Our Students

Our students are integral to the research undertaken by the CRC for Irrigation Futures and, through the education and mentoring of the next generation of researchers, produce a major legacy beyond the life of the current CRC. Our students are dispersed across the two main program areas. For information on what research is being undertaken by our students follow the links below.

System Harmonisation

Irrigation Toolkits

Graduated Dr Claudia Baldwin Integrating Values and Interests in Water Planning using a Consensus-building Approach Dr Matthew Berrisford Predicting and Storing Unutilised Irrigation Orders for Environmental Benefit Dr Peta Dzidic Influences of Worldviews, Values and Mythologies in Australian Rural Dr Amgad Elmahdi A Systems Approach to Improve Water Productivity and Environmental Performance at the Catchment Level Dr David Essaw Ownership in the Integrated Water Resources Management Planning Process: A cross country validation of Methods Dr Imogen Fullagar Conjunctive water management: Australian irrigator attitudes and practices, and implications for institutional arrangements Dr Diwakara Halanaik Sustainable Institutional Regimes for Sustainable Groundwater Management in India and Australia: Implications for water Policies Dr Ismail Hirsi Economics of Conjunctive Water Management Under Crop Salinity Tolerance Constraints Dr Avril Horne An approach to maximising outcomes from environmental water allocations Dr Tamara Jackson Minimising the environmental impact of irrigation systems through optimal energy and water use efficiency Dr Bart Kellett Navigating change in irrigation and water management systems of northern Australia: Resilience at the interface between policy and local practice Dr Ganesh Keremane Urban Wastewater Reuse For Agriculture: Governance Paradigms and Institutional Arrangements in Australia and India Dr Geoff Kuehne “The influence of values and attitudes towards family, land, water, community, lifestyle and profit on farmers’ behaviour” Ms Meagan Laidlaw Impacts of Water Reallocation in the Barwon-Darling Region: A farm-level case study of Toorale Station Mr Daniel Lovell Conjunctive management of groundwater and surface water resources in the Upper Ovens River Valley Dr Gayathri Devi Mekala An Economic Approach to Wastewater Treatment and Recycling Dr Michael Mitchell Triple bottom line reporting in irrigation: does it lead to enhanced sustainability? Mrs Lucy Reading Groundwater Recharge in the Lower Burdekin: Understanding the Impacts of Soil Amelioration Dr Jacqui Watt The effect of irrigation on surface and ground water interactions: quantifying time dependent spatial dynamics in irrigation systems. Senior Mr Eric de Regt The development of a Measurement System of Sustainability Factors for Irrigation Systems Ms Virginie Gillet Are water plans enhancing the social sustainability of irrigated areas? Mr Kris Latu Conjunctive Water Allocation Framework for Connected System Mr Steve Marchant Decision making on irrigation development proposals: New ways to make better decisions Mr John McVeigh Supply Chain Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Irrigation Practices Mr Tariq Rana Design of Policy Instruments to Capture Externally of Surface-Groundwater Interactions in Groundwater Dominant Irrigation Systems. Ms Melanie Schwecke Sustainable Use of Stormwater for Irrigation on Golf Course. Case Study: Manly Golf Course Mr Mark Shepheard Legal and Social Expectations for a Farmer's Duty of Care Recently enrolled

Graduated Dr David Deery Plant water uptake at the single plant scale: experiment vs. model Ms Viola Devasirvatham Improved lettuce establishment by subsurface drip irrigation Dr Bhakti-Lata Devi A Framework for Development and Evaluation of Policies and Programs for Urban Irrigation Demand Management Dr Younes Ezlit Leaching and non-steady non-uniform salinity concentration profiles under seasonably variable water quality and quantity Dr Malcolm Gillies Managing the Effect of Infiltration Variability on the Performance of Surface Irrigation Dr Bilal Hossain Precision Soil Mapping for Improved Irrigation Management Dr Amjed Hussain Quantifying the opportunity for precision irrigation associated with improved spatial and temporal management of water application Dr Kanya Khatri Toward Real Time Control of Surface Irrigation Dr Cheryl McCarthy Automatic non-destructive dimensional measurement of cotton plants in real-time by machine vision Dr Jyotiprakash Padhi Incorporating spatial variability in soil and crop properties for effective irrigation Mr Adam Sluggett Solute Dynamics in Advanced Fertigated Horticulture Mr Julian Paul Strudwick Soil salinity build up and expansion of recycled water use in the North Adelaide Plains Dr Michael Van Der Laan Modelling agricultural non-point source (NPS) nutrient pollution from point to catchment scale. Dr Simon White Partial rootzone drying and deficit irrigation in cotton for use under large mobile irrigation machines Senior Mr Goitom Adhanom Building simple and robust weak front detector for better irrigation management Mr Gavin Brink Autonomous systems for the optimal application of chemical monolayer to open water surfaces: design approach Mr Nick Car Informatics for Irrigation Decision Support Systems Mr Warren Conaty Thermal leaf optima for irrigation scheduling in cotton Mr Paul Coop Automatic sensing of evaporation suppressing films Mr Michael Grabham Performance Evaluation and Optimisation of Bankess Channel Surface Irrigation Systems Mr Michael Herzig Reducing water evaporation with novel monolayer materials Ms Belinda Kerridge Soil spatial variability effects on irrigation efficiency Ms Kim Mosse The effects of winery wastewater application on soil and plant health. Paiva Munguambe Nitrogen and Salt Leaching Management Strategies on Irrigated Salt-Affected Soils in the Chókwè Irrigation Scheme, Mozambique Mr Mark O'Connell Yield - water use relationships in perennial high value horticulture at farm - regional scales Mr Christopher O'Neill Water use efficiency, soil and irrigation variability of three irrigation methods in broad-acre agriculture Ms Amy Richards Managing rootzone salinity in premium, drip irrigated viticulture Michelle Winter Modelling the Performance of Monolayers on Channels Recently enrolled