| Project | University of Adelaide Researchers | Research Partners | Funding |
| Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Ecology |
Assoc Prof Mike Geddes (Director), Assoc Prof Justin Brookes (Theme Leader), Assoc Prof David Paton (Theme Leader), Assoc Prof Bronwyn Gillanders, Assoc Prof Keith Walker, Assoc Prof Assoc Prof George Ganf, Dr Peter Gell, Dr Russell Shiel |
Peter Fairweather, Sabine Dittman, Simon Benger, Jim Mitchell (Flinders University), Jason Tanner, Jason Nicol, Qifeng Ye, Milena Fernandes, Sasi Nayar, Maylene Loo (SARDI), Sebastien Lamontagne (CSIRO Land and Water), Mike Burch (SA Water), Russell Seaman (DEH), Graeme Harris (University of Tasmania), Anthony Cheshire (SARDI) |
$2,195,861 from CSIRO Collaboration Fund, $5.3M in matching from collaborating institutions |
| Resource Optimisation Framework for the Upper South East |
Prof Holger Maier, Prof Graeme Dandy (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Assoc Prof George Ganf (Environmental Biology), Dr Marcus Lane (Geography) |
Rebecca Doble (CSIRO), Darren Willis, Penny Everingham (DWLBC) |
$430,000 ARC Linkage grant, $174,000 DWLBC, $1.4M matching in-kind contribution from DWLBC |
| Overcoming Subsoil Constraints |
Dr Cameron Grant, Dr Rob Murray, Assoc Prof David Chittleborough (Soil and Land Systems) |
Wilhelm (SARDI), James Hall, David Maschmedt (DWLBC) |
$410,000 Centre for Natural Resource Management |
| Water Management and Wetland Protection in Aboriginal Lands |
Dr David Lewis (Chemical Engineering), Assoc Prof Justin Brookes (Environmental Biology) |
DWLBC |
$135,000 from the Alinytjara Wilurara Natural Resource Management Board, $320,000 from DWLBC |
| Design & implement monitoring program (environmental water provisions) for western Mt Lofty Ranges catchments |
Dr Kane Aldridge, Assoc Prof Justin Brookes, Dr Brian Deegan (Environmental Biology), Dr Peter Gell, Dr John Tibby (Geography and Environmental Sciences) |
Paul McEvoy, Darren Hicks, Sally Maxwell (SA Water), Dale McNeil, Qifeng Ye, Jason Nicol (SARDI) |
$150,000 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board, and DWLBC |
| Coorong Paleolimnology |
Dr Peter Gell and Dr John Tibby (Geography & Environmental Science) |
DWLBC |
$149,220 from ARC Linkage with DWLBC |
| Guidance Manual for Reservoir Management |
Assoc Prof Justin Brookes (Environmental Biology) |
Australian Water Quality Centre |
CRC Water Quality and Treatment |
| A scientifically defensible predictive management tool for drain M and Lake George in the South East |
Dr Peter Gell (Geography & Environmental Science), Dr Andrew Coyle (Applied Mathematics) & Assoc Prof Justin Brookes (Environmental Biology)
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Dr Qifeng Ye & Dale McNeil (SARDI) |
Total funding of $331,200 including $267,740 cash from Centre for Natural Resource Management, DWLBC, plus cash and in-kind support from South Eastern Water Conservation and Drainage Board, South East Catchment Water Management Board, Department for Environment and Heritage, Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation, SARDI, PIRSA Fisheries, Upper South East Dryland Salinity and Flood Management Program |
| Nutrient analysis in the River Murray |
Dr David Lewis (Chemical Engineering) |
EPA, SA Water |
$30,000 from EPA, SA Water, SAMDB NRM Board |
| Potential biological control of two weeds, gorse and broom, by a native parasitic plant, Cassytha pubescens |
Assoc Prof Jose Facelli, Dr Jennifer Watling (Environmental Biology) |
John Virtue (DWLBC)
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$119,000 from ARC Linkage with the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board |
| New approaches for protecting stream health in temperate Australia: Devising nutrient and salinity guidelines using diatoms |
Dr Peter Gell and Dr John Tibby (Geography & Environmental Science) |
P. Leahy (Monash University) |
$73,950 from ARC Linkage with support from EPA in SA and Victoria |
| Scoping a River Murray hydrodynamic and water quality model |
Assoc Prof Justin Brookes (Environmental Biology) |
Assoc Prof Mike Burch (SA Water), Centre for Water Research (UniWA) |
$30,000 from SAMDB NRM Board, with support from SA Water, DWLBC, EPA |
| Sensitivity Analysis of Models used to predict the effects of policy decisions on salinity levels in the River Murray |
Prof Holger Maier & Prof Graeme Dandy (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
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DWLBC, MDBC |
$95,370 from Centre for Natural Resource Management, DWLBC as well as ARC Linkage with DWLBC and MDBC |
| Paleo-ecological assessment of the Blue Lake, Stradbroke Island |
Dr Jennie Fluin, Dr Peter Gell and Dr John Tibby (Geography & Environmental Science) |
DNRW |
Dept. Natural Resources and Water, Queensland |
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Australian Ecosystem Observation Network: Chowilla and Connected Ecosytems Observation Supersite
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Prof Wayne Meyer (University of Adelaide), Prof Andy Lowe (DEH & University of Adelaide) |
Duncan Mackay (Flinders University), Andrew Parfitt (UniSA), Stephanie Williams (CNRM/DWLBC), Glen Weir (PIRSA) |
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (in prep) |
| Water Environment Biotechnology Laboratory (WEBL) |
Assoc Prof Bo Jin |
Research staff from SA Water, School of Chemical Engineering, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, School of Food, Agriculture and Wine. |
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