Conference Program (subject to change)

Tuesday 29 th October 2019 Afternoon Pre-Conference Workshop, Location Wamberal 1.00pm – 5.00pm Connecting with Community for the Benefit of the Coast and Catchment Optional Welcome Drink 5.00pm – 6.00pm Lord Ashley Bar, Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific Wednesday 30 th October 2019 Conference Registration 8.00am Hawkesbury Lobby, Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific Session 1 – Plenary 9.00am – Chair: Scott Cox 10.30am Henry Kendall Ballroom 9.05am Welcome to Country, Kevin Duncan, Darkinjung LALC

9.15am Welcome from Central Coast Council, Clr Jane Smith, Deputy Mayor, Central Coast Council

9.30am Conference Opening, Mr Adam Crouch MP, Parliament of on behalf of Minister Shelley Hancock Address by Major Sponsor – Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Jane Gibbs, Department of Planning, 9.40am Industry and Environment Keynote Address: Paying Attention to the 3C Effect: Climate, Coasts and Community 9.45am Dr Melissa Nursey-Bray, University of Adelaide 10.30am – 11.00am Morning Tea Session 2 2C: Engineering, Technology & 2A: Governance & Community 2B: Coastal & Estuarine Science 11.00am – 12.35pm Innovation Location Henry Kendall Ballroom Wamberal Avoca/Terrigal Chair Neil Kelleher Derek van Bracht Warren Brown Perception vs. Reality – 10 Years Managing Ramsar Wetlands in Urban Ups and Downs of Coastal Zone of Implementation of the Estuaries – Challenges, Opportunities Management – Applying Remote 11.00am – Estuary and Responses Sensing Technologies 11.20am Management Plan Sophia Meehan, Symon Walpole , Vanessa McCann, Landforms and Rehabilitation Lake Macquarie City Council Central Coast Council 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover Adapting the MER Framework for Scoping a Scoping Study: A New Assessment and Communication of Umina-Ocean Beach Erosion Approach to Collaboration Across 11.25am – River, Lake and Estuary Health on the Management Strategy the Estuary? 11.45am NSW Central Coast Gary Blumberg, Ana Rubio, Adrian Dickson, Department of Royal HaskoningDHV Hornsby Shire Council Planning, Industry and Environment 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover

2A continued 2B continued 2C continued Recent Advances in Remote Developing a Coastal Management Monitoring NSW Estuarine Health, Sensing Applied to the Ettalong Program for Harbour – It 11.50am – Towards a More Holistic Approach Ebb-tide Delta and Ocean-Umina Takes a Village 12.10pm Colin Johnson, Department of Beach Sarah Joyce, Planning, Industry and Environment Chris Drummond , Sydney Coastal Councils Group UNSW Sydney 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover First-pass Risk Assessment: What Foreshore Rehabilitation: What’s Climate Change in Estuaries: Does This Really Mean, and How Best for the Ecology? A Case Moving Beyond the High Tide 12.15pm – Can It Be Used to Scope a Coastal Study of Pelican Beach, Lake William Glamore, 12.35pm Management Program? Macquarie Water Research Laboratory, UNSW Verity Rollason , Vincent Raoult,

BMT The University of Newcastle 12.35pm – 1.30pm Lunch 3A: Implementing the Marine Estate Management Strategy Session 3 (2018-2028) 3B: Governance & Community 3C: Coastal & Estuarine Science 1.30pm – 3.05pm Sponsored by Marine Estate Management Authority Location Henry Kendall Ballroom Wamberal Avoca/Terrigal Chair Nicola Johnstone John Hudson Thor Aaso 1.30pm – 1.40pm 1.30pm – 1.40pm 1.30pm – 1.45pm Activate, Educate, and Celebrate: Restoring the Threatened The NSW Marine Estate Exploring an Innovative Event Seagrass Posidonia australis in Management Strategy – Model to Connect Coast, Old Boat Mooring Scars Connecting the Coast, Catchment Community and Catchment Giulia Ferretto, and Community Glenn Cannard, University of NSW Nicola Johnstone, Central Coast Council Department of Primary Industries 1.30pm – 1.50pm 1.40pm – 1.50pm 1.40pm – 1.50pm 1.45pm – 1.55pm Communities of Practice - The New Sedimentation Trends in Coastal Building Capacity to Implement a Buzzword Wetland Vegetation over the Past Risk-based Framework for Simon Rowe, Century Achieving Waterway Health OceanWatch Australia Kirti Lal, Outcomes University of Wollongong Jocelyn Dela-Cruz, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment 5 min Changeover Changeover 1.55pm – 2.05pm Updating the NSW Water Quality Objectives – Stage1: Establishing Foundational Mapping Layers Take 3 – Connecting Coasts, Habitat-fishery Linkages in Lake Saori Miyake, Department of Catchment and the Community! Illawarra: Habitat Prioritisation Planning, Industry and Environment Roberta Dixon-Valk & 1.55pm – 2.15pm for Management Actions Amanda Marechal , Troy Gaston, 2.05pm – 2.15pm Take 3 Ltd The University of Newcastle The Marine Estate Coastal Floodplain Prioritisation Study Kylie Russell, Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover

3A continued 3B continued 3C continued 2.20pm – 2.30pm 2.20pm – 2.30pm Rebuilding Reefs and Their Unintended Consequences – Connection to Community Food Oysters Charlotte Jenkins , NSW DPI Helen Monks, Brisbane Water Pelican Bay Subcatchment Program Fisheries Shellfish Program - How a Small Bay Highlights Some 2.20pm – 2.40pm 2.30pm – 2.40pm 2.30pm – 2.40pm Big Issues in Coastal Management Mitigation of Diffuse Pollutants Via Opportunities and Challenges in Brian Hughes, Management of Riparian Zones Sea Level Rise Adaptation from Hunter Local Land Services Riverbanks and Roads the Coast to the Paddock Shaun Morris & Susan Davison, Michael Rosenthal , North Coast Local Land Services Alluvium Consulting

2.40pm – 2.50pm 5 min Changeover Changeover Best Management Practice in Intensive Coastal Agriculture: The Clean Coastal Catchments Project Luke Jewell, Journey with the Community - Department of Primary Industries Presenting Challenging Technical Getting the Best out of Your ICOLL Information 2.45pm – 3.05pm 2.50pm – 3.00pm Christopher Scraggs , Peter Brennan, Marine Integrated Monitoring Cardno Hunter Joint Organisation Program: A Triple Bottom Line

Approach Natalie Gollan, Department of Primary Industries 3.05pm – 3.35pm Afternoon Tea Session 4 4C: Engineering, Technology & 4A: Governance & Community 4B: Coastal & Estuarine Science 3.35pm – 5.10pm Innovation Location Henry Kendall Ballroom Wamberal Avoca/Terrigal Chair Nick Carson Vanessa McCann Matthew Harry Section 27, the Enigma Section of Do Oyster Farms Benefit An Underwater View of Past and the 2016 Coastal Management Act Estuarine Fisheries? Present Coastal Evolution from Seal 3.35pm – 3.55pm Angus Gordon, Coastal Zone Troy Gaston, Rocks to Crowdy Head Management and Planning The University of Newcastle Michael Kinsela, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover Adaptive Conditions of Consent for Oyster Biomonitor of Estrogenic Extreme Storms Recorded in the Reasonable Coastal Zone Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Morphostratigraphy of Bengello 4.00pm – 4.20pm Development Proposals Australian Coastal Waterways Beach (Moruya), SE Australia Verity Rollason , Rafiquel Islam, Thomas Oliver , BMT The University of Newcastle UNSW Canberra 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover Experimental Saltmarsh Collaborative Research to Getting out of the Blocks! Lessons Restoration in the Hunter River: Understand Sea Level Rise Around Learned from Starting the CMP Vegetation Findings Two Years on South Korea Using Cutting-edge 4.25pm – 4.45pm Process Caleb Rankin, Techniques Jane Lofthouse, The University of Newcastle Phil Watson, Department of Tweed Shire Council Planning, Industry and Environment 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover

4A continued 4B continued 4C continued 4.50pm – 5.00pm 4.50pm – 5.00pm New Arrangements for Scraping It All Together at Old Bar Catchment Governance Are Key Beach, NSW to Estuary Health: A Case Study in Tom Doyle, Northern NSW Cost Benefit Analysis in NSW MidCoast Council Elisa Zavadil, Coastal Management – Are We Alluvium Consulting Australia 4.50pm – 5.10pm Getting It Right?

Peter Horton , 5.00pm – 5.10pm 5.00pm – 5.10pm Horton Coastal Engineering Avoca Beach Southern Foreshore Revealing the Climate Story Redevelopment – Bleachers, Hidden in Mangroves in NSW Boulders and Boat Ramps Coastal Wetlands Patrick Lawless, Matthew Goodwin, Royal HaskoningDHV University of Newcastle 5.10pm Close of Day One Welcome Reception 7.00pm Avoca Beach Surf Club Sponsored by Department of Planning, Industry and Environment - Crown Lands

Thursday 31 st October 2019 Conference Registration 8.30am Hawkesbury Lobby, Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific Session 5 – Plenary 9.00am – Chair: Clr Jane Smith 10.30am Henry Kendall Ballroom

9.00am Welcome to Day Two

9.05am Silver Sponsor Address – Local Land Services, Sharon Elliott, Greater Sydney Local Land Services Keynote Address: Climate Coast Lines and Culture: Which will Change Fastest? 9.10am Dr Richard Denniss, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute NSW Coastal Council: Q&A on Preparing a Coastal Management Program 9.55am Professor Bruce Thom AM Chair and Council members Jane Lofthouse, Annelise Tuor, Will Glamore, Angus Gordon Ron Cox 10.30am – 11.00am Morning Tea Session 6 6A: Engineering, Technology & 6B: Governance & Community 6C: Coastal & Estuarine Science 11.00am – 1.00pm Innovation Location Henry Kendall Ballroom Wamberal Avoca/Terrigal Chair Neil Kelleher Tom Fitzgerald Troy Gaston Smart Estuaries: What's in Store for Sand, Natures Defence – Wooli, a The Future of Coastal Protection Future Estuary Managers? 11.00am – Suitable Case for Treatment Works on Public Land in NSW Peter Coad, 11.20am Marc Daley , Department Planning, Timothy Allen & Ballanda Sack, Hornsby Shire Council Industry and Environment Beatty Legal

5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover Tweed River Entrance Dredging: Employing a Flexible Placement Protecting Public Access Tidal Inundation in South East 11.25am – Strategy Megan Hawley & Australian Estuaries 11.45am Matthew Harry, Department of Katie Mortimer, David Hanslow, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment Lindsay Taylor Lawyers Planning, Industry and Environment - Crown Lands 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover

6A continued 6B continued 6C continued 11.50am – 12.00pm NSW Beach Valuation Tool Dune Behaviour and Anita Kovac , Department of Management at Stockton Bight: Ocean Pools – Contemporary Planning, Industry and Environment Two Contrasting Case Study Coastal Engineering Techniques 11.50am – Examples Applied to Old Assets 12.00pm – 12.10pm 12.10pm Paul Donaldson & James Carley, Coastal Management Programs and Ainslie Downes , Water Research Laboratory, UNSW the Marine Estate Management Strategy BMT Michelle Fletcher, Department Planning, Industry and Environment 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover Going Beyond a Blue Economy: Constructing a Temporary Coastal Whale Carcass Strandings, Imagining a Blue Future for Protection Structure with Geofabric Disposals, and Potential Shark 12.15pm – Southern NSW MEGAcontainers – Lessons Learnt Attraction 12.35pm Michelle Voyer & Anna Lewis, Natalie Patterson, James Tucker, Southern Cross University of Wollongong Royal HaskoningDHV University

5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover 12.40pm – 12.50pm Tracking the Impacts of Sewage Overflows on Ecosystem Function Using Novel Techniques Boardwalk: Alessandra Suzzi, Navigating Estuarine Constraints Eco-engineering Climate Change The University of Newcastle and Values to Deliver a Sustainable 12.40pm – Adaptation in Coastal Wetlands Shared Path Connection 1.00pm Duncan Rayner, 12.50pm – 1.00pm Cassy Baxter, UNSW Water Research Laboratory Identifying High Ecological Value Cardno Waterways and Water

Dependent Ecosystems Georgina Dawson , Department of Planning, Industry and Environment 1.00pm – 1.45pm Lunch 1.30pm – 5.00pm Field Trips (includes afternoon tea) Brisbane Water Boat Tour (departs 1.30pm sharp) FT1 Highlighting & Woy Woy Peninsula Walk and Talk Tuggerah Lakes FT2 Highlighting Tuggerah Lakes & The Entrance Tour Terrigal FT3 Walking Tour around Terrigal Lagoon Bush, Beach and Bateau Bay FT4 Highlighting our Coast and Unique Coastal Environment – Wyrrabalong National Park

5.00pm Close of Day Two Conference Dinner & Annual NSW Coastal Management Awards 7.00pm Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific Sponsored by Royal HaskoningDHV

Friday 1 st November 2019 Conference Registration 8.30am Hawkesbury Lobby, Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific Session 8 8C: Engineering, Technology & 8A: Governance & Community 8B: Coastal & Estuarine Science 9.00am – 11.00am Innovation Location Henry Kendall Ballroom Wamberal Avoca/Terrigal Chair Peter Sheath Ben Fullagar Mick Budden Acid Sulfate Soil Design Man-Made Ecological Disaster from Metal Accumulation in Coastal Implications – Examples from the the Lakes to the Coast Saltmarsh 9.00am – 9.20am Shell Cove Boatharbour Project Kate Aston & Danielle Maltman, Angelica Varhammar, Deborah Lam, Revive Lake Cathie The University of Newcastle Advisian 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover 9.25am – 9.35am 9.25am – 9.35am Estuary-wide Strategies to Developing Swim-safety Modelling Streamline the Assessment of and Management Tools Using Domestic Foreshore Structures Historical Bacteria and and Bank Management Works Sediment Bioremediation Using Environmental Datasets Hayley Leczkowski, NSW DPI Benthic Macrofauna: Knowledge Melanie James, Fisheries & Catherine Knight, Gaps and Application in Coastal Central Coast Council Department of Industry - Crown 9.25am – 9.45am Environments Lands Sebastian Vadillo Gonzalez, 9.35am – 9.45am 9.35am – 9.45am University of NSW The Success of Nearly a Decade of Moving on from Rock: a More

Collaboration Between OEH and Natural Approach to Bank LMCC Stability Using Logs and Christopher Baiada, Department of Revegetation Planning, Industry and Environment Jenny Weingott, Hunter Local Land Services 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover 9.50am – 10.00am Pathways for Coastal Sustainability and Resilience for the Australian East Coast Marcello Sano, Griffith Centre for Catalysing Collaborations for Bacterial Sentinels in Coastal Coastal Management Translation of Research to Lagoons 9.50am – 10.10am Applied Outcomes 10.00am – 10.10am Giulia Filippini, Macquarie Sophie Mazard, Community Sentiment for Shark University Mitigation Approaches Trialled in Bioplatforms Australia the NSW Shark Management Strategy Carol Martin, Department of Primary Industries 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover 10.15am – 10.25am Creating a Movement: Understanding How Communities Can Inform Fair and Transformative Sea-level Rise Adaptation Monitoring Coastal Water Quality Central Coast Lagoons Flood and Anne Maree Kreller , Using Molecular Microbiological Coastal Intelligence Tools – 10.15am – University of NSW Markers Integrating Coastal Information 10.35am Nathan Williams , Bronson McPherson, 10.25am – 10.35am UTS Manly Hydraulics Laboratory Tidal Pools and White’s Seahorse – Balancing Community Needs in a Sensitive Marine Environment Jodie Crawford, Northern Beaches Council 5 min Changeover Changeover Changeover

8A continued 8B continued 8C continued 10.40am – 10.50am 10.40am – 10.50am 10.40am – 10.50am Tsunami Propagation in Drowned Providing a Baseline for Future The Distribution and Abundance of River Valley Estuaries with a Change Along Australia’s Marine Debris Across Australia Dynamic Tide Coastline Jordan Gacutan, Kaya Wilson, Benoit Cajelot, University of NSW The University of Newcastle Fugro Australia Marine Pty Ltd

10.40am –

11.00am 10.50am – 11.00am 10.50am – 11.00am 10.50am – 11.00am Fishing the Past: Archaeological Rainfall Drives Nitrogen Transport Use of Emerging Technologies for Fish Remains Reveal Connections and Reduced Attenuation in a Monitoring of Water Quality and Between Humans and Environment Coastal Horticultural Catchment Ecosystem Health Morgan Disspain, Shane White, Bill Leggat , Niche Environment and Heritage Southern Cross University The University of Newcastle

11.00am – 11.30am Morning Tea Session 9 – Plenary 11.30am – 1.00pm Chair: Glenn Cannard Henry Kendall Ballroom Keynote Address: Eyewitness Accounts of Rising Sea Level Around Australia More Than 7000 Years Ago 11.30am Professor Patrick Nunn, University of the Sunshine Coast Keynote Address: Youth for the Environment 12.15pm Crystal Russom and Maia Ambridge, Youth for Youth (Y4Y) Announcement for 2020 NSW Coastal Conference Host Council 12.50pm Conference Closing and Wrap-up

1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch