2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/23/2019 | 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | TRANSLATING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS SCIENCE INTO MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS: THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN, AUSTRALIA | 250 CF
TRANSLATING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS SCIENCE INTO MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS: THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN, AUSTRALIA
In Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, environmental flows being delivered under The Basin Plan are often ‘actively managed’ allowing targeted delivery of environmental water. This provides the opportunity to improve the efficiency of water use over time. The Long-Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) and Environmental Water Knowledge and Research (EWKR) projects are delivering the knowledge needed to improve environmental water outcomes. In the Goulburn River, south-east Australia, the translation of this knowledge into management decisions is taking place through a science management partnership of the monitoring team and water managers. We have found that the most effective transfer of information takes place through personal linkages that can transmit new knowledge much faster than the official annual reporting cycle. The emergence of similar stories from elsewhere across the Murray-Darling Basin has underscored the importance of investing in the social processes necessary to translate science into management. To that end the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office has provided additional funds to seed improved collaboration within and across the groups undertaking LTIM and EWKR. This is an important step for improving the integration of the science and management of environmental flows to allow improved translation into practice.
- Environmental Regulation
- Fish
- Geomorphology
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Angus Webb
(), The University of Melbourne, angus.webb@unimelb.edu.au;
Dr Angus Webb is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He originally trained as a marine ecologist before moving into the study and restoration of large-scale environmental problems in freshwater systems. Much of his research centers on improving the use of the existing knowledge and data for such problems. To this end he has developed innovative approaches to synthesizing information from the literature, eliciting knowledge from experts, and analyzing large-scale data sets. He is heavily involved in the monitoring and evaluation of ecological outcomes from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan environmental watering, leading the program for the Goulburn River, Victoria, and advising on data analysis at the basin scale. Angus is currently a co-editing a major new text book on environmental flows science and management. He was awarded the 2013 prize for Building Knowledge in Waterway Management by the River Basin Management Society, and the 2012 Australian Society for Limnology Early Career Achievement Award.
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Simon Casanelia
(), Goulburn-Broken Catchment Management Authority, simonc@gbcma.vic.gov.au;
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Geoff Vietz
(), Streamology/University of Melbourne, geoff@streamology.com.au;
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Wayne Koster
(), Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, wayne.koster@delwp.vic.gov.au;
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