By Emeritus Professor Roger Fairbairn McLean

Journal articles

Dodson J; Enright NJ; McLean RF, 1988, 'A late Quaternary vegetation history for far northern New Zealand', Journal of Biogeography, 15, pp. 647 - 656, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2845442

McLean R, 1984, 'Coastal landforms: Sea-level history and coastal evolution', Progress in Physical Geography, 8, pp. 431 - 442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030913338400800306

McLean RF, 1983, 'Coastal landforms', Progress in Physical Geography, 7, pp. 413 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030913338300700308

Woodroffe CD; Curtis RJ; McLean RF, 1983, 'Development of a chenier plain, Firth of Thames, New Zealand', Marine Geology, 53, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(83)90031-2

McLean RF, 1983, 'Low down on the Great Barrier Reef', Nature, 301, pp. 548 - 549

McLean RF, 1983, 'The natural environment of the Auckland region', New Zealand Environment, 38, pp. 30 - 31

Polach HA; McLean RF; Thom BG; Stoddart DR; Hopley D, 1981, 'ANU Radiocarbon date list VIII', Radiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research, 23, pp. 1 - 13, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=A1981LL23900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

McLean RF, 1981, 'New Zealand Report on IGCP Project 61', Sea Level, 6, pp. 14 - 15

McLean RF, 1981, 'New Zealand Research on Quaternary Shorelines', Australasian Quaternary Newsletter, pp. 21 - 25

Stoddart DR; McLean RF; Scoffin TP; Thom BG; Hopley D, 1978, 'Evolution of reefs and islands, Northern Great Barrier Reef: Synthesis and interpretation', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284, pp. 149 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1978.0059

Scoffin TP; McLean RF, 1978, 'Exposed limestones of the northern province of the Great Barrier Reef', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 291, pp. 119 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1978.0094

Stoddart DR; McLean RF; Scoffin TP; Gibbs PE, 1978, 'Forty-five years of change on low wooded islands, Great Barrier Reef', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 284, pp. 63 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1978.0053

Stoddart DR; McLean RF; Hopley D, 1978, 'Geomorphology of reef islands, northern Great Barrier Reef', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284, pp. 39 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1978.0052

Hopley D; McLean RF; Marshall J; Smith AS, 1978, 'Holocene-Pleistocene boundary in a fringing reef: Hayman Island, North Queensland', Search, 9, pp. 323 - 325

Polach HA; McLean RF; Caldwell JR; Thom BG, 1978, 'Radiocarbon ages from the northern Great Barrier Reef', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 291, pp. 139 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1978.0095

McLean RF; Stoddart DR, 1978, 'Reef island sediments of the northern Great Barrier Reef', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 291, pp. 101 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1978.0093

McLean RF; Stoddart DR; Hopley D; Polach H, 1978, 'Sea level change in the Holocene on the northern Great Barrier Reef', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 291, pp. 167 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1978.0097

Scoffin TP; Stoddart DR; McLean RF; Flood PG, 1978, 'The recent development of the reefs in the northern province of the Great Barrier Reef', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284, pp. 129 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1978.0057

McLean RF, 1976, 'Coastal research in New Zealand', Geoscience and Man, 14, pp. 135 - 144

Baines GBK; McLean RF, 1976, 'Resurveys of 1972 hurricane rampart of Funafuti Atoll, Ellice Islands', Search, 7, pp. 36 - 37

Baines GBK; McLean RF, 1976, 'Sequential studies of hurricane deposit evolution at Funafuti atoll', Marine Geology, 21, pp. M1 - M8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(76)90097-9

MCLEAN RF; BURGESS JS, 1975, 'BAR DEPTH AND BEACH CHANGES AROUND A NEW ZEALAND RIVER MOUTH PORT: WANGANUI 1850-1970.',

Foster DN; Gordon AD; Lawson NV; McLean RF; Thom BG; Britton AH; Macknight A; Chappell JF; Silvester R; Healy TR; Lee F; Robinson DA; Patterson DC; Bushell JB; Teear GC, 1975, 'ENGINEER, THE COAST AND THE OCEAN.',

Kirk, RM; McLean RF; Burgess, JS; Reay HM, 1974, 'The production of flourescent sand tracer', Geologiska Foreningens i Stockholm Fordandlinge, 96, pp. 208 - 211

Grace RA; McGrath BL; Patterson DC; Lawson NV; Abernethy CL; Treloar PD; MacDonald HV; Robinson DA; Clark JL; Eliot I; Thom BG; McLean RF; Langford-Smith T; Davies JL, 1973, 'ENGINEERING DYNAMICS OF THE COASTAL ZONE.',

THOM BG; MCLEAN RF; ELIOT I, 1973, 'SEASONAL BEACH CHANGE, CENTRAL AND SOUTH COAST, N.S.W.',

McLean RF, 1972, 'Nomenclature for rock-destroying organisms', Nature, 240, pp. 490 - 490, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/240490a0

McLean RF, 1970, 'Variations in grain‐size and sorting on two Kaikoura beaches', New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 4, pp. 141 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1970.9515334

McLean RF; Kirk RM, 1969, 'Relationships between grain size, size-sorting, and foreshore slope on mixed sand - shingle beaches', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 12, pp. 138 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1969.10420231

McLean RF; Davidson CF, 1969, 'Shore platforms and mass movement', Earth Science Journal, 3, pp. 48 - 50

McLean RF, 1969, 'The supply of gravel to New Zealand's greywacke beaches', Coastal. Research Notes, 2, pp. 5 - 6

McLean RF; Davidson CF, 1968, 'The role of mass movement in shore platform developments along the Gisborne coastline, New Zealand', Earth Science Journal, 2, pp. 15 - 25

McLean RF, 1967, 'Erosion of burrows in beachrock by the tropical sea urchin, Echinometra Lucunter', Canadian Journal of Zoology, 45, pp. 586 - 588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z67-072

McLean RF, 1967, 'Measurements of beachrock erosion by some tropical marine gastropods', Bulletin of Marine Science, 17, pp. 551 - 561, internal-pdf://0462799615/s3.pdf

McLean RF, 1967, 'Origin and development of ridge-furrow systems in beachrock in Barbados, West Indies', Marine Geology, 5, pp. 181 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(67)90080-1

McLean R, 1967, 'Plan shape and orientation of beaches along the East Coast, South Island', New Zealand Geographer, 23, pp. 16 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.1967.tb00026.x

McLean RF, 1960, 'NEW ZEALAND GRASSLAND ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, 1959', New Zealand Geographer, 16, pp. 92 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.1960.tb00298.x

Conference Papers

McLean RF; Shen J; Thom B, 2010, 'Beach change at Bengello Beach, Eurobodalla Shire, New South Wales: 1972-2010', in Coastal Management - All Aboard, Making it Work!, Australia, pp. 1 - 12, presented at 19th NSW Coastal Conference 2010, Batemans Bay, NSW, 10 November 2010 - 12 November 2010, http://www.coastalconference.com/2010/papers2010/Roger%20McLean%20full%20paper.pdf

Van Dam RL; Nichol SL; Augustinus PC; Parnell KE; Hosking PL; McLean RF, 2002, 'Radar stratigraphy of large active dunes on a coastal spit, Parengarenga Harbour, New Zealand: A first assessment', in 2002 SEG Annual Meeting

McLean RF, 2000, 'Australia's coastal vulnerability assessment studies: Recent upscaling or downscaling?', in Mimura N; Yokoki H (ed.), APN/SURVAVAS/LOICZ Joint Conference on Coastal Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kobe, Japan, pp. 29 - 33, presented at APN/SURVAVAS/LOICZ Joint Conference on Coastal Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kobe, Japan, 14 November 2000 - 16 November 2000

McLean RF, 1995, 'Biological indicators of sea level rise: The use of coral microatolls', in South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project, National Tidal Facility, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Hilton International Hotel, Adelaide, pp. 219 - 224, presented at • Proceedings of the Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific International Conference, Hilton International Hotel, Adelaide, 23 October 1995 - 27 October 1995

McLean RF; Woodroffe CD, 1993, 'Vulnerability of atolls to accelerated sea level rise: A case study of Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands', in Vulnerability Assessment to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Zone Management : Proceedings of the IPCC Eastern Hemisphere Workshop (Tsukuba, Japan, 3-6 August 1993), World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme, Akasaka, Minato ku, Tokyo, Japan, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 99 - 108, presented at IPCC Eastern Hemisphere Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan, 03 August 1993 - 06 August 1993

McLean RF, 1992, 'A two thousand year history of low latitude tropical storms - preliminary results from Funafuti atoll, Tuvalu', in Proceedings 7th International Coral Reef Symposium, Guam, Volume 1, University of Guam Marine Laboratory, Mangilao, Guam, Guam, Micronesia, pp. 223 - 223, presented at 7th International Coral Reef Conference, Guam, Micronesia, 22 June 1992 - 27 June 1992

Smithers SG; Woodroffe CD; McLean RF; Wallensky E, 1992, 'Lagoonal sedimentation in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands', in Proceedings 7th International Coral Reef Symposium, Guam, Volume1, University of Guam Marine Laboratory, Mangilao, Guam, Guam, Micronesia, pp. 273 - 288, presented at 7th International Coral Reef Conference, Guam, Micronesia, 22 June 1992 - 27 June 1992

McLean RF, 1992, 'Sea-level change and sea-level variability', in Proceedings, Second SPREP Meeting on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in the South Pacific Region, (Noumea, New Caledonia, 6-10 April 1992), South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Apia, Western Samoa, Noumea, New Caledonia, pp. 101 - 114, presented at Second SPREP Meeting on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in the South Pacific Region, Noumea, New Caledonia, 06 April 1992 - 10 April 1992

McLean RF, 1992, 'Towards a sediment budget for Parengarnga Spit (Kokota)', in Hawke D (ed.), Proceedings : Inaugural Joint Conference, New Zealand Geographical Society and Institute of Australian Geographers, Auckland, January 1992, NZ Geographical Society Conference Series, 16, New Zealand Geographical Society, Palmerston North, N.Z., Auckland, pp. 827 - 827, presented at Inaugural Joint Conference, New Zealand Geographical Society and Institute of Australian Geographers, Auckland, January 1992, Auckland, -

McLean RF; Woodroffe CD, 1991, 'Coral atoll development: a Holocene perspective in response to sea-level change', in Proceedings 17th Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 87, presented at 17th Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, 21 May 1991 - 02 June 1991

Conference Proceedings (Editor of)

Kesby JA; Stanley JM; McLean RF; Olive LJ, (eds.), 1998, 'Geodiversity: Readings in Australian Geography at the Close of the 20th Century', School of Geography and Oceanography, on behalf of the Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Canberra, presented at Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 1999, University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, 29 June 1998 - 03 July 1998

Reports

Nunn PD; Kumar L; Eliot I; McLean RF, 2015, Regional coastal susceptibility assessment for the Pacific Islands: Technical Report, Commonwealth of Australia, Australia

McLean RF, 1995, Project Design: South Pacific Sae Level Monitoring Project, AIDAB, Canberra

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