eCoast is a New Zealand-based marine and freshwater consultancy providing expert technical and advisory services to both public and private sector clients in NZ, Australasia, the Pacific and around the world.
eCoast’s consultants have a wide range of oceanographic and aquatic expertise and experience in both physical and biological processes, with core areas of high-level expertise.
AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
- HYDRODYNAMICS and NUMERICAL MODELLING of coastal hazards, coastal processes, estuaries, rivers and lakes, and environmental impacts – dispersion (effluent, oil, hyper-saline plumes, chemicals, pollutants, and others), tides, waves sediment transport, erosion/accretion, beaches, coastal structures, dredging, flooding, water-quality, impacts on mangroves/seagrass and a range of other parameters in 2D and 3D.
- BEACH PROTECTION STRATEGIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION – development of holistic adaptive management plans for existing conditions and sea level rise resilience and adaptation, including hybrid-solutions combining the most compatible physical and biological solutions for each specific site.
- COASTAL HAZARDS ASSESSMENT – analysis of extreme waves and water levels, coastal erosion assessments, design of coastal structures to withstand extreme events, application of best practice guidelines for sea level rise and climate change adaptation in tropical and temperate coastal environments.
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Coastal Processes and Drivers of Coastal Hazards: A Study of Ngarunui Beach to Te Kōpua Spit, Raglan
eCoast Directors Shaw Mead and Jose Borrero have been working with the Te Kōpua Restoration Steering Group and Waikato Regional Council over the last few years to develop a better…

eCoast is proud to introduce our new Marine Calculators Web application which has been recently launched to the public. The application was put together by eCoast Director Dougal Greer over…

eCoast Director Shaw Mead publishes an article as part of the New Zealand Association of Impact Assessment's Impact Connector. The Impact Connector is a series of articles put forward by…