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Wamberal coastal erosion July 2020
Maroochy River geotextile sand container groynes - physical model testing
Manly Dam Project - Gulgadya Muru
Smart camera system to track beach change and count beach users
Manly Dam Project
Palm Beach drone flythrough
Thirlmere Lakes water balance investigation
1986 August storm at Cronulla
Fairy Bower overtopping June 5 2016
1984 North Kirra geotube groyne testing
Greenmount, February to May 2016
The river of sand - Coolangatta Greenmount embayment
Greenmount Point during the June 2016 storm
Waverley Cemetery drone survey
Shelly Beach drone flythrough
Plunging wave air entrainment
Caseys Beach Seawall
Cabbage Tree Bay drone flythrough
Central Coast headland flyover
Freshwater Beach drone flythrough
Tracking a heated patch on a wave crest using thermal image velocimetry
Stormwater caisson physical model
Stormwater box culvert transition
Physical model of a stormwater junction chamber
WRL drone surveying solutions
Kirra, Gold Coast, overtopping in a storm
Live oyster clump testing in the wave flume
Burleigh Beach during Tropical Cyclone Oma
Surfers Paradise during Tropical Cyclone Oma
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Our Estuaries
Low carbon coastal protection
Planning for climate change in the Cook Islands
Daily Planet - Hurricane Harvey and cars in floods
15 to float - never drive on flooded roads
Flyover of Kingscliff Beach
Oyster bag wave testing
Oyster reef restoration project - wave flume testing
Sunset at Snapper Rocks
Emerging River Professional Award finalist - Jamie Ruprecht
OceanWatch Australia - Living Shorelines Program: Oyster Bags
UNSW centrifuge facility
Coastal imaging timelapse of the June 2016 storm event at Narrabeen
Drone data of Collaroy after the June 2016 East Coast Low
Drone footage of severe coastal erosion on Sydney's Northern Beaches
Wave testing of oyster bags
4WD in floodwater
Awesome flood fact
Drone survey of catastrophic cliff failure at North Head
Storm surges: Catastrophic Science
Tomago Wetland restoration project