Dr Roger D Shand - B.Sc., Dipl Sci, PhD

Dr Roger Shand is a director of Coastal Systems Ltd., and specializes in field-based research, coastal management and hazard assessment for the full range of coastal environments.  

In collaboration with Dr Donald Bailey (Institute of Information Sciences and Technology at Massey University, New Zealand), Dr Shand pioneered the use of imaging technology to depict and define beach, surf zone and river-mouth processes.  Many of these approaches are now used by major research institutes. 

Several new and unexpected modes of coastal behaviour were discovered by Drs Shand and Bailey, which enabled many of the morphodynamic complexities of New Zealand west coast beach systems to be unraveled and comprehensive models developed. This modelling included the destabilizing effect such behaviour periodically has on adjacent dune and rivermouth systems, and the quasi-periodic occurrence of rip-channel cycles. 

In 2000, Dr Shand received the Hatherton Award for the best published research paper in the fields of natural science, mathematics and computing. He was subsequently granted a Fellowship with the Foundation of Research and Technology (FRST). The Fellowship enabled this research to continue through Massey University where he presently holds the position of Research Associate.

Dr Shand has a Bachelor of Science Degree with majors in both mathematics and physical geography, a Teaching Diploma, a Post graduate Diploma in geomorphology and a Doctorate in coastal processes with particular emphasis on New Zealand west coast beach systems. 

Previous employment positions include Soil Conservator with the Taranaki Regional Council, Investigating Officer with the Department of Conservation, and Lecturer in coastal geomorphology at Massey University.

Recent applied projects include: investigating pipe-string corridors through coastal dunefields (Himitangi); cable burial techniques across west coast beaches and surfzones (Wanganui);  hard and soft sea-cliff hazard assessments (Mowhanau and Peakakariki); boulder spit hazard assessment (Raglan); hazard assessment of sand and gravel beach systems (Otaki and Kapiti Coasts); assessing and designing navigable channels in mobile entrance systems (Rangitikei Rivermouth), and coastal management for long-term sand stabilization in the vicinity of jetty controlled entrances (Whanganui and Patea Rivermouths).

Present research projects include: foredune destabilization associated with elevated water levels to landward; sand stabilization (retreat) processes following wave cut of the foredune toe; the influence of upstream channel geometry in controlling inlet configuration; and the influence of littoral ‘sediment slugs’ created by spit breaching, on adjacent channel, beach and dune processes.

Selected Recent Publications:

		Shand, R.D., Bailey, D.G. Shepherd, M.J., 1999. An inter-site comparison of net offshore bar migration characteristics and environmental conditions. Journal of Coastal Research, 15 (3), 750-765.
		Shand, R.D., Bailey, D.G. Shepherd, M.J., 2001. Longshore realignment of nearshore parallel sand-bars at Wanganui , New Zealand . Marine Geology 179 147-161
		Shand, R.D., 2003.  Relationships between episodes of bar switching, cross-shore bar migration and outer bar degeneration at Wanganui , New Zealand .  Journal of Coastal Research, 19(1), 157-170
		Shand, R.D.; Hesp, P.A., Bailey, D.G., and Shepherd, M.J., 2003. A conceptual beach-state model for the inner bar of a storm-dominate, low to moderate tidal range coast at Wanganui, New Zealand.  Proceedings of Coastal Sediments '03. Miami , USA .
		Shand, R.D., and Shepherd, M.J., 2003. Associations between net offshore bar migration and backshore erosion. Proceedings of Coasts and Ports Australasian Conference, Auckland , New Zealand .
		Shand, R.D., Hesp, P.A., and Shepherd, M, J., 2004. Beach cut in relation to net offshore bar migration. (International Coastal Symposium '04, Brazil , March, 2004). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 39.
		Shand, R.D., 2004. Rip-associated bathing hazards on beaches characterised by net offshore bar migration. School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University , New Zealand , Occasional Paper 2004/1, 19p.
		Shand, T. D.; Shand, T.D.; Bailey, D.G. and Connon, A., 2005. Wave Deformation in the Vicinity of a Long Ocean Outfall at Wanganui , New Zealand . Proceedings of Coasts and Ports Australasian Conference, Adelaide , Australia
		Shand, R.D., 2007. Bar splitting: system attributes and sediment budget implications for a net offshore migrating bar system. (International Coastal Symposium ‘07, Brisbane , April 2007). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 50, Brisbane .
		Shand, T. D., Reinen-Hamill, R.A., Shand, R.D. and Viljoen, W.,  2007.  Empirical modeling of run-up and overtopping at a boulder beach, Raglan, New Zealand. Proceedings of the Coast and Ports Australasian Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

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