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 SEA-LEVEL RISE ON A CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CORRIDOR IN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND ...... 27 Michael Allis
AN EVALUATION OF CURRENT AND EMERGING IN-SITU OCEAN 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 SEA LEVEL 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 ATOLLS: 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 GROYNE 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 TSUNAMI 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 MOORING 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 TIDES: 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 DISPERSION 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 SEA LEVEL RISE 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 ATOLL ...... 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 SURF ZONE AND NEARSHORE BATHYMETRY?...... 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 GROYNES – 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 TIDE TUG HARBOUR BREAKWATER REPAIRS AFTER TROPICAL CYCLONE DEBBIE...... 1116 David Todd
DETERMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL WEATHER LIMITS ON A MOORED VESSEL BY INFRAGRAVITY WAVE 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 SWASH – AN APPLICATION TO MANGAMAUNU POINT BREAK (KAIKOURA, NEW ZEALAND) ...... 1218 Simon Weppe
PREDICTING INFRAGRAVITY WAVE HEIGHT 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 METEOTSUNAMI 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
Author Index