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Department of Infrastructure Engineering
The University of Melbourne Australia, 3010.

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What I do!

I am a Professor the Department of Infrastructure Engineering , The University of Melbourne.

My detailed CV is here.

The following list of projects with www content gives a flavour of my research interests. Data collected during some of these projects are available via the projects www pages.

ARC Linkage Project, Automated groundwater level mapping: a tool for catchment scale estimation of aquifer storage changes, fluxes and hydrogeological properties (2013-2016)
ARC Discovery Project, A new method for identifying actual groundwater contributions to baseflow using both streamflow and groundwater head data (2012-2014)
ARC Linkage Project, A New-Generation Flood Forecasting System Using Observations from Space (2011-2015)
ARC Linkage Project, A new paradigm for catchment management: detection, forecasting and management of water catchments with multiple steady states ( 2009-2012)
ARC Discovery Project, An integrated investigation of nutrient generation and delivery processes and pathways from paddock to small catchment scales (2009-2012)
Farms Rivers Markets: Rivers Project, National Water Commission and Victorian Water Trust (2008-2011)
Dept. Sustainability and Environ. Vic. Improving water resource assessment through spatial network design and data uncertainty determination (2007-2008)
RC Linkage Project, Quantifying near-surface diffuse discharge from the southwest Great Artesian Basin (2007-2009)
ARC-LP, Linking freshwater flows, salt wedge dynamics and fisheries productivity in estuaries (2006-2010)
eWater CRC, Predicting constituent generation, transport and transformation in catchments (2006-2011)
eWater CRC, Multiple drivers of river ecosystems (2006-2011)
ARC-DP, Daily hydrological and erosion modelling utilising sub-daily rainfall intensity distributions. (2005-2007)
UoM CSIRO Collaborative, Groundwater recharge processes and water use of arid zone rivers and riparian zones. (2005-2006)
ARC-DP, Salinity processes in Lake Eyre Basin rivers (2004-2006)
CRCCH2 Project 5A. Hydrological Modelling and Weather Forecasting (2003-2005)
Applications of Low Frequency SAR (2002-2004)
GEWEX MDBWBP
Use of remote sensing based actual evapotranspiration estimates and water delivery for assessing water use efficiency in irrigation regions (2002-2004)
Modelling Nutrient Fluxes from Dairy Pasture to Surface and Ground Waters in Southwest Victoria (2001-2004)
CRCCH2 Project 1.2 - Scaling procedures to support process-based modelling at large scales (2000-2002)
CRCCH2 Project 5.1 - Modelling and Forecasting Hydroclimate Variables in Space and Time - Numerical Weather Predication component (2000 -2002)
Remote sensing of soil moisture, soil salinity and vegetation using AirSAR (2000-2001)
Development of physically based parameterisations of subgrid scale variability of soil moisture and precipitation intensity for application to climate models (1999)
Investigation of the behaviour of thermal stratification in the Wimmera and Glenelg Rivers (1999)
Investigation of Catchment Average Soil Moisture Monitoring Methodologies (1998-2001)
Investigation of the use of soil moisture data in runoff prediction (1998 - 2001)
Developing methods for using spatial pattern data in hydrological modelling (1998)
Investigation of spatial organisation of soils and soil moisture and the implications for runoff behaviour (1995-1997). The Tarrawarra data set is available here.
Soil moisture estimation from AirSAR during PACRIM (1996-1999)
Ground-truthing of soil moisture estimation from ERS1/2 Synthetic Aperture Radar data (1996-1997)
Investigation of spatial variability of soil properties and their relation to topographic position (1997 - 1998)
Investigation of salinity and density stratification in the Wimmera River, Australia (1991-1994)
Laboratory investigation of mixing of stratified pools (1993 - 1994)
Laboratory and field investigation of the behaviour of retards for river training (1994)
Assessment of the potential of an inexpensive sonar for monitoring fish population and activity in freshwater streams (1994)

If you want to know more about me, you can look at my CV

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