Melbourne School of Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Grants: Hydrology

2005


STI Grant: Regional and Economic Benefits Through Smarter Irrigation, led by Professor John Langford, $1.5 million

Langford, 2005 CRC for eWater, $40.25 million

Malano, ACIAR Water Allocation in the Krishna River Basin to Improve Water Productivity in Agriculture, $1.2 million

Western, 2005 Salinity Processes in Lake Eyre Basin Rivers - CSIRO Collaborative, $34,000

Walker, 2005-2007 High resolution mapping of surface and root zone soil moisture - ARC Discovery, $667,000

Walker, 2005-2006 Assimilation of latent and sensible heat flux data into the CSIRO Biosphere Model - CSIRO Collaborative, $53,000

Western, Daily hydrological and erosion modelling utilising sub-daily rainfall intensity distributions - ARC Discovery, $270,000

Walker, 2005 Airborne laser scanning for advanced environmental monitoring - ARC LIEF, $338,000

Walker, 2005-2010 The Earth System Science Network, ARC Networks, $1.95 million

 

2004

Chiew, 2004 Hydroclimate variability and Melbourne's water resources, Melbourne Water $100,000

Chiew & Grayson, 2004 A tool for soil moisture mapping and forecast over Australia, CASS Foundation $49,000

Grayson, 2004-2006 Arid zone salt processes, ARC Discovery, $267,000

Grayson, 2004-2005 Impacts of Bushfire, DSE $500,000

Walker, 2004 The Australian Climate System Network, ARC-Networks $20,000

Walker, Grayson, Hacker, Kalma & Heron, 2004 A new airborne facility for environmental, hydrological, atmospheric and oceanic research: high resolution measurement of soil moisture, temperature and salinity. ARC-LIEF $657,000

Walker, Grayson & Parslow, 2004-2005 On the use of remote sensing data in bio-geo-chemical marine models. UoM CSIRO Collaborative Grant $56,000

 

2003

Chiew, 2003-2005 Climate variability program of Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology $1,250k.

Grayson & Hart, 2003-2004 NRM Risk Management . Land and Water Austrtalia $500k.

Grayson, McMahon, Walker & Western, 2003 Evapotranspiration and CO 2 flux monitoring. UoM Large Equipment Grant $51k.

Houser, Ni-Meister & Walker, 2003-2005 Optimal land initialisation for seasonal climate prediction, NASA NRA 01-OES-03 US$240k.

Walker, Grayson & Rodell, 2003-2005 Gravity changes, soil moisture and data assimilation. ARC-DP $277k.

Walker, 2003 Optimal land initialisation for seasonal climate prediction: brightness temperature assimilation. UoM Early Career Researcher Grant $24k.

Walker & Houser, 2003 Validation of the AMSR-E soil moisture product. UoM International Collaborative Grant $10k.

 

2002

Famiglietti, Houser, Walker, Olivera & Rodell, 2002-2004 A catchment-based global river routing scheme for climate models and assimilation of streamflow and altimetry data. NASA NRA 00-OES-07, US$165k.

Grayson, Kalma, Walker, Abuzar, Whitfield, McAllister & Maskey, 2002-2004 Use of remote sensing actual evapotranspiration estimates and water delivery data for assessing water use efficiency in an irrigated landscape. ARC-LP $148k.

Kalma, Willgoose, Walker, Houser & Woods, 2002-2004 Scaling and assimilation of soil moisture and streamflow. ARC-DP $235k.

Koster, Reichle, Reinecker, Suarez, Walker, & Houser, 2002-2004 Assimilation of satellite observations of the land surface in support of NASA's Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project. NASA NRA 00-OES-07, US$540k.

Malano, 2002-2003 Australian Center for International Agricultural Research $150k

Walker, 2002 Optimal land initialisation for seasonal climate prediction: brightness temperature assimilation. UoM Early Career Researcher Grant $8k.

Walker, 2002 Optimal land initialisation for seasonal climate prediction: soil moisture assimilation. UoM International Collaborative Grant $10k.

Western et al. 2002-2004 ALFS- Applications of Low Frequency SAR data. European Space Agency $50k.

 

2001

Chiew, 2001-2003 Establishing and testing a methodology for determining the exceedance probability of water levels and fluxes in complex estuarine systems. ARC-LP $187k.

Grayson et al. 2001-2004 Establishing and testing a methodology for determining the exceedence probability of water levels and fluxes in complex estuarine systems. ARC-SPIRT $530k.

Grayson et al. 2001-2003 Nutrient modelling from rainfed dairy areas. DRDC $60k.

Houser, Entin, Foster, O'Neill & Walker, 2001-2003 Global validation of EOS-AQUA land surface dynamics using data assimilation. NASA NRA 00-OES-03, US$300k.