The aim of this project is next-generation coastal ocean modelling through a hybrid approach to better understand sediment dynamics impacts on coastal infrastructure and ecosystems.
The Sino-Australian Research Consortium for Coastal Management, School of Science UNSW Canberra, is offering a PhD student position to work on coastal modelling and sediment transport. Cohesive sediment is involved in several ecological and environmental processes, like nutrients and pollutant (metals, organic compounds) transport, transparency, and stratification. The aim of this project is next-generation coastal ocean modelling through a hybrid approach to better understand sediment dynamics impacts on coastal infrastructure and ecosystems. It will advance predictive modelling for sediment transport and trapping in coastal embayments that are experiencing intense multiple stressors. Key study site is Darwin Harbour or Sydney Harbour in Australia, with transferrable knowledge expected for coastal systems globally. Outcomes include novel AI assisted current-wave-sediment-vegetation coupled models and critical new knowledge in sediment dynamics for adaptive coastal management in urban waterways.
School of Science
Ocean modelling