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 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 Mr Ismail Hirsi Economic appraisal of conjunctive water management Dr Ganesh Keremane Urban Wastewater Reuse For Agriculture: Governance Paradigms and Institutional Arrangements in Australia and India Ms Jacqui Watt The effect of irrigation on surface and ground water interactions: quantifying time dependent spatial dynamics in irrigation systems. Senior Ms Claudia Baldwin Decision-making in Water Allocation and Use Mr Matthew Berrisford Feasible improvements in irrigation distribution systems including the effects of on-farm water storage Mr Eric de Regt The development of a Measurement System of Sustainability Factors for Irrigation Systems Ms Peta Dzidic Lessons from the North and the South: New Strategies for Improved Decision Making in Irrigation and Land Management Mr Amgad Elmahdi Changing Seasonality of Flows to Improve Water Productivity and Environmental Perforamnce at the Catchment Level Ms Virginie Gillet ARE WATER PLANS ENHANCING THE SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF IRRIGATED AREAS? Ms Avril Horne An approach to maximising outcomes from environmental water allocations Ms Tamara Jackson Minimising the environmental impact of irrigation systems through optimal energy and water use efficiency Mr Bart Kellett "Institutional arrangements and practices for learning and social-ecological resilience in irrigation and water management systems" Mr Geoff Kuehne Management response to reduced water entitlements Mr Daniel Lovell Exploring the Conjunctive management of groundwater and surface water resources in the Upper Ovens River Valley: Can utilisation of groundwater in periods of drought improve reliability of supply to users without reducing stream flows. 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 Ms Gayathri Devi Mekala An Economic Approach to Wastewater Treatment and Recycling Mr Michael Mitchell Triple bottom line reporting in irrigation: does it lead to enhanced sustainability? Mr Tariq Rana Design of Policy Instruments to Capture Externally of Surface-Groundwater Interactions in Groundwater Dominant Irrigation Systems. Mrs Lucy Reading Groundwater Recharge in the Lower Burdekin: Understanding the Impacts of Soil Amelioration Ms Melanie Schwecke Sustainable Use of Stormwater for Irrigation on Golf Course. Case Study: Manly Golf Course Mr Mark Shepheard The Practical Meaning of Duty of Care in Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture Recently enrolled Mr Kris Latu Conjunctive surface-groundwater allocation policy for connected systems to minimise productivity and environmental risks.

Graduated Dr Malcolm Gillies Managing the Effect of Infiltration Variability on the Performance of Surface Irrigation Dr Kanya Khatri Toward Real Time Control of Surface Irrigation 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 Nick Car Informatics for Irrigation Decision Support Systems Mr Warren Conaty Thermal leaf optima for irrigation scheduling in cotton Mr David Deery Understanding plant water relations to increase water use efficiency Ms Viola Devasirvatham Precision Application of Water and Nutrients for Peri-Urban Horticulture in Greater Western Sydney Ms Bhakti-Lata Devi Mapping and Understanding Urban Irrigation Water Use Mr Younes Ezlit Leaching and non-steady non-uniform salinity concentration profiles under seasonably variable water quality and quantity Mr Michael Grabham Performance Evaluation and Optimisation of Bankess Channel Surface Irrigation Systems Mr Michael Herzig Reducing water evaporation with novel monolayer materials Mr Bilal Hossain Precision Soil Mapping for Improved Irrigation Management Mr Amjed Hussain Quantifying the opportunity for precision irrigation associated with improved spatial and temporal management of water application Ms Belinda Kerridge Soil spatial variability effects on irrigation efficiency Mr Teck Fei Low Light Interception Image Analysis Ms Cheryl McCarthy Real-Time Sensing and Control for Large Mobile Irrigation Machines (LMIMs) 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 Mr Jyotiprakash Padhi Incorporating spatial variability in soil and crop properties for effective irrigation Ms Amy Richards Managing rootzone salinity in premium, drip irrigated viticulture Mr Michael Van Der Laan Modelling agricultural non-point source (NPS) nutrient pollution from point to catchment scale. Recently enrolled Mr Gavin Brink Autonomous electromechanical systems for the optimal application of chemical monolayer materials to open water surfaces Mr Paul Coop Automatic sensing of evaporation suppressing films Mr Roshan Singh Gill Ms Kim Mosse An investigation into the suitability of using winery wastewater for irrigation Mr Adam Sluggett "Understanding Solute Dynamics Under Advanced Fertigation of Citrus" Mr Julian Paul Strudwick Michelle Winter