08/08/2024
Navigating Career Pathways for Water Professionals
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The QWMN Water Chat series for 2024 "Connections along the Pipeline" has explored various roles of colleagues up and down the "water modelling pipeline", focussing on their connection needs with other professionals in Queensland. For our third chat in the series, we met online with John Ruffini, Director of Water Planning Sciences at the Department of Environment, Sciences and Innovation.
John holds more than 30 years experience in Queensland’s water sector, playing a number of key roles in water resource planning and model forecasts for catchment-scale water budgets that underpin the decision making forState water policy. Along the way, John has seen and participated in the ongoing evolution of technical and usable aspects of models in Queensland ensuring the outputs and forecasts match the needs of various users of the information. He has also been involved in various national working groups on the use of water planning models providing him with a sharp insight as to the various technological improvements being developed in the water modelling sector.
This conversation with John provides a perspective of the recent history of Queensland and National water reforms, the influence of the commodification of water in Australia and the impact of predicting for a climate-variable future.
Enjoy the playback, below.
This was the third of four in the 2024 Water Chat series which continues in May with guest speaker and hydrogeological researcher, Lucy Reading from Queensland University of Technology.
Please visit our booking page to reserve your place in this discussion.
