Mr Peter Fitch: researching environmental information systems

Mr Peter Fitch is working to develop environmental information systems that will deliver our research and facilitate better management of our natural resources.

• 11 September 2009 | Updated 14 October 2011

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

Current activities

Mr Peter Fitch is currently leading activities to develop a:

• reference architecture for a hydrological sensor web
• prototype hydrological modelling system to deliver continental scale water balances and assessments.

He is also working on the development of evolvable environmental information systems using web technologies and model driven approaches.

Research topics of special interest have included:

• web environmental information system architectures and components
• development of web enabled measurement systems that deliver data directly to users
• in-situ measurement system design and optimisation for monitoring of water quality and constituent fluxes.

Background

Mr Fitch is an engineer with extensive research and industry experience in environmental web systems, measurement and instrumentation.

Mr Fitch has previously worked with data sharing technologies, in situ-measurement systems, nutrient load estimation techniques and sensor webs.

He has over 15 years of experience in the area of in-situ measurement and played a key role in the development of the Aqualab in-situ nutrient monitor.

Academic qualifications

Mr Fitch has been awarded a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) from James Cook University, Queensland, Australia in 2003.

Achievements

Mr Fitch is the author of:

• 6 journal articles
• 8 reports
• 3 book chapters
• 11 conference papers.

Professional activities

Mr Fitch is a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

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