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Fengmei Ban

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Fengmei is visiting from the University of Finance and Economics in China. Fengmei's interests include karst hydrogeochemistry and the depositional mechanisms that form stalagmites. Fengmei will participate in cave monitoring fieldwork and conduct elemental analysis of stalagmites to help clarify the relationship between climatic signals within them and the conditions under which these stalagmites form.

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Dr Dioni Cendón
BSc UAB (Barcelona, Spain), PhD University of Barcelona (UB)

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Hydrogeochemistry of surface, groundwaters and evaporitic deposits, stable isotope geochemistry and analytical techniques.

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Dr Mark Cuthbert
MA Earth Sciences (Oxford University, UK); MSc Hydrogeology (University College London, UK); PhD Hydrogeology (University of Birmingham, UK)

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Mark’s research aims to improve understanding of groundwater flow and transport processes by combining innovative field data collection and modelling. Areas of current interest include:  groundwater recharge, groundwater - surface water interactions, groundwater and climate change, heat as a tracer, applied groundwater microbiology, and karst hydrology. Mark currently holds a Marie Curie Research Fellowship which has brought him to work with the CWI.

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Dr Stefan Eberhard
BSc, MSc UTAS, PhD Murdoch

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Stefan's research interests include groundwater ecology, stygofauna, caves and karst.  He joined UNSW as an affiliate in 2014 and is collaborating with Dr Martin Andersen on a research project investigating the ecology and biogeochemistry of the hyporheic zone of streams in northern NSW and southeast QLD. This two year research project funded by the Department of Environment aims to inform the assessment of ecohydrological responses to coal seam gas extraction and coal mining, especially the effect of groundwater drawdown on stream ecology.

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Ms Janice Gray

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Janice Gray lectures in Water Rights and Contemporary Policy, Land Law, Equity and Trusts, and Advanced Issues in Property at UNSW Law, UNSW Australia (formerly known as the University of New South Wales). She has published both nationally and internationally in these fields. Her co-authored book, Water Resources Law was published by LexisNexis in 2009 and a second edition is forthcoming. The third edition of her book J Gray (et al), Property Law in New South Wales was published in 2012. Her research has been cited by the High Court of Australia. In 2009, Ms Gray was a Visiting Scholar (elected) at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, England and a Visiting Scholar (selected) at the Centre for Socio Legal Studies, University of Oxford, England. In 2012, she was an Invited Researcher/ Visiting Scholar at Lameta, INRA, SupAgro (Grande Ecole), Montpellier, France where she continued her water law research. Prior to this Ms Gray has been a Visiting Professor at York University (Osgoode Hall), the University of Ottawa and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada as well as at the Universidade Pontificia Catolica do Rio Janeiro, in Brazil.

Dr Stuart Khan
BSc (Hons 1) USyd., PhD UNSW. MIEAust.

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Dr Khan is an active water researcher with a focus on chemical contaminants in drinking water, wastewater and recycled water. He is the leader of the Trace Chemical Contaminants research stream at the UNSW Water Research Centre. He is a member of the Water Quality Advisory Committee (WQAC) to the National Health and Medical Research Council. He is the leader of the 'Organic Chemical Contaminants' reference group of the WQAC and, in this role, he led the revision of all aspects involving organic chemical contaminants in the 2011 revision of the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines. Dr Khan has also made significant contributions to other Australian water quality guidelines, particularly the National Guidelines for Water Recycling.

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Dr Andrew McCallum
BE, BE, MEngSci, PhD

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Dr Karina Meredith
BSc (Hons), PhD

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Karina is a research scientist at ANSTO in the Isotopes for Water project. She is working in the fields of hydrochemistry, hydrogeology and isotope hydrology on a variety of projects located throughout Australia. Her research interests lie in applying a variety of stable, radiogenic and cosmogenic isotopic tracers to investigate groundwater resource sustainability and the suitability of aquifer systems as potential low resolution climate archives.

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Dr Darren Sinclair

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Darren Sinclair is a Visiting Fellow at the Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre. He is also a Research Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, at The Australian National University.

His expertise lies in the fields of water, environmental and safety regulation and governance. He has published many articles on these topics, and co-authored three books, Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy, Leaders and Laggards: Next Generation Environmental Regulation and Managing Mining Hazards: Regulation, Safety and Trust. He has been a consultant to various government agencies and industry bodies, including to the National Water Commission where he co-authored the report Water Efficiency Plans for Large and Small Enterprises.

Currently, he (together with his colleague, Cameron Holley) is engaged in a research Linkage Grant with the NSW Office of Water examining a range of water regulatory issues in the Murray Darling Basin, including compliance and enforcement. He is also engaged in research looking at community-based approaches to water governance.

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Dr Juan Castilla-Rho

Juan is a transdisciplinary systems modeller working at the interface of water resource management and computational social science. He designs and combines hydroinformatics, geocomputing, social simulation, data science, decision science, and scientific computing workflows using open-source tools to better understand the dynamics between people and the environment. Juan’s ongoing research focuses on developing interactive management flight simulators to improve the ability of stakeholders to reason, explain, design, communicate, and identify robust solutions in wicked problem situations. Juan also leads and facilitates collaborative modelling workshops to engage stakeholders in the co-production of scientific knowledge. Formerly a research scientist and groundwater modeller at the CSIRO, Juan worked for six years in the Atacama Desert for the Chilean Water Authority, water utilities and also as water engineering consultant, dealing with complex groundwater issues in one of driest regions in the world. 

Fang Bian
BSc (Top-Notch Class of Chemistry) Sichuan University

Research Interests 
Fang’s research aims to investigate environment-derived records to assess the climatic and environmental controls on speleothem archives. He focused on the trace element and isotope fluctuations to understand local effects such as wildfires on the growth of stalagmites to reconstruct past environmental changes.

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Mark Hocking 
BSc. (Geology & Environmental Science) Latrobe, MSc. (Geology) Latrobe, Grad Dip. (Gw Eng.) UTS 

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Mark is investigating the potential impacts of Coal Seam Gas (CSG) production on groundwater levels in the upper Condamine alluvium and the eastern portion of the Great Artesian Basin.  Research interests include; methods of hydrogeological conceptualisation, recharge estimation, groundwater simulation, paleoclimate impacts, groundwater response time. 

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