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Murray-Darling Basin Authority / National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training : Strategic Groundwater Research Partnership Final Report
Flinders University / National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training
2019
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Abstract
The MDBA-NCGRT Strategic Groundwater Research Partnership was a three year, $2 million research program funded by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority between 2015 and 2018. Its overarching goal was to undertake strategic research in support of enhanced groundwater knowledge and management in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). It has examined critical science issues in three thematic priority areas, namely:
• SW-GW Connectivity: improving knowledge and predictive capacity at the regional scale in the MDB;
• Groundwater Recharge: increasing our understanding of MDB recharge processes with a strong emphasis on improving recharge estimation and predictions techniques, and quantifying and managing uncertainty in recharge estimation;
• Socioeconomics and Integration: identifying the socioeconomic factors that will improve water management in the MDB, including factors such as conjunctive use; building tools and approaches in a participatory relationship that facilitates the integration of important biophysical and social models, knowledge and data.
Research on these issues was advanced through a range of modelling and field-based projects. A focus case study was chosen to be in the Campaspe in north-central Victoria. Some activities were also undertaken in the Murrumbidgee catchment. Many of the approaches and findings presented in this report, and associated papers and reports, are based on work in the Campaspe region. We anticipate that many of the approaches developed here will be applicable in and transferable to many parts of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Details
- Title
- Murray-Darling Basin Authority / National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training : Strategic Groundwater Research Partnership Final Report
- Creators
- Craig Trevor Simmons - Flinders UniversityOkke Batelaan - Flinders UniversityPeter G Cook - Flinders UniversityRussell S Crosbie - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationAllan Curtis - Charles Sturt UniversityAnthony Jakeman - Australian National UniversityBarry Croke - Australian National UniversityDan J Partington - Flinders UniversityYueqing Xie - Flinders UniversitySaskia Noorduijn - Flinders UniversityJenifer Ticehurst - Australian National UniversityBaihua Fu - Australian National UniversityWendy Merritt - Australian National UniversityEmily Mendham - Charles Sturt UniversityCamille Bouchez - National Centre for Groundwater Research and TrainingRuirui Zhu - Australian National UniversityFateme Zare - Australian National UniversityMichael Asher - Australian National UniversitySunail Hasnain - Australian National UniversityTakuya Iwanaga - Australian National UniversityMelissa Wales - Australian National UniversityRoyce Sample - Charles Sturt UniversityNicholas James White - Flinders University
- Publisher
- Flinders University / National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training
- Number of pages
- 38
- Identifiers
- 9781925562316; 991013184209702368
- Copyright
- © 2019 Flinders University / National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report