Danial is an aquatic ecologist and ecological modeller with CSIRO Land and Water in the Modelling Water Ecosystems team with a background in modelling the environmental outcomes resulting from changes in flow regimes. He has a broad range of experience from within the Murray-Darling Basin, northern Australia and internationally, and has delivered to a range of stakeholders and clients. Danial uses a range of approaches and draws upon skills in statistical analysis, statistical modelling and mechanistic modelling to understand, quantify and predict the environmental outcomes of flow events, flow sequences and flow regimes. He specialises in understanding temporal dynamics and scenario analysis, linking hydrological data to quantify environmental outcomes under uncertainty. The core of Danial’s work is to deliver products and knowledge to improve the environmental outcomes associated with water management at a range of spatial and temporal scales.

Rebecca is an ecologist with experience in freshwater, estuarine and marine systems.  She has wide-ranging research interests, but is primarily focused on the management of aquatic ecosystems and in achieving good ecological outcomes in systems that involve multiple uses and commercial industries.  She combines her expertise in ecology with a solid background in hydrology and erosional processes and actively collaborates across biological and other disciplines. She has a broad range of analytical and modelling skills and specialises in combining data about a range of physical and biological processes into a broader understanding at an ecosystem scale, giving her the requisite skills to participate in this project. For more information, visit qael.org.

Galen is an ecologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University. He is interested in the large-scale responses of species and communities to environmental conditions at large spatial and temporal scales. Of particular interest is how rigorous, process-based understanding of large-scale ecological outcomes can inform management decisions. His background is primarily in aquatic community ecology, where he studies how species and communities respond to varying environmental conditions in space and time. His research encompasses empirical studies of aquatic insects, statistical analyses, theory, and development of large simulation models. He takes a varied modelling approach, ranging from quite generic models to understand fundamental ecological processes, to the development of models incorporating empirical data to capture dynamics of specific communities with targeted management goals. For more detail, visit qael.org.

Luke is a CSIRO Research Scientist with DATA61. Luke is an applied statistician with experience in applications in ecology, fisheries, and human genetics, including very large and complex datasets. He focuses on the development and implementation of novel statistical and machine learning methods and provides high-level analytical and statistical modelling expertise for the vast amounts of interesting data being generated by the CEWH waterbird movement tracking project and also contributes to reporting and manuscript preparation.

Ashmita is a Senior Research Scientist at Land and Water CSIRO and ecohydrologist with expertise in optimization, adaptive management of water resources geared to protect ecosystem health, sustainable low impact development design, and system vulnerabilities under climate change and other pressures.

Ashley is an aquatic ecologist and a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University. His work focusses on drawing together diverse datasets and models in novel ways to create tools that are underpinned by core ecological principles and inform the management of aquatic systems in Australia and abroad. For more detail, visit qael.org.