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Forest Hydrology at Melbourne

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 429 859 384

Address: Union Rd, Parkville Campus 3010 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://ecosystemforest.unimelb.edu.au

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25.01.2022 https://theconversation.com/freak-mud-flows-threaten-our-wa

25.01.2022 https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au//bushfires-and-storms-threa

25.01.2022 http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au//research-fellow-in-ecohydrology A new Post-doc opportunity in ecohydrology research within our Forests and Water Research group.

25.01.2022 Expressions of interest for some casual Research Assistant work in our group...

24.01.2022 Fieldwork in beautiful places. At Wilson Promontory National Park last November looking for charcoal in colluvium. Lots of landslides and big debris flows after heavy rains in 2011.

24.01.2022 Fieldwork in beautiful places 2. Warrumbungle National Park, March 2017. Debris flows after wildfire and thunderstorms in 2013. Being an old shield volcano (~15 million years old) this provides a very interesting geologic setting and something different to what we typically see further south.

23.01.2022 Shyanika and Richard download Shyanika's first sapflow data. The sap velocity in individual trees is measured every 15min by tracking the passage of a pulse of heat from probes in the tree trunk. This can be converted into a transpiration rate for the tree, and then scaled up to estimate the water use of an entire forest stand using a survey of tree sizes and sapwood area measurements from tree cores.

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Petter Nyman, one of our groups Post-docs, on his new research paper out this week in Geology journal linking debris flows with Enso cycles in south eastern Australia. Not an easy journal to get into - Geology is the highest ranked geological sciences journal in the world for the last 13 years. Quite an achievement! https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org//debris-flows-in-southeas

22.01.2022 https://www.seek.com.au/job/32662497

21.01.2022 ...oh, and equally impressed by the Munich standing wave surfing demonstration (see the video!). Will have to try that one on my next visit to TUM!

20.01.2022 Interesting Forest Science Post-Doc opportunity... https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi

20.01.2022 Welcome to Jamie Burton, another of our new Master of Forest and Ecosystems Science project students for 2018. Jamies research project is testing the theory that forest types that may replace Mountain Ash in a more fire-prone future, such as Acacia forest or scrub/shrubland, may in-turn be more flammable, resulting in a positive feedback, and even more frequent bushfire than may be expected under climate change. The first step is to find suitable experimental locations where... these contrasting forests are adjacent to one-another, holding all other variables constant, so that flammability differences (ie fuel load, fuel structure, fuel moisture) between these forest types can be isolated. These photos are from a reconnaissance trip to a forest near Powelltown in the Central Highlands Victoria, which is looking promising as a research site, having been burned in 1939 and in 2009, with multiple forest types nearby. Jamie is working as part of a larger research team with both the Forest Hydrology group and the Fire Research group to tackle this multi-disciplinary research question. See more

20.01.2022 http://sydney.firebehaviorandfuelsconference.com/program/

19.01.2022 https://nrmjobs.com.au//2000/Risk_Analyst_Forest_and_Fire

18.01.2022 Soils store water for trees and have a strong control the type of forest that will grow in a particular area, and on the amount of water that is left over for streamflow. However soil depths are highly variable in complex mountain topography, making hydrologic predictions difficult. Here Assaf and Walter are surveying soil depths in the Central Highlands (Victoria) to try to understand the relationship between climate, topography, forest biomass and soil depth.

17.01.2022 Our Forests in a global context class for 2018, on a field trip to Wallaby Creek, one of Melbournes water supply catchments. Thanks Rene for providing a Melbourne Water perspective on catchment management.

16.01.2022 Our Forests in a global context class for 2018, on a field trip to Wallaby Creek, one of Melbourne’s water supply catchments. Thanks Rene for providing a Melbourne Water perspective on catchment management.

13.01.2022 A great opportunity to shape Victorian forest policy into the future....

13.01.2022 https://jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/VG-925191

13.01.2022 I was recently fortunate to visit Dr Christian Schunk and Prof. Annette Menzel at the Ecoclimatology research group at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as part of an Australia-Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme project. Our Forest research groups are collaborating on the development of better methods for monitoring and predicting fuel moisture in contrasting forest types, a key factor in the prediction of wildfire risk. Many thanks to Christian for the tour of the amazing Kranzberger long-term research forest and the Freising Waldklimastation near the TUM campus. Such impressively instrumented research sites I am jealous!

11.01.2022 Our research put to good use... http://www.afac.com.au//science-backed-tools-enhance-water More detail on our work with ACT Parks here: http://www.afac.com.au//de/ru/1703_casestudy08_final3.pdf

11.01.2022 Success! All that searching and trekking has paid off- well done Jamie! This hilltop vantage point provides a great overview of Jamie's newly - discovered forest flammability research sites in the densely forested Central Highlands of Victoria. Gary, Jane and Jamie here (attempting) to point to the contrasting forest types that have resulted from past bushfire; an Acacia stand on the left, a Mountain Ash stand in the middle, and a mixed understory forest (aka "scrub") on the right. A fantastic natural laboratory to measure and explore the future flammability of our changing forests. Next comes the hard work installing the instrumentation for the coming summer to measure fuel moisture differences in these contrasting forest types.

10.01.2022 Welcome to Joe Hall, one of our new masters students. Joe is exploring the idea that soils in flammable forested uplands have co-evolved with vegetation and fire regimes. Road cuttings, where soil profiles are exposed and easy to measure, are being used to rapidly build a dataset of the relationship between soils, vegetation, and fire history.

10.01.2022 https://nrmjobs.com.au//Senior_Project_Officer_Climate_Wat

07.01.2022 Casual Research Assistant (RA1) field work for 2 weeks from April 1 2019, with possible additional work following this. The project work involves working with Gary Sheridan and Petter Nyman from SEFS and assisting visiting colleagues from Swansea University (UK) and United States Forest Service (USFS) setting up post-fire erosion research sites in the Thompson Reservoir catchment (near Mt Baw Baw, Victoria) which was burned extensively in February 2019. The work is part of an... international collaborative project Fire and water: predicting and mitigating water pollution risk from wildfire ash funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK's leading public funder of environmental science. Field work will involve working with a small team in steep remote, burned, forested areas installing erosion monitoring equipment and collecting soil and ash samples and staying overnight in nearby accommodation. Accommodation and meals provided. Please contact Gary on 0429859384 or [email protected] asap for more details. See more

07.01.2022 interesting environmental modelling opportunity with ARI...but you will have to be quick...closing date tomorrow! https://jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/VG-923372

07.01.2022 Deakin University is advertising to recruit a postdoctoral research fellow for a 3 year position working in integrated modelling and analysis of land systems sustainability. https://jobs.deakin.edu.au//HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.G

07.01.2022 https://www.npr.org//with-australia-s-hillsides-stripped-b

06.01.2022 And another in catchment management...

05.01.2022 Christine Schärer recently presented her post-wildfire water contamination Masters research at the European Geosciences union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. Christine, a visiting Masters student from ETH Zurich, completed a collaborative research project with Melbourne Water, HydroNumerics, and our Forest Hydrology group at The University of Melbourne. Her hydrodynamic modelling work investigated the propagation of fire related pollutants through Melbournes key water reservoir, the Upper Yarra, calculating the duration the reservoir would need to be taken off-line in the case or various fire scenarios. Christine is pictured here with her poster presentation at one of the massive EGU poster sessions with colleague Dr Christoph Langhans.

05.01.2022 https://nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2019/20004032/Risk_Analyst

03.01.2022 If bushfire events are too frequent, Mountain Ash forests can be replaced by forests dominated by Acacias. How much will the streamflows to our reservoirs change if this occurs in our water supply catchments? Shyanika's PhD is measuring these changes, and this week she and Richard set up her first experimental sites in a young post 2009 bushfire Acacia forest near Wallaby Creek north of Melbourne.

02.01.2022 A new research article from us looking at microclimate and surface fuel moisture in forests: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Wb4mcFXJKxU3 Very nice to see the reward for our efforts!

01.01.2022 http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au//recruitment-research-fellow

01.01.2022 http://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php