Rate My Professor Michael Kinsela

Prior to academia, Kinsela was Senior Coastal and Marine Scientist at the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment from 2012 to 2022, contributing to coastal hazards risk management and climate change assessments. He developed the Figure Eight Pools Wave Risk Forecast, initiated the NSW Nearshore Wave Data Program, and co-founded the CoastSnap community beach monitoring initiative, now featuring hundreds of stations across over 30 countries. At Newcastle, he has earned the Coastal Achievement Award for CoastSnap (2023), Teaching Excellence Award for Earth Science curriculum redesign (2023), and Student Experience Excellence Award for the East Coast Tsunami Risk voyage (2022). Notable publications include 'Shoreface controls on barrier evolution and shoreline change' (2018), 'Sedimentary features and sediment transport pathways on the southeast Australian shoreface-inner continental shelf' (2023), 'Migration and welding of an estuarine barrier-spit driven by delta evolution and storms' (2023), and 'CoastSnap: A global citizen science program to monitor changing coastlines using smartphones' (2023). Kinsela contributes to UNESCO's IGCP 725 project and presented at the UNH Ocean Seminar (2023). His efforts advance coastal change forecasting, sediment budgeting, and adaptive management for resilience against storms and sea-level rise.