Coastal Award 2025 Winner | Andrew Short
Andrew Short is a coastal scientist specializing in beach morphodynamics and coastal processes and evolution. He has degrees from the University of Sydney where his Honours degree was on the geomorphology of an embayed beach, University of Hawaii where he did his Masters on seasonal beach sand transport reversals, and Louisiana State University where he did his PhD (Marine Science) on coastal processes along the entire north coast of Alaska.
He has also worked on the coasts of the USA, Brazil, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Korea and the entire Australian coast. In collaboration with Surf Lifesaving Australia he used his knowledge of surf zone processes to develop the Australian Beach Safety Program. He has written and edited 16 books and over 200 scientific publications. In 2010 for his contribution to Australian coastal science and beach safety he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal. Though now retired he is presently Honorary Professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney and remains active in research and publication. His most recent projects include the evolution of the massive clifftop dune systems that cap most of the cliffs along the 2000 km long Great Australian Bight, and the dynamics of the rock cliffs, platforms and inner shelf along the southeast Australian coast
Previous Coastal Award Winners
CD01 – Per Bruun
CS03 – Paul Komar
CD05 – Jorgen Fredsoe
CS07 – Leo van Rijn
CD09 – Magnus Larson
CS/CD09 – Nicholas Kraus
CS11 – Robert G. Dean
CD13 – Peter Nielsen
CS15 – Marcel Stive
CD17 – Rob Holman
CS19 – Dano Roelvink
CD21 – Bob Guza
CS23 – Britt Raubenheimer
CS/CD23 – Hans Hanson
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