Risk Frontiers’ Thomas Mortlock presented this week on recent work regarding calibrating a global storm surge model in collaboration with Deltares, at the 2017 Coast and Ports conference in Cairns this week. The work combines Deltares’ capabilities in global ocean…
Chas Keys and Andrew Gissing This week sees a significant but little-heralded anniversary in New South Wales: 150 years ago, on the 23rd of June, a devastating flood peaked at Windsor on the Hawkesbury River. For height reached and area…
Risk Frontiers – in association with the Marine Climate Risk Group at Macquarie University – have delivered a modelling study for NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, as part of the NSW Adaptation Research Hub, to help understand the long-term stability…
Andrew Gissing. In partnership with the NSW State Emergency Service, Risk Frontiers conducted a survey of twenty participants at the Floodplain Management Australia conference held in May, 2017. Participants were from the floodplain risk management industry and represented Local and…
This article by James Foster, Associate Researcher, University of Hawaii, appeared in The Conversation on March 15, 2016. As shown in the last figure, cargo ship routes provide much better coverage of the northern hemisphere than the southern hemisphere. Racing…
Our research on flood fatalities has been showcased in the latest edition of Australian Fire magazine. This project involved an analysis of Australian flood deaths since 1900 led by Dr Katharine Haynes. Results of the research are being utilised by emergency…
