Acknowledgements
The preparation of the Smartline map has been a complex task involving collaboration with numerous commonwealth and State organisations, and collaboration with coastal workers and data custodians to facilitate access to the numerous existing datasets from each state and the Northern Territory, from which the final Smartline has been compiled. The many people who commissioned, guided, undertook work for or collaborated with the project team are listed below in no particular order.
Department of Climate Change (formerly the Australian Greenhouse Office)
Stefanie Pidcock, Gina Newton, Alexa Shaw, Angas Hopkins, Cameron Allen, Anne-Marie Wilson, Jo Mummery.
Geoscience Australia
Geospatial & Earth Monitoring Division
John Schneider, Trevor Dhu, Darren Skene, Christina Griffin, Paul Taylor.
Petroleum & Marine Division
Lynda Radke, Brendan Brooke, Manjula Weerasooriya, Izabella Urbanek, Xiaojing Li, Stirling Butcher, Trevor Tracey-Patte, Mark Babic, Dale Percival.
University of Tasmania
Core Project Team
Richard Mount, Chris Sharples, Jenny Newton, Tore Pedersen, Michael Lacey, Luke Wallace, Dom Jaskierniak, Mick Russell
Others who assisted project
Darren Turner, Phillipa Bricher, Jessica Benjamin
Student ortho-rectifiers & beach numberers
Matt Cracknell, Anna Flittner, Markus Staubmann, Rowan Harris, Scott Vernon, Simon Enman, Naomi Wakelin, Rahul Dhage Ananthmurthy, Ellen Salathiel, Katherine Tattersall, Mayo Kajitani, Anthony Mann, John Wiley
Surf Lifesaving Australia
Norm Farmer, Adam Weir
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Trevor Gilbert (OSRA Project)
State Collaborators
The following people assisted the project in many ways including providing advice and access to state datasets, reviewing draft versions of the Smartline, participating in meetings and workshops, and in a variety of other ways:
South Australia
Department of Environment & Heritage (DEH)
Doug Fotheringham, Matthew Royal, Jacqui Oates, Debra Canty
Nick Harvey
Western Australia
Department of Environment & Conservation (DEC)
Ian Eliot, Ewan Buckley, Michael Higgins, Ray Lawrie
Mandy Dearden, Derek Pegg
Geological Survey of Western Australia
Julie Bowyer (consultant), Barbara Pedersen, Steve Bandy
Others
Julie Bowyer (consultant), Barbara Pedersen
Northern Territory
DNREA
Karen Edyvane, Scott Whiting, Neil Smit, Barry Russell
NRETA
David Howe
DEW
Renee Bartolo
Charles Darwin University
Guy Boggs
NRMBNT
John Gilmour
Queensland
Environment Protection Agency
Sel Sultmann, Mike Ronan, Bruce Wilson
DNRW
Laurie Glass
James Cook University (Cairns)
David Hopley
New South Wales
NSW Environment & Climate Change
Doug Lord, Phil Watson
NSW Planning
John Hudson, Paula Douglas
NSW Maritime
Robert Lea
University of Wollongong
Colin Woodroffe, Pamela Aboudha
University of Sydney
Andrew Short, Peter Cowell, Bruce Thom
Victoria
University of Melbourne
Wayne Stephenson
Department of sustainability & Environment
Rod Anderson
Department of Primary Industries
David Ball
Tasmania
Department of Primary Industries, Parks water & Environment
Mark Brown, Steve Sellers, Ian Houshold, Chris Rees, Mike Comfort, Rhys Stickler
In addition, the following people instigated, project-managed or sat on the steering committee for the prior production of a Tasmanian Coastal Vulnerability line map (2004 – 2006), which was the direct precursor of the National Coastal Smartline: Martin Blake, Alasdair Wells & Mike Pemberton (Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment), John Hunter (Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC), John Church (CSIRO), Werner Hennecke & Richard Coleman (formerly University of Tasmania).
