My Expertise
coastal erosion, coastal hazards
Fields of Research (FoR)
Natural Hazards, Physical Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, Marine Engineering, Marine GeoscienceSEO tags
Biography
Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Mitchell Harley is a Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Water Research Laboratory. He is a leading international researcher in the field of coastal hazards, wave climates, coastal monitoring and real-time early warning systems. His research has lead to a number of seminal publications in...view more
Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Mitchell Harley is a Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Water Research Laboratory. He is a leading international researcher in the field of coastal hazards, wave climates, coastal monitoring and real-time early warning systems. His research has lead to a number of seminal publications in distinguished journals such as Nature Geoscience, the Journal of Geophysical Research (Earth Surface), the International Journal of Climatology, Coastal Engineering, Geomorphology and Nature Scientific Reports. He has taught short-courses on coastal processes in South Korea, Italy and Australia and given keynote presentations in Brazil and Australia. Recently Dr Harley founded the program CoastSnap, a crowd-sourced beach monitoring technique using smartphones that is now operating in 7 countries worldwide.
My Engagement
MEDIA ENGAGEMENT
Dr. Harley provides commentary on coastal erosion issues for a range of media outlets, including the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC and the BBC. Some examples are listed below:
- Wild weather eats into Sydney beaches (Sydney Morning Herald, 5 July 2022)
- ‘Like 20 tip trucks pouring sand on every metre-wide strip’: how extreme storms can replenish beaches, not just erode them (The Conversation, 12 May 2022)
- Examining the impact of La Niña on our beaches (Swell Net, 21 July, 2022)
- Collaroy residents decry seawall as communities brace for erosion (Sydney Morning Herald, 27 Nov 2021)
- The early warning system being developed to shore up Australia's beaches (Sydney Morning Herald, 15 Feb 2020)
- Sydney weather: Collaroy and Narrabeen suffer beach erosion as huge waves steal 25m of sand (The Guardian, 10 Feb 2020)
- People power utilised to help keep track of coastal erosion (ABC Radio, 2 Jan 2019)
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ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1329-7945
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