Data
A window into some of the projects I lead or contribute to.
Long-Term Monitoring Data: Murray-Darling Basin
The Flow Monitoring, Evaluation and Research program (Flow-MER) monitors environmental outcomes from Commonwealth environmental water management in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Annual monitoring data from 2014 onwards are published openly to Data.gov.au building a valuable public resource of long-term species and environmental data.
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Monitoring and Research (Flow-MER) Project
Flow-MER is the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (CEWO) on-ground monitoring, evaluation and research program. The CEWO works in partnership with scientists across the Murray-Darling Basin to help understand how fish, birds, vegetation and river connectivity are responding to environmental watering.
I am the Ecosystem Diversity theme leader in the Basin-scale team. The Ecosystem Diversity evaluation identifies the number and types of river, estuary, wetland and floodplain ecosystems that are supported by Commonwealth environmental water management actions.
Over the 8-year period 2014–22, Commonwealth environmental water has supported 59 different ecosystem types representing 92% of the ecosystem diversity on the managable floodplain that is mapped by the Australian National Aquatic Ecosystem (ANAE) classification of the Basin.
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Riparian LiDAR change assessment and river mapping
This project is mapping river banks, the channel and riparian vegetation in GIS from aerial LiDAR data collected by Victoria's Department of Land, Water and Planning (DELWP).
LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. An aircraft mounted laser scans the landscape measuring the distance to the ground. Vegetation cover and structure is captured in the laser reflections that are above the ground.
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