Australasian Coasts

& Ports 2019

Hobart, Australia 10-13 September 2019

Volume 1 of 2

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VOLUME 1

ORAL PAPERS

NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF WAVE EXCITATION FORCES ON A FIXED TENSION LEG PLATFORM CONCEPT FOR OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES...... 1 Nagi Abdussamie

NAPIER PORT PROPOSED WHARF AND DREDGING PROJECT: ASSESSING POTENTIAL CHANGES TO SURFING AMENITY...... 7 Chris Adamantidis

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SAND RIPPLE GEOMETRY UNDER REGULAR AND IRREGULAR WAVES IN FRESH AND SALINE WATER...... 14 Narges Aflatounian

AN INVESTIGATION OF BANK EFFECTS BY MEANS OF VESSEL TRACK ANALYSIS COMBINED WITH SIMULATOR WORK ...... 21 Tobias Aldridge

RETREAT IS NOT AN OPTION: MANAGING EFFECTS OF -LEVEL RISE ON A CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CORRIDOR IN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND ...... 27 Michael Allis

AN EVALUATION OF CURRENT AND EMERGING IN-SITU WAVE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY ...... 34 Elysia Andrews

MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES FOR SURFING RESOURCES ...... 42 Ed Atkin

PHYSICAL MODEL FLUME AND BASIN INVESTIGATIONS OF A ROCK REVETMENT AND SEAWALL COASTAL DEFENCE ...... 49 Alexander Atkinson

DESIGN OF A PARTIAL DEPTH WAVE SCREEN TO PROTECT THE TAWAU FERRY TERMINAL, MALAYSIA...... 56 Tom Atkins

MODIFICATION OF DESIGN PARAMETERS FOR COASTAL PROTECTION STRUCTURES IN VIEW OF FUTURE RISE FOR TERENGGANU COAST, PENINSULAR MALAYSIA ...... 62 Awang Nor Aslinda

DESIGN OF COASTAL STRUCTURES – TRANSFORMING BUNBURY WATERFRONT...... 72 Stuart Barr

MANAGING AND TREATING LOG YARD STORMWATER DISCHARGES INTO HARBOUR ENVIRONS...... 79 Martin Bayley

DESIGN OF A FIXED WAVE SCREEN AT SNUG COVE, EDEN ...... 86 Christopher Beadle

REAL-TIME MONITORING OF TURBIDITY LEVELS AND WATER VELOCITIES DURING DREDGE SPOIL PLACEMENT WITHIN MORETON BAY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA...... 93 Ryan Beecroft

GEOSPATIAL MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS FOR SITE SELECTION OF WAVE ENERGY FARMS IN NEW ZEALAND...... 99 Danielle Bertram

A GUIDE TO THE USE OF GEOGRAPHICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL FEATURES TO SUPPORT COASTAL ENGINEERING DESIGN...... 106 Stuart Bettington

FROM MODELLING, ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, AND DESIGN TO CONSTRUCTION: THE EVOLUTION OF A COASTAL REVETMENT AT PORT KEMBLA...... 112 Ben Blumberg

WINDARA SHELLFISH REEF CONSTRUCTION...... 119 Adam Bolton

TSUNAMI PROPAGATION INTO LARGE EMBAYMENTS: MORETON BAY AND HERVEY BAY CASE STUDIES ...... 126 Paul Boswood

SHEET-PILE WALLS SUBJECT TO ACCELERATED LOW WATER CORROSION A NOVEL APPROACH TO REMEDIATION AND PROTECTION...... 135 Lucas Bresolin

SEAWALLS ON : LESSONS FOR US ALL ...... 140 Christopher Brown

A METHODOLOGY FOR DESIGNING COST EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE BLOCK QUAY WALLS...... 147 Nathan Burmeister

NEW DREDGED CHANNEL FOR BEADON CREEK: EXPANDING CAPACITY FOR THE ONSLOW MARINE SUPPORT BASE...... 154 Luke Campbell

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT UTILISING DATA RICH VISUALISATIONS ...... 161 Enrique Campos

OCEAN POOLS – CONTEMPORARY COASTAL ENGINEERING MEETS THE STEAM AGE ...... 167 James Carley

HISTORY ABOUT PORTS IN HOBART AND SE TASMANIA ...... 174 Noel Carroll

BROOME TOWNSITE SHORELINE MONITORING PROGRAM...... 181 Jim Churchill

MODELLING OF COASTAL CIRCULATION AND SEAGRASS WRACK TRANSPORT TO ASSESS OPTIONS TO REDUCE WRACK ACCUMULATION IN JURIEN BAY BOAT HARBOUR...... 187 Zachariah Couper

PHYSICAL MODELLING OF NOVEL UPGRADE STRATEGIES FOR THE MAROOCHY RIVER GEOTEXTILE FIELD ...... 194 Ian Coghlan

CFAST: MODELLING AND VISUALISATION TO IMPROVE FLOOD ADAPTATION PLANNING PROCESSES IN COASTAL CITIES...... 201 Raymond Cohen

BEACH NOURISHMENT PATTERN-PLACEMENT ALONG THE GOLD COAST ...... 206 Gildas Colleter

SAND FILLED GEOTEXTILE CONTAINERS IN AUSTRALIA - IS THERE A FUTURE? ...... 213 Angus Jackson

OBSERVATIONS OF HYDRODYNAMICS AND SCOUR POTENTIAL DURING BERTHING AND DE-BERTHING OF LARGE SHIPS AT THE PORT OF BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA...... 220 Remo Cossu

MODELLING COMPLEX FLOW FIELDS FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN REFINEMENT...... 228 Linden Clarke

FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A DOLPHIN SANCTUARY IN COFFS HARBOUR USING FIELD, NUMERICAL AND PHYSICAL MODELLING DATA...... 235 Edward Couriel

THE EFFECTS OF BOAT WAVES ON SHELTERED WATERWAYS – THIRTY YEARS OF CONTINUOUS STUDY...... 242 Gregory Cox

RESISTIVITY VELOCITY INDEX FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF DREDGEABILITY IN COMPLEX GROUND CONDITIONS...... 249 Tim Crawford

THE APRIL 2017 FLOODING OF THE FITZROY RIVER, QUEENSLAND, WAS AN INSIGNIFICANT SEDIMENT SOURCE TO THE GLADSTONE HARBOUR SYSTEM ...... 256 Cassandra Currie

NAPIER PORT INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITION ASSESSMENTS USING GIS TECHNOLOGY ...... 263 Stewart Frusher

A NEW PROBABILISTIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT FOR AUSTRALIA...... 267 Gareth Davies

GLOBAL-TO-LOCAL SCALE STORM SURGE MODELLING: OPERATIONAL FORECASTING AND MODEL SENSITIVITIES ...... 276 Simone De Kleermaeker

ASSESSING BEACH EROSION, ARE WE ON THE RIGHT TRACK? ...... 283 Liam Delucia

RESTRICTED WATER EFFECTS ON THE PREDICTION OF BERTHED SHIP-PASSING SHIP INTERACTION FORCES AND MOMENTS USING AN INVISCID AND VISCOUS NUMERICAL MODELS...... 290 Shaun Denehy

A CASE STUDY OF PILE TESTING AND VERIFICATION. BERTH 4 UPGRADE - PORT OF TOWNSVILLE...... 300 Dion Denes

SEDIMENT STABILISATION: BLENDING SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION FOR SUCCESSFUL PROJECT DELIVERY...... 307 Craig Dengate

ROTTNEST ISLAND AUTHORITY (RIA) ARMY JETTY – FAILURE, REMEDIATION AND REOPENING WITHIN 2 MONTHS...... 311 Nicholas Deussen

INTEGRATED AQUACULTURE MODELLING TO DETERMINE CARRYING CAPACITY OF AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT ZONES IN THE ARABIAN GULF...... 318 Toby Devlin

BENEFICIAL AND NATURE-BASED SEDIMENT USE – EXPERIENCES FROM DUTCH PILOTS ...... 325 Irena Doets

LYTTELTON PORT CHANNEL DEEPENING: TWO KEY STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL PROJECT DELIVERY IN A COMPLEX SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT ...... 331 Jared Pettersson

GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF STORM DEBRIS AT COLLAROY-NARRABEEN BEACH, AUSTRALIA...... 339 Paul Donaldson

MEASUREMENTS AND HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A COMPLEX FRINGING REEF AND LAGOON SYSTEM...... 346 Chris Drummond

ASSESSMENTS OF THE OPTIONS TO MANAGE SEDIMENTS IN THE PORT OF GLADSTONE ...... 354 Gordon Dwane

A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH TO THE FRACTION OF BROKEN WAVES...... 361 Caio Eadi Stringari

OBSERVED WATER LEVEL RESPONSES TO OPENING A LARGE CHANNEL TO PEEL- HARVEY ESTUARY...... 367 Matt Eliot

IS GROUND MODELLING A WASTE OF TIME?...... 374 Jason Errey

SEASONAL, EXTREMES AND WAVE CLIMATE VARIABILITY OF THE SOUTHWEST OF EFATE ISLAND , VANUATU ...... 381 Gaelle Faivre

HINDCAST OF INFRAGRAVITY WAVES AT JURIEN BAY AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE CURRENT SPEEDS AT THE HARBOUR ENTRANCE ...... 388 Hamid Dennis Fanai

MANAGEMENT OF SAND AND SEAGRASS WRACK AT THE RECONFIGURED ENTRANCE OF PORT GEOGRAPHE – A CASE STUDY ...... 396 Justin Fifield

36TH AMERICA’S CUP WYNYARD HOBSON HARBOUR INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE: AN INTEGRATED MODELLING APPROACH...... 403 Francois Flocard

FLYING FISH POINT ROCK REVETMENT UPGRADE: APPLICATION OF ‘GREEN ENGINEERING’, FISH FRIENDLY FEATURES AND OTHER INNOVATIVE MEASURES...... 411 Anthony Folan

WIND-ALARM SYSTEMS: EMERGING OBSERVING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PORT OPERATIONS...... 418 Dana Galbraith

A NEW METHOD OF CONTOURING JOINT PROBABILITY FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN ...... 424 Sean Garber

MINDARIE BREAKWATER MAINTENANCE PROJECT: DETAILED CONDITION ASSESSMENT...... 430 Joanna Garcia-Webb

UPGRADE OF FAIRFAX HARBOUR BERTHING FACILITIES FOR APEC 2018 PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...... 437 Werner Gebauer

LONG TERM MAINTENANCE DREDGING PROGRAM MANAGEMENT...... 444 Karim Ghaly

THE HUNTER RIVER ESTUARY WATER QUALITY MODEL...... 451 William Glamore

DESIGN LIFE AND DESIGN FOR LIFE ...... 458 Angus Gordon

OPTIMISATION OF MODELLING SYSTEMS FOR MARINE AND COASTAL APPLICATIONS...... 464 Richard Gorman

A COUPLED SHIP AND HARBOUR MODEL FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS IN GERALDTON HARBOUR ...... 471 Tim Gourlay

MARINE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE 36THAMERICA’S CUP:TACKLING TRANQUILLITY...... 478 Joe Greene

WHARF REHABILITATION & UPGRADE, PORT OF MELBOURNE ...... 485 Sam Green

EVALUATING TSUNAMI WARNINGS USING INUNDATION MODEL RESULTS ...... 492 Diana Greenslade

MEASUREMENT, MODELLING AND MESSAGING: THE PORT OF GLADSTONE SEDIMENT BUDGET ...... 499 Paul Guard

THE HYDRODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF AN INTEGRATED SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE PLATFORM WITH WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS: A CONCEPT FOR MULTI-USE PLATFORMS...... 506 Eric Gubesch

3D PHYSICAL MODELLING OF TRAINING GROYNE RESILIENCE AND REFURBISHMENT OPTIONS - BEADON CREEK CASE STUDY...... 513 Demont Hansen

RISING : TIDAL INUNDATION IN SOUTH EAST AUSTRALIAN ESTUARIES ...... 520 Dave Hanslow

METHODOLOGY FOR MODELLING DYNAMIC COASTAL TAILWATER LEVELS ...... 527 Alice Harrison

WATER LEVEL TRENDS IN NSW COASTAL LAKES BY USE OF EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY ANALYSIS ...... 534 Rosanne Hart

POLICY SETTINGS SUPPORTING AUSTRALIA’S BLUE ECONOMY ...... 541 Marcus Haward

APPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING TO THE ASSET MANAGEMENT OF PORT AND MARITIME STRUCTURES...... 546 Colin Hedderwick

A CONSISTENT CLIMATE CHANGE BASELINE FOR ESTUARINE IMPACT AND ADAPTATION PLANNING ALONG THE NEW SOUTH WALES COASTLINE...... 553 Valentin Heimhuber

MONITORING AUSTRALIA’S COASTAL CURRENTS WITH THE IMOS HF RADAR NETWORK...... 560 Yasha Hetzel

BERTH TO BERTH VOYAGE SCHEDULE OPTIMISATION – A TORRES STRAIT CASE STUDY ...... 569 Gregory Hibbert

PRACTICE LEARNINGS FROM MASTER PLANNING TASMANIA’S GATEWAY PORTS...... 576 Richard Hill

OFFSHORE NAVIGATIONAL AIDS IN CYCLONIC REGIONS FIT FOR PURPOSE DESIGNS ...... 596 Shaun Holmes

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS IN COASTAL MANAGEMENT –GETTING IT RIGHT AND GETTING IT WRONG ...... 603 Peter Horton

ADVANCED ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES FOR BENEFICIAL SEDIMENT USE IN JAPAN ...... 611 Shinya Hosokawa

INTEGRATION OF WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS WITHIN FLOATING OFFSHORE STRUCTURES ...... 617 Damon Howe

A MULTIDECADAL ANALYSIS OF THE ADELAIDE METROPOLITAN LITTORAL SEDIMENT CELL DERIVED FROM SHORELINE PROFILE MEASUREMENTS ...... 624 Meven Huiban

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF BERTH 4 UPGRADE AT PORT OF TOWNSVILLE ...... 630 James Hutchison

TIME-EVOLVING CONTROLS OF EMBAYED BEACH ROTATION ...... 637 Raimundo Ibaceta

SAND FILLED GEOTEXTILE CONTAINERS IN AUSTRALIA - IS THERE A FUTURE? ...... 644 Angus Jackson

PROVENANCE OF SEDIMENTS WITHIN THE PORT OF GLADSTONE DREDGED CHANNELS: FEASIBILITY AND APPLICATION...... 651 Emma Jackson

COMPARING THE RESULTS FROM WAVE MOMENTUM FLUX EQUATIONS TO THE MORE ESTABLISHED EQUATIONS FOR BREAKWATER STABILITY AND RUNUP PERFORMANCE ...... 658 Indra Jayewardene

BEST PRACTICE FOR SEDIMENT PLUME MODEL APPLICATION...... 665 Junsheng Jiang

VOLUME 2

THE FLOATING HARBOUR TRANSHIPPER: HYDRODYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR WELL DOCKS...... 672 Nick Johnson

SAND TRAPPING EFFICIENCY OF THE TWEED SAND BYPASSING SYSTEM...... 679 Joris Jorissen

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION FOR TORRES STRAIT ISLAND COMMUNITIES ...... 686 Adeah Kabai

TSUNAMI INUNDATION MODELLING AND MARITIME HAZARD ANALYSIS IN SOUTHEAST TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA ...... 693 Claire Kain

HOW LOGISTICS FRAMED THE DESIGN OF THE BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL CRUISE TERMINAL ...... 700 Michael Kelleher

IMPLICATIONS OF TIDAL RESONANCE AND WATER DEPTH ON PREDICTING IN ESTUARIES...... 707 Danial Khojasteh

ENHANCING WAVE CLIMATE IN SMALL BOAT HARBOURS BORDERING THE SOUTHERN OCEAN...... 714 Martijn Klabbers

NEED FOR ROBUST SPECIFICATION FOR HOSES IN DREDGING INDUSTRY...... 721 Martin Single

MOORING OF DRY BULK VESSELS – PRACTICAL INPUTS TO TERMINAL MOORING DESIGN AND ANALYSIS ...... 728 Bob Lamont-Smith

MODELLING OF COASTAL INUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY SALT- FARM DESIGN...... 733 Scott Langtry

ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES OF THE OUTER SHELF AND UPPER CONTINENTAL SLOPE, NW AUSTRALIA –INFORMATION FOR PIPELINE DESIGN ...... 739 Piers Larcombe

THE WILD EDGE: OCEAN POOL DESIGN PRINCIPLES...... 746 Nicole Larkin

SHIP SIMULATION – IMPORTANT ASPECTS FOR CONSIDERATION ...... 752 Neil Lawson

COULD AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM HAVE FORECAST THE IMPACTS OF A RECENT COASTAL EROSION EVENT ALONG THE SE AUSTRALIAN COAST?...... 755 Christopher Leaman

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS IN COASTAL ENGINEERING: VERIFICATION OF A BREAKWATER DESIGN IN THE TORRES STRAIT ...... 762 Eric Lemont

PROVIDING CLIMATE RESILIENCE THROUGH COASTAL PROTECTION ON THE HAHAKE COAST OF TONGATAPU ...... 769 James Lewis

OBSERVED NEARSHORE WAVE DYNAMICS AT INDIAN OCEAN ...... 776 Heiko Loehr

CRITICAL WHARF INFRASTRUCTURE IN CHALLENGING CONDITIONS ...... 782 Jenny Loveday

IMPROVING PREDICTIONS OF NEARSHORE WAVE DYNAMICS AND COASTAL IMPACTS USING SMOOTH PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS...... 790 Ryan Lowe

USE OF EMERGING REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES FOR MEASURING LONG-TERM SHORELINE CHANGE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT...... 797 Gabriela Lumiatti

CHALLENGES OF RE-ENGINEERING URBAN COASTAL ACCESS – KANANOOK CREEK ENTRANCE, CASE STUDY...... 804 Daniel Machado

GLADSTONE EAST SHORES STAGE 1B –FERRY TRANSFER PONTOON WITH PUBLIC POOL FACILITY DESIGN CHALLENGES...... 811 Lasse Madsen

HOW SENSITIVE IS STORM EROSION MODELLING TO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF PRE- STORM AND NEARSHORE ?...... 819 Nashwan Matheen

DEVELOPING A NEW ASSET RANKING SYSTEM AND CONDITION RATING SCALE FOR PRIORITISING AND MANAGING REPAIRS OF AGED MARITIME STRUCTURES ...... 825 Said Mazaheri

MODELLING STRATIFIED FLOW WITHIN A PACIFIC ATOLL LAGOON: MANIHIKI, COOK ISLANDS...... 831 Emma McCall

WHARF REFURBISHMENT IN AN ULTRA SALINE ENVIRONMENT: RECONSTRUCTION OF PORT HEDLAND BERTH 3 ...... 838 Ben McFarlane

DEVELOPMENT DREDGING MANAGEMENT: DECISION MAKING AT 45o SOUTH...... 844 Rebecca McGrouther

SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION AND ADAPTION OF PORT STRUCTURES AND RECLAMATIONS ...... 851 James McIlquham

PORT STANVAC JETTY: DEMOLITION OF MARINE STRUCTURES WITH LARGE LIFTS FROM FLOATING PLANT ...... 858 David McKay

SMALL SCALE MAINTENANCE DREDGING: IS ON-LAND PLACEMENT REALLY THE MOST SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION?...... 864 Jenna McLean

PORT OF DERBY – BREATHING LIFE INTO A REMOTE TOWN THROUGH A PORT REDEVELOPMENT ...... 870 Ian McRobbie

COASTAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION IMPACT MONITORING OF RANGITAHI BRIDGE, NEW ZEALAND, AND CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE IN EASTERN TONGATAPU...... 876 Shaw Mead

SUPER CRUISE VESSEL VS ROCK BAGS ...... 882 Dan Messiter

ASSESSMENT OF CRUISE SHIP AND TUG PROPELLER WASH IMPACTS ON THE EDEN WAVE ATTENUATOR...... 889 Ben Morgan

OVERVIEW OF PIANC WG184 REPORT –DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR DRY BULK MARINE TERMINALS...... 896 Richard Morgan

FOUR STEPS TO DIAGNOSE AND REPAIR A WHARF ...... 903 Marco Necchi

MAKING SENSE OF CONFLICTING NEEDS: DEVELOPING MAINTENANCE PRIORITISATION MODELS FOR COMPLEX ASSETS...... 910 Ross Newcombe

COASTAL PROCESSES PROVIDED POTENTIAL “EASY WINS” FOR AMELIORATION WORKS ON ESTUARIES ...... 917 Jesper Nielsen

WAVE OVERTOPPING IN THE CITY SCALE COUPLED HYDRODYNAMIC/HYDRAULIC NUMERICAL INUNDATION MODEL: C-FAST...... 924 Julian O’Grady

EASTERN SISTER SEAWALL AND PUBLIC PATH ...... 928 Doug Oldfield

MACKAY PORT BREAKWATERS AND REVETMENT REPAIRPOST TROPICAL CYCLONE DEBBIE...... 934 Jasvinder Opkar

AMPLIFIED TIDES AND SURGES IN THE TAMAR ESTUARY, TASMANIA ...... 941 Karen Palmer

CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN SUPPORT FOR A DOUBLE COFFER DAM SEAWALL ...... 947 Stefano Pirrello

BEACH CUSP MORPHODYNAMICS ON A COMPOSITE BEACH OBSERVED USING UAV STRUCTURE FROM MOTION...... 953 Sebastian Pitman

THE IMPACT OF FRINGING PLATFORM REEFS ON SHORELINE PROFILES...... 958 Andrew Pomeroy

MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE OF ROCK ARMOUR – CASE STUDY: INSPECTING ROCK ARMOURED GROYNES IN GOLD COAST...... 965 Meysam Rad

VALUE ENGINEERING OF COASTAL REVETMENTS BY COMBINED PHYSICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELLING ...... 972 Richard Reinen-Hamill

BRINGING CONCRETE TO LIFE: HARNESSING BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES FOR BUILDING RESILIENT PORTS AND COASTAL INFRASTRUCTURE...... 979 Andrew Rella

THE REDUCTION IN EFFECTIVENESS OF A TUG DUE TO ITS PROPELLER WASH ...... 985 Martin Renilson

WAVE-RESOLVED PREDICTIONS OF CHANGES TO NEARSHORE FLOWS DUE TO ARRAYS OF WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS ...... 992 Dirk Rijnsdorp

WINDARA REEF – LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE FIRST LARGE SCALE OYSTER REEF RESTORATION IN AUSTRALIA ...... 996 Gareth Robertshaw

RISK OF INUNDATION AND SOURCE OF A SURGE BORE IN THE BRISBANE RIVER ...... 1003 John Ryan

INVESTIGATIONS FOR RE-DESIGN OF PELICAN BOAT-RAMP...... 1010 Christopher Scraggs

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION FOR TORRES STRAIT ISLAND COMMUNITIES ...... 1017 Adeah Kabai

DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING EFFECTS OF COASTAL ENGINEERING WORKS ON A SURF BREAK ...... 1024 Tom Shand

COLLECTING ROBUST BASELINE DATA FOR DREDGING –A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT FOR SMALL PROJECTS, WILL I GET A RETURN?...... 1031 Douglas Shooter

INLET MIGRATION AND FLOOD-TIDAL DELTA MORPHODYNAMIC EVOLUTION: CASE STUDY OF NOOSA - QLD, AUSTRALIA...... 1038 Ana Paula Da Silva

IMPROVING MARITIME SAFETY IN THE TORRES STRAIT THROUGH WAVE DATA ANALYSIS...... 1045 Matthew Sinclair

NAPIER PORT PROPOSED WHARF AND DREDGING PROJECT: WORKING WITH NATURE FOR RESOURCE CONSENT APPLICATIONS...... 1052 Martin Single

OPTIONS TO REDUCE FERRY NAVIGATION ISSUES FROM SEA WRACK FOULING, CAPE JERVIS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA...... 1059 Bradley Smith

THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF DESIGNING A HIGH ALTITUDE PORT ...... 1067 Ian Young

FLINDERS PORTS CONTAINER TERMINAL - PAVEMENT DATA CAPTURE AND ASSET ASSESSMENT...... 1074 Scott Snedden

MISSION BEACH, CLUMP POINT BOATING INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE...... 1082 Kyra Stemm

INNOVATIVE MODULAR DESIGN OF CHITH EXPORT FACILITY, WEIPA, QLD ...... 1089 Grant Stock

VARIABLE CHANNEL DESIGN FOR PORTS AND HARBOURS IN MACRO TIDAL ENVIRONMENTS ...... 1096 Harry Sunarko

APPLICATION OF REAL-TIME DATA ASSIMILATION FOR OPERATIONAL WAVE FORECASTS – SELECTED CASE STUDIES...... 1104 David Taylor

NON-LINEAR DERIVATION OF NEAR-BED WAVE-INDUCED ORBITAL VELOCITIES FROM SURFACE WAVE SPECTRA...... 1110 Severin Thiebaut

HALF TUG HARBOUR BREAKWATER REPAIRS AFTER TROPICAL CYCLONE DEBBIE...... 1116 David Todd

DETERMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL WEATHER LIMITS ON A MOORED VESSEL BY FORCING...... 1123 Gabriel Tooker

MARINE SITE INVESTIGATIONS FOR A DREDGING AND RECLAMATION STUDY IN TARAWA, KIRIBATI ...... 1130 Manh Tran

TOWARDS AN INFRAGRAVITY WAVE CLIMATE FOR NEW SOUTH WALES...... 1138 Doug Treloar

LESSONS FROM DESIGN OF NEW MARINA FACILITIES AT MARGATE, TASMANIA ...... 1144 Doug Treloar

PLANNING AND DESIGN OF BERTH UPGRADES FOR OPERATIONAL RO-RO TERMINALS – A PROJECT OVERVIEW ...... 1151 Colin Trewern

SEAWALLS AND ACCEPTABLE BEACH WIDTH FOR PUBLIC AMENITY ...... 1158 Tobias Tucker

SAFESWIM – LIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR WATER QUALITY AND SWIMMING CONDITIONS AT BATHING BEACHES ...... 1165 Ben Tuckey

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A MODERN CYCLONE TUG SERVICING FACILITY IN PORT HEDLAND ...... 1172 Hubert Vander Meulen

A ROLE FOR THE PUBLIC IN THE LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT OF ENGLISH COASTAL FLOOD RISK? ...... 1179 Sien Van Der Plank

MODELLING THE EFFECT OF KELP ON SAND DUNE EROSION...... 1186 Arnold Van Rooijen

QUAY STRUCTURE CONCRETE REPAIR IN THE DRY ...... 1192 Carsten Varming

SATELLITE-DERIVED SHORELINES ALONG THE EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA BETWEEN 1987 AND 2019...... 1198 Kilian Vos

TEMAIKU LAND AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT - BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE FOR KIRIBATI ...... 1204 Samuel Watkin

SHORELINE VULNERABILITY OF AN INDIAN OCEAN ATOLL ...... 1211 Evan Watterson

MODELLING SURF BREAK WAVE MECHANICS WITH – AN APPLICATION TO MANGAMAUNU POINT BREAK (KAIKOURA, NEW ZEALAND) ...... 1218 Simon Weppe

PREDICTING INFRAGRAVITY IN HARBOURS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ...... 1226 Ben Williams

A COMPARISON OF TSUNAMI INUNDATION MODEL RESULTS FOR DROWNED RIVER VALLEYS USING EITHER STATIC OR DYNAMIC TIDAL INPUTS ...... 1233 Kaya Wilson

INVESTIGATION OF BASIN RESONANCE DUE TO PASSING VESSEL DISPLACEMENT WAVE INTERACTIONS ...... 1240 Timothy Womersley

LIFE EXTENSION STRATEGY OF BROTHERSON DOCK WHARF STRUCTURES...... 1246 Stanley Yang

WAVE CLIMATE OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN...... 1253 Ian R. Young

VARIABLE-RESOLUTION WAVE MODELLING FOR COASTAL APPLICATIONS...... 1262 Stefan Zieger

HYDRODYNAMIC MODELLING IN A MICRO-TIDAL SALT WEDGE ESTUARY: THE DERWENT RIVER ESTUARY...... 1267 Remy Zyngfogel

POSTER PAPERS

IMPACT OF SEA LEVEL RISE ON MANGROVES ECOSYSTEM IN KUCHING WETLAND NATIONAL PARK, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA ...... 1274 A. Anizawati

THE PRIVATISATION OF THE KING ISLAND FERRY SERVICE: EMERGING ISSUES AND CHALLENGES ...... 1281 Alexander House

BRIDGING THE BROADSOUND: A CASE STUDY IN ASSESSING COASTAL HAZARDS IN DYNAMIC BUT DATA POOR AREAS ...... 1287 Toby Johnson

THE STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF ‘SEA BLINDNESS’ IN THE AUSTRALIAN LNG TRADE DYNAMIC ...... 1294 Nigel Smith

TOWARDS A EARLY WARNING SYSTEM: ESTUARY TRAVEL SPEED AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A METEOROLOGICAL TSUNAMI ON THE EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA...... 1301 Daryl Metters

HOW CAN PORTS BENEFIT FROM A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO FENDER SYSTEM DESIGN?...... 1308 Chris Millwood

STRATEGY TO BUILD A TRANSSHIPMENT PORT AS A CATALYST TO ACHIEVING CRITICAL MASS FOR SABAH’S ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1312-1319 ...... 1312 M. F. T. Ngui

RISK OF INUNDATION AND SOURCE OF A SURGE BORE IN THE BRISBANE RIVER ...... 1320 John Ryan

VANUATU TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT ...... 1327 Kane Satterthwaite

PORT DEVELOPMENT IN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES: A CASE STUDY OF THE MALDIVES...... 1334 A. Shareef

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