Estuaries of Australia in 2050 and beyond (eBook)

Dr. Eric Wolanski is a coastal oceanographer and ecohydrologist. Eric has 360 publications; he is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia (ret.), and l'Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. He was awarded an Australian Centenary medal for services in estuarine and coastal oceanography, a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the catholic University of Louvain, a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunication award for excellence, and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) Lifetime Achievement Award. Eric is a member of the IGBP-IHDP Scientific Steering Committee of Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ), and a member of the Scientific Planning Committee of Japan’s Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS). He is a chief editor of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Wetlands Ecology and Management, and the Treatise of Estuarine and Coastal Science.

1. Estuaries of Australia in 2050 and beyond - A synthesisEric Wolanski and Jean-Paul Ducrotoy PART I - Estuaries that bore the full pressure of the historical developments2. Sydney Estuary, Australia: Geology, anthropogenic development and hydrodynamic processes/attributesSerena B. Lee, and Gavin F. Birch  3. The Murray/Coorong Estuary. Meeting of the Waters?Jochen Kämpf, and Diane Bell4. Port Phillip BayJoe Sampson, Alan Easton and Manmohan Singh5. The Tamar Estuary, TasmaniaJoanna C. Ellison and Matthew R. Sheehan PART II Estuaries being degraded6. Gold Coast Broadwater: Southern Moreton Bay, Southeast Queensland (Australia)Ryan J.K. Dunn, Nathan J. Waltham, Nathan P. Benfer, Brian A. King, Charles J. Lemckert, and Sasha Zigic7. Hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a macro-tidal estuary: Darwin Harbour, AustraliaF. P. Andutta, X. H. Wang, Li Li, and D. Williams8. The Ord River estuary: a regulated wet-dry tropical river systemBarbara J. Robson, Peter C. Gehrke, Michele Burford, Ian T. Webster, Andy T. Revill and Duncan W. Palmer9. South Australia’s Precious Inverse Estuaries: On the road to ruinJochen Kämpf10. Turbulent Mixing and Sediment Processes in Peri-Urban Estuariesin South-East Queensland (Australia)Hubert Chanson, Badin Gibbes, and Richard J. Brown 11. Hervey Bay and Its EstuariesJoachim Ribbe12. Moreton Bay and its estuaries: A sub-tropical system under pressure from rapid population growthBadin Gibbes , Alistair Grinham1, David Neil, AndrewOlds, Paul Maxwell, Rod Connolly, Tony Weber, Nicola Udy and James Udy13. Water resource development and high value coastal wetlands on the lower Burdekin floodplain, Australia.Aaron M. Davis, Stephen E. Lewis, Dominique S. O’Brien , Zoë T. Bainbridge, Christie Bentley, Jochen F. Mueller and Jon E. Brodie 14. The Hawkesbury Estuary from 1950 to 2050Peter Collis PART III - Estuaries that are still relatively pristine15. Deluge Inlet, a pristine small tropical estuary in north-eastern AustraliaMarcus Sheaves, Kátya Abrantes, Ross Johnston16. The Lower Mary River and flood plainsDavid Williams