Publications
The Coasts and Estuaries Research Group publishes research on the drivers, processes geomorphology and evolution of coastal environments, spanning field studies, remote sensing, and modelling. We cover a range of coastal environments – from temperate sandy beaches to tropical coral reefs – and hydrodynamic processes from surf wave breaking to tsunami wave inundation. CERG members have authored chapters in high-profile international textbooks and publish their research in leading scientific journals. Selected journal papers and book chapters are listed below.
Conference presentations and other contributions are available here. Current research projects are detailed here and opportunities for research students are available here.
2024
Kinsela, M. A., Morris, B. D., Ingleton, T. C., Doyle, T. B., Sutherland, M. D., Doszpot, N. E., Miller, J. J., Holtznagel, S. F., Harley, M. D., and Hanslow, D. J. (2024). Nearshore wave buoy data from southeastern Australia for coastal research and management. Scientific Data, 11, 190, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02865-x.
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Oliver T. S. N., Kinsela M. A., Doyle T. B., and McLean R. F. (2024). Foredune erosion, overtopping and destruction in 2022 at Bengello Beach, southeastern Australia. Coastal Futures, 2, e7, 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2024.8.
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Palmer, K., Watson, C. S., Power, H. E., and Hunter, J. R. (2024). Quantifying the mean sea level, tide, and surge contributions to changing coastal high water levels. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2023JC020737, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020737.
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Viola, C. N. A., Verdon-Kidd, D. C., and Power, H. E. (2024). Characterising continental shelf waves and their drivers for the southeast coast of Australia, Ocean & Coastal Management, 253, 107145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107145.
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Viola, C. N. A., Verdon-Kidd, D. C., and Power, H. E. (2024). Spatially varying impacts of Pacific and Southern Ocean climate modes on tidal residuals in New South Wales, Australia, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 305, 108869, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2024.108869.
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AGU Editorial Network [including Hannah E. Power] (2024). Challenges facing scientific publishing in the field of Earth & space sciences. AGU Advances, 5, e2024AV001334, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001334.
2023
Hamylton, S. M., Power, H. E., Gallop, S., and Vila-Concejo, A. (2023). The challenges of fieldwork: Improving the experience for women in coastal sciences, Coastal Futures, 1, e38, 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.26.
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Hanslow, D. J., Fitzhenry, M. G., Hughes, M. G., Kinsela, M. A., and Power, H. E. (2023). Sea level rise and the increasing frequency of inundation in Australia’s most exposed estuary, Regional Environmental Change, 23:146, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02138-8.
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Palmer, K., Watson, C. S., Hunter, J. R., Hague, B. S., and Power, H. E. (2023). An improved method for computing tidal datums. Coastal Engineering, 184, 104354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2023.104354.
2022
Kinsela, M. A., Hanslow D. J., Carvalho R. C., Linklater M., Morris B. D., Ingleton T. C., Allen K. M., Sutherland M. D., and Woodroffe C. D. (2022), Mapping the shoreface of coastal sediment compartments to improve shoreline change forecasts in New South Wales, Australia, Estuaries and Coasts, 45, 1143–1169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00756-7
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Harley, M. D., and Kinsela, M. A. (2022), CoastSnap: A global citizen science program to monitor changing coastlines, Continental Shelf Research, 245, 104796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2022.104796
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Power, H. E., Kinsela, M. A., Pomeroy, A. W. M., and Murray, T. P. (2022). Life on the edge: adapting coastal management in a changing climate. Australian Quarterly, 93(3), 12-20. https://aips.net.au/aq-magazine/current-edition/93-3-power
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Stringari, C. E. and Power, H. E. (2022), Picoastal: A low-cost coastal video monitoring system, SoftwareX, 18, 101073, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2022.101073
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Turner, I. L., Harley, M. D., Hanslow D. J., Kinsela, M. A., and Splinter, K. D. (2022), ‘Coastal Management Guide - Managing Coastal Erosion’: A STEM education resource for secondary school teachers, Continental Shelf Research, 244, 104783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2022.104783
2021
Power, H. E., Pomeroy, A. W. M., Kinsela, M. A., and Murray, T. P. (2021). Research priorities for coastal geoscience and engineering: A collaborative exercise in priority setting from Australia. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 252. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.645797
Hubble, T. C. T., Helfensdorfer, A. M., Job, T. A., and Power, H. E. (2021). Reply to: A large mid-Holocene estuary was not present in the lower River Murray, Australia. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89076-9
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Hubble, T. C. T., Helfensdorfer, A. M., Job, T. A., and Power, H. E. (2021). Evidence for substantial Darling River flows is preserved in 7,000-year-old laminated muds deposited at Monteith, lower Murray River Valley: A challenge to the conventional view of insignificant Darling River flows during the mid-Holocene. Quaternary Australasia, 38(2), 32-41. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.176224974596373
Leaman, C. K., Harley, M. D., Splinter, K. D., Thran, M. C., Kinsela, M. A., and Turner, I. L. (2021), A Storm Hazard Matrix combining coastal flooding and beach erosion, Coastal Engineering, 170, 104001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.104001
Stringari, C. E. and Power, H. E. (2021). LiDAR observations of multi-modal swash probability distributions on a dissipative beach. Remote Sensing, 13(3), 462. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030462
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Viola, C. N. A., Verdon-Kidd, D. C., Hanslow, D. J., Maddox, S., and Power, H. E. (2021) Long-Term Dataset of Tidal Residuals in New South Wales, Australia. Data, 6, 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/data6100101
2020
Bryan, K. R. and Power, H. E. (2020), Chapter 4: Wave behaviour outside the surf zone, in: Jackson, D. and Short, A. D., Sandy Beach Morphodynamics, Elsevier, 27 pp.
Greenslade, D. J., Hemer, M., Babanin, A., Lowe, R., Turner, I., Power, H. E., Young, I., Ierodiaconou, D., Hibbert, G., Williams, G., et al. (2020), 15 priorities for wind-waves research: An Australian perspective. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101, E446-E461. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0262.1
Helfensdorfer, A. M., Power, H. E., and Hubble, T. C. T. (2020), Atypical responses of a large catchment river to the Holocene sea-level highstand: The Murray River, Australia, Scientific Reports, 10, 7503. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61800-x
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Hubble, T. Helfensdorfer, A., and Power, H. (2020), Response to ‘The predominantly fresh history of Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, and its implications for the Murray–Darling Basin Plan: a comment on Gell (2020)’, Pacific Conservation Biology, 26, 215-217. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC20053.
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Kinsela, M. A., Hubble, T. C. T, Webster, J. M., Clarke, S., Passos, T. U., Airey, D. W., and Mitchell, D. (2020), Floating High Over Beaches and Dunes Without Wing, Chute or Rotor, Journal of Coastal Research, 101, 351-357. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCR-SI101-063.1
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Mollison, K. C., Power, H. E., Clarke, S. L., Baxter, A. T., and Hubble, T. C. T., (2020), Sedimentology, structure, and age of the Wide Bay Canyon submarine landslide on the southeast Australian continental slope, Marine Geology, 419, 106063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106063
Mollison, K. C., Power, H. E., Lane, E. M., Clarke, S. L., and Hubble, T. C. T., (2020). The sedimentology and tsunamigenic potential of the Byron submarine landslide off New South Wales, Australia, in: Georgiopoulou, A., Amy, L. A., Benetti, S., Chaytor, J. D., Clare, M. A., Gamboa, D., Haughton, P. D. W., Moernaut, J. and Mountjoy, J. J. (eds) 2020. Subaqueous Mass Movements and their Consequences: Advances in Process Understanding, Monitoring and Hazard Assessments. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-160.
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Oliver, T. S. N, Tamura, T., Brooke, B. P., Short, A. D., Kinsela, M. A., Woodroffe, C. D., and Thom, B. G. (2020), Holocene evolution of the wave-dominated embayed Moruya coastline, southeastern Australia: Sediment sources, transport rates and alongshore interconnectivity, Quaternary Science Reviews, 247, 106566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106566
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Power, H. E. (2020), Chapter 6: Breaking Waves, in: Jackson, D. and Short, A. D., Sandy Beach Morphodynamics, Elsevier, 29 pp.
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Power, H. E., Broadfoot, M. S. S., Burke, A., Donaldson, P. M., Hart, R. M., Mollison, K. C., Schmidt, D. J., and Young, S. M. (2020), Lessons learned from running a conference in the time of COVID-19 and the silver linings of shifting to online. Oceanography, 33(3), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2020.312
Roger, E., Tegart, P., Dowsett, R., Kinsela, M. A., Harley, M. D., and Ortac, G. (2020), Maximising the potential for citizen science in New South Wales, Australian Zoologist, 40, 449-461. https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.023
Stringari, C. E. and Power, H. E., (2020), Quantifying bore-bore capture on natural beaches, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, 2019JC015689. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015689
Wilson, K. M. and Power, H. E., (2020), Tsunami modelling with static and dynamic tides in drowned river valleys with morphological constrictions, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 177, 1595–1616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02411-0
2019
Greenslade, D. J. M., Uslu, B., Allen, S. C. R., Kain, C., Wilson, K., and Power, H. E. (2019), Evaluation of Australian Tsunami Warning Thresholds Using Inundation Modelling, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 177, 1425-1436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02377-z
Harley, M. D., Kinsela, M. A., Sanchez-Garcia, E., and Vos, K. (2019), Shoreline change mapping using crowd-sourced smartphone images, Coastal Engineering, 150, 175-189. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.04.003
Helfensdorfer, A. M., Power, H. E., and Hubble, T. C. T. (2019), Modelling Holocene analogues of coastal plain estuaries reveals the magnitude of sea-level threat, Scientific Reports, 9, 2667.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39516-4
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Linklater, M., Ingleton, T. C., Kinsela, M. A., Morris, B. D., Allen, K. M., Sutherland, M. D., and Hanslow, D. J. (2019), Techniques for Classifying Seabed Morphology and Composition on a Subtropical-Temperate Continental Shelf, Geosciences, 9, 141. http://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9030141
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Passos, T. U., Webster, J. M., Braga, J. C., Voelker, D., Renema, W., Beaman, R. J., Nothdurft, L. D., Hinestrosa, G., Clarke, S., Yokoyama, Y., Barcellos, R. L, Kinsela, M. A., Nothdurft, L. N., and Hubble, T. (2019), Paleoshorelines and lowstand sedimentation on subtropical shelves: a case study from the Fraser Shelf, Australia, Aust. Journal of Earth Sciences, 66, 547-565. http://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2018.1558417
Power, H. E., Gharabaghi, B., Bonakdari, H., Robertson, B., Atkinson A. L., and Baldock, T. E. (2019), Prediction of Wave Runup on Beaches Using Gene-Expression Programming and Empirical Relationships, Coastal Engineering, 144, 47-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2018.10.006
Stringari, C. E., Harris, D. L., and Power, H. E. (2019), A novel machine learning algorithm for tracking remotely sensed waves in the surf zone, Coastal Engineering, 147, 149-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.02.002
Stringari, C. E. and Power, H. E., (2019), The fraction of broken waves in natural surf zones, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 24, 2019JC015213. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015213
2018
Cowell, P. J., and Kinsela, M. A. (2018), Shoreface Controls on Barrier Evolution and Shoreline Change, in: Moore, L.J. and Murray A.B., Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate, Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68086-6
Harris, D. L., Rovere, A., Casella, E., Power, H. E., Canavesio, R., Collin, A., Pomeroy, A., Webster, J. M., and Parravicini, V. (2018), Future coastal protection is primarily dependent on coral reef health, not rising sea levels, Science Advances, 4, 2, eaao4350. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao4350
Harris, D. L., Power, H. E., Kinsela, M. A., Webster, J. M., and Vila Concejo, A. (2018), Variability of depth-limited waves in coral reef surf zones, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 211, 36-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.06.010
Hanslow, D. J., Morris, B. D., Foulsham, E., and Kinsela, M. A. (2018), A Regional Scale Approach to Assessing Current and Potential Future Exposure to Tidal Inundation in Different Types of Estuaries, Scientific Reports, 8, 7065. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25410-y
Martins, K. M., Blenkinsopp, C. E., Deigaard, R., and Power, H. E. (2018), Energy dissipation in the inner surf zone: new insights from LiDAR-based roller geometry measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123, JC013369. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JC013369
Power, H. E., Kinsela, M. A., Stringari, C. E., Kendall, M. J., Morris, B. D., and Hanslow, D. J. (2018), Automated sensing of wave inundation across a rocky shore platform using a low-cost camera system, Remote Sensing, 10, 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010011
Vila-Concejo, A., Gallop, S., Hamylton, S., Esteves, L., Bryan, K., Delgado-Frenandez, I., Guisado-Pintado, E., Joshi, S., Miot da Silva, G., Ruiz de Alegria-Arzaburu, A., Power, H. E., Senechal, N., and Splinter, K. (2018), Steps to improve gender diversity in the fields of coastal geosciences and engineering, Palgrave Communications, 4, 103. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0154-0
Wilson, K. M., Allen, S. C. R., and Power, H. E. (2018), The tsunami threat to Sydney Harbour: modelling potential and historic events, Scientific Reports, 8, 15045. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33156-w
Wilson, K. M. and Power, H. E. (2018), Seamless Bathymetry and Topography Datasets for Sydney Harbour, Botany/Bate Bay and The Hawkesbury, Australia, Scientific Data, 5:180115. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.115
2017
Atkinson, A. L., Power, H. E., Moura, T., Hammond, T., Callaghan, D. P., and Baldock, T. E. (2017), Assessment of runup predictions by empirical models on non-truncated beaches on the south-east Australian coast, Coastal Engineering, 119, 15-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2016.10.001
Baldock, T. E., Moura, T., and Power, H. E. (2017), Video-Based Remote Sensing of Surf Zone Conditions, IEEE Potentials, 36(2), 35-41. https://doi.org/10.1109/MPOT.2016.2631018
Harley, M. D., Turner, I. L., Kinsela, M. A., Middleton, J. H., Mumford, P. J., Splinter, K. D., Phillips, M. S., Simmons, J. A., Hanslow, D. J., and Short, A. D. (2017), Extreme coastal erosion enhanced by anomalous extratropical storm wave direction, Scientific Reports, 7, 6033. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05792-1
Kinsela, M. A., Morris, B. D., Linklater, M., and Hanslow, D. J. (2017), Second-Pass Assessment of Potential Exposure to Shoreline Change in New South Wales, Australia, Using a Sediment Compartments Framework, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 5, 61. http://doi.org/10.3390/jmse5040061
Martins, K. M., Blenkinsopp, C. E., Power, H. E., Bruder, B., Puleo, J. A., and Bergsma, E. W. J. (2017), High-resolution monitoring of wave transformation in the surf zone using a LiDAR scanner array, Coastal Engineering, 128, 37-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.07.007
Robertson, B., Gharabaghi, B., and Power, H. E. (2017), Predicting Breaking Wave Conditions Using Gene Expression Programming, Coastal Engineering Journal, 59(3), 1750017. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0578563417500176
2016
Kinsela, M. A., Daley, M. J. A., and Cowell, P. J. (2016), Origins of Holocene coastal strandplains in Southeast Australia: Shoreface sand supply driven by disequilibrium morphology, Marine Geology, 374, 14–30. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.01.010
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Kinsela, M. A., Morris, B. D., Daley, M. J. A., and Hanslow, D. J. (2016), A flexible approach to forecasting coastline change on wave-dominated beaches, Journal of Coastal Research, SI75, 952–956. http://doi.org/10.2112/SI75-191.1
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Power, H. E., Nielsen, P., Hughes, M. G., Aagaard, T. A., and Baldock, T. E. (2016), Wave height distributions in the surf zone on natural beaches, Journal of Coastal Research, SI75, 917-921. https://doi.org/10.2112/SI75-184.1
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Wilson, O. A. and Power, H. E. (2016), Tsunami Inundation Modelling in Estuaries: Sensitivity to Variation in Tide from an Emergency Management Perspective, Journal of Coastal Research, SI75, 1,262-1,266. https://doi.org/10.2112/SI75-253.1