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Glass seems simple − it’s just sand and a few more ingredients. Yet mining and production are rarely local, raising questions about sustainability.
Understanding the movement of granular materials can help with everything from modelling landslides to shifting grains in silos.
Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future missions to the red planet.
Mirrorscape, by the French artist Théo Mercier, is on display at MONA. The commitment to realism is impressive – but the lives behind this wreckage are invisible.
It’s extremely difficult to see how forces in a pile of sand are distributed between individual grains – a new experimental approach fixes that.
Sand mining destabilises riverbeds and affects local communities but new hi-tech surveillance can improve the monitoring of extraction and help protect these people.
The world’s appetite for sand is surging – and it comes at a real cost to the environment. The alternative: a paradigm shift in metal mining to also extract sand.
Kids love digging and may not realize the dangers a hole in the sand can pose.
The hunt for the origin of garnet crystals found on South Australian beaches took researchers thousands of kilometres and half a billion years back in time to a hidden Antarctic mountain range.
Not all types of ground are the same and understanding how varied ground types react to environmental stresses is key to achieving true sustainability.
Dunes can preserve a record of historic climate changes and shifting continents.
Rock dust is only part of the story of soil. Living creatures, many of them too tiny to see, keep that soil healthy for growing everything from food to forests.
With smartphones as commonplace as towels and sunscreen in the beach bag, why not add coastal data collection to your list of holiday activities this summer? Look for the CoastSnap camera cradles.
Building a sandcastle is a response to the full beach environment as a collaborator.
The international quest for green energy is reliant on ‘sacrificial zones’ in developing countries.
Sea glass, while an eye-catching treasure and a multimillion-dollar industry, exists because of decades of improper waste management.
Ammoglyphs – ancient ‘sand art’ – are a relatively new find.
Sand is an excellent material to play with. It is versatile, widely available, open-ended and cheap. And you don’t need a fancy plastic mould to make something special.
Establishing the age of K'gari (Fraser Island) confirms it emerged before the reef, despite the climate being suitable for coral growth long before then.
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Professor of Geosciences, University of South Florida
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University; University of Reading
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Assistant Professor - Human Environment Systems, Boise State University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
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Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, Michigan State University
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Professor of Biogeochemistry, Director of the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Director - Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering, Flinders University
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PhD Student, Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide University
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Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
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Project Engineer, UNSW Water Research Laboratory
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Associate Professor of Geology, Adelaide University
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Georgia