CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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TUESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2011

1800 2000

Welcome Reception
Riverview Rooms 4 & 5

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WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2011

0700

Registrations Open

Northern Foyer
MR 1-3

0900 0940

Conference Opening
Welcome to Country: Kim Collard
Conference Chair Welcome: Tanya Stul
Official Conference Opening: Hon Troy Buswell MLA, Minister for Transport; Housing

MR 1-3

0940 1040

Emerging Challenges in Navigation and Port Engineering

Dr Thomas Wakeman
Deputy Director
DHS National Center of Excellence for Port Security
(Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce)
Deputy Director Center for Maritime Systems
Research Professor Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey

1040 1110

Morning Tea and Trade Exhibition

Riverview Rooms 4 & 5

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Session 1
Coastal Processes

Session 2
Ports

Session 3
Coastal Structures

Session 4
Environmental
Effects

Session 5
Coastal Planning,
Policy &
Management

Room

MR 1

MR2

MR3

MR6

MR7

Chair

Stuart Barr

Lyle Banks

Jefferson Bandeira

Luke Twomey

Ian Eliot

1110 1130

Simulation of Perched
Beach Accretion using
Smoothed Particle
Hydrodynamics
Cyprien Bosserelle

A High-Resolution
Weather Forecasting
Tool for Marine
Operations
Management in Ports
and Harbours
Peter McComb

An Overview of the use

of Physical Models to
Assess Wave Loading
on Marine Structures
Matt Blacka

Integrated
Environmental
Monitoring During
Dredging for the
Alkimos Wastewater
Pipeline
Craig Blount

Can we Reliably
Estimate Dune Erosion
without Knowing PreStorm Bathymetry?
Kristen Splinter

1130 1150

Form and Function of

Natural and Engineered
Perched Beaches
Shari Gallop

Floating Attenuators
and Limitations in
Aggressive Weather
Conditions
Lal Edirisinghe

Wave Transmission
Past Low Crested
and Submerged
Breakwaters
Markus Muttray

Assessing the Health

Impacts of Ocean
Outfalls
Duncan Rayner

Managing the Sunshine

Coast Shoreline Erosion
Threat
Matthew Barnes

Anchoring CoastlinesNatural and Artificial

Headlands
Angus Gordon

A Study of the
Performance of
Concrete Block
Pavements in Container
Terminals
Alastair MacLeod

Numerical Modelling
of Tsunami Impact
Pressure on a Vertical
Wall
Sannasiraj Sannasi

Resolving
Environmental
Dynamics in Port Phillip
Bay, Using High Repeat
Sampling off the Spirit
of Tasmania 1
Randall Lee

Performance of Some
Beach Replenishment
Projects in Auckland,
New Zealand
Stephen Priestley

1150 1210

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Continued

Session 1

Session 2

1210 1230

Dynamics of
Bulk Materials Handling
Scarborough Beach,
City of Stirling, Western Berths
Richard Morgan
Australia
Matthew Eliot

1230 1330

Lunch and Trade Exhibition

Riverview Rooms 4 & 5
Session 6
Coastal Processes

Session 3
Investigations into
the Safety Level of
Marine Steel Sheet
Pile Structures with
Consideration of
Corrosion
Paulo Osorio

Session 4

Session 5
Including Public
Infrastructure in the
Protect or Relocate
Debate: A NSW Case
Study
Michelle Fletcher

Quantifying the Net

Environmental Benefit
of Using Dispersant on
Oil Spills in Western
Port Bay, Victoria
Scott Langtry

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Session 7
Ports

Session 8
Coastal Structures

Session 9
Environmental
Effects

Session 10
Coastal Processes

Room

MR 1

MR2

MR3

MR6

MR7

Chair

David Walker

Jose Borrero

Jrgen Jensen

Doug Lord

Hrvoje Mihanovic

1330 1350

Two-Dimensional
Coastal Sediment
Transport Modelling of
Miri Coast, Sarawak
Afshin Ahmadi

Design and
Construction of a
Concrete Caisson
Wharf in the Canadian
Arctic
Christopher Meisl

1350 1410

Modelling Seasonal to
Multi-Year Shoreline
Change at a Sandy
Embayment on the
Australian East Coast
Melissa Mole

New Frontiers,
Old Problems
Development of a
Greenfield Port in
Sierra Leone
Benjamin Morgan

STEVE BUCHAN
General Manager

1410 1430

RPS MetOcean Pty Ltd

Sediment Transport
Australia Asia Pacific
Port Development in
Modelling, Great
Sands, Port Phillip Bay, Southern Madagascar
Jeff MacNabb
Victoria
David Provis

Ted Smout Memorial

Bridge Coastal
Engineering Aspects
Peter Cummings

Overview of PIANC
Report 108 Dredging
and Port Construction
around Coral Reefs
Matthew Jury

Storm Surge
Estimates Using Wind
Stress Coefficients
Determined from
Wind-Wave Growth
Observations
David Callaghan

Rapid Bay Jetty: Case

Study
Luke Campbell

Recent Developments
in Methods to Detect
Impacts in Coastal
Benthic Habitats in
Western Australia
Damian Ogburn

Estimating Extreme
Water Levels in Torres
Strait
Bruce Harper

Case Studies in
Improving Design
Criteria for Ocean
Swimming Pools
Utilizing Physical
Modeling and
Other Investigative
Techniques
Indra
Jayewardene

Assessing the Impacts

of Underwater Pile
Driving Noise on
Marine Mammals
Dick Petersen

High Water Mark

Determination Based
on the Water Flushing
Probability and Spatial
Continuity
Xin Liu

An Energy Based
Model of Storm
Induced Shoreline
Erosion Gold Coast,
Australia
Edward Kearney

Oceanic Pulse
Forcing of a Beach
Groundwater System
Nick Cartwright

1430 1450

Coastal Morphology,
Modelling and
Management: Oakajee
Coast
Bruce Hegge

Delivering Iron Ore

Export Capacity in the
Pilbara
Russell McGuire

Multi-Purpose
Reefs A Decade of
Applications
Shaw Mead

A Numerical Model
Created to Estimate
the Co-Occurrence of
Vessels and Migrating
Humpback Whales
at a New Western
Australian Port
Troy Collie

1450 1510

Sand and Seagrass

Wrack Modelling
in Port Geographe,
South-Western
Australia
Chari Pattiaratchi

Dampier Land-Backed
Wharf
Richard Wallis

Mandurah Ocean
Marina: Fulfilling a
30-Year Community
Vision
Mike Moloney

Baseline Marine
Mammal Observations
for the Oakajee
Deepwater Port
Luke Twomey

1510 1540

Afternoon Tea and Trade Exhibition

Riverview Rooms 4 & 5

Session 11
Coastal Processes

Session 12
Ports

Session 13
Coastal Structures

Session 14
Environmental
Effects

Session 15
Coastal Planning,
Policy &
Management

Room

MR 1

MR2

MR3

MR6

MR7

Chair

David Callaghan

David Johnson

Peter Cummings

Andrew Costen

Bruce Hegge

1540 1600

Consolidation and
Response of Cohesive
Sediment Beds
Exposed to Water
Waves
Aloysius Bagyo
Widagdo

Achieving Value
for Money in Berth
Structure Design
Sam Harris

Reconstruction of the
Mounts Bay Road
Riverwalls on the Swan
River, Perth
Peter Doust

Strategic Environmental
Management for
Small-Scale Dredging
Projects in Western
Australia
Samantha Green

Expert-Driven
Approaches to
Assessments of
Long-Term Coastal
Geo-Hazard
Piers Larcombe

1600 1620

Self-Organising
Behaviour of Sand
Ripples under Waves
David Walker

Wave Climate
Influences on Port
Design
Douglas Scott

Mackay Breakwater
Adaptation
Gildas Colleter

Relative Impacts of
Climate and Dredging
on Water Quality in a
Coastal Bay
Kate Simpson

Geologic Frameworks
for Coastal Planning
and Management
Ian Eliot

Non-Stationary
Patterns in Swash
Motions
Rafael Guedes

Climate Resilient
Seaports
Jane Mullett

Australian Experience
with Randomly
Orientated Single
Layer Concrete Armour
for Breakwaters and
Revetments
Stuart Bettington

Integrated
Environmental
Assessment and
Monitoring for a Large
Dredging Project in a
Sensitive Environment
Lauren Wilkin

Coastal Processes and

Management Study for
the Bellarine Peninsula
Joanna
Garcia-Webb

The Myth of
Wakeboarding Vessels
and Riverbank Erosion
William Glamore

Climate Change on
Structural Resilience
of Core Seaport
Infrastructure
Daniel Kong

Fremantle Ports Inner

Harbour Deepening:
Lessons Learned
in Communicating
Environmental
Monitoring Results
Robert De Roach

Coastal Zone
Management in an
Urban Environment
Jenna McLean

1620 1640

1640 1700

THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2011

0730

Registrations Open

Northern Foyer

0830 0930

Brazilian Case Studies on Coastal Processes Owing to Natural and Man-Made Causes
Jefferson Bandeira
Senior Researcher
Centre for Development of Nuclear Technology (CDTN)
Institute of the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN),
Minas Gerais, Brazil

MR 1-3

Session 16
Coastal Processes

Session 17
Ports

Session 18
Coastal Structures/
Processes

Session 19
Coastal Processes

Session 20
Coastal Planning,
Policy &
Management

Room

MR 1

MR2

MR3

MR6

MR7

Chair

Dean Campbell

Peter McComb

Stuart Bettington

Ivan Haigh

Bruce Harper

Wave Energy Reflection

off Dredged Channels
Alexander Nielsen

Extreme Wave Analysis

for Offshore Perth,
1994-2010
Fangjun Li

Coastal Climate
Change Impacts for
Easter Island in 2100
Lincoln Quilliam

Wave Induced Forces

and Scour on Seabed
Structures
Paul Branson

Uncertainty in
Extrapolating a
Historical Wave Record
to Extreme Wave
Heights
Bob You

Climate Change
Adaptation &
Economics A Case
Study in the Solomon
Islands
Rhys Thomson

0940 1000

Observations of
Infra-Gravity Period
Stability of the Manning Oscillations and their
Forcing In Western
River Entrance
Australia
Jamie Ruprecht
Darshani
Thotagamuwage

1000 1020

Morphodynamic
Modelling of Entrance
Breakout for a Coastal
Lake
David Wainwright

1020 1050

Morning Tea and Trade Exhibition

Riverview Rooms 4 & 5

Modelling Long
Wave Generation and
Propagation Around
and Within Ports
David Johnson

Sponsored by

Session 21
Coastal Processes

Session 22
Ports

Session 23
Coastal Structures

Session 24
Coastal Processes

Session 25
Coastal Planning,
Policy &
Management

Room

MR 1

MR2

MR3

MR6

MR7

Chair

Chari Pattiaratchi

Alan Betts

Tony Webb

Peter Nielsen

Ron Cox

1050 1110

Calculating Bed
Shear Stresses Under
Combined Currents
and Waves in Darwin
Harbour
Oleg Makarynskyy

Minimising Dredging
by Optimising Channel
Design and Port
Accessibility
Peter Burton

Comparison of Physical
and Numerical Model
Test Results for Martha
Cove Breakwaters
Andrew McCowan

Planning for an
Australian National
Coastal Observatory:
High Resolution Wave
Modelling (HI-WAM) for Monitoring and
Batemans Bay Detailed Forecasting Coastal
Erosion in a Changing
Wave Study
Climate
Ian Coghlan
Ian Turner
(Kristen Splinter)

Continued

Session 21

Session 22

Session 23

Session 24

Session 25

1110 1130

Generation of Flood
Dominance in a
Mixed Tidal System: a
Numerical Investigation
of the Murray Mouth
Sarah Jewell

The Influence of
Channel Geometry on
Berthed Ship-Passing
Ship Interaction
Jonathan Duffy

2D and 3D Physical
Modeling of Current
and Wave Interactions
for Rock Berm Design
David Chamizo

Adapting Coasts to
Climate Variability and
Dense Water Formation
Change: Integrating
and Cross-Shelf
Outcomes from
Exchange on the
Future Coastlines
Rottnest Continental
and the South East
Shelf in South-Western
Queensland Climate
Australia
Adaptation Research
Thisara Welhena
Initiative
Marcello Sano

1130 1150

Forcing Mechanisms
of a Seiching Event at
Tairua Estuary, New
Zealand
Cathy Liu

Whakatane Harbour
Entrance Navigation
Improvement
Considering Multiparty
Interests
Benjamin Tuckey

The Icelandic-Type
Berm Breakwater
Sigurdur
Sigurdarson

Coastal Boundary
Layer Effects on
Pollutant Dispersion
Tim Pritchard

1150 1215

Collect Take-Away Lunch

1230 1700

Field Trips
Northern Beaches

Local Government
Adapting to Climate
Change Where the
Rubber Hits the Road
Douglas Lord

Northern Foyer
AMC/Port Coogee

Fremantle Port Cruise

Swan River Cruise

1830 1900

Pre-Dinner Drinks

BelleVue Ballroom 2 Foyer

1900 1200

Conference Dinner
BelleVue Ballroom 2

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FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2011

0730

Registrations Open

Northern Foyer

0830 0930

Long-Term Variability in Met-Ocean Conditions in Western Australia

MR 1-3

Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi

Winthrop Professor of Coastal Oceanography
Head, School of Environmental Systems Engineering
School of Environmental Systems Engineering & UWA Oceans Institute
The University of Western Australia
Steve Buchan
General Manager
RPS MetOcean Pty Ltd
Australia Asia Pacific

0930 1000

Morning Tea and Trade Exhibition

Riverview Rooms 4 & 5

Session 26
Coastal Processes

Session 27
Ports

Session 28
Dredging

Session 29
Coastal Processes

Session 30
Coastal Planning,
Policy &
Management

Room

MR 1

MR2

MR3

MR6

MR7

Chair

David Wainwright

Thomas Wakeman

David Provis

Edward Couriel

Angus Gordon

1000 1020

Coastal Erosion and

Shoreline Changes in
Response to Extreme
Events and Sea Level
Rise
Saima Aijaz

Extending the Life of

Maritime Structures in
Papua New Guinea
Ben Gray

Maximising Vessel
Utilisation Through
Channel Design
Brendan Curtis

Field Surveys and

Numerical Modelling of
the 2009 South Pacific
and 2010 Mentawai
Islands Tsunamis
Jose Borrero

Pumped Beach
Replenishment in
Adelaide: Selecting the
Design Sand
Jennifer Deans

1020 1040

Change of Regime of
Air-Sea Interactions
in Extreme Weather
Conditions
Alexander Babanin

Fremantle Ports Berth

10 Reconstruction-An
Innovative Approach
Cong Bui

Clearance of Explosive
Ordnance (EXO) from
Albany Port, Princess
Royal Harbour
Rhys Jones

Validation of the
TUFLOW-FV Modelling
System for use in
Tsunami Inundation
Studies
Paul Guard

Busselton Coastal
Protection
Stuart Barr

1040 1100

Coastal Storm Data

Analysis: Provision of
Extreme Wave Data for
Adaptation Planning
Ron Cox

Port Botany Container

Terminal Expansion
Cope Beam Design by
URS/Scott Wilson
Alan Betts

Merits of a Scenario
Approach in Dredge
Plume Modelling
Claus Pederson

Evaluation of Empirical
Predictors of Extreme
Run-Up using Field
Data
Tom Shand

Coastal Protection
Considerations; Rogues
Point Case Study
Arron Broom

1100 1120

Statistical Methods
to Assess the
Hydrodynamic
Boundary Conditions
for Flood Risk Analyses
in Coastal Areas
Thomas Wahl

Port Botany Container

Terminal Expansion
Caisson Design by URS
Scott Wilson
Kenan Aldemir

Investigation of Key
Parameters for 3-D
Dredging Plume Model
Validation
Junsheng Jiang

Tropical Cyclone
Yasi: Coastal
Inundation Levels
Robert Schwartz

Durability of
Geosynthetic Sand
Containers Subject to
Extreme Australian
Weather Conditions
Daniel Wishaw

1120 1140

The Response of
the Wave-Driven
Circulation at Ningaloo
Reef, Western
Australia, to Mean Sea
Level Rise
Soheila Taebi

Its all in the

Contract: Ensuring
Environmental and
Community Success in
the Construction of the
Port Botany Expansion
Marika Calfas

Numerical Study of
Wave and Sediment
Dynamics at Dredge
Disposal Sites Near
the Otago Harbour
Entrance, New Zealand
Simon Weppe

Performance
of Sand Filled
Monte Carlo Cyclone
Geotextile Container
Track Model System for (Geocontainer)
the Pilbara Coast
Structures in North
David Taylor
Queensland during
Tropical Cyclone Yasi
James Carley

1140 1240

Lunch and Trade Exhibition

River View Rooms 4 & 5

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Session 31
Coastal Processes

Session 32
Ports

Session 33
Coastal Processes

Session 34
Environmental
Effects

Session 35
Coastal Planning,
Policy &
Management

Room

MR 1

MR2

MR3

MR6

MR7

Chair

William Glamore

Scott Keane

Indra Jayewardene

Malcolm Andrews

Robert Schwartz

Prediction of Ship
Wakes Using Slender
Assessment and Repair
Body Theory Coupled
of Woodchip Berth to
With Boussinesq-type
Extend the Design Life
Wave Module
Harvinder Singh
Simon Brandi
Mortenson

Port Coogee Coastal

Monitoring
Daniel Hamilton

Light Detection and

Ranging (LiDAR)
for Measurement of
Coastal Processes
Chris Blenkinsopp
Development of a
GIS to Determine
the Vulnerability of
Regionally Significant
Marine Receiving
Environments to LandUse Impacts
David Phillips

1240 1300

Remote Sensing of
Water Waves: Wave
Flume Experiments on
Regular and Irregular
Waves
Matthew Harry

1300 1320

Wave Climate off

the Perth Coast
Evaluation of an Ocean
HF Radar System and
WaveWatch3
Jasmine Jaffres

Luderitz Port Expansion

Plans An Innovative
Approach
Harish Srivastava

Boussinesq Modelling
of Shoaling Wave
Groups
William Peirson

Modelling Coastal
Effects from the
Waterview Connection
Project
Alastair Senior
(Richard ReinenHamill)

1320 1340

Accuracy of Wave
Forecasts as a
Function of Forecast
Time Horizon in SouthWestern Australia
Jennifer Penton

Prizewinning Concept
for the Redevelopment
of 125 ha in the Heart
of the Port of Hamburg,
Germany
Birgitt Brinkmann

A New Technique for

Measuring Breaking
Wave Dynamics,
Heights and Periods
Christopher Lane

Looking Forward
in Environmental
Management: The Hay
Point Coal Terminal
Expansion Project
Michael Huber

Local Bathymetry and

High Resolution Current
Fields Retrieved by
Nautical Radar Imagery
Konstanze
Reichert

1340 1400

Downward Transfer of
Momentum By Growing
Waves
Peter Nielsen

New ArcelorMittal High

Modulus HZM / AZ
Combined Wall at Jade
Weser Port, Germany
Matthias
Brunnhuber

Numerical Study of
a Breaking Wave
Threshold Parameter
Xavier Barthelemy

Review of Marine EIA

for Port Expansion
Projects in the Pilbara:
How to Improve the
Outcomes
Russell Hanley

High Resolution Ocean

Radar Observations in
Ports and Harbours
Mal Heron

1400 1430

Afternoon Tea and Trade Exhibition

Riverview Rooms 4 & 5

Session 36
Coastal Processes

Session 37
Ports

Room

MR6

MR7

Room

MR1-3

Chair

Alexander Babanin

Tim Green

Chair

Sonja Bertotto

1430 1450

1450 1510

Regional Changes in
Mean Sea Level around
Western Australia
Rumah Baru Freight
between 1897 and
& Passenger Facility:
2008
Challenges in Design
Ivan Haigh
and Construction on
Coastal Flooding in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Peel Harvey Estuary
Heather OKeeffe
and the Effects of
Mean Sea Level Rise
Leigh MacPherson

1535 1550

Conference Close
Kevin Stark Award Presentation
C&P2013 Conference Announcement

1600 1900

Closing Sundowner
Southern Foyer

1915

Airport Shuttle Bus for Evening Flights

Session 38
NCCOE Workshop

Current NCCOE Publications Update

Doug Lord
1430 1530

Coastal Sustainability Guidelines 2011 Update

Tony Webb
Coast and Climate Change Council Update
Andrew McCowan

MR 1-3

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