Australasian Coasts & Ports 2025, 18 – 21 August 2025, Adelaide – Call for Abstracts!

PIANC AU-NZ & Engineers Australia are excited to invite you to join us for the premier gathering of industry leaders, researchers, and professionals in the fields of ports and coastal engineering. Set against the stunning backdrop of Adelaide, Australia, this conference promises to be an exceptional platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and innovation.

With the global challenges facing coastal infrastructure, maritime transport, and environmental sustainability, the 2025 conference will focus on cutting-edge research, best practices, and the latest technologies shaping the future of ports and coastal engineering. Whether you’re involved in port management, coastal resilience, or marine infrastructure development, this event will provide invaluable insights into the evolving landscape of our industry.

The biennial Coasts and Ports conference has not been held in South Australia since previously in Adelaide in September 2005, we are excited to host engaging keynote speakers, interactive technical sessions, and ample networking opportunities with experts from around Australasia region.

We look forward to welcoming you to Adelaide to join us and be part of shaping the future of coastal and maritime engineering.

Paul Constance
Conference Chair

KEY DATES

• 21^st February 2025 – Deadline for Abstract Submissions
• 2^nd May 2025 – Full Paper Submission Deadline
• 13^th June 2025 – Reviewed papers returned to authors
• 27^th June 2025 – Resubmission deadline for revised full papers
• 4^th July 2025 – Earlybird Registration Closes
• 4^th July 2025 – Speaker Registration Deadline

Call for Abstracts

Abstract submission information via this link

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts for papers to be presented at the Australasian Coasts & Ports 2025 Conference, to be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, from 18-21 August 2025.

The Australasian Coasts & Ports Conference series is the pre-eminent forum in the Australasian region for professionals to meet and discuss issues extending across all disciplines related to coasts and ports.

 Our Conference theme is Navigating the Future: Climate Ready Coasts and Ports.

 Papers on theory, measurement, analysis, environmental effects, modelling and practice are invited on the following themes:

 Coastal and Ocean Engineering

• Wave-structure-soil interactions
• Breakwaters and Erosion and flood mitigation coastal structures
• Recreational facilities, waterfront development and marinas
• Beach nourishment and other forms of ‘shoreline protection’
• Ocean monitoring, resource, energy and exploration

Coastal Planning, Policy and Management

• Integrated coastal zone management
• Risk management and adaptation
• Sustainability, and stakeholder engagement
• Greenfields development
• Integrating traditional knowledge

Coastal Processes

• Monitoring, instrumentation and information systems
• Tides, storm surges, long waves and tsunamis
• Shelf and shallow water wave dynamics
• Nearshore currents and morphology, sediment processes,
• Coastal meteorology, storms, tropical cyclones and extreme events

Estuary, ICOLLS and nearshore ecosystem processes

• Coastal hydrosystems (estuaries, lagoons, lakes, ICOLLS, river mouths)
• Coastal ecosystem processes (in estuaries, mangroves, coral reefs, etc.)

Future Proofing Coastal and Port Environments

• Probabilistic hazard assessment, including shoreline responses and projections
• Response to extreme events and to climate change
• Climate change adaptation
• Adaptation in the Pacific and in Island Communities
• Resilience planning & practice, disaster prevention & recovery
• Coastal multi-hazards

 Working with Nature, Environment and Ecosystem Services

• In coastal environment
• In port and maritime environments
• For climate change adaptation

 Blue Economy

• Multi-use of space, multi-use platforms and management in the blue economy
• Marine renewable energy
• Environmental characterisation and assessments
• Aquaculture and marine biotechnology
• Coastal and marine tourism
• Economic, social, legal and political aspects

Port and Maritime Engineering

• Ports and marine facilities
• Deep water terminals
• Navigation

Dredging and reclamation

• Beneficial use of dredged material
• Fate of dredged material and morphologic response to dredging
• Dredging management, community and ecosystems

Port Operations and Management

• Sustainable port and maritime infrastructure: e.g. extension of life, repurposing and re-use solutions
• Green port initiatives
• Port automation: impacts on port  operations

Port Planning

• Port automation: impacts on port planning
• Decarbonisation of Ports and Maritime sector
• Ports and shipping enabling the clean energy transition

 Technological and Digital advancements

Abstract submission information via this link