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Coastal Climate
Lead Author: 

Ian Goodwin¹


Co Authors: Mark Hemer²

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 Contact Details: 
1 Climate Risk CoRE, Environmental Science, Dept Environment and Geography, Building E7A, Macquarie University NSW 2109, Australia
2 Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, Tas 7001, Australia

Goodwin, I. and Hemer, M. (2009) Coastal Climate. In A Marine Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Report Card for Australia 2009 (Eds. E.S. Poloczanska, A.J. Hobday and A.J. Richardson), NCCARF Publication 05/09, ISBN 978-1-921609-03-9.

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What is happening? What is likely to happen in this century? Addressing knowledge gaps Key adaptation options

Little evidence of change in wave heights due to climate
change (LOW-MEDIUM confidence); Strong interannual wave directional variability associated with ENSO on eastern coast (MEDIUM-HIGH confidence)

No significant change in surface waves along Australia’s eastern coast (LOW confidence); Increasing storm wave frequency, and increasing southerly wave direction, along Australia’s southern and western coasts (LOW confidence)

Expand directional surface ocean wave observations to verify models, and improve understanding of connection between observed coastal impacts and ocean wave processes.

Climate change requires immediate and vigorous international diplomacy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, global greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 70% between 1970 and 2004. Some level of future climate change is already certain (e.g. 2°C of warming) because of the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. A delay in reducing human-related emissions will result in even greater levels of climate change and subsequent impacts on marine species and habitats.
Adaptation options for marine climate change need to focus on conservation responses to increase resilience of our marine biodiversity as well as adapting our businesses and practices.
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Ian Goodwin   Coastal Climate | 

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Ian Goodwin is Associate Professor of Climate Risk at Macquarie University. He has 25 years consulting and research experience in the field of environmental geoscience, coastal geoscience, high-resolution paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, and climate change in Australasian, Antarctica and South-West Pacific region. Ian also has a background in Antarctic glaciology, logistics and environmental assessment, including environmental hazard definition and management within Australia and overseas, specifically in South Pacific Islands and Antarctica. Ian is an international expert on sea-level change and coastal response, wave climatology, longshore sediment transport, and large-scale coastal behaviour. His work is unique; he has developed an integrated approach to researching earth system archives using ice cores, corals and sediments; earth system processes using the sedimentary and instrumental records; regional climate change; and the modelling, prediction and management of hydrological and coastal change. Ian has also managed international scientific research programs on global change, for SCAR, IGBP and UNESCO, is currently Co-Chairman of the international Scientific Committee On Antarctic Research (SCAR), International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition; member of the Antarctic Research Assessment Committee (Physical Sciences) for Australia; member of the Australian Academy of Sciences, National Committee on Antarctic Research; and Australian Representative to UNESCO, Scientific Commission on Snow and Ice. In addition, Ian is widely published, and was awarded an ABC/Australian Academy of Sciences Science Media Fellowship in 2005 that he has used to research, and present science on national radio, TV and print media on climate change, Antarctica and coasts.

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Mark Hemer   Coastal Climate | 

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Dr Mark Hemer completed a BSc (Hons. Class I) in Meteorology and Oceanography from Flinders University of South Australia (1998), and a PhD in Antarctic and Southern Ocean studies at the University of Tasmania (2003). Mark is currently a Research Scientist at the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research: A Partnership between CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, in Hobart. His research interests include the role of surface ocean waves in the climate system, the historical variability of ocean waves along the Southern Australian margin, and contribution of ocean waves to the coastal impacts which are anticipated to occur with a changing climate. 

Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. Castray Esplanade, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel

 

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