Estuaries of Australia in 2050 and beyond

Dr. Eric Wolanski is a coastal oceanographer and ecohydrologist. Eric has 360 publications; he is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia (ret.), and l'Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. He was awarded an Australian Centenary medal for services in estuarine and coastal oceanography, a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the catholic University of Louvain, a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunication award for excellence, and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) Lifetime Achievement Award. Eric is a member of the IGBP-IHDP Scientific Steering Committee of Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ), and a member of the Scientific Planning Committee of Japan’s Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS). He is a chief editor of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Wetlands Ecology and Management, and the Treatise of Estuarine and Coastal Science.

• 1. Estuaries of Australia in 2050 and beyond - A synthesis.- PART I - Estuaries that bore the full pressure of the historical developments.- 2. Sydney Estuary, Australia: Geology, anthropogenic development and hydrodynamic processes/attributes.-  3. The Murray/Coorong Estuary. Meeting of the Waters?.- 4. Port Phillip Bay.- 5. The Tamar Estuary, Tasmania.- PART II Estuaries being degraded.- 6. Gold Coast Broadwater: Southern Moreton Bay, Southeast Queensland (Australia).- 7. Hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a macro-tidal estuary: Darwin Harbour, Australia.- 8. The Ord River estuary: a regulated wet-dry tropical river system.- 9. South Australia’s Precious Inverse Estuaries: On the road to ruin.- 10. Turbulent Mixing and Sediment Processes in Peri-Urban Estuariesin South-East Queensland (Australia).- 11. Hervey Bay and Its Estuaries.- 12. Moreton Bay and its estuaries: A sub-tropical system under pressure from rapid population growth.- 13. Water resource development and high value coastal wetlands on the lower Burdekin floodplain, Australia.-14. The Hawkesbury Estuary from 1950 to 2050.- PART III - Estuaries that are still relatively pristine.- 15. Deluge Inlet, a pristine small tropical estuary in north-eastern Australia.- 16. The Lower Mary River and flood plains.

From the reviews: "This nicely illustrated book is a wonderful mix of case studies, geographical descriptions, history, scientifically-based predictions, socio-economic anecdotes, and fundamental physical, biological, chemical and environmental science ... . It is written at a level where most readers, specialist scientists or not, will have no difficulty following the text and appreciating the arguments. As a summary of the historical, the current, and the anticipated status of Australian estuaries, on a level that can be appreciated by almost everybody, it is excellent." (Reg Uncles, ECSA Bulletin, Issue 62, 2014)