Dr Andrew Herczeg: improving our knowledge of water resources

Dr Andrew Herczeg is leading hydrogeochemistry and isotope hydrology research.

• 29 September 2009 | Updated 14 October 2011

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications 
• Achievements
• Professional activities

Current activities

Dr Andrew Herczeg currently leads the Hydrology Program at CSIRO Land and Water. 

His primary research areas include the application of environmental tracers to better understand groundwater flow systems and water quality.

Research topics of special interest have included:

• sources and mobilisation of salt in large semi-arid river basins
• application of geochemical tracers to a wide variety of hydrological problems
• palaeohydrology.

Background

Dr Herczeg joined CSIRO in 1988 as a research scientist after a three year postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

He was seconded to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria, from 2005 to 2006 to assist with developing new projects in the Water Resources Program.

Academic qualifications

Dr Herczeg has been awarded a:

• Bachelor of Science (Honours), from La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia, in 1977
• Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy from Columbia University, USA in 1981 and 1983
• Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, USA in 1985.

Achievements

Dr Herczeg is the author of 1 book, 68 journal articles, 120 reports, 5 book chapters and 111 conference papers.

Dr Herczeg has been an invited keynote speaker at several international conferences.

He was a member of a team that won the 2008 CSIRO Chairman's Medal for the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields project.

Professional activities

Dr Herczeg is a:

• Associate Editor of Water Resources Research and Applied Geochemistry
• Councillor, International Association of GeoChemistry
• Member of the American Geophysical Union.

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