Understanding Our Beach
The beautiful long sweeping beach at Venus Bay is eroding & changing. Join, observe, and help improve our knowledge and sense of this place.
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where are these "high tech" maps
Started by norm hanson in What is causing the beach erosion? Nov 16.
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Started by Alvin People in Why are we doing it?. Last reply by Alvin People Dec. 6, 2008.
What to record?
Started by norm hanson in What is causing the beach erosion? Dec. 3, 2008.
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Blog Posts
Erosion of the Beach and Tides
I gave up, way back, trying to apply the Brunn Rule to explain the beach erosion on the venus bay beach. It may still apply to erosion on the andersen Inlet side. I think those modelling sea level r… Continue
Posted by norm hanson on August 4, 2009 at 6:01pm
Andersen Inlet Erosion
Ongoing Erosion is far more obvious on the western side of Andersen Inlet. The beach at the end of doyles road is very clearly erosding constantly. Areas of peat and acid sulphate soil are now also exposted north of Doyles road.
Posted by norm hanson on July 24, 2009 at 6:30pm
Earthquake & Tsunami Warnings
Venus bay was never under any significant threat from a Tsunami triggered by the earth quake off the southern coast of New zealand, as shown on the map above taken from the Australian Warning center. This is for several reasons, venus bay faces away from a direct wave, Wilson pro… Continue
Posted by norm hanson on July 16, 2009 at 12:30am
Sea Level Rise Maps
There are a number of flood maps (or predictions of flooding from sea level rise) on the net now. So I have been investigating how they are made. Well The sad fact is they are all pretty much just based on contour colouring, none that I have investigated take into account coastal… Continue
Posted by norm hanson on June 10, 2009 at 1:16pm
Wind Erosion
There are two types of wind erosion
1)By Deflation, the wind picks up oarticles of fine grained sand and/or dust, moves and then deposites them elsewhere.
2)By Abrasion, the sandblasting like effect of windblown sand.
Onshore winds can lift sand from the beach and replenish the dunes behind the beach, but not today. Yet more sand is moving southwards along the beach. Continue
Posted by norm hanson on June 9, 2009 at 9:00pm
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BoM Victorian Tide Times
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CoastalWatch Swell Forecast for Victoria
OzCoastsgeomorphology,, beach erosion
CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research
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Parks Victoria Cape Liptrap coastal park
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