Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM)
People
Academic Staff:
PROFESSOR TONY JAKEMAN, iCAM Director
Research Interests: Integrated assessment, hydrological modelling and environmental education and training.
Contact: tony.jakeman@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 4742
DR BARRY CROKE, Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Hydrological and water quality modelling, particularly in ungauged catchments.
Contact: barry.croke@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 0666
DR WENDY MERRITT, Research Fellow
Research Interests: Environmental modelling, natural resource management, decision support systems, water resources
Contact: wendy.merritt@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 7762
DR JENIFER TICEHURST, Research Fellow
Research Interests: Sustainable agricultural systems - responses and management, decision support systems for natural resource management, catchment hydrology
Contact: jenifer.ticehurst@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 6751
DR SONDOSS EL SAWAH, Fellow
Research Interests: Development of integrated assessment and Decision Support Systems for water resource management
Contact: sondoss.elsawah@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 9021
DR BAIHUA FU, Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Integrated assessment and modelling, particularly in the area of water quality and water resources management
Contact: baihua.fu@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 6751
DR CHRIS THOMPSON, Research Fellow
Research Interests: Channel morphology, bedload transport, road runoff and erosion and GIS
Contact: christopher.thompson@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 6845
DR MARIAN PATRICK, Research Fellow
Research Interests: Sustainability, water conflict management, environmental and social justice and the influence of scale in shared/common pool resources
Contact: marian.patrick@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 0659
DR ANDREW ROSS, Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Integrated surface water and groundwater management, water governance, aquifer storage and recovery, environmental policy integration and ultilevel governance
Contact: a.ross@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 6771
DR MASUD HASAN, Postdoctoral Fellow
Contact: masud.hasan@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6125 0664
PROFESSOR JOHN NORTON, Visiting Fellow
Research Interests: Dynamic systems modelling, environmental modelling, uncertainty handling and assessment in complex models of dynamical systems, identification and state estimation
Contact: john.norton@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 6751
DR CHRISTOBEL FERGUSON, Adjunct Fellow
Research Interests: Pathogen modelling for drinking water catchments, pathogen risk assessment and catchment water quality and source protection
Contact: cferguson@ecowise.com.au
Ph: + 61 (0)2 4721 3477
DR DAVID POST, Visiting Fellow
Research Interests: Regionalisation of hydrological response
Contact: david.post@csiro.au
Ph: +61 (0)2 6246 5751
General Staff:
PETER MANGER, Software DeveloperPeter has worked in software development since 1995. Peter joined iCAM in August 2007. Peter is part of the software development team that builds decision support systems, databases, web sites and generally helping out with software development advice.
Contact: Peter.Manger@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 9020
ANDREW HICKS, Software Developer
Andrew works on the development of data modelling and simulation, and Decision Support Systems. He is also involved in the areas of Geographic Information Systems, data visualisation and user experience design.
Contact: Andrew.Hicks@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 8132
TAKUYA IWANAGA, Software Developer
Takuya joined the Fenner School at the Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (iCAM) as a software developer. Primary roles include web development, graphic design and website maintenance.
Contact: Iwanaga.Takuya@anu.edu.au
AMBROSE ANDREWS, Software Developer
Ambrose manages various pieces of software development infrastructure, and writes application codes. Ambrose is also enrolled part-time in an undergraduate science program at the ANU.
Contact: Ambrose.Andrews@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 6749
MONICA PATON, Centre Administrator
Monica provides general administrative support to iCAM’s staff, students, and visitors. She liaises with wider Fenner School administration as well as various external parties.
Contact: monica.paton@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 0652
MICHELE LAMB, Project Officer
Michele coordinates the activities to manage and implement a program of interrelated water resource projects from inception to completion. This includes the monitoring of each project to ensure that project deliverable are met within deadline and budget.
Contact: Michele.Lamb@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 6934
DARIO MAVEC, Research Assistant
Dario works as a research assistant, aiding students and academics with data analysis and manipulation. His work focuses on the statistical elements of working with data.
Contact: Dario.Mavec@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 9015
BRENDAN PATCH, Research Assistant
Brendan is part of a multidisciplinary team that is examining the impacts of meso-scale watershed development in Andhra Pradesh. His work focuses on the development of a bayesian network model for social survey data.
Contact: Brendan.Patch@anu.edu.au
Students:
KEVIN JEANES, PhD Candidate
Kevin’s research focuses on the impact of forest cover removal upon catchment response characteristics in humid tropical river basins in West Sumatra, Indonesia. His background is in tropical environmental and ecological research, land and water and biodiversity conservation within the international development aid sector. His current professional interest is in tropical rainfall-runoff modelling, hydrology data management and time series analysis.
Contact: Kevin.Jeanes@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 2706
EMILY BARBOUR, PhD Candidate
Emily’s research interests are in management of regulated river systems using integrated modelling. She focuses specifically in the use of multi-objective optimisation and ecological models combined with river system models, to estimate the most efficient way of delivering water to the environment and other water uses, and explore the trade-offs between different objectives.
Contact: Emily.Barbour@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 9015
MUHAMMAD ARSHAD, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
Muhammad’s research assesses the potential of Managed Aquifer Recharge under major flood events in the lower Namoi valley of NSW, Australia. His study aims to investigate technical suitability and economic efficiency of MAR for the agriculture sector at the catchment scale. His research will include an investigation of key parameters of site and aquifer suitability for Managed Aquifer Recharge projects and the development of an integrated hydro-economic framework model for the feasibility of MAR project for the agriculture sector.
Contact: Muhammad.Arshad@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 9015
RACHEL BLAKERS, PhD Candidate
Many people are unaware of the importance of groundwater, which provides more than 20% of the water used in Australia. Surface water (lakes, rivers, streams) and groundwater are often though of as being separate resources but in many catchments they represent a single connected system. Rachel’s PhD project aims to develop a model of surface and groundwater interactions in the Namoi Catchment, located in northern New South Wales. The model will contribute to a project assessing social, economic and ecological impacts of scenarios including a varying climate, water policy options and adaptations in land management practises.
Contact: Rachel.Blakers@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 9015
JOSEPH GUILLAUME, PhD Candidate
Joseph is a PhD student with the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training. His project is concerned with the management of uncertainty in decision making, with a particular focus on using integrated modelling to support water allocation planning. His research interests include how best to quantify uncertainty in predictions, how to develop models that answer decision makers' questions, and how to cope with uncertain science in complex environmental problems.
Contact: Joseph.Guillaume@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 9015
MUN-JU SHIN, PhD Candidate
Mun-Ju’s research interests are in hydrological modelling, particularly in the area of surface water quantity. His work involves the assessment of models, evolutionary algorithms for calibration, uncertainty analysis of input data and hydrological models using event analysis, input data management and pattern analysis for prediction of future climate change. Mun-Ju’s project investigates these issues in relation to the seven water catchments in the ACT, Australia.
Contact: Mun-ju.Shin@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 9015
XIAOYING (Cheryl) SUN, PhD Candidate
The research has a focus on current understanding of channel process and adjustment to hydrological variability, including the channel extraction model parameterisation, assessment and uncertainty/sensitivity analysis. The research also advances the application of existing channel extraction models by reviewing long-term gauging station data and developing a terrain and hydrological model for identifying drainage networks in Australian watersheds.
Contact: u4264230@anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (0) 2 6125 9015
