Dr Matthew Gibbs

Biography/ Background

Employment History
Aug 2010 - present     Senior Hydrologist, Department for Water (Half Time)
Aug 2010 - present     Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia (Half Time)
Mar 2007 - Aug 2010   ARC Senior Research Associate, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
Jul  2007 - Oct 2011    Lecturer (Casual), School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
Mar 2003 - Feb 2007  PhD Candidate, The University of Adelaide, South Australia.
Mar 2003 - Dec 2005   Tutor (Casual), Bradford College, c/- The University of Adelaide, South Australia.
Dec 2001 - Feb 2002   Researcher (Casual), School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental/Water Resources Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, August 2008. Thesis Title: Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm Parameter Setting for Water Distribution System Optimisation.
Bachelor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (First Class Honours), The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 2002.

Awards & Achievements

Accepted to attend the Sixth Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure Forum and Workshop 2011
Australian Water Association Postgraduate Research Award 2008
Australian Research Council Postgraduate Award Scholarship 2003-2006
Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment Postgraduate Top-up Scholarship 2003-2006
Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality & Treatment, Honours Project Scholarship, 2002
University of Adelaide, School of Engineering, Deans Certificate of Merit (for academic excellence), 2000
Adelaide Access Scholarship, The University of Adelaide 1998-2002
Whyatt Benevolent Institution University Scholarship for Country Students 1998-2000

Teaching Interests

Courses Taught

Civil and Environmental Engineering I 2008-2011 (Water Engineering Component)
Engineering Hydrology III 2010
Engineering Modelling and Analysis III 2007 - 2009
Engineering Modelling and Analysis II  2009
Environmental Modelling, Management and Design IV 2008 (with Prof. H. Maier)

Courses Tutored

Statics I
Dynamics I
Engineering Computing I
Materials I

Research Interests

Modelling and optimisation of water resources, including:

• Hydraulics
  • Water Distribution Systems (WDS)
  • Open channel flow
• Hydrology
  • Rainfall-runoff modelling
• Water quality
  • Chlorine and chloramine residuals in WDSs
  • Salinity
• Data-driven modelling methods
  • Artificial neural networks
  • Mutual information
• Optimisation using Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Theory and application of Genetic Algorithms and other evolutionary methods
• Impacts of climate change and variability on water resources

Matt's current research is funded by an ARC Linkage Project with the Department for Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation USE Dryland Salinity and Flood Management Program, titled "Innovative approach to the optimal management of water resources and application to the Upper South East Region of South Australia". The project will develop a Decision Support Tool to assist in the management of the regulators in the drains and wetlands in the Upper South East region of South Australia. This involves both the modelling and optimisation of the rainfall-runoff processes, hydraulics of drains, wetland ecology and groundwater influences in the region.

Reviewer for Journals

Engineering Optimization, Taylor & Francis, London, UK.
Environmental Modelling and Software, Elsevier
Hydrological Sciences Journal, Taylor & Francis, London, UK.
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, USA.
Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier
Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, USA.
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, USA.
Water Management, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK
Water Science and Technology, IWA Publishing, London, UK

Invited Presentations/Workshops

Water Research Centre Water Wednesday: Is there really spare water in the South East?
Water Research Cluster Postgraduate Forum: The Science of the Upper South East Drainage Project
ICE WaRM Living Laboratories: Technological Innovation in Wetland Management
Royal Institution of Australia Four in 40: Climate Change and Water Management
Environment Institute Four in 40: What Science do we need to inform decision making?

Consulting Activities

2010 - SE Water Science Review.

• Chapter 3: Rainfall and Recharge. Relationships between annual orwinter rainfall and recharge to the unconfined aquifer are developed. Distinctions between the impacts of drought and land use change in a region of groundwater drawdown are also made.
• Chapter 4: Surface Water Balance. An annual time step water balance was undertaken to investigate the imact changes in climate and changes in land use are expected to have on surface water flows in the South East of South Australia.

2010 - Surface Water Management Scoping Paper and Northern Catchments Flow Model

• Surface water modelling of northern USE catchments
• Investigation into science requirements for surface water prescription

 

Publications

Researcher ID

Books

Gibbs M, Maier H. and Dandy G. (2009) Determinination of Practical Genetic Algorithm Parameter Settings: Applications to the Operation of Water Distribution Systems, VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-639-19332-9, 240p.

Journal Papers

Gibbs M.S., Maier H.R. and Dandy G.C. (2012) A generic framework for regression regionalization in ungauged catchments, Environmental Modelling and Software, 27-28, 1-12.

Gibbs M.S., Maier H.R. and Dandy G.C. (2011) Relationship between problem characteristics and the optimal number of genetic algorithm generations, Engineering Optimization, 43(4), 349-376, doi: 10.1080/0305215X.2010.491547

Gibbs M.S., Dandy G.C. and Maier H.R. (2010) Evaluation of Parameter Setting for Two GIS based Unit Hydrograph models, Journal of Hydrology , 393(3-4), 197-205.

Goodman, A.M., Ganf, G.G., Dandy, G.C., Maier, H.R. and Gibbs, M.S. (2010) The response of aquatic plants to salinity pulses. Aquatic Botany, 93(2), 59-67, doi:10.1016/j.aquabot.2010.03.004.

Gibbs M.S., Dandy G.C. and Maier H.R. (2010) Calibration and optimization of the pumping and disinfection of a real water supply system, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management,  136(4), 493-501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000060.

Gibbs M.S., Maier H.R. and Dandy G.C. (2010) Comparison of genetic algorithm parameter setting methods for chlorine injection optimization, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 136(2) 288-291.

Gibbs M.S., Dandy G.C. and Maier H.R. (2008) A Genetic Algorithm Calibration Method Based on Convergence due to Genetic Drift. Information Sciences 178(14), 2857-2869.

Gibbs M.S., Morgan N., Maier H.R., Dandy G.C., Nixon J.B. and Holmes M. (2006) Investigation into the relationship between chlorine decay and water distribution parameters using data driven methods. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 44(5-6), 485-498.

Conference Papers – Refereed

Gibbs M.S., Maier H.R. and Dandy G.C. (2011) Runoff and salt transport modelling to maximise environmental outcomes in the Upper South East of South Australia, Proceedings of MODSIM 2011 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, December 12-16, Perth, Australia.

Montazeri, M., Gibbs M.S., Bloss, C., Way, D., Wood., C. (2011) Integrated Modelling of Water Delivery Options for the Coorong South Lagoon, Proceedings of MODSIM 2011 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, December 12-16, Perth, Australia.

Gibbs, M.S., Dandy, G.C. and Maier, H.R. (2011) Evaluating Parameter Sensitivity for Surface Water Modelling of Ungauged Catchments, Proceedings of the 34th IAHR World Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 26 June - 1 July 2011, pp 1379 - 1386.

Gibbs. M. S., Maier, H. R. and Dandy, G. C. (2010). Parameterization of a gridded rainfall-runoff model for southern Australia. Proceedings of the ninth International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering (ICHE 2010), IIT Madras, Chenai, India, 2-5, August 2020, pp 594-603.

Gibbs, M.S., H.R. Maier and G.C. Dandy (2009) The use of GIS to derive distributed unit hydrographs for streamflow prediction. MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, July 13–17, p. 280

Coff, B.E., N.J. Ditty, M.C. Gee, J.M. Szemis, H.R. Maier, G.C. Dandy and M.S. Gibbs (2009) Relating catchment attributes to parameters of a salt and water balance model. MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, July 13–17, p. 255

Gibbs, M.S., Goodman, A., Partington, D.J., Dandy, G.C. and Maier, H.R. (2008) Dryland salinity decision support systems in data-scarce regions, Water Down Under 2008, April 14-17, Adelaide, South Australia.

Gibbs M.S., Maier H.R., Dandy G.C. and Nixon J.B. (2006) On the effect of epistasis and problem size on the optimum GA population size. IEEE World Congress of Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, Proceedings on DVD.

Gibbs M.S., Maier H.R. and Dandy G.C. (2004) Applying fitness landscape measures to water distribution optimisation problems. Sixth International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Singapore, June 21-24, Vol. 1, pp.795-802.

Gibbs M.S., Morgan N., Maier H.R., Dandy G.C. Holmes M. and Nixon J.B. (2003) Use of artificial neural networks for modelling chlorine residuals in water distribution systems. Modsim 2003 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc, Townsville, Australia, 14-17 July, Vol. 2, pp.789-794.

Conference Papers - Refereed by Abstract

Gibbs M.S, Dandy G.C. and Maier, H.R. (2008) Calibration of Rainfall Runoff Models in Ungauged Catchments: Regionalization Relationships for a Rainfall Runoff Model. World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, ASCE, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 12-16

Gibbs M.S., Dandy G.C., Maier H.R. and Nixon J.B. (2005) Selection of genetic algorithm parameters for water distribution system optimisation. World Water & Environmental Resource Congress, ASCE, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 15-19.

Dandy, G.C. and Gibbs, M.S. (2003) "Optimising System Operations and Water Quality", Proceedings, World Water & Environment Resource Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23-26.

Technical Reports

Gibbs, M, Green, G, and Wood, C, 2011, Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources Phase 2: Selection of Future Climate Projections and Downscaling Methodology, DFW Technical Report 2011/02, Government of South Australia, through Department for Water, Adelaide

Montazeri M, Way D, Gibbs M, Bloss C & Wood C, 2011, Coorong South Lagoon Flow Restoration Project – Hydrological modelling and transmission loss analysis, DFW Technical Note 2011/05, Department for Water, Adelaide

Green, G, Gibbs, M, and Wood, C, 2011, Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources, Phase 3 Volume 1: Northern and Yorke Natural Resources Management Region, DFW Technical Report 2011/03, Government of South Australia, through Department for Water, Adelaide

Theses

Gibbs, M.S. (2008) "Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm Parameter Setting for Water Distribution System Optimisation" Ph.D. Thesis, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Adelaide, August 2008.

Gibbs, M.S. and Morgan, N. (2002) Investigation Into the Relationship Between Chlorine Decay and Water Distribution Parameters Using Data-Driven Methods. Honours Thesis, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Adelaide, November 2002.

Entry last updated: Thursday, 19 Jan 2012