Welcome to my personal website and blog, commenting on all things coastal, whether it be the scientific or the not so scientific happenings that I stumble upon.

I am a coastal geomorphologist and coastal hazards specialist working on coastal resilience, environmental change, and hazard assessment. My work focuses on understanding how coastal systems respond to storms, erosion, and environmental pressures, and how this understanding can support practical approaches to coastal management, adaptation, and public safety.

I work across a range of applied coastal resilience projects involving field monitoring, remote sensing, numerical modelling, and environmental analysis. Much of my recent work has focused on erosion and contaminant mobilisation along historically modified coastlines, nature-based coastal adaptation, and operational coastal hazard forecasting developed in collaboration with government agencies, environmental organisations, and consultancy partners.

Alongside my academic research, I work closely with stakeholders and operational organisations to design investigations that directly support coastal management and decision-making. This has included advising on management of polluted coastlines, contributing to coastal resilience initiatives, and developing operational beach hazard forecasting tools used to support public safety and lifeguard operations in New Zealand.

My technical interests include coastal geomorphology, coastal hazards, environmental monitoring, hydrodynamics, remote sensing, and numerical modelling, with experience using LiDAR, UAV surveys, coastal imaging systems, XBeach, Delft3D, GIS, MATLAB, and Python.