OzCoasts provides comprehensive information about Australia’s coast, including its estuaries, coastal waterways and climate change impact. This helps to generate a better understanding of coastal environments, the complex processes that occur in them, the potential environmental health issues and how to recognise and deal with these issues. More about us ...
What's New
Beach search
Search Australian beaches according to geomorphic type at a range of spatial scales (National, states, NRM regions, local government areas and bioregions)
Coastal landform & stability mapping tool
Nationally-consistent coastal geomorphology and stability mapping tool in segmented line format and beach information
NSW marine habitat mapping
What's Next
Climate change module
Climate Change module will be released soon.
Coastal Eutrophication Risk Assessment Tool
CERAT developed by The NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water will have a web application here soon.
Coastal landform & stability mapping tool
Introduction
Smartline maps
Reports and data
Search data
Simple search,
Estuary search,
Map search.
Coastal information,
Coastal stakeholder,
Regional plans & strategies.
Publications
Conceptual models
Wetland classification,
Estuarine typology,
Beach typology,
Science models,
Estuarine biophysical models,
Beach geomorphic models,
Process models,
Threat models,
Stressors models.
Build your own model
Coastal indicator factsheets
Beach erosion,
Climate change,
Sea level rise,
Biodiversity,
Mangrove areas,
Dissolved oxygen,
Hermit crabs,
Turbidity,
Water temperature,
Nutrients,
Eutrophication,
Toxicants,
Salt marsh areas,
Salinity,
Seagrass areas,
Beach & dune areas,
Shorebird,
Sedimentation rates,
more ...
Habitat mapping
Coastal water habitat mapping toolkit:
Benthic habtat mapping,
Techniques,
Case studies,
Decision tree
Interactive 3D Models:
Cockburn Sound,
Keppel Bay and Fitzroy River Area,
Sydney Harbour,
Woody Island.
Natural resource management
Report cards,
Habitat extent
Australian shallow waters spectral library
Environmental Management Framework,
Numerical modelling tool links
Stressors:
Altered pH,
Disturbance to Biota,
Hydrodynamic alterations, ...
- Coastal events
- Coast to Coast Conference, 20-24 September 2010, Adlaide, South Australia
- Practical Responses to Climate Change National Conference, 29 September - 1 October 2010, Melbourne, Australia
- A 2-day conference on the ecology and management of the Gippsland Lakes and other coastal lagoons in south-eastern Australia, 27 - 28 October 2010, 201 Esplanade, Lakes Entrance, Australia and Download the registration form
- 19th NSW Coastal Conference: Coastal Management - all aboard, making it work, 10th - 12th November 2010, Batemans Bay, NSW, Australia
- The New IGCP588 – Preparing for coastal change, 30 November - 4 December 2010, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Coasts and Ports 2011 Conference 28-30 September 2011, Perth, Western Australia
- 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, 9-13 July 2012, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Submit coastal events
- Coastal weather and oceanography
- Tide predictions
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Real-time wave monitoring
- Coastalwatch
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- Coastal waters high seas forecasts
- Antarctic
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Weather forecasts warnings
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Cyclone warning centres
- Brisbane
- Darwin
- Perth
- Glossary
- The National Estuaries Network (NEN)
