Griffith Centre for Coastal Management

Focusing on the sustainable management of coastal challenges in urban areas

The Griffith Centre for Coastal Management helps communities to build coastal resilience, protect the environment and plan for the future. Our research expertise spans coastal engineering plus urban catchment, floodplain and water resource management.

Our specialists are also qualified in analysing coastal processes, as well the impacts of climate change on coastlines.

Through our wide-ranging research programs, community engagement initiatives and powerful partnerships, we put theory into practice for the greater good.

Coastal Resilience Short Course

Professional development focused on coastal dynamics

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Research themes

Our major projects are grouped under six strategic research programs:

Estuarine modelling
Coastlines
Coastal ocean dynamics
Climate change impact and adaptation
Infrastructure and technology
Catchments and waterways.

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PrESM

Dedicated to pioneering research by identifying and targeting priority erosion sources, developing applied methods to effectively manage sediment and water quality within our rivers and catchments, and with a focus on catchments that flow to the Great Barrier Reef.

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Coastal management

Eighty per cent of Australians live near the coast, and if you look at our major cities they’re all on the coast, particularly here on the Gold Coast where we have ocean and inland waterways as well. The resilience of these sorts of communities is critical to their
future.