Griffith University

BEng, PhD, FIEAust, CPEng, NPER

• Gold Coast City Council, Professor of Coastal Management
• Director, Griffith Centre for Coastal Management
• Research Director, Smart Water Research Centre
• Coastal Program Leader, Griffith Climate Response

Contact details for Professor Rodger Tomlinson

Research Expertise

• Inner-shelf/coastal zone flows, in particular mass transport near river entrances, tidal inlets, and marine vortices.
• Effluent dispersal in estuarine and marine waters.
• Coastal zone management, particularly the impact of coastal developments on hydrodynamic and sedimentary processes.
• Open coast beach characteristics.
• Urban catchment management.

Publications

• Strauss, D. and Tomlinson, R.B. (2009), Modelling transitions between barred beach states on a straightcoast, Pro. Coastal Dynamics 2009 – Impacts of Human Activities on Dynamic Coastal Processes, World Scientific, CD-Rom.
• Richards, R., Chalupka, M, and Tomlinson, R.B. (2010), Towards an Ecosystem-based Bioaccumulation and Metal Speciation Model, Ecosystems, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 1303 – 1317.
• Stuart, G., Hollingsworth, A., Thomsen, F., Szylkarski,S., Capati, B., Khan, S., Teo, L., Tomlinson, R.B., Kirkpatrick, S, Gold Coast Seaway SmartRelease Decision Support System – Optimising recycled water release in a sub tropical estuarine environment, Water Sceinece and Technology, IWA, 60.8, pp.2077-2084.
• D. Strauss, R. Tomlinson, and S. Hunt, Profile response and dispersion of beach nourishment : GoldCoast, Australia, in Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. SI 56 (Proceedings of the 10th International CoastalSympoisum), Lisbon, Portugal, 2009, pp. 133–137.
• Castelle, B. Turner, I.L., Bertin, X and Tomlinson R.B.,Beach nourishment at Coolangatta Bay over theperiod 1987-2005: Impacts and lessons, Coastal Engineering, Vol. 56, pp.940-950.
• Helman, P. and Tomlinson, R.B. (2008), Coastal Storms and Climate Change Over the Last Two Centuries, East Coast Australia, Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2008, Eds. Wallendorf, L., Ewing, L., Jones, C. and Jaffe, B., ASCE, pp. 139-146.
• Hunt, S., Stuart, G., Reed, R., Mirfenderesk, H. and Tomlinson, R.B. (2008), Managing Coastal hazards on Australias Gold Coast, Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2008, Eds. Wallendorf, L., Ewing, L., Jones, C. and Jaffe, B., ASCE, pp. 699-712.
• Mirfenderesk, H., Tomlinson, R.B., Szylkarski and Rasmussen, E. (2007), Development of 3D Model to Understanding a Modified Tidal Entrance Dynamics, Coastal Engineering 2006, Proceeding 30th International Conference Coastal Engineering,San Diego,World Scientific, pp.2118 to 2129.
• Jackson, L.A., Reichelt, R., Restall, S., Corbett, B., Tomlinson, R.B. and McGrath, J. (2005)Marine Ecosystem Enhancement on Geotextile Coastal Protection Reef, Narrowneck Reef Case Study, Coastal Engineering 2004, Proceedings 29th International Conference Coastal Engineering, World Scientific, pp. 3940-3952.
• Castelle, B. Le Corre, Y., and Tomlinson, R.B. (2008), Can the Gold Coast beaches manage extreme events, Geo-Marine Letters online, 28, pp. 23-30.
• Jackson, L.A., Corbett, B., Tomlinson, R.B., McGrath, J.E. and Stuart, G. (2007), Narrowneck Reef: Review of Seven Years of Monitoring, Shore and Beach, Vol. 75 Issue 4, pp. 67 to 79.
• Mirfendersk, H. and Tomlinson R. (2007), Numerical Modeling of Tidal Dynamic and Water Circulation at the Gold Coast Broadwater, Australia, Journal of Coastal Research - Special Issue 50, pp. 277 to 281.
• Castelle, B., Turner, I. Ruessink, G. and Tomlinson, R.B. (2007), Impact of storms on beach erosion: Broadbeach Beach, Gold Coast, Australia, Journal Coastal Research  Special Issue 50, pp. 534 to 539.
• Strauss, D., Mirferenderesk, H. and Tomlinson, R.B. (2007),Comparison of two wave models for Gold Coast, Australia Journal of Coastal Research - Special Issue 50, pp. 312 - 316.
• Sennes, G., Castelle, B., Bertin, X., Mirfenderesk, H. and Tomlinson, R.B. (2007), Modeling of the Gold Coast Seaway tidal inlet, Gold Coast, Australia, Journal Coastal Research - Special Issue 50, pp. 1086 to 1091.
• Browne, M., Castelle, B., Strauss, D., Tomlinson, R., Blumenstein, M. and Lane, C., (2007), Near-shore swell estimation from a global wind-wave model: spectral process, linear and artificial neural network models., Coastal Engineering, Vol. 54/5, pp. 445 to 460.
• Castelle, B., Bourget, J., Molnar, N., Strauss, D. Deschamps, S. and Tomlinson, R. (2007), Dynamics of Wave-Dominated Tidal Inlet and Influence on Adjacent beaches, Currumbin Creek, Gold Coast, Australia, Coastal Engineering, Vol. 54/1, pp. 77 to 90.