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UNSW Water Research Laboratory
Locality: Sydney, Australia
Phone: +61 2 8071 9800
Address: 110 King St, Manly Vale 2093 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Website: http://www.wrl.unsw.edu.au
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21.01.2022 In our last #FlumeFriday for 2020 we have a nice clean wave train from our new paddle system in the 0.9 m flume. We can report that waves were easily achieved at Hm0 = 300mm, without pushing the paddle to its limits, so we may get higher yet! Stay safe everyone, and see you back in 2021! UNSW | UNSW Engineering
20.01.2022 As sea levels rise, we will need to determine how vegetation responds. Will it continue to adapt, or will it get inundated and die? In a new paper our researchers (Duncan Rayner, William Glamore, Lisa Granqvist, Jamie Ruprecht, Katrina Waddington and Danial Khojasteh) discuss how existing species have a unique hydroperiod and how saltmarsh species may or may not thrive at a Ramsar listed wetland (Tomago Wetlands in the Hunter). More than 10,000 images taken onsite, combined w...ith detailed hydrodynamic models, were couped to establish vegetation dynamics now and with sea level rise. 2021 sees the beginning of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration to support this important initiative, our EcoEng researchers will be releasing a number of papers in the coming weeks. To access the paper (free for a limited time), visit: https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S0048969720377688 UNSW | UNSW Engineering
19.01.2022 The latest from the lab for today's #FlumeFriday! Quasi-3D physical model testing in slow-mo UNSW | UNSW Engineering
18.01.2022 The mushrooms@WRL project, which was funded through a UNSW Green Impact grant, has been a real success and helped the WRL Green Team to win gold for our sustainability efforts this year! Read more here: https://www.wrl.unsw.edu.au//wrl-mushrooms-a-green-team-in
12.01.2022 Coastal Engineers Matt Blacka and Chris Drummond are currently undertaking major upgrades to our coastal monitoring network on the Gold Coast the largest of its kind worldwide, combining 40 cameras to monitor shoreline change along 20kms of coast between the NSW border and Stradbroke Island. Watch this space for further updates (and spectacular views!) #lovewhereyouwork | UNSW | UNSW Engineering
11.01.2022 As 2020 draws to a close, Associate Professor William Glamore has put together a positive news story for us to share; to round out what has been a testing year for all of us. Enjoy! "As sea levels keep rising we will need to decide which parts of the landscape we will flood and which parts we will preserve. To this aim in 2015 we developed a method to bio-replicate the tidal regime of an endangered saltmarsh ecosystem on land that would normally be too wet. The aim was to cre...ate and sustain saltmarsh habitat on land that was once saltmarsh but is now inundated. Today I’m happy to report that it’s been a success! The pictures below show the spread of saltmarsh across the site year by year. Drone flights this week highlight that the site is now completely filled with saltmarsh and all the gorgeous birds that it attracts. This onground research shows that Nature Based Solutions can be achieved but that we will need to decide soon where and what we want to preserve... More details on this site will be available in coming months. Thanks to project partners Port of Newcastle, and NCIG plus friends at The University of Newcastle, Australia." UNSW | UNSW Engineering
06.01.2022 Aiming to restore fish migration across dams and weirs, our researchers have combined their expertise in fish ecology and hydraulic engineering to develop a Tube Fishway; which sets out to provide effective upstream fish passage through a tube using a cost-effective conduit system. UNSW | UNSW Engineering
03.01.2022 Congratulations to our very own "Remote Sensing Ninja's" who have taken out 1st prize for the Maxar Spatial Regional Challenge with their project: "Real-time coastal monitoring from space"! This proof-of-concept takes advantage of the rapid revisit and high resolution Maxar imagery to monitor changes in beach width in real-time; and provide a web interface (arcg.is/1XyzS00) that coastal managers can use to evaluate potential coastal hazards. Well done team!: Kilian Vos, Y...arran Doherty, Chris Drummond and Valentin Heimhuber! UNSW | UNSW Engineering | Maxar Technologies https://blog.maxar.com//winners-of-the-maxar-spatial-chall
