OzCoasts

OzCoasts 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. More ...

What's New

Geomorphology and Geology module

Shallow water benthic habitat toolkit has been migrated from former Coastal CRC to this site.

NRM reporting module

View Habitat maps, and Report card scores at a range of different spatial scales.

Updated Search data module

Simple search,
Estuary search
Map search

Updated conceptual models module

Restructure of conceptual models pages to fit recent wetland science synthesis

What's Next

A new module

Nationally-consistent coastal geomorphology and stability maps in segmented line format

Search data
Simple search, Estuary search, Map search. Coastal information, Coastal stakeholder, Regional plans & strategies. Publications

Conceptual models
Wetland classification, Estuarine typology, Science models, Geomorphic models, Process models, Threat models, Stressors. Build your own model

Coastal indicator factsheets
Beach erosion, Climate change, Sea level rise, Biodiversity, Mangrove areas, Dissolved oxygen, Hermit crabs, Turbidity, Water temperature, Nutrients, Eutrophication, Toxicants, Salt marsh areas, Salinity, Seagrass areas, Beach & dune areas, Shorebird, Sedimentation rates, more ...

Geomorphology & geology
Coastal water habitat mapping toolkit: Benthic habtat mapping, Techniques, Case studies, Decision tree
Interactive 3D Models: Cockburn Sound, Keppel Bay and Fitzroy River Area, Sydney Harbour, Woody Island.

Environmental management
Framework: People and processes, Current understanding, ...
Stressors: Altered pH, Disturbance to Biota, Hydrodynamic alterations, ... Decision support tools, Numerical modelling tools

Natural resource management reporting
Report cards, Habitat extent.