Professor Ross Thompson

Basin-Scale Reflection: Professor Ross Thompson

What does the future hold for Flow-MER?

Kamilaroi (Indigenous) Knowledge and Methodologies to Inform Water Management

The aim is to shift the research paradigm away from Indigenous peoples being the researched, under non-Indigenous research methodologies, to becoming the researchers. This allows the Indigenous scientist to derive the terms, questions and priorities of what is being researched, how the community is engaged, and how the research is delivered.‍

Social and environmental challenges of scale in monitoring and evaluation

Large scale environmental monitoring and evaluation programs are increasingly common globally. As the scale of management and restoration increases a range of issues arise including cross-jurisdictional management, determining and enacting engagement at different scales and extrapolating outcomes. In large European rivers these have been approached in a range of ways, and the highlights of those programs will be extracted and compared to the approach taken in the Murray Darling Basin.

Keynote Presentation: Basin scale Findings, Insights and Implications

Scientific evaluation and research at the Basin scale has improved our understanding of large-scale aquatic ecosystem responses to water for the environment, while also reminding us of the complexity of the Murray-Darling Basin. With both the Water Act and Basin Plan reviews coming up, there has never been a more important time for robust science to demonstrate the effectiveness of water for the environment and the Flow-MER program is delivering this.

Moving beyond ‘just add water’: perspectives on the challenges, needs and opportunities for environmental flows for vegetation outcomes