Ted Gardner

Ted is currently a research fellow for Central Queensland University. He is a former Principal Research Scientist in the Integrated Urban Water Systems group where he lead, with Dr Ashok Sharma, Urban Water Security Research Alliance funded projects into decentralised technologies, and storm water harvesting and reuse in south-east Queensland. Ted was also Principal Scientist with the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, leading the Urban Water Cycle group at the Environment and Resource Sciences Division. He has had 40 years experience in the area of edaphology, irrigation and catchment hydrology/salinity, effluent reuse, and urban water sustainability. His special skill is systems thinking which he has applied to the urban water cycle over the last 15 years.