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Webinar: Assessing the water and agricultural resources of northern Australia
Science informing policy, regulation and investment decisions
About
To improve the confidence of investors and regulators and help inform public funding initiatives in northern Australia, the Australian Government commissioned CSIRO to lead a 2.5 year, multi-disciplinary, Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment involving over 120 scientists. Recently completed, this webinar provides an overview of the comprehensive water and agricultural resource findings and highlight broad learnings, many of which are also applicable globally.
Presenters
Cuan Petheram
CSIRO
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 ... Read more
Andrew Ash
CSIRO
Dr Andrew Ash is a Chief Research Scientist in CSIRO Agriculture. He has 30 years research experience in climatically variable tropical rangelands and agricultural systems in northern Australia and so... Read more
Chris Chilcott
CSIRO
Dr Chris Chilcott is the CSIRO Land and Water Deputy Director and leads CSIRO’s work on developing Northern Australia based at the Darwin laboratory. He is responsible for facilitating strategic, mu... Read more
Marcus Barber
CSIRO
Marcus Barber is an environmental anthropologist with CSIRO Land and Water. He has over 15 years field research experience with Aboriginal Australians, focused on contemporary cultural and natural res... Read more
