Dr Luk Peeters: groundwater modeller

Dr Luk Peeters uses groundwater models to improve the understanding of regional groundwater flow systems and to assess the uncertainty associated with groundwater flow predictions.

International Day for Biological Diversity 2013

22 May is the International Day for Biological Diversity and the 2013 theme is Water and Biodiversity.

Ms Tanya Doody: investigating vegetation health and water use

Ms Doody’s research uses modelling to predict water management options for floodplain vegetation health.

Great Barrier Reef catchment systems: exploring land management options to protect the Reef

This Water for a Healthy project is supporting the Reef Water Quality Protection Plan by developing tools which will allow decision-makers to look at the social, economic and environmental implications of different policy and management interventions.

Improving water quality in the Great Barrier Reef

CSIRO, through the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, is undertaking research to underpin the effective management of water quality in the Great Barrier Reef.

Mr Craig Roy: Deputy Chief Executive, Science, Strategy and People

As Deputy Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Mr Roy's responsibilities include leading the development and execution of the organisation's strategy and the National Research Flagships Program, and ensuring the global competitiveness of CSIRO's science.

Murray-Darling Basin Multiple Benefits Project

CSIRO was commissioned by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to assess the environmental benefits of returning 2800 GL/year of water to the basin, and place a monetary value on those benefits where possible.

Dr Rosalind Bark: synthesising socio-economic research in policy analysis

Rosalind's primary research interests range in scale from river basin water reform to the valuation of water-dependent ecosystem services and encompass Indigenous water needs, governance and risk.

Dr Dean Revell: leading livestock research

Dr Revell's research explores how to manage livestock for adaption to particular nutritional and environmental conditions.

Water Information Research and Development Alliance

Improving the management of Australia’s water resources through the delivery of value-added water information products.

Dr Peter Hairsine: Deputy Chief, Science Development

Dr Peter Hairsine’s research areas include sediment transport in agricultural and forested landscapes and mitigation strategies for improving water quality.

Reports on Water in the Gulf of Carpentaria Drainage Division

On this page you will find all the reports from the Gulf of Carpentaria Drainage Division for the Northern Australia Sustainable Yields Project.

Integrated Water Resources Management Theme

Research from this Water for a Healthy Country Flagship theme aims to improve the social, economic and environmental benefits from water resources management.

Climate Adaptation Flagship

Enabling Australia to adapt more effectively to the impacts of climate change and variability and informing national planning, regulation and investment decisions.

Darwin: Berrimah, NT (Darwin laboratory)

The CSIRO Darwin laboratory provides a focus for ecological and socioeconomic research underpinning sustainable land management in northern Australia. It is also home to a CSIRO Science Education Centre.

Water Information Research and Development Alliance: Achievements

This brochure describes the key achievements of the Water Information Research and Development Alliance in its first four years (8 pages).

Hydrologists workbench

The Hydrologists Workbench project is developing tools to automate common workflow processes to access, calibrate and use hydrological models and data.

Dr Manh Hoang: developing new membrane technology for desalination

Dr Manh Hoang leads a project to improve technology for extracting pure water from industrial, brackish and salt water resources.

What's in Our Water Symposium October 2013 (02 Oct 2013)

The fourth symposium in the Australasian Symposium Series on Ecological Risk Assessment and Management of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in the Australasian Environment will be held in Melbourne in October 2013.

Salty waste a potentially sweet deal

Using desalination plants’ hyper-saline discharge in solar salt fields could increase production and halve the space required by conventional salt fields, research that uses technoeconomics is finding.

Industrial and Urban Groundwater Contaminants stream

Understanding the behaviour and impact of contaminants in industrial and urban groundwater environments and developing advanced techniques for contaminant monitoring and remediation.

Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment

CSIRO is reappraising the water resources of the Great Artesian Basin, which underlies about one-fifth of the Australian continent.

Water in the Resources Sector Stream

Providing tools and methodologies to enable governments, communities and the resources sector to predict and manage impacts and risks of mining and gas development on surface and groundwater resources.

Water for a Healthy Country

Addressing the sustainable management of Australia's water resources.

Indigenous socio-economic values and river flows

CSIRO worked with their partners to describe in detail how Indigenous people value water to better inform water management planning.