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CRC FOR CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY RESEARCH TIMELINE

 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Program 1: Predicting Catchment Behaviour
Program Leader: Mr Geoff Podger, Dept. of Infrastructure Planning & Natural Resources

Program Projects

Click here for the current list of Projects for this Program (2003-2006)

Click here for completed Projects and their outcomes for this Program (1999-2002)


Program Overview

Detailed Information about current projects in this program is available here

This program delivers the key objective of the Centre: to provide land and water managers with the tools and skills to make informed decisions on whole catchments. It will involve many of Australia’s leading catchment modellers and a number of focus catchments.

Goals

  • To predict water and pollutant balance in catchments of varying size and complexity, subject to a range of land uses, land and water management strategies, and climate variability
  • Consolidation (into one tool-kit of software and documentation) of several modelling systems, spanning a continuum of scale, issues, and complexity
  • Practical guidance for addressing the scale, complexity, parameterisation, and validation issues in hydrologic modelling
  • National leadership in catchment hydrologic modelling, and training in this area.

Activities

  • Conduct national and international workshops on catchment modelling needs and methods
  • Link hydrologic, pollutant-transport, ecologic, geomorphic, meteorologic and socio-economic models to enable holistic analyses of catchment behaviour
  • Develop new modelling approaches to take advantage of the latest data-integration products such as rainfall radar, laser altimetry, airborne geomagnetics, and hyperspectral scanners
  • Develop procedures for dealing with spatial variability of system properties, the ‘input data vacuum’, uncertainty in model predictions, and the stochastic behaviour of systems.

Outcomes

  • A (demonstrated) ability to plan changes in catchments, and the way we manage them, to maximise environmental, economic, and social values
  • A tool-kit of packaged models, data products, and high-quality user documentation.
  • A community of ‘model literate’ catchment managers, equipped with the right models and the skills to apply them judiciously
  • When adopted, sustainable land management.
Predicting Catchment Behaviour
Land-use Impacts on Rivers
Sustainable Water Allocation
Urban Stormwater Quality
Climate Variability
River Restoration