay and Cronulla
Sixty budding coastal engineers from the CVEN9640 Coastal Engineering
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