Environmental Water Efficiency

How do we best allocate water to catchments to optimise environmental, ecological and social outcomes? New decision support tools are required that take into account landscape scale processes and trade-off multiple community benefits. This requires trans-disciplinary cooperation including: ecology, GIS modelling, hydrology, mathematics, engineering, economics and optimisation modelling.

Example Projects:

• Assessment of the Likely Ecological Consequences to South Australian of the Proposed Murray Darling Basin Plan
• Identification of diversion rules for a proposed waterway in the South East [in press]
• Development of a framework for using optimization to schedule environmental flow management alternatives for rivers, wetlands, and floodplains [in press]
• Decision support system for water management in the Upper South East in South Australia

Key Staff:

• A/Prof Justin Brookes
• Prof Holger Maier
• Prof Graeme Dandy
• Prof Bronwyn Gillanders
• Prof Nigel Bean
• Dr Kane Aldridge
• Dr Todd Wallace
• Prof Wayne Meyer
• Dr John Tibby
• A/Prof Megan Lewis
• Dr Zoe Doubleday
• Dr Kenneth Clarke