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Ian Turner
BSc(Hons) USyd., MenvEngSc UNSW, PhD USyd, MIEAust, MAGU
Senior Lecturer
Deputy Directory - Research, Water Research Laboratory
Office Location:
CE 106 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 5381
Manly Vale Water Research Laboratory, Manly Vale
Phone: +61 2 9949 4488 ext 229
Fax: + 61 2 9949 4188
Email: ian.turnerroberto@unsw.edujlo.au
- Coastal processes
- Coastal management
- Coastal structures
- Groundwater investigation
The development and application of coastal imaging techniques to coastal research, engineering and management. Embayment-scale analysis of coastline variability and change at engineered and non-engineering coasts. Coastal impacts of changing climate. Nearshore circulation and sedimentation trends in the vicinity of submerged offshore coastal structures. Morphodynamics of intermittently open-close estuary entrances. Swash-groundwater-sediment interactions at the beachface. Beachface wave-by-wave bed-level changes. Groundwater fluctuations and flow in coastal aquifers. See WRL Coastal Imaging web site (created by Ian Turner)
Book Chapters
1.Harley, M., Turner, I.L., Short, A.D. and Ranasinghe, R., (in press). Monitoring beach processes using conventional, RTK-GPS and video image-derived survey methods: Narrabeen Beach, Australia. CoastGIS 2006.
2.Turner, I.L., (in press). ‘Groundwater’. In: Saltwater Wetlands Rehabilitation Manual. Department of Environment and Climate Change, NSW Government.
1.Harley, M.D. and Turner, I.L. (in press). A simple data transformation technique for processing survey data at embayed beaches. Coastal Engineering.
2.Turner, I.L., and Anderson, D.J., 2007. Web-based and ‘real-time’ beach management system,. Coastal Engineering, 54, 555-565.
3. Castelle, B. Turner. I.L. and Tomlinson, R. 2007. Impacts of storms on beach erosion: Broadbeach beach (Gold Coast, Australia). Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50, 534 – 539.
4.Morris, B.D, Coco, G. and Turner. I.L. 2007. Application of coastal imaging methods to estuary research. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50, 410-414..
5.Butt, T., Russell, P.E., Miles, J.R. and Turner, I.L., 2007. Sediment transport processes in the swash zone of sandy beaches. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50, 636-640..
6.Turdukulov, U.D., Blok, C.A., Ruessink, B.G. and Turner, I.L. 2007. Connecting users with their data: an environment to explore the morphodynamics of rip channels. Cartographica, 42, 139-151
7.Plant, N.G., Aarninkhof, S.G.J., Turner, I.L. and Kingston, K., 2007. The performance of shoreline detection models applied to video imagery. Journal of Coastal Research, 23(3), 658–670.
8.Ruessink, B.G., Coco., G., Ranasinghe, R. and Turner, I.L. 2007. Coupled and noncoupled behavior of three-dimensional morphological patterns in a double sandbar system. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, C07002, doi:10.1029/2006JC003799.
9.Turner, I.L, Whyte, D., Ruessink, G and Ranasinghe, R., 2007. Observations of rip spacing, persistence and mobility at a long, straight coastline. Marine Geology, 236, 209-221.
10.Pape, L., Reussink, B.G., Wiering, M.A., and Turner, I.L. 2007. Recurrent Neural Network modeling of nearshore sandbar behaviour. Neural Networks, 20, 509-518.
11.Acworth, R.I., Hughes, C.E. and Turner, I.L. 2007. A radioisotope tracer investigation of groundwater flux adjacent to a tidal creek during a spring tide period. Journal of Hydrogeology, 15, 281-296.
12.Turner, I.L. 2006. Discriminating modes of response to offshore-detached structures. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering 132(3), 180 – 191.
13.Ranasinghe, R. and Turner, I.L and Symonds, G. 2006. Shoreline response to multi-functional artificial surfing reefs: a numerical and physical model study. Coastal Engineering, 53, 589 – 611.
14.Turner, I.L., Aarninkhof, S.G.J and Holman, R.A. 2006. Coastal imaging research and applications in Australia. Invited submission to Short A.D. and Thom B.G. (eds), Australian Coastal Geomorphology 2004. (Special Issue, Journal of Coastal Research), 22(1), 37-48.
15.Ranasinghe, R. and Turner, I.L. 2006. Shoreline response to submerged structures: a review. Coastal Engineering. 53, 65-79.
16. Boak, E.H. and Turner, I.L. 2005. The shoreline detection-definition problem: a review. Journal of Coastal Research Vol. 21(4), 688-703.
1.Harley, M., Turner, I.L., Morris, B.D., Short, A.D. and Ranasinghe, R., 2007. Nearshore wave climate and localised erosion during storm events. 18th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, #89 [published on CD], 6p., IEAust, Melbourne, Australia.
2.Morris, B.D. and Turner, I.L., 2007. Rapid infilling of an intermittently open-closed lagoon entrance following mechanical clearance. 18th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, #48 [published in CD], 6p., IEAust, Melbourne, Australia.
3.Ruessink, B.G., Coco, G., Ramasnighe, R. and Turner, I.L., 2006. A cross-wavelet study of alongshore non-uniform nearshore sandbar behavior. Proceedings of the 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks & IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. [published on DVD-ROM], Vancouver, Canada, 8743-8750. (IEEE Catalog Number: 06CH37726D: ISBN 0-7803-9489-5).
4.Pape, L., Ruessink, B.G., Wiering, M.A. and Turner, I.L., 2006. Neural network modeling of nearshore sandbar behavior. Proceedings of the 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks & IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. [published on DVD-ROM], Vancouver, Canada, 8735-8742. (IEEE Catalog Number: 06CH37726D; ISBN 0-7803-9489-5).
5.Turner, I.L., 2005. Engineering assessment of shoreline realignment in the lee of nearshore breakwaters and reefs. Proceedings, 17th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, 453-458, Institution of Engineers Australia, Adelaide ISBN0-646-45130-8.
6.Boak, E., Turner, I.L., and Merton, R.N, 2005. A laboratory of the 'shoreline' detected in video imagery, Proceedings, 17th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, 483-488, Institution of Engineers Australia, Adelaide ISBN0-646-45130-8.
7. Ranasinghe, R. and Turner, I.L., 2005. Numerical and physical model investigations of shoreline response to artificial surfing reefs. Proceedings, 17th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, 667-672, Institution of Engineers Australia, Adelaide ISBN0-646-45130-8.
8. Harley, M., Turner, I.L., Short, A.D., Ranasinghe, R., 2005. Comparison of image-derrived, RTK-GPS and conventional beach survey methods. Proceedings, 17th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, 465-470, Institution of Engineers Australia, Adelaide ISBN0-646-45130-8.
9.Whyte, D., Turner, I.L., and Ranasinghe, R., 2005. Rip characteristics at the Gold Coast, Australia: an analysis using coastal imaging techniques. Proceedings, 17th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, 233-238, Institution of Engineers Australia, Adelaide ISBN0-646-45130-8.
10.Curtis, W.R., Holman, R.A., and Turner, I.L., 2005. Northern Gold Coast beach topography from imaged shadow observations. Proceedings, 17th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, 489-492, Institution of Engineers Australia, Adelaide ISBN0-646-45130-8.
11.Coco, G., Bryan, K.R., Ruessink, B.G., Turner, I.L., van Enckevort, I.M.J., 2005. Video observations of shoreline and sandbar coupled dynamics. Proceedings, 17th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, 471-476, Institution of Engineers Australia, Adelaide ISBN0-646-45130-8.
1. Harley, M., Turner, I.L., Short, A.D. and Ranasinghe, R., 2007. Assessing the accuracy and applicability of a multi-decadal beach survey dataset. 30th International Conference on Coastal Engineering. American Society of Civil Engineers, San Diego.
2.Timms, W.A., Acworth, R.I. and Turner, I.L. 2007. Interactions between groundwater and artificial pond in the northern Botany aquifer, Sydney, Australia. International Association of Hydrologists, Portugal.
3.B. Castelle, I.L. Turner, B.G. Ruessink, R. Tomlinson, 2007. Erosion de la plage aérienne et comportement des barres prè-littorales pendant des événements extrêmes: Broadbeach (Australie). 11ème Congrèsfrançais de sédimentologie ("11th French Symposium of Sedimentology"), Caen (France)..
4. Turner, I.L and Anderson, D.J., 2006. CZM applications of ARGUS coastal imaging in Eastern Australia. NSW Coastal Conference, 7-9th November, Coffs Harbour. CD proceedings.
5.Harley, M., Turner, I.L., Short, A.D. and Ranasinghe, R., 2006. Monitoring beach processes using conventional, RTK-GPS and video image-derived survey methods: Narrabeen Beach, Australia. CoastGIS 2006, 7th International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Mangement, Wollongong, Australia, July 2006, 44-45.
6.Ranasinghe, R. and Turner, I.L., 2005. Processes governing shoreline response to submerged breakwaters: multi-function structures – a special case. Coastal Engineering 2004, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference,Vol.2, 1984 - 1996, World Scientific Publishing Co, New Jersey.
7. Butt, T., Russell, P., Turner, I.L., Miles, J. and Masselink, G., 2005. The variation under different conditions of the influence of in-exfiltration on swash-zone sediment transport. Coastal Engineering 2004, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference,Vol.3, 2377-2389, World Scientific Publishing Co, New Jersey.
8.Coco, G., Ruessink, B.G., van Enckevort, I.M.J., Caballeria, M., Falques, A., Holman, R.A., and Plant N.G., Turner, I.L., 2005. Video Observations of crescentic bar formation and modelling implications. Coastal Engineering 2004, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference,Vol.3, 2767-2776, World Scientific Publishing Co, New Jersey.
9.Jackson, A., Tomlinson, R., Turner, I., Corbett, B., D'Agata, M. and McGrath, J., 2005. Narrowneck artificial reef results of 4 yrs of monitoring and modifications. 4th International Surfing Reef Symposium, January 12-14, Manhattan Beach, California.
1.Blacka, M., Anderson, D.J. and Turner, I.L. 2007. Analysis of Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion Trends: July 2006 - June 2007. Report 3: Collaroy-Narrabeen Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2007/30, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
2.Blacka, M., Anderson, D.J. and Turner, I.L. 2007. Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: December 2006 - May 2007. Report 6: Palm Beach Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2007/21, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
3.Blacka, M. and Turner, I.L. 2007. Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: August 2006 - January 2007. Report 15: Northern Gold Coast Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2007/08, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
4.Turner, I.L. 2006. Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: December 2005 - May 2006. Report 5: Palm Beach Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2006/37, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
5.Turner, I.L. 2006. Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: February 2006 - July 2006. Report 14: Northern Gold Coast Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2006/25, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
6.Turner, I.L. 2006. Analysis of Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion Trends: July 2005 - June 2006. Report 2: Collaroy-Narrabeen Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2006/21, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
7.Turner, I.L. 2006. Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: December 2005 - May 2006. Report 4: Palm Beach Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2006/14, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
8.Turner, I.L. 2006. Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: August 2005 - January 2006. Report 13: Northern Gold Coast Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2006/01, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
9.Turner, I.L. 2005. Amamapare Shipping Channel Siltation Study. Freeport Mine, Irian Jaya. WRL Technical Report 2005/37, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
10.Turner, I.L. 2005. Analysis of Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: June 2005 – November 2005. Report 3: Palm Beach QLD Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2005/36, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
11.Turner, I.L. 2005. Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: February 2005 - July 2005. Report 12: Northern Gold Coast Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2005/25, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
12.Turner, I.L. 2005. System Description, Analysis of Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion Trends: July 2004 - June 2005. Report 1: Collaroy-Narrabeen Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2005/24, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
13.Turner, I.L. 2005. Analysis of Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: December 2004 - May 2005. Report 2: Palm Beach QLD Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2005/22, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
14.Turner, I.L. 2005. Shoreline Variability and Erosion/Accretion trends: August 2004 - January 2005. Report 11: Northern Gold Coast Coastal Imaging System. WRL Technical Report 2005/04, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales.
Dr Turner is a member of the Engineers Australia "National Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering".
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