Wave-by-wave bed-level changes at the beachface of gravel and sand beaches

澳大利亚的海岸线是该国最大的自然、文化和经济资源之一。最近的国际经验表明，在不断变化的气候中，海岸侵蚀是对我们海岸今天的可持续性的真正和日益严重的威胁。我们团队开发的创新仪器现在首次实现了基本侵蚀和吸积过程的量化。在2007年和2008年开始的两个合作、全面整合的国际研究计划框架内，这项研究将把澳大利亚置于突破性沿海研究的前沿，导致对海岸变化的科学、工程和操作理解和建模方面的快速进步。

Australia's coastline is one of this country's greatest natural, cultural and economic resources. Recent experiences internationally have shown that in a changing climate, coastal erosion is a real and growing threat to the present-day sustainability of our coasts. Innovative instrumentation developed by our team now enables fundamental erosion and accretion processes to be quantified for the first time. Working within the framework of two collaborative, fully-integrated, international research programs commencing in 2007 and 2008, this study will place Australia at the forefront of break-through coastal research, leading to rapid advances in the scientific, engineering and operational understanding and modelling of coastal change.