School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences

Roger McLean

Professor Roger McLean

Professor Emeritus
MA N.Z., PhD McG.

Telephone: +61 2 6268 8311
Fax: +61 2 6268 8017
Email: r.mclean@adfa.edu.au
Location:  Rm 224, Building 21

My UNSW Research Gateway Profile

Physical Geographer

Research Interests:
Coastal geomorphology, sediment transport related to beach hydrodynamics and sedimentology.

Environmental Systems Research Group

Selected Publications

Book Chapters
  1. McLean, R.F., 2011, Atoll islands (Motu), Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs: Structure, Form and Process, David Hopley (ed.), Springer, Dordrecht, London, pp. 47-51.
  2. McLean, R.F., 2011, Beach rock, Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs: Structure, Form and Process, David Hopley (ed.), Springer, Dordrecht, London, pp.107-111.
  3. Mimura, N., Nurse, L., McLean, R., Agard, J., Briguglio, L., Lefale, P., Payet, R., Sem, G., 2008, Small Islands, in Climate Change 2007 - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M. Parry et al (eds), Cambridge University Press, pp687-716
  4. Nicholls, R.J., Wong, P.P., Burkeitt, V., Codignotto, J., Hay, J., McLean, R., Ragoonaden, S., Woodroffe, C., 2008, Coastal systems and low-lying areas, in Climate Change 2007 - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M. Parry et al (eds), Cambridge University Press, pp315-356.
  5. Spencer, T., Stoddart, D.R., McLean, R., 2008, Coral Reefs, in The History of the Study of Landforms, TP Burt, RJ Chorley, D Brunsden, NJ Cox & AS Goudie (eds), The Geological Society, pp863-922.
Journal Articles
  1. Kench, P., Smithers, S.G., McLean, R.F., & Nichol, S.L., 2009, Holocene reef growth in the Maldives: Evidence of a mid-Holocene sea-level highstand in the central Indian Ocean, Geology, 37(5), 455-458.
  2. Kench, P., Nichol, S., Smithers, S.G., McLean R., Brander, R., 2008, Tsunami as agents of geomorphic change in mid-ocean reef islands, Geomorphology, 95(3-4), 361-383.
  3. Kench, P., Nichol, S.L., McLean, R., Smithers, S.G., Brander, R., 2007, Impact of the Sumatran Tsunami on the Geomorphology and Sediments of Reef Islands: South Maalhosmadulu Atoll, Maldives, Atoll Research Bulletin, 544, 105-134.
  4. Kench, P., McLean, R., Brander, R., Nichol, S.L., Smithers, S.G., Ford, M., Parnell, K., Aslam, M., 2006, Geological effects of tsunami on mid-ocean atoll islands: The Maldives before and after the Sumatran tsunami, Geology, 34(3), 177-180.
  5. Kench, P., Brander, R.,Parnell, K., McLean, R., 2006, Wave energy gradients across a Maldivian atoll: Implications for island geomorphology, Geomorphology, 81(1-2), 1-17.
  6. McLean, R.,  Shen, J., 2006, From foreshore to foredune: Foredune development over the last 30 years at Moruya Beach, New South Wales, Australia, Journal of Coastal Research, 22(1), 28-36.
Conference Paper
  1. McLean, R.F., Shen, J., & Thom, B. 2010, 'Beach change at Bengello Beach, Eurobodalla Shire, New South Wales: 1972-2010', 19th NSW Coastal Conference 2010, Batemans Bay, NSW, 10-12 November 2010.