Cuan Petheram

Cuan Petheram is a hydrologist and principal research scientist at CSIRO, Australia and was the project leader of the CSIRO Bradfield Scheme Assessment. He has a BEng from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in groundwater hydrology with the CRC for Catchment Hydrology and University of Melbourne. Since joining CSIRO in 2004 Cuan has worked on many large water and agricultural resource assessment projects across northern Australia. Most recently he was the lead author on the Northern Rivers and Dams report (2014), an appendix to the Northern Australia White Paper (2015) and he was the joint project manager of the Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment (2016-2018) and the Flinders and Gilbert Agriculture Resource Assessment (2012-13).

Involved in:

• The Bradfield Scheme (November 2022)
• Webinar: Assessing the water and agricultural resources of northern Australia (June 2019)