Nominations will open in 2025.
The next Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference will be held in Adelaide in October 2025.
In recognition of Doug Foster’s contribution to Australian coastal engineering, the National Committee on Coastal & Ocean Engineering created the Doug N. Foster Memorial Fellowship Fund in September 2001.
A Professor at University of NSW (UNSW) and an expert in his chosen engineering specialisation of Water, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Doug was a founding member of the Engineers Australia National Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering (NCCOE), which was established in 1971. Doug served on NCCOE until 1985, during which time he was Deputy Chairman from 1979 to 1981 and subsequently Chairman from 1981 to 1983. He was a member of IEAust from 1960 until 1998.
The award is presented to encourage engineering students to pursue career opportunities in coastal and/or ocean engineering. Up to four Awards will be offered to students who are in their final two years of their first engineering degree at the time of the biennal Australasian Coasts & Ports Conference. The award provides the opportunity for students to attend the Australasian Coasts & Ports Conference.
The inaugural presentation of the Award(s) coincided with the Australasian Coasts & Ports Conference in Auckland in September 2003.
Nominees are required to submit:
You must provide the following with your submission:
The successful candidates will be announced prior to the conference. Each student winning an Award will receive a free registration and up to $1000 worth of travel and accommodation to attend the Australasian Coasts & Ports Conference.
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Jonathan Chan is in his final year at UNSW studying a combined Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (hons) and Computer Science.
As an avid surfer with a keen interest for understanding natural processes, he spent the latter years of his undergraduate degree exploring the field of coastal research and engineering.
Throughout this period, Jonathan undertook Coastal Engineering as a course at UNSW, he completed his honours thesis on shoreline behaviour, and was fortunate enough to work on coastal engineering physical model projects at the Water Research Laboratory (WRL).
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Daniel Horton is currently completing his final year of a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree at UNSW.
Daniel worked at Royal HaskoningDHV for 5 months in 2020, completing coastal engineering and water engineering projects. He has also worked part-time in his father’s company, Horton Coastal Engineering Pty Ltd.
Daniel obtained a High Distinction in the Coastal Engineering subject at UNSW this year and is keen to establish a career in coastal engineering.
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Nikolay Kumsiashvili is a final year civil engineering and commerce student studying at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is a keen problem solver, ready to deep dive into the water engineering field. Unconventionally, he has experience across construction, transport and completed a thesis in structural engineering before discovering his true passion for water. In the future, he hopes to be an industry leader and pursue higher level research within the water engineering field to make a sustainable impact to Australia’s water future.
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Rachel graduated high school (NSW HSC ATAR: 95.10) in 2017 and commenced Civil Engineering (Hons) Undergraduate degree at UNSW (University of New South Wales) in 2018.
She was awarded first place by UNSW for EWB (Engineers Without Borders) group project for water supply design in Cambodia.
Rachel was invited to join the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program 2021. She completed Coastal Engineering elective with Distinction and is currently undertaking Advanced Water Engineering elective and enrolled to take the Catchment and Water Resources Engineering elective. Rachel is completing Honours Thesis in water quality now.
The next Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference will be held in Adelaide in October 2025.
The Kevin Stark Memorial Award was established in 1993 in honour and memory of the Late Professor Kevin Percy Stark of James Cook University, following his untimely death in 1989. The Award recognises excellence in coastal and ocean engineering, especially from a multi-disciplinary approach.
The award was established to foster and encourage excellence in coastal and ocean engineering in Australia across the full range of professional practice, research and teaching. The inaugural award was made on 24th August 1993 in Townsville at the 11th Australasian Conference on Coastal and Ocean Engineering.
Applications for the Kevin Stark award are undertaken during the process of submitting an abstract for the Biennial Australasian Coasts & Ports Conference (now Australasian Coasts & Ports Conference series).
For more information on the Kevin Stark award please contact Engineers Australia’s Program Manager – Awards at: [email protected]
All papers that are submitted to the Australasian Coasts & Ports Conference will be considered for this award. There is no formal entry process; all papers accepted for the conference will be assessed against the listed criterion by a panel of reviewers and oral presentations assessed by a subcommittee of the NCCOE. The NCCOE reserves the right not to make the Award in the event that no suitable candidate is available.
The papers are assessed on the following criteria:
The presentation of the award will take place during the conference and the recipient will receive a personalised engraved medal. In the event of multiple joint authorship of the awarded paper, each individual author will receive an Award medal. Additionally, the author will be invited to submit the chosen conference publication for consideration by the editorial board of Engineers Australia, Civil Engineering Transactions Journal.
Influence of Water Level on Wave Uplift Loading for a Cantilevered Walkway above a Vertical Seawall
For general enquiries on these awards please contact [email protected]