Natural Resources
NRE ENews - Research
Vol 1 May 2005
The NRE Academic staff have conducted research world-wide in diverse yet interrelated topics such as hydrology, water resources, erosion control, integrated catchment management, irrigation, flood prediction, restoration of mine sites, wetlands, ecological wastewater treatment and others. They are also involved with supervising a variety of postgraduate research students.
Thomas A. Cochrane
- Hydrologic modelling
- Sediment transport and soil erosion
- Integrated catchment management (water quantity, sediments, nutrients, and ecosystem responses)
- Remote sensing and GIS applications in natural resources engineering
Aisling D. O'Sullivan
- Construction of small-scale (on-site) wastewater treatment units
- Characterisation of contaminated ecosystems (including within the mining sector) and developing treatment strategies thereof
- Utilisation of waste products in fuelling ecological treatment technologies
- Restoration/Remediation Technologies for disturbed lands
Postgraduate research supervision
Mauricio Taulis: PhD (Associate)
Craig McCauley: PhD (Primary)
David J. Painter
- Water resource systems engineering
- Physical hydraulic modelling
- Seasonal flood prediction
- Floodplain flow modelling
Postgraduate research supervision
Peter Brown: PhD (Primary)
Andrew Dark: ME (Primary)
Yan ( Sarah) Zhou: ME (Primary)