Mr Warrick Dawes

Mr Warrick Dawes: modelling salt and water balances

Mr Warrick Dawes is developing salt and water balance models for surface water and groundwater systems at local and basin scales.

• 30 August 2010 | Updated 14 October 2011

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Achievements

Current activities

Mr Warrick Dawes is currently working on assessing the amount of groundwater recharge across Australia, and its response to possible climate change in 20, 50 and 100 years' time.

He is also modelling the stream flow from water supply catchments in the hills around Perth, Western Australia; examining how this has changed over the last 35 years and how it might further change with an altered climate or with different forest management regimes.

Background

Mr Dawes is a Project Scientist in the Groundwater Hydrology research group of CSIRO Land and Water.

He joined CSIRO in 1990 after working for the Australian Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology and as a technologist for Rockwater.

His main research interests are in coding and testing computer models of salt and water balance at scales from point to whole of basin, for both above and below ground processes.

He has extensive experience in solution of the non-linear Richards Equation in soil, groundwater flow systems in one, two and three-dimensions, and the simplification of system responses.

Academic qualifications

Mr Dawes has been awarded a Bachelor of Applied Science Maths and Computing in 1986.

Achievements

Mr Dawes has authored over 25 scientific papers, six conference papers and 31 technical reports.

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