Past 2009 seminars
Monday 7 December at 11am
Current challenges for the regionalisation of rainfall-runoff models
Dr Vazken Andreassian, Hydrology Research Group leader, French Research Institute on Agricultural and Environmental Engineering
Monday 16 November at 11am (Please note: Butler Lab Seminar Room)
The Use of Earth Observation in Enforcement of Laws
Dr Ray Purdy, Senior Research Fellow & Deputy Director, Centre for Law & the Environment, University College London
Thursday 22 October at 11am
Eye on Australia
Fred Kamphues, Mill House Conslutancy, The Netherlands
Wednesday, 21 October at 11am
Tropical Rainforests; hydrology controls ecology or vice versa?
Dr Jim Wallace, CSIRO Land and Water
Thursday, 8 October at 10.45am
Declining water quality in a tropical coastal floodplain groundwater system
Mr Matthew Lenahan, CSIRO Land and Water
Monday, 28 September at 1.45pm
Experimental seasonal hydrological forecast
system for western U.S.
Dr Dennis Lettenmaier, University of Washington
Thursday, 22 September 2009 at 11am
Eonfusion: 4D software for the integration, analysis and dynamic visualisation of ecological and environmental data
Dr Hugh Pederson, Technical Sales Manager Myriax Software P/L, Hobart, Tasmania
Thursday, 10 September 2009 at 11am
An Australian water resources assessment system: integrating hydrological models with on-ground and satellite observations
Dr Albert van Dijk, CSIRO Land and Water
Tuesday 25 August
2 pm: Projecting Impacts of Climate Change at the Local Scale is What Matters
3.15 pm: The Estimation of Daily Penman-Montieth Based Reference Crop Evapotranspiration
at One Arc Minute Resolution
Professor Roland Schulz, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Tuesday 25 August at 4 pm (Room N101, CSIT Building 108, Australian National University)*
Exploring Distributed Databases
Dr Henning Koehler, University of Queensland
Wednesday 5 August at 11am
Climate, turbulence and phytoplankton dynamics
Climate, turbulence and phytoplankton dynamics
Monday 3 August at 11am
Insights and perils encountered in three environmental modelling exercises: stormwater harvesting in Canberra, biogeochemical budgets in the Coorong, and human decision-making in complex systems
Dr Nicky Grigg - CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 29 July at 11am
Water quality monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef during extreme flood events: A challenge for remote sensing algorithms
Dr Thomas Schroeder- CSIRO Land and Water
Tuesday 28 July at 11am
Generalised terrain-based flow analysis of digital elevation models
David G. Tarboton, Utah State University
Venue: Christian Lab Conference Room, Black Mountain
Chair: Dr John Gallant
Thursday 23 July - seminar 2.30pm, workshop 3.30pm
Creating Futures Workshop
Dr Beat Huser- Project Leader of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) project, Creating Futures and Sustainability Projects Manager, Environment Waikato, Hamilton
CSIRO Black Mountain Discovery Centre Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 14 July at 11am
Soil hydrological and geomorphological effects of wildfire in SE Australian sandstone terrain: insights from a multi-method approach and comparison with impacts in contrasting terrain of the 2009 Victoria fires
Stefan Doerr- Professor of Geography at Swansea University (UK)
Wednesday 4 February at 11am - at CSIRO Discovery
Centre
Soil mositure estimated in real-time every 3 hours over 1 million square kilometers in South Africa
Professor Geof Pegram- Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate,
Civil Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Wednesday 25 February at 11am
Between River and Reef: Modelling the impact of estuarine processes on sediment and nutrient exports to the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon
Dr Barbara Robson - CSIRO Land and Water
CSIRO Black Mountain
Monday 23 March at 11 am
JESAT- A consistent toolset for integrated system assessment, analysis, modelling and management
Professor Wolfgang-Albert Fluegel- Head of the Department of Geoinformatics, Hydrology and Modelling, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Venue: Christian Laboratory Seminar Room, Black Mountain
Wednesday 6 May at 11am
Application of topological dynamics and fractal methods for extracting specific features from observations
Dr Irina Emelyanova- CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 27 May, 2:00 - 3:30pm
Land & Water Australia International Fellowship Seminar hosted by CSIRO Land and Water
Knowing the fate of contaminants from waste water treatment plants. The US experience - Australian implications
Dr Larry Barber- US Geological Survey
Friday 29 May at 11am
Celebrating the Australian Science Festival
Catchment Detox: Science in an online environment
Dr Stuart Minchin- CSIRO Land and Water
CSIRO Christian Laboratory, Black Mountain
Past 2008 Seminars
Wednesday 16 January 2008 at 11.00am
The science behind streamflow forecasting systems
with Albrecht Weerts of WL | Delft Hydraulics
Wednesday 16 January 2008 at 2.00pm
Biogeochemistry of acid sulfate soils;
an investigation into the characteristics of the prokaryotic
population
with Mira Durr, PhD Student, CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 6 February at 11am - at CSIRO Discovery
Centre
Ecosystem
Science, Environmental Change and Society
Gene Likens - CSIRO Visiting Fellow from University of Connecticut
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 3pm
ICE WaRM in association with the Centre for Groundwater Studies
presents
Impacts of Changing Land Use on
Subsurface Water Resources in Semi-arid Regions
with Dr Bridget Scanlon,
2007 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer,
awarded by the Geological Society of America - Hydrogeology
Division.
Wednesday 13 February 2008 at 11am
Lower Murray Landscape Futures: An
integrated analysis with special focus on dryland areas
with Brett Bryan, CSIRO Land and Water
Tuesday
19 February at 2.30pm
Mapping Invasive Plant
Species and Canopy Water Content Using Imaging Spectroscopy
with Dr. Susan L. Ustin, University of California
Davis.
Friday 22
February at 11am
The Global
Climate Negotiations - Past and Future: Opportunities for
Australia
with Prof. Graciela Chichilnisky,
UNESCO Professor of Mathematics and Economics & Director,
Columbia Consortium for Risk Management, Columbia
University, New York
Friday 7 March at 10am
Lessons emerging from South Africa’s experience in water
reform: The roles of science and community stakeholders
with Mark Dent, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Tuesday 18 March at 2pm
Combining a spatial model with
geochemical tracers and river station data to construct a catchment
sediment budget: the Lake Burragorgang catchment example
Paul Rustomji, CSIRO Land and Water
Tuesday 25 March at 2pm
Scenarios for the
Great Barrier Reef Catchment: Learning from the future
Iris Bohnet - CSIRO Land and Water
Friday 28 March at 11am
Pore Water Transport and Microbial Activity in Intertidal Sand Flat Sediments
Markus Billerbeck - CSIRO Land and Water
Monday 7 April at 11am
Putting more photophysiology into bio-optical and bio-geochemical models
Assoc Prof Peter Ralph - University of Technology, Sydney
Wednesday 23 April at 11am
From tidal loads to model dynamics
Nicky Grigg - CSIRO Land and Water
Thursday 8 May at 11am
Acid Rain: An
Unfinished Environmental Problem
Gene Likens - CSIRO Visiting Fellow from University
of Connecticut
Wednesday 14 May at 11 am
Irrigation Water Management in India- Some Ground Realities
Dr Rajendra Poddar - CLW Land and Water
Wednesday 21 May at 11 am
Myth Busters: Is northern Australia our vast water supply?
Cuan Petheram - CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 28 May 2008 at 11am
Barbara Robson, CSIRO Land and Water
How will the Ord River respond to changes in flows and loads?
Wednesday 9 July at 11 am
Australia’s Water Management - Potential changes, new risks and opportunities
Dr. John Radcliffe - Commissioner, National Water Commission
Monday 21 July at 11am
Building effective partnerships
for reviving water systems under stress
Professor Shahbaz Khan - Chief Sustainable Water Resources
Development and Management, UNESCO Paris
Thursday
24 July at 3.30pm
CUAHSI Water Data Services
David R. Maidment, Director, Center for Research in Water Resources,
University of Texas at Austin
Friday 8 August at 9.30 am
Water Information Seminar presented by the Bureau of Meteorology
Recent findings on plantation water use and the impacts of plantations on water availability in Southern Australia
Dr Richard Benyon and Dr Lu Zhang - CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 20 August at 10am
The National Geochemical Survey of Australia: Overview and progress
Patrice de Caritat - Principal Research Scientist, Geochemistry, Geoscience Australia
Wednesday 27 August at 10am
The SEBAL tool for
monitoring spatial evapotranspiration: experiences from tests
and applications
Wim Bastiaanssen & Richard Soppe - WaterWatch, Wageningen,
The Netherlands
at CSIRO Discovery Centre
Wednesday 27 August at 11am
Light propagation in estuarine and coastal aquatic environments: measurements and modelling
Nagur Cherukuru - CSIRO Land and Water
Venue: CSIRO Christian Laboratory
Wednesday 3 September at 11 am
Characterisation of Recent Climate in the Murray-Darling Basin
Nick Potter - CSIRO Land and Water
Venue: CSIRO Christian Laboratory
Wednesday 10 September at 11 am
Elevated CO2, vegetation and the hydrological cycle - The neglected second half of a story
Dr Stan Schymanski - Max Planck Institute, Jena, Germany
Venue: CSIRO Christian Laboratory
Dr Schymanski is in Australia to collaborate with Water for a Healthy Country WRON / WIRADA researchers on including land cover response in water assessment models.
Friday 26 September at 11 am
Integrating Natural Resources and GeoHazards Management:
Linking Sustainability and Resilience against Extreme Events
Assoc Prof Chris S Renschler - Dept of Geography, University of Buffallo, USA
Wednesday 15 October at 11 am
Modelling and business process frameworks for regional NRM incentive funding investment - products of the TOOLS2 project
Susan Cuddy (CSIRO Land and Water) & Greg Summerell (Dept of Environment and Climate Change NSW)
Wednesday 22 October at 11am
Estimating carbon and sulfur loss in drained acid sulfate soils
David Smiles - CSIRO Land and Water Post-Retirement Fellow
Friday 24 October at 2pm
Improved prediction of soil properties from airborne radiometric survey and high-resolution soil geochemical survey - examples from the UK
Dr Barry Rawlins- UK Geological Survey
Wednesday 29 October at 11am
The Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) for Western US Rangelands: A National Project to Assess Impacts of US Conservation Programs
Dr Mark Nearing - Research Leader- USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Centre and McMaster Fellowship recipient
Venue: Pye Laboratory Conference Room, Black Mountain
Friday 31
October at 11am
On the theory relating
long-term change in actual and pan evaporation
Prof Jim Shuttleworth -
Director, The NSF Science and Technology Center for Sustainability
of
semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA), Tucson, Arizona, USA
Venue: CSIRO Discovery Centre
Friday 31 October at 2pm
Water transfers versus desalination: a case study in water management in Spain
Professor John Dracup- Professor of Graduate School, University of California Berkeley, USA
Venue: CSIRO Discovery Centre
Wednesday 26 November at 11 am
Regional investment for environmental outcomes using decision support frameworks - a comparison of SCaRPA (TOOLS2) and Landscape Logic approaches
Natasha Herron and Carmel Pollino - Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) and the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Wednesday 3 December at 11 am
Knowledge discovery from data mining of the ASRIS database: soil organic C
Elisabeth Bui- CSIRO Land and Water
Thursday 4 December at 11 am
The development of a new Global Digital Elevation Model, ACE2
Professor Philippa Berry - Faculty of Computing and Engineering, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Wednesday 10 December at 11 am
Making Sense of the new social contract for science
OCE Visiting fellow Dr Dirk Roux - Monash South Africa (and formerly CSIR South Africa) and Dr Richard Stirzaker - CSIRO Land and Water
Thursday 11 December at 11 am
Ecohydrology in a changing climate—examining trends in water availability, energy availability, and vegetation cover across Australia over the past quarter century
Randall Donohue - CSIRO Land and Water
Thursday 15 February 2007 at 11am
The US Army Corps of Engineers R&D program on System-Wide
Water Resources for water resource management
Steve Ashby, Research Hydrologist , US Army Corps of
Engineers
Friday 16 February 2007 at 11am
Upper Mississippi River Restoration: Striking a Balance Between
Navigation and Environmental Sustainability
John M. Nestler, Research Hydrologist ,
Eco-Hydrologist, Environmental Modeling and System-wide Assessment
Center, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Thursday 22 February 2007 at 11am
Household willingness to
pay to avoid drought water restrictions: a case study of Perth,
Western Australia
Sorada Tapsuwan - CSIRO Land and Water, Floreat, WA
Wednesday 7 March 2007 at 9am
Living in the Matrix and improving alignment between Flagship and
Divisional Objectives
Tom Hatton and Rob Vertessy
Wednesday 7 March 2007 at 11am
Alluvial sedimentation rates from southeastern Australia indicate
post-European settlement landscape recovery
Paul Rustomji & Tim Pleitsch - CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 28 March 2007 at 11am
The
lower Ord River: sediments, nutrients and primary production
Barbara Robson - Rivers and Coasts, CSIRO Land and Water
Thursday 29 March 2007 at 11am
Some reflections on
science and the regional approach to natural resource management
Mike Lee - General Manager, Australian Government Natural
Resource Management Team,
Departments of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the
Environment and Heritage
Wednesday 4 April 2007 at 11am
Towards Achieving Ecological Objectives in the Coorong
Ian Webster - CLW Rivers and Coasts
Wednesday 2 May 2007 at 11am
Confessions of an Environmental Chemist
Simon Apte - CLW Lucas Heights
Wednesday 16 May 2007 at 11am
Partitioning the effects of pine plantations and climate
variability on runoff from the Snowy catchment
Narendra Kumar Tuteja -
Dept of Environment and Climate Change (DECC), NSW
Wednesday 23 May 2007 at 11am
Towards assimilation of ocean colour satellite observation into
coastal ocean biogeochemical models: the tropical Fitzroy River
Estuary case study
Vittorio Brando - CLW ESPR
Thursday 24 May 2007 at 11am at CSIRO Discovery
Centre Lecture Theatre
Integrated water, carbon and nutrient cycling in forest and suburban
catchments
Prof Larry Band - Chair - Department of Geography, University of
North Carolina
Friday 25 May 2007 at 3pm at CSIRO Land and Water
Pye Laboratory (MAP)
CLLAMM-ecology Research Cluster - Progress to Date
Rebecca Lester, Research Associate, School of Biological
Sciences, Flinders University
Wednesday 30 May 2007 at 11am
Getting past the YUK factor – how do
Canberran’s feel about using
recycled water for drinking? A survey of staff:
for the
Student Research Scheme
Rose Davis, CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 13 June 2007 at 11am
Wildfire, soil
aggregation and downstream water quality
Will Blake, CSIRO Land and Water Visiting Scientist
from School of Geography, University of Plymouth, UK
Thursday 21 June 2007 at 11am
Murray Darling
Basin Sustainable Yields Project – an introduction to the Project
Methods
Bill Young, CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 27 June 2007 at 11am
Estimating fractional cover of photosynthetic vegetation,
non-photosynthetic vegetation and soil with remote sensing
Juan Pablo Guerschman, CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 11 July 2007 at 11am
New adventures in OSL
Tim Pietsch - Geomorphologist / OSL Laboratory
Manager, CSIRO Land and Water
Wednesday 1 August 2007 at 11am
Research investment priorities for the Victorian DPI and
opportunities for collaboration
Kimberley Dripps, Program Investment Manager, Victorian
Department of Primary Industries
Wednesday 8 August 2007 at 11am
Agriculture and
Greenhouse
Tom Denmead - CSIRO Land and Water Fellow
Wednesday 22 August 2007 at 11am
Students from 3 local Canberra schools present their findings
from their
Student Research Scheme
project entitled 'Getting past the YUK factor – how do
Canberrans feel about using
recycled water for drinking'
Friday 31 August 2007 at 11am
To what depths will pine trees go to take up groundwater?
Richard Silberstein
- CSIRO Land and Water
