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The suite of workshops below use online resources and open source software (or common software such as Microsoft Excel) to investigate coastal erosion and inundation hazards. These hazards will be examined over two time points - present and 2100 - and over two time scales - short-term event driven and chronic coastal change.

The goal of these workshops is to get students to:

• access trusted online data sources
• investigate and understand coastal change using real world data
• wrangle real world data and analyse coastal change
• investigate and represent data in figures and charts
• perform basic statistical analysis to interpret change
• model coastal response to sea level rise and storm events
• develop foundational geography conceptual understanding in temporal scales of change in a natural system
• communicate hazards and risk using mapping software
• analyse risk to communities using hazard maps

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Workshop 1: Decadal Coastal Change

Workshop 2: Inundation mapping with real-world data

Data Websites

Digital Earth Australia Coastlines Data Set - https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/dea/dea-data-and-products/dea-coastlines

Queensland Wave Rider Buoy Network - https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/coasts-waterways/beach/monitoring/waves-sites

Queensland Coastal LiDAR and Elevation Data - https://elevation.fsdf.org.au/

Information on coastal adaption and change https://coastadapt.com.au/

The longest continuous beach survey data set in the world http://narrabeen.wrl.unsw.edu.au/

The CoastalRisk Tool for visually representing coastal inundation due to tides and sea level rise http://www.coastalrisk.com.au

Over 30 years of change in 10 seconds using satellite images from Google. https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/

CANUTE 3.0 tool for determining inundation risk on the Australian coast https://shiny.csiro.au/Canute3_0/

NASA Sea Level Project Tool - https://sealevel.nasa.gov/ipcc-ar6-sea-level-projection-tool