Monitoring and evaluation activities within the South Australian portion of the River Murray in relation to priority environmental assets

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Project Partners:

The University of Adelaide

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Project Overview

The long term deterioration of the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) ecology has led to the development and implementation of the Basin Plan, an adaptive framework developed under the Water Act 2007 and enforced by all relevant jurisdictions. To assist with Basin-wide planning of environmental water provisions, South Australia is required to develop Long Term-Watering plans (LTWPs). These LTWPs will identify priority environmental assets and associated ecological objectives and targets and environmental water requirements (EWRs). As described by the Basin Plan, the Basin States are required to evaluate and report on:

  • The achievement of environmental outcomes at an asset scale (5 yearly reporting) (Schedule 12, Matter 8), and
  • The identification of environmental water and the monitoring of its use (annual reporting) (Schedule 12, Matter 9).

To assist the South Australian Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) in planning for evaluating and reporting on Matter 8, this project, funded via the Goyder Institute, develops an inventory of current monitoring and evaluation activities associated with the South Australian portion of the River Murray. 

Progress Update and Key Findings

This project assisted with making decisions about priority monitoring and evaluation activities for Matter 8 by:

  1. Aligning past and present monitoring with the draft LTWP ecological objectives and targets for the Main River Channel and The Floodplain priority environmental assets;
  2. Proposing a possible approach to prioritise the monitoring of variables.

Project Impacts

This project included the collation of monitoring information in relation to the Lower River Murray and Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth area. This information will be further developed into an adaptive management tool that will assist with decision making around the delivery of environmental water and will assist South Australia in meeting its statutory obligations in relation to monitoring and evaluation under the Basin Plan.

Research Outputs

Trajectories of ecological change in the Coorong and Lower Lakes, in response to climate change

Preliminary adaptationpathways for the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth

Preliminary climate change vulnerability assessment for the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth

Trajectories of ecological change in the Coorong and Lower Lakes, in response to climate change

Floodplain influences on metabolic activity in the South Australian section of the Murray River during the 2010/11 flood

From Salt to C Project highlight

HYDRUS 2D Model - Scott River Catchment

Adelaide Plains Groundwater Model

Statistical Model for Flow and Constituent Transport in Onkaparinga Catchment

ELCOM Hydrodynamic Model

South-East Regional Groundwater Flow Model - LEACHM Model

South-East Regional Groundwater Flow Model

South-East Wetlands Ecology Model

South-East Drain M Source Model

South-East Drain M Flow Forecasting Model

South-East Drain M Statistical Model

South-East Wetlands-Groundwater Interaction Model

Phytoplankton Growth Dilution Model

Black Water Risk Assessment Tool - Chowilla

G-FLOWS (Stage 3)

Coastal carbon opportunities

From Salt to C

River Murray ecological connectivity

Stormwater supply to the Mawson Lakes Recycled Water Scheme for dual reticulation and unrestricted municipal irrigation, and stormwater supply for industrial uses and restricted municipal irrigation

Sustainable urban water management through the lens of community – a photostory exercise in metropolitan Adelaide

The Emotional Connection to Urban Water through the Lens of the Water Customer

Risk Management of Riverbank Collapse Along the Lower River Murray

Predicting Riverbank Collapse Using Numerical Modelling

The Millennium Drought Riverbank Failures Lower Murray River – South Australia

River Murray Decision Support System: Prototype

Evidence Based Approaches to Condition Assessment of Fish Communities in the Lake Eyre Basin, Central Australia.

Inversion of legacy airborne electromagnetic datasets to inform the hydrogeological understanding of the northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Facilitating Long-term Outback Water Solutions (G-FLOWS Stage-2) Final Report

Groundwater Flow Systems of North-eastern Eyre Peninsula (G-FLOWS Stage-2): Hydrogeology, geophysics and environmental tracers

Sanctuary Zones Regional Impact Assessment Statement: Ceduna, Kangaroo Island and Port Wakefield

Water Supply and Governance Options for Outback Towns in South Australia

Water and sediment quality in the Diamantina-Georgina River catchment, Lake Eyre Basin

Hydrogeological review of the Musgrave Province, South Australia

The Arabana people, water and developing cultural indicators for country

Facilitating Long-term Outback Water Solutions (G-FLOWS Stage-1): Hydrogeological framework

Environmental and cultural values of South Australia's outback water resources

Groundwater assessment and aquifer characterizarion in Musgrave Province, South Australia: Interpretation of SPECTREM Airborne Electromagnetic Data

Facilitating Long Term Outback Water Solutions (G-FLOWS) Task 6: Groundwater recharge characteristics across key priority areas

Facilitating Long-term Outback Water Solutions (G-FLOWS Stage-1) Final Report

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A conceptual review of aquatic ecosystem function and fish dynamics in the Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia

Spatial Indicators of Ecological Condition for Lake Eyre Basin

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Assessment of Adelaide Plains Groundwater Resources: Appendices Part I – Field and Desktop Investigations

Assessment of Adelaide Plains Groundwater Resources: Summary Report

Workshop to Inform the Development of the South Australian Marine Park Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Plan

Northern Adelaide Plains Water Stocktake

Methods to increase the use of recycled wastewater in irrigation by overcoming the constraint of soil salinity

Water Allocation Planning: Environmental Water Requirements. GWAP Project: Task 4

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Extending the water quality modelling capability within eWater Source – developing the dSedNet plugin

Integrated catchment and water planning support for Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Water Allocation Planning. Task 5: Tiered Water Quality Risk Assessment

Water allocation planning and water quality improvement scoping study – Discussion paper

River Torrens Water Quality Improvement Trial Summer 2013–14

River Torrens Water Quality Improvement Trial 2012-13

River Torrens Water Quality Improvement Trial - Summer 2011/12

Improved Modelling of the Catchments and Drainage Network in the Upper South East for Management Outcomes. Project E.2.4 Final Report

Causes of high alkalinity in South East wetlands

Determining environmental risks to Ewens Ponds in the South East

Goyder South East Project - A new approach for modelling groundwater recharge in the South East of South Australia using MODFLOW

South East Regional Balance Project - Phase 2 Project Summary Report

South East Regional Water Balance Project - Phase 2 Development of a Regional Groundwater Flow Model

Development of a Groundwater Extraction Dataset for the South East of South Australia: 1970-2013

Development of Preliminary 1969 and 1983 Land Use Maps for the South East of SA

Framework for a regional water balance model for the South Australian Limestone Coast region

Evaluation of approaches to modelling surface water-groundwater interactions around drains in the South East of South Australia. Phase 1

Development of Decision Support Frameworks for Water Resource Management in the South East

Developing ecological response models and determining water requirements for wetlands in the South-East of South Australia: Temporal Wetland Phenology, Inundation and Vegetation Communities

A Hydrostratigraphic Model for the Shallow Aquifer Systems of the Gambier Basin and South Western Murray Basin

Using recent wetting events to detect salinity thresholds for aquatic plants in the South-East of South Australia

A MODFLOW-based approach to simulating wetland-groundwater interactions in the Lower Limestone Coast Prescribed Wells Area

Developing ecological response models and determining water requirements for wetlands in the South-East of South Australia, Task 5: Landscape Scale Anlaysis

Groundwater-surface water interactions at Bool Lagoon, Lake Robe and Deadman Swamp (Limestone Coast, SA): Data review

Evaluation of groundwater-surface water interactions at Bool Lagoon and Lake Robe using environmental tracers

Developing ecological response models and determining water requirements for wetlands in the South-East of South Australia, Task 1 Data review and methodological framework

Developing ecological response models and determining water requirements for wetlands in the South-East of Australia: Synthesis Report

Ecological Responses to Flooding in the Lower River Murray Following an Extended Drought : Synthesis Report of the Murray Flood Ecology Project

Modelling salt dynamics on the River Murray floodplain in South Australia: Appendices

Modelling salt dynamics on the River Murray floodplain in South Australia: Modelling approaches

Modelling salt dynamics on the River Murray floodplain in South Australia: Conceptual model, data review and salinity risk approaches

Science to inform operational decisions of major environmental infrastructure on the Chowilla Floodplain and other regulated floodplains in the SA River Murray

River Murray Channel Environmental Water Requirements: Hydrodynamic Modelling Results and Conceptual Models

River Murray Channel Environmental Water Requirements: Ecological Objectives and Targets

The Response Patterns of Wetland Fish Communities Following Prolonged Drought and Widespread Flooding

Analysis of South Australia's environmental water and water quality requirements and their delivery under the Guide to the proposed Basin

Floodplain influences on metabolic activity in the South Australian section of the Murray River during the 2010/11 flood

Resilience and resistance of aquatic plant communities downstream of Lock 1 in the Murray River

Synthesis review of the science underpinning the environmental water requirements of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth

Conceptual modelling of the ecological responses from a flood event in the Lower River Murray

Assessing the impact of volumes proposed under the Draft Basin Plan on the Coorong and Murray Mouth region

Expert panel assessment of the likely ecological consequences in South Australia of the proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Preliminary Systems Inventory and Project Scoping River Murray Catchment

An assessment of the research requirements to support effective provision of environmental water allocation in the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin: A summary of research recommendations

Geotechnical Investigations and Data Acquisition

Riverbank Collapse Along the Lower River Murray - Literature Review

Floodplain response and recovery: comparison between natural and artificial floods

Restoring Murray Futures: Incorporating Indigenous knowledge, values and interests into environmental water planning in the Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar Wetland

Indigenous engagement in environmental water planning, research and management: Innovations in South Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin Region

A science review of the implications for South Australia of the Guide to the proposed Basin Plan: synthesis

A compilation of reports informing a socioeconomic assessment of the Guide to the proposed Basin Plan

Socioeconomic implications of the Guide to the proposed Basin Plan – methods and results overview

From Drought to Flood: Annual variation in larval fish assemblages in a heavily regulated lowland river

The influence of freshwater discharge on productivity, microbiota community structure and trophic dynamics in the Murray estuary: evidence of freshwater derived trophic subsidy in the sandy sprat

An assessment of the research requirements to support effective provisions of environmental water in the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin: Part 2 – Development of hydro-ecological conceptual models and identification of knowledge gaps in current understanding of flow-biota relationships

Changes in water quality and phytoplankton communities in the Lower River Murray in response to a low flow-high flow sequence

Managed Aquifer Recharge and Stormwater Use Options: Satellite Sites Stormwater Quality Monitoring and Treatment Requirements for Potable Supplies

A Risk-based Management Plan for Mount Gambier Stormwater Recharge System: Stormwater recharge to the Gambier Limestone aquifer

Managed Aquifer Recharge and Stormwater Use Options: Investigation of stormwater impact on water quality and distribution infrastructure

The importance of irrigated urban green space: health and recreational benefits perspectives

Stormwater managed aquifer recharge risk-based management plan. Parafield Stormwater Harvesting System

Managed Aquifer Recharge and Urban Stormwater Use Options: Public Health and Environmental Risk Assessment Final Report

Hydrological modelling of the Parafield and Cobbler Creek catchment for hazard analysis planning

Financial costs, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for major supply water sources and demand management options for metropolitan Adelaide

Public Attitudes towards Managed Aquifer Recharge and Urban Stormwater Use in Adelaide

A Decision Support Framework for identifying optimal water supply portfolios: Metropolitan Adelaide Case Study Volume 2: Appendices.

A Decision Support Framework for identifying optimal water supply portfolios: Metropolitan Adelaide Case Study Volume 1: Main Report

Institutional Arrangements for Implementing Diverse Water Supply Portfolio in metropolitan Adelaide – Scoping Study

Managed Aquifer Recharge and Urban Stormwater Use Options: Summary of Research Findings

Managed Aquifer Recharge and Stormwater Use Options: Net Benefits Report

A study into the supply, demand, economic, social and institutional aspects of optimising water supply to metropolitan Adelaide – preliminary research findings: Summary report from Project U2.2

Understanding and Predicting Household Water Use for Adelaide

Water Sensitive Urban Design Impediments and Potential: Contributions to the SA Urban Water Blueprint: Post-implementation assessment and impediments to WSUD

New modelling capability to target stormwater interventions that support seagrass health along Adelaide's coast

Implementing Water Sensitive Urban Design in Stormwater Management Plans

Water Sensitive Urban Design Impediments and Potential: Contributions to the Urban Water Blueprint (Phase 1) Task 3: The Potential Role of WSUD in Urban Service Provision

The Status of Water Sensitive Urban Design Schemes in South Australia

Interim Water Sensitive Urban Design Targets for Greater Adelaide

Community Acceptance of Water Sensitive Urban Design: Six Case Studies

Pathways for Implementation of Water Sensitive Urban Design Policy in South Australia

Impacts of Climate Change on Surface Water in the Onkaparinga Catchment. Final Report Volume 3: Impacts of Climate Change on Runoff

Impacts of Climate Change on Surface Water in the Onkaparinga Catchment,. Final Report Volume 2: Hydrological Evaluation of the CMIP3 and CMIP5 GCMs and the Non-homogenous Hidden Markov Model (NHMM)

Impacts of Climate Change on Surface Water in the Onkaparinga Catchment. Final Report Volume 1: Hydrological Model Development and Sources of Uncertainty

Developing an Application Test Bed for Hydrological Modelling of Climate Change Impacts: Cox Creek Catchment, Mount Lofty Ranges

Development of an agreed set of climate projections for South Australia, Task 4: Development of an application test bed. Reservoir management models

Application of downscaled climate data for South Australia using the cropping simulation model APSIM

Statistically Downscaled Climate Change Projections for South Australia

Development of an agreed set of climate projections for South Australia Final Report

Offsetting greenhouse gas emissions through increasing soil organic carbon in SA clay-modified soils: knowledge gap analysis

Proof of concept for tidal re-connection as a blue carbon offset project

From salt to C; carbon sequestration through ecological restoration at the Dry Creek Salt Field

Coastal Carbon Opportunities. summary report on carbon storage and accumulation rates at three case study sites

Coastal carbon opportunities: technical report on carbon storage and accumulation rates at three case study sites

Coastal carbon opportunities: summary report on vegetation dynamics at Mutton Cove, a site of recent tidal reconnection

Coastal carbon opportunities: technical report on carbon storage and accumulation rates at three case study sites

Coastal carbon opportunities: Summary report on using drones to measure mangrove above-ground biomass.

Coastal carbon opportunities: summary report on changes in the distribution of mangrove and saltmarsh across South Australia (1987 – 2015)

Coastal carbon opportunities: summary report on the ecosystem services provided by blue carbon habitats in South Australia

Coastal carbon opportunities: technical report on changes in the distribution of mangrove and saltmarsh across South Australia (1987 – 2015)

Goyder Institute blue carbon research projects: synthesis report

Research agenda for blue carbon in South Australia

Assessing South Australian carbon offset supply and policy for co-beneficial offsets: shelter belts for lamb mortality reduction

Assessing South Australian carbon offset supply and policy for co-beneficial offsets: Pollination service supply in lucerne seed production

Assessing South Australian Carbon Offset Supply and Policy for Co-beneficial Offsets: Technical Estimation of Carbon Supply

Assessing South Australian Carbon Offset Supply and Cost

Economic Methods for Assessing Carbon Offset Supply Cost

Assessing South Australian carbon offset supply and policy for co-beneficial offsets: Policy context

Assessing South Australian carbon offset supply and policy for co-beneficial offsets: barriers to supply

The economics of riparian plantings for carbon and water quality benefit in the Mount Lofty Ranges

Case study for Climate Resilience Analysis Framework and Tools (CRAFT): Managed aquifer recharge at Parafield Airport

Climate Resilience Analysis Framework: Testing the resilience of natural and engineered systems

A decision framework for selecting stormwater management interventions to reduce fine sediments and improve coastal water quality

Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi

Potential social, economic and ecological indicators for integrated ecosystem assessment of Spencer Gulf

Socio-ecological assessment of the ecosystems, industries and communities of Spencer Gulf: ‘Gulfview’ interactive platform

Ecological connectivity of the River Murray: Managing ecological outcomes and water quality risks through integrated river management

The current state of food resources supporting waterbird and fish populations in the Coorong

Experimental testing of Coorong filamentous algal growth with increasing temperature and salinity

An initial assessment of the potential for wetlands in the South East and Lower Lakes regions of South Australia to support key species of Coorong waterbirds

Coorong Dynamics Model sensitivity tests and gap identification

Assessment of Tolderol Game Reserve in autumn 2019 to support key species of Coorong waterbirds

Recommended actions for restoring the ecological character of the South Lagoon of the Coorong

Investigation of the application of remote sensing to estimate coverage of surface exposed (floating) filamentous algae in the Coorong, South Australia

Processing and inversion of regional airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data

Groundwater Knowledge Integration System (GKIS): Probabilistic groundwater prospectivity mapping with iterative updating of conceptualisation

Facilitating Long-term Outback Water Solutions (G-FLOWS Stage 3): Final Summary Report

Integrated regional hydrogeophysical conceptualisation of the Musgrave Province, South Australia

G-FLOWS Stage 3: Hydrogeological conceptual understanding of the APY Lands groundwater system including the Lindsay East Palaeovalley

G-FLOWS Stage 3: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands Drilling Program, north-western South Australia

Characterisation of a palaeovalley system in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia using ground-based hydrogeophysical methods

Sustainable expansion of irrigated agriculture and horticulture in Northern Adelaide Corridor: Task 5 - summary report.

Sustainable expansion of irrigated agriculture and horticulture in Northern Adelaide Corridor: Task 4 – assessment of depth to groundwater (proof of concept)

Sustainable Expansion of Irrigated Agriculture and Horticulture in Northern Adelaide Corridor: Task 3 - source water options; water availability, quality and storage considerations

Sustainable expansion of irrigated agriculture and horticulture in Northern Adelaide Corridor: Task 2 - modelling nutrient and chemical fate to support the long-term sustainability of the use of recycled water

Distribution and seasonality of the Ruppia dominated aquatic macrophyte community and filamentous algae in the southern Coorong

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Feasibility of land-based aquaculture in the Two Wells to Whyalla regional corridor

Assessment of small scale desalination by capacitive deionization for horticulture on the Northern Adelaide Plains

Independent review of science underpinning reductions to licensed water allocation volumes in the Lower Limestone Coast water allocation plan

Response models for waterbird species of the south-east of South Australia

Response models for key waterbird species of the Coorong

Review of the ecology, status and modelling of waterbird populations of the Coorong South Lagoon

Spatial and temporal habitat use by key waterbird species in the Coorong.

Recommended habitat quality measures for key waterbird species in the Coorong.

A synthesis of current knowledge of the food web and food resources for waterbird and fish populations in the Coorong

River Murray Floodplain Groundwater Model

Lower River Murray Flood Response Model

Hydro-ecological Conceptual Model for Murray Darling Basin

Parafield Stormwater Harvesting Runoff and Hazard Analysis Simulation Model

Water Community Resource Evaluation and Simulation System (WaterCress)

PHREEQC Model for Water Quality Impacts on Infrastructure

Integrated Urban Water Management Model

Frederick Street Stormwater Runoff Model

Paddocks Catchment Stormwater Runoff Model

Source IMS v 3.5.0 –Cox Creek Catchment Model

Generalized Linear Modelling of a Daily Climate Sequence (GLIMCLIM)

Multivariate Daily Weather (non-rainfall) Generator

Multi-Variate Non-homogeneous Hidden Markov Model (MVNHMM)

Cox Creek Groundwater Model

Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) Model

Onkaparinga Runoff Model

Carbon sequestration project highlight

Blue carbon research highlights

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Independent review of science underpinning water allocation reductions in the South East region, South Australia

Assessing waterbird habitat quality in the Coorong

Expanded use of recycled water to the north of Adelaide

Spencer Gulf socio-ecological assessment

Carbon offsets

Goyder Institute 2nd term research program (2015-2020)

Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi

Climate Resilience Analysis Framework and Tools

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Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin: 3. Aquatic Plants and Algae

Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin: 2. Nutrient Dynamics

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Ecosystem models to inform the development of strategies to restore a functioning South Lagoon food web in the Coorong

Primary food resources for key waterbirds and benthic fish in the Coorong

Food resource availability, energy content and nutritional value of major food sources for key fish and waterbird species under varying environmental conditions in the Coorong

A restoration strategy for the Ruppia Community of the southern Coorong

Microbial community composition of the southern Coorong including evaluating seasonal variation and sediment, water column, aquatic macrophytes and filamentous algae as substrates for microbial growth

The growth of aquatic macrophytes (Ruppia tuberosa spp. and Althenia cylindrocarpa) and the filamentous algal community in the southern Coorong

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Project News

Chris Wright

Manager Water Science, DEW

Chris Wright holds significant experience in public sector senior leadership, having led policy, scientific and operational business units over the last twelve years in both State and Commonwealth government agencies. Chris has excellent experiences in leading policy and strategy formulation. He is skilled in building and maintaining networks across the public and private sectors to facilitate business delivery; leading and negotiating with others to achieve outcomes; and in bridging the science-policy gap, drawing on earlier roles in geospatial information systems (GIS) consulting. Chris’s formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Social Science, a Masters of Spatial Information Science and graduation from the AICD Company Directors course in 2019.

Dr Ilka Wallis

Senior Lecturer, Flinders University

Dr Ilka Wallis is a hydrogeologist with areas of expertise in quantitative hydrogeology and geochemistry. Ilka focuses on the development of reactive geochemical transport models which integrate fundamental processes that are normally studied in isolation (hydrogeological, mineralogical, geochemical and biochemical).

Ilka is also an Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada since 2017.

Peter Goonan

Environmental Science Branch, EPA

Peter Goonan is the Principal Aquatic Biologist in the Environmental Science Branch of the EPA. He has over 30 years’ experience monitoring the condition of aquatic ecosystems in SA and assessing the environmental effects caused by discharges, deposits and contaminants entering inland and coastal waters. He specialises in aquatic invertebrate identification and their responses to contaminants and water quality stressors. He also provides expert professional advice relating to water quality risks, regulation, policy, and strategic directions, and represents the EPA as an expert witness in court.

Dr Paul Monis

Manager, Research Stakeholders and Planning, SA Water

Dr Paul Monis is a technical expert within SA Water’s Business Services group, which provides scientific expertise to support the delivery of water and wastewater services to SA Water’s customers. He has specialist expertise in the areas of biotechnology and microbiology, with almost 20 years’ experience applying DNA-based and other technologies to address water quality challenges posed by microorganisms, especially enteric pathogens. Dr Monis also holds title of Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University, the University of Adelaide and UniSA.

Jennie Fluin

Principal Advisor Research Partnerships, DEW

Jennie’s role in the Department for Environment and Water (DEW) allows her to foster and strengthen opportunities for researchers to better connect with government to enable evidence-based decision making. Jennie has extensive experience working in both universities and government, allowing her to bridge the divide between the two sectors. She is focused on connecting natural resource researchers with natural resource decision makers, and facilitating fit for purpose partnerships.

Dr Tanya Doody

Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

Dr Tanya Doody is a Principal Research Scientist working on high impact spatial eco-hydrological projects within CSIRO’s Land and Water Business Unit. Dr Doody leads the Managing Water Ecosystems Group, based in Adelaide, Albury and Canberra and has significant experience in quantifying the water requirements of vegetation and at times, their impact on water resources. This involves ecophysiological field-based research to underpin remote sensing tools to scale regionally to improve our understanding of the effect of flood regimes on the health of water-dependent ecosystems on the Murray-Darling Basin floodplains. Additional research includes investigating the ecological response of vegetation to water availability and environmental water to inform integrated basin water planning and management.

Professor Lin Crase

Dean of Programs (Accounting & Finance), UniSA

Professor Lin Crase is Professor of Economics and Dean of Programs (Accounting & Finance) at UniSA. He joined UniSA in February 2016 as Head of School of Commerce. Prior to commencing at UniSA, Lin was Professor and Director of the Centre for Water Policy and Management at La Trobe University.

Lin’s research has focused on applied economics in the context of water. He has analysed water markets and the property rights that attend them, water pricing and numerous applications of water policy. Whilst his expertise includes the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, he has also worked on projects in south Asia, Japan and Europe. Lin has published over 100 journal articles, numerous book chapters, four books and a range of other papers and opinion pieces.

Professor Justin Brookes

Director, Water Research Centre, University of Adelaide

Justin has broad research interests in limnology and water treatment with a primary focus on coupling between hydrodynamics, biology and water quality contaminants such as cyanobacteria and pathogens. He is a founding member of the management committee of the IWA Specialist Group on Lake and Reservoir Management and member of the Steering Committee for the Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network.

Justin has a PhD and a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours from the University of Adelaide.

Daniel Flaherty

Accountant

Daniel Flaherty is the Accountant for the Goyder Institute for Water Research.

Daniel has extensive experience in higher education having worked in senior financial management roles at the University of South Australia, Flinders University and the University of Adelaide over the past 26 years. Daniel has also been a Board Director on a number of university related entities. Prior to that, Daniel has worked in a range of agencies in the Commonwealth and State Governments.

Daniel is a Fellow of CPA Australia and has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide.

Dr Alec Rolston

Interim Director

Alec Rolston joined the Institute in 2021 as Research Program Manager of the Goyder Institute’s research projects in the Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin program. He has extensive experience in integrated water resource management, integrated catchment management, drinking water source protection and wetland ecology, conservation and management across Europe and Australia.

Alec holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland Maynooth and has worked with An Fóram Uisce|The Water Forum and the Dundalk Institute of Technology in Ireland as well as the MANTEL Innovative Training Network across Europe.

Alec spent his early career in Adelaide working with Flinders University through the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLAMM) Ecology Research Cluster and within the Department for Environment and Water.

Daniel Pierce

Research and Development Officer

Daniel Pierce has managed research projects at the Goyder Institute for Water Research since November 2017 under both the second and third terms of the Institute.

Daniel brings experience in project management and knowledge transfer and application from 4 years working as a Senior Hydrogeologist in the Department for Environment and Water (DEW) in South Australia and from 13 years of private sector work in environmental management, science and engineering in Australia and the South Pacific. His work with DEW has included providing technical advice to the development and revision of Water Allocation Plans around South Australia in collaboration with researchers and policy makers, and managing a team of groundwater modellers and hydrogeologists involved in an assortment of water resource management issues.

Daniel has a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons, Environmental) and a Bachelor of Science (Geography) from the University of Western Australia.

Professor Enzo Lombi

Dean of Research, UniSA STEM

Professor Lombi’s main contributions to environmental research cover various aspects of contaminant risk assessment, biogeochemistry, ecotoxicology and waste management. Furthermore, the methodological development he has pursued in his research has provided the basis for collaborative efforts in a variety of research areas ranging from soil fertility and plant physiology to human health issues related to contaminant uptake via occupational exposure and diet. In the last few years he has been increasingly focusing on the transformation and toxicity of manufactured nanomaterials in the environment.

Dr Carmel Pollino

Research Director Land and Water, CSIRO

Dr Carmel Pollino is a Research Director for Land and Water at CSIRO. She has 20 years of experience working on water issues in Australia and throughout Asia. Carmel has degrees in science and environmental law and works across the science and policy interface. Significant areas of research in Environmental Flows, Hydrology, Ecology and Integrated River Basin Planning. Carmel is the lead and also a contributor to global working groups on water and has published widely in this domain.

Professor Bronwyn Gillanders

Head of School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide

Professor Bronwyn Gillanders is interim Head of School of Biological Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Prof Gillanders completed her BSc at the University of Canterbury, MSc at the University of Otago and her PhD at the University of Sydney. She has a research background in environmental science focused predominantly on freshwater and marine ecology.

Her research interests include integrated marine management; coastal carbon opportunities; multiple use activities and cumulative impact assessment; biology, ecology and fisheries of cephalopods; stocking and provenance of fish; plastics in the marine environment including in seafood; use of fish bones (and other calcified structures) for assessing ecological and environmental change. She has trained and mentored ~70 Honours and Higher Degree Research students and shaped the future of 1000s of students through her undergraduate teaching. She is passionate about encouraging capable women to enter and remain in science careers.

Dan Jordan

Director, Water Security, Policy and Planning, Department for Environment and Water (DEW)

Dan Jordan is the Director, Water Security, Policy and Planning, Department for Environment and Water (DEW). Dan is also the Basin Officials Committee Alternate Member for South Australia.

Professor Okke Batelaan

Dean, School of the Environment, Flinders University

Professor Okke Batelaan is a graduate of the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (MSc – Hydrogeology) and of the Free University Brussels, Belgium (PhD – Engineering). He worked for more than 20 years at the Free University Brussels and also led the hydrogeology group at the KU Leuven, Belgium since 2006. He was chairman of the Interuniversity Programme in Water Resources Engineering.

Since 2012 Okke Batelaan is Strategic Professor in Hydrogeology and currently Dean of the School of the Environment, Flinders University. Okke has broad experience in teaching groundwater hydrology, groundwater modelling, GIS and remote sensing for hydrological applications. He was supervisor of more than 140 MSc and 25 PhD students. He has extensive research experience and a publication record in shallow groundwater hydrology and modeling, recharge-discharge estimation and modeling, urban hydrology and distributed modelling, ecohydrology and impacts of land use and climate change on groundwater systems. He coordinated and participated in a large number of projects in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and Australia. He is editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies and of MDPI-Hydrology.