<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Damara WA Pty Ltd]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coastal Learning]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/my-blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 01:27:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.damarawa.com.au/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Coastal Inundation Management]]></title><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/coastal-inundation-management</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad0c4d15def0095a730058a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:23:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_83c64a57ed74419d80856b549704a188~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreshore Restoration Using NBS]]></title><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/foreshore-restoration-using-nbs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad09bcb62b429deb7784245</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:25:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_f23b65b88fec46b38a3692394853be9b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic Design of Rock Coastal Protection Structures by WA Government]]></title><description><![CDATA[This presentation was developed as one piece of a review of coastal engineering practices, aimed to help develop guidelines for future facility design.]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/historic-design-of-rock-coastal-protection-structures-by-wa-government</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad09593fb1791539e6cc4c2</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:06:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_00e76645d6de433ab4ff283145051638~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coastal Adaptation with Dynamic Shoreline Change]]></title><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/coastal-adaptation-with-dynamic-shoreline-change</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac6d92b2526eefdb7fe43fd</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:50:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_5348219e5e7b451999e4bf41e3036c02~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting UnReal: Coastal Adaptation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coastal engineering, planning and adaptation are different facets of coastal management. Confusion between them continues to occur, even for good practitioners with decades of experience.Understanding how they relate to one another, and how they do NOT is important for building coastal resilience. Effective adaptation planning does not simply involve raising design criteria!]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/getting-unreal-coastal-adaptation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac11e56bc0d9ffa86a09a02</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:27:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_0ae3db57706e4f20a02422855a7c300f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dearth of Technical Project Managers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Project management is a critical part of modern infrastructure delivery. From timesheets to real-time dashboards, countless project management tools have become critical for cost-effective delivery of large scale and multi-disciplinary projects. These have been inevitably focused on cost and time, with increasing targeting on capturing service quality. However, within this setting, there has been a decline of the Technical Project Manager role, a technical specialist with intimate knowledge...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/the-dearth-of-technical-project-managers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0987bcdf43effc8ce1a2fa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 14:31:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_b64047f5370d407f8c636cf6e0e80273~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where have the geomorphologists gone?]]></title><description><![CDATA[An academic competition asked the question “How do we get better at long-term coastal (morphodynamic) modelling?” My response was to express the opinion we’ve gone too far down one pathway, while substantially neglecting several areas of science, notably geomorphology. This opinion is built from watching the transition of science from the 1980s through to early 2000s, when the attempt to move ‘short-term’ modelling into ‘longer-term’ concepts was most heavily open to discussion. Most people...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/where-have-the-geomorphologists-gone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f5b6367b1c42fb24f4d3d2</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:32:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_cfa937f656004995a7ca1b34ea6e61b4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading a Cyclone Forecast]]></title><description><![CDATA[While we commonly talk about tropical cyclone impacts in terms of wind strength, coastal impacts require further interpretation when we're looking at a forecast map. In order to interpret wave and storm surge, storm path and intensity are crucial factors, with impacts potentially strongly influenced by storm timing relative to tides.]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/reading-a-cyclone-forecast</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c3d1f9d2e55f64fe0752b2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:16:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_a61d2e9bb6564057b70489c7469d71f7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's Causing This Erosion?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding erosion causes is critical to choosing an appropriate response: Severe storm erosion usually deserves a ‘wait and see’ response, as nature often provides rapid, efficient and cost-effective (!) recovery. Setbacks or development buffers are practical responses to unstable coastal landforms, which can create cycles or episodes for decades or longer. If erosion is due to short-term (e.g. seasonal) or local fluctuations in sediment transport, coastal protection systems such as...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/what-s-causing-this-erosion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a3dcc1177696dbd354fe34</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:32:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_2ae7e5e334cb4995af4545a7df75c7de~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_605,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just How Confident Are You?]]></title><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/just-how-confident-are-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6983372b4ef7940ceeeeba5e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:10:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_3b409e604da84b08ba8f80f88588b5f4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waterways Safety Assessment]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are many different waterways and we interact with them in different ways, not just in the surf. Taking the time to undertake a waterways safety assessment can help reduce risk. In many locations, professional assessment is available through life saving associations.]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/waterways-safety-assessment</link><guid isPermaLink="false">694bd510e0456745429f0f8f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:57:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_543e9ec5fd6f4e468061b5c3e51aa483~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Island is the Sum of its Parts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coastal science often uses conceptual models to describe how landforms are expected to evolve under different pressures. Coral islands challenge the use of general models, as the presence or absence of individual features can affect how each island changes, sometimes with significant differences in the same archipelago. Managing impacts to islands and island communities effectively into the future needs an understanding of each island, with local geomorphology telling a key piece of each...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/an-island-is-the-sum-of-its-parts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6933a5804f0e700bce30a8da</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:40:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_fcae3f7fed854e55bb5626c4080577fc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Simple Question on the Sydney Shelf?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ask a coastal engineer and an oceanographer the same question, and you’ll get two different answers. They're both right, and yet they're both wrong. I was recently asked to look at near-bed currents on the Sydney Shelf. I'd done my reading (as a coastal scientist) and it was a clear slam-dunk that the shelf is wave-dominated with tiny tidal currents. Following a similar method I'd applied on the Gold Coast in ~12-m water depth, I started to evaluate the considerable record of instrumentation,...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/a-simple-question-on-the-sydney-shelf</link><guid isPermaLink="false">691660af97f0a2cd7d72a477</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:35:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_bdf93947e4c0421586e9121dd1085934~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Capes Region]]></title><description><![CDATA[Western Australia's Capes Coast illustrates how inner shelf and nearshore features can modify sediment transfers: it is not just wave-driven littoral transport along the shore! The inner shelf structure provides a crucial influence on shelf-coast sediment exchange. Here rocky formations provide a spectacular coast, robust under severe storm waves. However, the sandy beaches and dunes have reduced resilience due to low sand supply, and under projected sea level rise, their structural controls...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/the-capes-region</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69112803dcfd166c7e783b27</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:48:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_4824ef7c92494ace9608b4373259375d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreshore Masterplanning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Masterplanning is a phase done early in development, aimed to collate critical, multi-disciplinary elements that will enable a project hold together, without reaching the stage of detailed engineering for all elements. Foreshore masterplanning can be a challenge, as shores change over time. Implications for getting it 'wrong', even by a few metres, can include significant impact to foreshore amenity, or high costs to undertake retroactive stabilisation. It is not always easy to get all...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/foreshore-masterplanning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68fd835149fb0f70216121c0</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 02:33:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_0301f681caf8484b95bb2211b5d3c680~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting for Snarks: Augusta Boat Harbour]]></title><description><![CDATA[No... it's not a typo for the (anti?) charismatic megafauna which patrol our southern shores...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/hunting-for-snarks-augusta-boat-harbour</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f311a450873aaf5db38acc</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:06:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_da094d9e4bac4a849e9b4d894177ad30~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rejection, Perception and Corruption in Consulting]]></title><description><![CDATA[After 30 years in the engineering consulting industry, successfully identifying why a coastal design isn’t performing to expectations is...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/rejection-perception-and-corruption-in-consulting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d2436fff6f8e8dc0cc2949</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:52:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little Green Groynes]]></title><description><![CDATA[With growing discussion on NBS and its application, here's a wildly empirical consideration of how riparian vegetation enhances foreshore...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/little-green-groynes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689d52106aa481be49210a5e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:04:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_69d0175aa77141b8839505844bd3c538~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five and half reasons why]]></title><description><![CDATA[The proliferation of coastal defences has been observed in many countries. While we are extremely fortunate in Western Australia to have had the benefit of an early setback policy (1970s) and lots of space, it is a challenge moving towards us at breakneck speed. However, there are some ways we can move forward without some of the less obvious pressures for defensive works. While we often blame population growth, increasing use of coastal protection structures is a "bad habit", unwittingly...]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/five-and-half-reasons-why</link><guid isPermaLink="false">686fd9fe7183254306bae46d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:19:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_b019b5262f8841d4a28bbe57b2a208c4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridges on Shifting Sands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bridges are ‘masterworks’ of civil engineering, requiring structural, geotechnical, hydraulic and traffic engineering to come together....]]></description><link>https://www.damarawa.com.au/post/a-bridge-on-shifting-sands</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6831992dfc4bc32098387c84</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 10:14:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/92a32d_1027822cc55a4046b89c6d87683970d3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matt Eliot</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>