OzCoasts

OzCoasts provides comprehensive information about Australia’s coast, including its estuaries and coastal waterways. This information 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

Name Change

Geomorphology and Geology module has been renamed Habitat Mapping.

 

What's Next

New Landform & Stability Maps module

Nationally-consistent coastal geomorphology and stability maps in segmented line format

 

Search data Search data
Simple search, Estuary search, Map search. Coastal information, Coastal stakeholder, Regional plans & strategies. Publications


Conceptual modelsConceptual models
Wetland classification, Estuarine typology, Science models, Geomorphic models, Process models, Threat models, Stressors. Build your own model


Coastal indicatorsCoastal 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 MappingHabitat 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.


Environmental managmentEnvironmental management
Framework: People and processes, Current understanding, ...
Stressors: Altered pH, Disturbance to Biota, Hydrodynamic alterations, ... Decision support tools, Numerical modelling tools

NRM reporting
Natural resource management reporting
Report cards, Habitat extent.

 

 

 

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