Data visualisation is the graphical representation of information and data. The Flow-MER data visualisation team integrated knowledge generated across the program and presents it in ways that assist environmental water managers and stakeholders to interpret and understand the benefits of water for the environment.
Most field observations and modelling results that consider water for the environment are for individual sites or individual species. They can be very specific measurements – for example, tree density cover. It can be challenging to understand what these results mean for managing water for the environment, and how environmental managers can apply these results to the real world.
The Flow-MER data visualisation team worked with researchers to highlight trends and patterns across multiple datasets, and communicate relationships across research fields and locations.
The data visualisation team developed a software pilot that integrated some of the datasets from Basin Themes and Selected Areas into dashboards designed to assist managers to understand the ecological and environmental impacts of their water deliveries. This, in turn, informs the annual adaptive management cycle of planning for how water for the environment is used to maximise benefits to ecological communities.
Martin is a CSIRO Land and Water Senior Experimental Scientist with expertise in spatial data analysis, modelling and data visualisation. Martin’s passion is for transforming data into information that can be used to improve our understanding of the complex world we live in, aid decision making and help navigate a sustainable pathway to the future.
Susan is a researcher at CSIRO Land and Water. She has worked extensively in resource management projects in Australia (focussed on water & ecological condition) and internationally (focussed on water & livelihoods). She brings expertise and years of experience in project governance, including management of knowledge products, and design and implementation of reporting and data management workflows.
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The Flow-MER program team acknowledge and respect the Traditional Owners as the First Peoples of the lands and waters of the Murray Darling Basin.
We recognise their unique ability to care for Country and their deep spiritual connection to it. We honour Elders past and present whose knowledge and wisdom has ensured the continuation of culture and traditional practices.
We are committed to genuinely partner, and meaningfully engage, with Traditional Owners and Aboriginal communities to support the protection of Country, the maintenance of spiritual and cultural practices and their broader aspirations in the 21st century and beyond. In particular we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the seven Selected Areas where Flow-MER research is focussed.
Artwork credit: Wiradjuri Artist Rebecca Salcole
Artwork credit: Wiradjuri Artist Rebecca Salcole
The Goulburn River is known by several names as it travels first through Taungurung country in the hilly upper and middle reaches. Here, the river is called Waring.
As the river meanders downstream of Murchison and into the northern flatlands, the river winds through Yorta Yorta country and is called Kaiela, meaning ‘father of waters’. Eventually, the river flows to a confluence with the River Murray near Echuca. This confluence of rivers is known as Koninner.
We acknowledge and respect the Traditional Owners of the country this story has been written about, Taungurung and Yorta Yorta, and all the countries through which the Goulburn river flows. This story was written on Ngunnawal country. Sovereignty was never ceded, and we pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.