QWMN Forum 2020 presentations

The below is a summary of the outputs from the QWMN Forum on 26-27 February 2020 at the Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre.

Resources

Presentations

Day 1 – plenary speakers

• Forum Opening – Paul Bertsch, Queensland Chief Scientist
• The Pipeline that enables water models to deliver – Tony Weber, National Leader Catchment Modelling, Alluvium Consulting
• How models can direct science and data needs – Mark Baird, Team Leader, Coastal Biogeochemical Modelling, CSIRO
• Data Wrangling to enable water models – Chris Dallimore, Technical Director,  HydroNumerics
• Building trust along the water model pipeline: Communication for awareness and engagement – Angela Dean, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Future Environments, QUT

Day 1 – water security presentations

• Managing risks to water supply continuity and assets from climate change:  Integrating model outputs to inform and guide key decisions – Emma O’Neill, Principal Policy Officer Sustainability and Advocacy, SEQ Water
• Groundwater management modelling and science – Sanjeev Pandey, Executive Director, Office of Groundwater Impact Assessment, DNRME
• Sourcing water modelling data: what are new emerging options? – Dejan Subaric, Hydrographic Support Unit, Director, DNRME
• Supporting climate adaptation planning in Queensland with high quality data and resources – David Putland, Principal Policy Officer, Adaptation, Climate Change and Sustainable Futures, DES

Day 1 – urban water and liveability presentations

• Securing the values of a water sensitive City through priority actions determined by monitoring and modelling – Anna Hollingsworth, Catchment Co-ordinator, City of Gold Coast
• Determining key water metrics to design, evaluate and model urban infill options – Steven Kenway, Research Group Leader, Water Energy Carbon, The University of Queensland
• Real time data capture for flood forecasting – Juliette Murphy, CEO, FloodMapp
• Communicating the future on climate change – connecting projections to adaptation action – Jacqui Willcocks, Science Leader, Grazing Land Systems, DES

Day 1 – landscape restoration presentations

• Building a strategic regional NRM plan – Lucy Richardson, Senior Project Officer, SQ Landscapes
• How mathematical modelling can be useful to better define performance and restoration options for gullies – Melanie Roberts, QWMN Research Fellow, Griffith University
• Striking the right data need for a model: simple vs complex in catchment and agricultural settings – Afshin Ghahramani, Research Fellow, USQ
• Engage decision makers – focus on the user experience – Tory Grice, UX Lead, Truii

Day 2 – plenary speakers

• Customers at the centre: Linking observations, science and models for decision making – Robert Argent,  General Manager Water, BoM
• Water Modelling Sector Advancements in Queensland – Jean Erbacher, Program Manager, Office of Great Barrier Reef, DES and Stephen Potts, Director, DES

Day 2 – futures presentations

• Smart urban water systems – Zhiguo Yuan, Director, UQ Advanced Water Management Centre
• Remote sensing and water modelling – a 5 year outlook – Tim J Malthus, Research Group Leader, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
• Impacts of climate change on river flooding in a subtropical Australian catchment – Rohan Eccles, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
• Coupling calibrated radar rainfall and distributed rain on grid modelling techniques to maximise the value of hydraulic simulations in rural and urban catchments – Tony McAlister, Director, and Alister Daly, Group Manager Water Resources, Water Technology

Day 2 – enabling models presentations

• Prioritisation in reef restoration investment – the role of modelling inputs – Steve Skull, Queensland Manager, Alluvium Consulting
• Connecting science, modelling and policy development in water planning – David Wiskar, Executive Director, DNRME
• Alignment and collaboration efforts in the NSW Modelling and Monitoring Hub – Ed Couriel, Director MHL, NSW DPIE
• Harnessing professional communities for model development – Chantal Donnelly, Unit Head of Water Investigations, BoM
• Model evolution through improved and connected catchment processes resulting in finer scale water quality predictions – Paul Maxwell, Science Director, Alluvium Consulting
• A Sunshine Coast waterways case study – Adapting regional models to develop tailored local catchment targets – Graham Webb, Aquatic Ecologist, Sunshine Coast Council

Day 2 – demonstrations

• Urban Water Management Tools
  • Chris Tanner CRC WSC
  • Luke McPhail, Water Technology
  • Sajed Iftekhar, Griffith University
• Visualisation
  • Thom Saunders Program Manager, QUT
  • Lindsay Bradford Senior Software Engineer, Griffith University