Posted 26 May 2014
Ochre House artists' retreat at Fowlers Gap Research Station
The CWI groundwater monitoring project at the Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station near Broken Hill was officially launched on May 9.
The monitoring project, which is led by Professor Ian Acworth, the Gary Johnston Professor of Water Management in the Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre at UNSW, involves a network of nine observation bores.
Fowlers Gap is the only research station in the arid zone of NSW. Some areas of the property have been continuously monitored for more than 30 years, providing a unique, long-term ecological record of a dry region.
UNSW holds a lease in perpetuity on the property, which is an important site for teaching as well as research.
Artists, experts on kangaroos, birds and water resources, and senior UNSW staff including two Deputy Vice-Chancellors and two Deans converged there on the day in recognition of the artistic and scientific significance of the site.
Scientists in attendance included Emeritus Professor Terry Dawson, UNSW (kangaroos); Professor Ian Acworth, UNSW (water); Professor Andy Baker, UNSW (water); Associate Professor Simon Griffiths, Macquarie University (birds), Dr Steve McLeod, NSW Department of Industry and Investment (kangaroos).
Professor Andy Baker features in American Water Resources Association ‘Water Resources Impact’, September 2020 edition.
The Connected Waters Initiative (CWI) is pleased to welcome Taylor Coyne to its network as a postgraduate researcher. If you’re engaged in research at a postgraduate level, and you’re interested in joining the CWI network, get in touch! The CWI network includes multidisciplinary researchers across the Schools of Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Languages and Law.
The Grand Challenge on Rapid Urbanisation will establish Think Deep Australia, led by Dr Marilu Melo Zurita, to explore how we can use our urban underground spaces for community benefit.
On the 21 August 2020, CWI researchers made a submission to the National Water Reform Inquiry, identifying priority areas and making a number of recommendations as to how to achieve a sustainable groundwater future for Australia.
Results published from a research project between the Land Development Department (LDD) Thailand and UNSW has demonstrated how 2-dimensional mapping can be used to understand soil salinity adjacent to a earthen canal in north east Thailand (Khongnawang et al. 2020).