GeoLog

New South Wales

Back for the first time: measuring change at Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach

May 8, 2019
Back for the first time: measuring change at Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach
Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach in New South Wales, Australia, home to one of the longest-running shoreline-measurement programmes in the world! Credit: Eli Lazarus

Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach in New South Wales, Australia, just north of Sydney, is home to one of the longest-running shoreline-measurement programmes in the world. With colleagues at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Eli Lazarus, an associate professor in geomorphology at the University of Southampton, UK, has been analysing over 40 years of data from Narrabeen–Collaroy to better und ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: littoral rainforests

January 23, 2017

Making room for growing populations, and the resources they demand, comes at the cost of precious natural environments. Rainforests, globally, are under threat from farming, logging and ever expanding cities. It is reported that if current rates of exploitation continue, the world’s rainforests could be lost within the next century. Like almost anything else, rainforests come in all shapes a ...[Read More]