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OzCoast and OzEstuaries provides comprehensive information about Australia’s coast, including its estuaries and coastal waterways. This information helps to generate a better understanding of coastal environments, the complex processes that occur in them, the potential environmental health issues and how to recognise and deal with these issues. OzCoast and OzEstuaries represents the collaborative efforts of more than 100 coastal scientists from a range of government agencies and universities.
Features
Coming soon
OzCoast and OzEstuaries will soon undergo a name change to OzCoasts. The website will have a new look and feel, but the basic layout will be the same. The improved site will have a new NRM module which enable users to view habitat distributions and report cards at a range of different spatial scales.
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‘Smartline’ map is coming soon
The ‘Smartline’ is a nationally-consistent coastal GIS map in the form of a segmented line. Each line segment includes multiple attribute fields that describe important aspects of the geomorphology of the coast. This data enables an assessment of the sensitivity of the coast to the potential impacts of climate change and sea level rise, including shoreline erosion. The mapping method is based on the approach that has been used in Tasmania and expanded to incorporate the broader range of coastal landforms found around Australia.
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New conceptual models of coastal stressors
Conceptual models illustrating 12 important stressors affecting your waterways: Altered pH, Aquatic sediments, Disturbance to biota, Excess nutrients, Freshwater flow regime, Habitat removal/disturbance, Hydrodynamic alterations, Litter, Organic matter, Pathogens, Pest species and Toxicants.
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OzEstuaries has merged with OzCoast
OzEstuaries has evolved to include more coastal content, and has undergone a name change to OzCoast & OzEstuaries. Most of content of the OzCoast module at the website of the former Coastal CRC has been integrated into an Environmental Management module which can be accessed from the global navigation bar. The name OzCoast and OzEstuaries is transitional. The site will eventually assume the name OzCoasts in July 2008.
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3D Visualisations
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Digital 3D representations of the following coastal environments can be found in the Geomorphology & Geology module:
 Sydney Harbour. The Sydney Harbour model is a result of data collected between the 5th and 17th of March 2003. The data was collected for the 1999 Sydney Shallow Water Conference.
Sydney Harbour
 Woody Island. The Woody Island model has been constructed using Coastal CRC multibeam sonar data, Quickbird satellite imagery, and grab sampling information collected between 2003-2005. Woody Island 3D Model
 Fitzroy River/Keppel Bay. The VRML for the Fitzroy River, Keppel Bay and the Capricorn Shelf represents integrated Australian Hydrographic Service bathymetry data, high resolution multibeam sonar data, and various geological information held by Geoscience Australia.
 Cockburn Sound.The Cockburn Sound model contains a compilation of bathymetry, Landsat imagery, sediment sample information, and sub-bottom profiles acquired by the Coastal CRC.
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Monitor tides, winds, and swells in OzCoast and Ozestuaries
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 OzCoast and OzEstuaries has links to Bureau of Meteorology and Manly Hydraulics Laboratory tide predictions, real-time wave monitoring, coastal waters and high seas forecasts, weather forecasts, and cyclone warning centres. The links are found under Climate and Oceanography in the navigation bar on the left.
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Mapping Tools
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 The data search page now contains a comprehensive selection of map layers that can be customised and printed to capture estuary data and information. Some examples include topography, geomorphic habitats and Landsat images. [ View the Mapping tool ]
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Upgraded estuary database query module
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 Multi-estuary reports are now available through the database query function. You can select one or many estuaries by condition, class, sub-class, geometry and other cultural features. From the query report you can select data as well as images and reports on the selected estuaries. [ Query the database ]
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Conceptual Models
Search the Coastal Indicators and fact sheets
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 The Coastal Indicator Knowledge and Information System is an information source and education tool for managers, students, researchers and policy makers interested in estuaries and coastal waterways. Now you can search for any topic using the new search function in the top navigation bar. Some of the pages have been up-dated, and there are some new "climate change" pages in the coastal issues section of the module.
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Simple Estuarine Response Model (SERM)
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 The modelling component, SERM II, focuses on the relationships between pressures, anthropogenic and natural, and estuarine state, as reflected in a range of model indicators. The results may be used both to fill in gaps in pressures or indicators in the data-based assessment, and to understand the ways in which estuaries respond to different pressures, and hence guide thinking about management responses.
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