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Overview

Mitchell D. Harley is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on earth and planetary sciences, with a significant concentration in environmental science. The main subfields of study include earth-surface processes, ecology, atmospheric science, oceanography, and aspects related to management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their work covers a range of topics related to coastal environments, including coastal and marine dynamics, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, ocean waves and remote sensing, aeolian processes and effects, landslides and related hazards, as well as geological formations and processes.

Harley has published papers in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms include Coastal Engineering Proceedings, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Coastal Engineering, Geophysical Research Letters, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

The following are recent papers authored or coauthored by Harley:

  • Single extreme storm sequence can offset decades of shoreline retreat projected to result from sea-level rise, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Satellite optical imagery in Coastal Engineering, 2021, Coastal Engineering
  • Beach Slopes From Satellite-Derived Shorelines, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Pacific shoreline erosion and accretion patterns controlled by El Niño/Southern Oscillation, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Enhanced Coastal Shoreline Modeling Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter to Include Nonstationarity in Future Wave Climates, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent coauthors in Harley's research include Kristen D. Splinter, Ian L. Turner, Kilian Vos, Michael A. Kinsela, and Wen Deng. These collaborators have worked alongside Harley on multiple projects, contributing to the breadth of research in coastal and marine environments.

Best Publications

  • CoastSat: A Google Earth Engine-enabled Python toolkit to extract shorelines from publicly available satellite imagery

    Kilian Vos;Kristen D. Splinter;Mitchell D. Harley;Joshua A. Simmons

  • UAVs for coastal surveying

    Ian L. Turner;Mitchell D. Harley;Christopher D. Drummond

  • Coastal vulnerability across the Pacific dominated by El Niño-Southern Oscillation

    Patrick L. Barnard;Andrew D. Short;Mitchell D. Harley;Mitchell D. Harley;Kristen D. Splinter

  • Sub-annual to multi-decadal shoreline variability from publicly available satellite imagery

    Kilian Vos;Mitchell D. Harley;Kristen D. Splinter;Joshua A. Simmons

  • Extreme coastal erosion enhanced by anomalous extratropical storm wave direction.

    Mitchell D. Harley;Ian L. Turner;Michael A. Kinsela;Jason H. Middleton

  • A multi-decade dataset of monthly beach profile surveys and inshore wave forcing at Narrabeen, Australia

    Ian L. Turner;Mitchell D. Harley;Andrew D. Short;Joshua A. Simmons

  • Assessment and integration of conventional, RTK-GPS and image-derived beach survey methods for daily to decadal coastal monitoring

    Mitchell D. Harley;Ian L. Turner;Andrew D. Short;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe

  • A reevaluation of coastal embayment rotation: The dominance of cross‐shore versus alongshore sediment transport processes, Collaroy‐Narrabeen Beach, southeast Australia

    M. D. Harley;M. D. Harley;I. L. Turner;A. D. Short;R. Ranasinghe;R. Ranasinghe

  • New insights into embayed beach rotation: The importance of wave exposure and cross‐shore processes

    Mitchell Dean Harley;Mitchell Dean Harley;I. L. Turner;A. D. Short

  • Beach slopes from satellite‐derived shorelines

    Kilian Vos;Mitchell D. Harley;Kristen D. Splinter;Andrew Walker

  • Remote Sensing Is Changing Our View of the Coast: Insights from 40 Years of Monitoring at Narrabeen-Collaroy, Australia

    Kristen D. Splinter;Mitchell D. Harley;Ian L. Turner

  • Satellite optical imagery in Coastal Engineering

    Ian L. Turner;Mitchell D. Harley;Rafael Almar;Erwin W.J. Bergsma

  • Interannual variability and controls of the Sydney wave climate

    Mitchell D. Harley;Ian L. Turner;Andrew D. Short;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe

  • Shoreline change mapping using crowd-sourced smartphone images

    Mitchell D. Harley;Michael A. Kinsela;Elena Sánchez-García;Kilian Vos

  • Shoreline recovery on wave-dominated sandy coastlines: the role of sandbar morphodynamics and nearshore wave parameters

    Matthew S. Phillips;Mitchell D. Harley;Ian L. Turner;Kristen D. Splinter

  • Beach morphodynamics and types of foredune erosion generated by storms along the Emilia-Romagna coastline, Italy

    Clara Armaroli;Edoardo Grottoli;Mitchell D. Harley;Paolo Ciavola

  • Can an early warning system help minimize the impacts of coastal storms? A case study of the 2012 Halloween storm, Northern Italy

    M. D. Harley;A. Valentini;C. Armaroli;L. Perini

  • Single extreme storm sequence can offset decades of shoreline retreat projected to result from sea-level rise

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  • Annual prediction of shoreline erosion and subsequent recovery

    Mark A. Davidson;Ian L. Turner;Kristen D. Splinter;Mitchel D. Harley

  • Managing local coastal inundation risk using real-time forecasts and artificial dune placements

    Mitchell D. Harley;Paolo Ciavola

  • Enhanced Coastal Shoreline Modeling Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter to Include Nonstationarity in Future Wave Climates

    Raimundo Ibaceta;Kristen D. Splinter;Mitchell D. Harley;Ian L. Turner

  • A storm hazard matrix combining coastal flooding and beach erosion

    Christopher K. Leaman;Mitchell D. Harley;Kristen D. Splinter;Mandi C. Thran

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian L. Turner
Ian L. Turner University of New South Wales
Andrew D. Short
Andrew D. Short University of Sydney
Roshanka Ranasinghe
Roshanka Ranasinghe IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Paolo Ciavola
Paolo Ciavola University of Ferrara
Bruno Castelle
Bruno Castelle University of Bordeaux
Ian D. Goodwin
Ian D. Goodwin Macquarie University
Karin R. Bryan
Karin R. Bryan University of Auckland
Ryan J. Lowe
Ryan J. Lowe University of Western Australia
Michael L. Banner
Michael L. Banner University of New South Wales
Alexander V. Babanin
Alexander V. Babanin University of Melbourne

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