Coastal Engineering Research Field Station (CERFS)

该项目旨在建立一个海岸工程研究实地站，配备测量波浪、潮汐、海流、海床和海滩剖面以及沉积物特征的仪器模块。在了解沿海过程（包括气候变率和变化的影响）方面存在重要的知识空白，需要生成长期数据集，以便根据澳大利亚的条件校准沿海模式。获得的沿海过程数据将有助于改进模型、管理策略和设计指南，改进处理沿海基础设施设计、海滩管理策略和影响评估的技术，以应对未来主要沿海发展的挑战。这将有助于决策者减少极端风暴、气候变化、基础设施发展和城市化给沿海社区、沿海生态系统和海上作业带来的风险。

This project aims to establish a Coastal Engineering Research Field Station (CERFS) with instrument modules for measuring waves, tides, currents, seabed and beach profiles and sediment characteristics. There are critical knowledge gaps in the understanding of coastal processes, including the effects of climate variability and change, and a need to generate long-term data-sets for calibration of coastal models against Australian conditions. The coastal process data obtained will lead to improved models, management strategies and design guidelines improving techniques to address coastal infrastructure design, beach management strategies and impact assessment to meet the challenges of future major coastal development. This will help decision-makers to reduce the risk to coastal communities, coastal ecosystems and maritime operations from extreme storms, climate change, infrastructure development and urbanisation.