Mr Timothy Rowan

Biography/ Background

Employment History

2004 - present   PhD Candidate, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

Jan 2011 - present  Associate Lecturer, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

2010 Water Resources Engineer, Optimatics, Adelaide, South Australia.

2007, 2010  Lecturer (Casual), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

2004 - present   Tutor (Casual), School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

2002 -2004  Design Engineer, Arup, Adelaide, South Australia.

Academic Qualifications

2001: Bachelor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Adelaide, South Australia.
Awarded First-Class Honours.

Scholarships

Divisional Scholarship, The University of Adelaide & CSIRO Land and Water Policy and Economics Research Unit, 2004 to present.
CSIRO Land and Water Top-up Scholarship, CSIRO Land and Water, 2004 to present.

Research Interests

The development of simulation models as a tool for exploring the suitability of resource management policy options, particularly with regard to sustainability criteria.

Current Research Project

PhD Thesis - Development of an Integrated Modelling Framework for Assessment of Irrigation Management Policies.

This project focuses firstly on the development of a conceptual model describing the environmental, economic and social components of an irrigated landscape. The conceptual model will be implemented using a case study of irrigation on the Murray River. The structure of the model is designed to allow the simulation environment to be useful for investigating the sensitivity of the system to different assumptions defining behavioural responses of stakeholders to policy and environmental settings.

Supervisors

Professor Holger Maier - Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Adelaide.

Dr Jeff Connor - Research Scientist, Policy and Economics Research Unit, CSIRO Land and Water, Adelaide.

Professor Graeme Dandy - Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Adelaide.

Publications

Journal Articles

 

1. Rowan, T. S. C., H. R. Maier, J. Connor and G. C. Dandy (2011), An integrated dynamic modeling framework for investigating the impact of climate change and variability on irrigated agriculture, Water Resources Research, 47, W07520.

2.  Maier, H. R. and T. S. C. Rowan (2007), Increasing Student Engagement with Graduate Attributes, Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 13(1), 21-29.

 

Refereed Conference Publications

 

1.  Rowan, T. S. C., H. R Maier, J. Connor and G. C. Dandy (2007), Development of an Integrated Modelling Framework to Investigate Environmental and Economic Management Objectives in an Irrigated Landscape, in Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 25-31. ISBN : 978-0-9758400-4-7.

 

2.  Rowan, T. S. C., H. R Maier, J. Connor and G. C. Dandy (2005), Development of and Integrated Modelling Framework for the Assessment of River Management Policies, in Zerger, A. and Argent, R. M. (eds), MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, pp. 1970–1976. Melbourne, Australia.

 

3.  Maier, H. R. and T. S. C. Rowan (2006), Increasing Student Engagement with Graduate Attributes, 17th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Auckland, New Zealand.

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011