David Callaghan

Before joining the University of Queensland, Dave P. Callaghan held positions within industry including Parsons Brinckerhoff and Lawson and Treloar and research sector including Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologie and the University of Queensland. He is an observer of the Queensland Water Panel and active in the newly created Australian Hydraulic Modelling Association. He is the author of a book section and more than 50 other technical documents with applied and research applications. He is a consultant to private and government organisations. He has worked recently with private and government organisations to improve understanding of extreme coastal weather responses. He is recognised for leading edge research in coastal engineering including statistics of extremes, beach erosion from extreme events, physical and biological interactions of salt marshes and coral reefs, lagoon dynamics and wave propagation. Coastal Engineering: All aspects of Coastal engineering including wave growth, propagation and dissipation, sediment transport and coastal morphology, surge dynamics, extreme probabilities for coastal variables including beach erosion and oceanic inundation, surf and swash zone hydrodynamics, river entrance hydraulics and morphodynamics and coastal groundwater dynamics.

[2026] Mangrove genera influence bed shear stress and coastal protection ecosystem services [2026] Investigating coral rubble dynamics through tilting base and flume experiments [2025] The spatial risk of cyclone wave damage across the Great Barrier Reef [2025] Interdisciplinary solutions to enable nature-based solutions for coastal protection achieve ecological and engineering outcomes [2025] EFFECT OF TREE GEOMETRY AND SPATIAL ZONATION ON SEDIMENT BLUE CARBON CAPTURE IN MANGROVE FORESTS [2025] Quantifying the impact of future climate change on the risk of coral rubble instability across the Great Barrier Reef by 2100 [2025] Discoveries on coastal retrogressive breach failures inspired by failure of an underwater fixed platform [2025] Structural and hydrodynamic analysis of the breakage o