Robyn is an aquatic ecologist and ecohydrologist at Charles Sturt University and leads the Edward/Kolety–Wakool team. She undertakes interdisciplinary research in partnership with biophysical scientists, social scientists and community organisations to help inform the adaptive management and restoration of river ecosystems.

Nicole is a freshwater ecologist at Charles Sturt University and researches the ecology of freshwater fish during their early life stages, as well as the functional and conservation ecology of freshwater mussels in altered rivers. She has a soft spot for data wrangling and data visualisation.

Sha sha is a Research Fellow and environmental scientist at Charles Sturt University. She has a research background in environmental chemistry and management responses to water pollution, land use change and climate change, with a focus on cycling of nutrients and carbon in freshwater environments.

John is a Senior Technical Officer at Charles Sturt University with expertise in freshwater fish ecology and aquatic fauna survey techniques. He is currently involved in monitoring early life history and recruitment of native fish.

Catherine, an Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University, undertakes social and institutional research in natural resource and environmental management contexts. She has especial interest in adaptive and collaborative management of surface and ground water, soil and vegetation.

Jason is a Fisheries Scientist with the NSW Department of Primary Industries. Jason’s current research program is focussed on the abiotic drivers of fish movement, spawning and recruitment within the Murray-Darling Basin, with a strong focus on riverine connectivity

Meaghan is a Freshwater Fish Ecologist with the NSW Department of Primary Industries with expertise in molecular ecology and freshwater fish ecology. Her current research focuses on using genetic techniques to provide essential information to enable effective management of a wide range of fish species.

Daniel is a Fisheries Scientist at the NSW Department of Primary Industries. He currently investigates fish community responses to environmental flows in the Murray-Darling Basin and is broadly interested in applied ecological research that facilitates fisheries management decisions.

Geoff is the Principal Scientist and Director of the consulting company Streamology, as well as being a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has extensive experience on geomorphology, environmental flows, ecohydraulics, physical form monitoring and waterway management.

Neil is an Environmental Scientist at the consultancy Streamology. He has extensive experience in monitoring river channel morphology, riparian vegetation and coastal/foreshore change. His passion lies in using data to tell rich, evocative stories.

Nick is Director of the Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems at La Trobe University. His research focuses on patterns and processes in aquatic ecosystems, with a strong focus on the effects of hydrology, climate and catchment influences.

James is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at La Trobe University. His research focuses on the physiological links between environmental change and wildlife declines, and he has a broad background in conservation physiology of vertebrates.

Sascha is an Environmental Water Manager based in the Lower Murray-Darling with the Biodiversity and Conservation Division of the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. She has expertise in project management, ecological monitoring and aquatic and floodplain plant identification. Sascha monitors aquatic vegetation response to flows to help inform and prioritise where environmental water should be delivered.

Julia was an environmental chemist and member of the Edward/Kolety–Wakool research team from 2010 to 2020. Sadly, Julia passed away in April 2020. The legacy of her contribution to our understanding of carbon dynamics and water quality (especially hypoxic blackwater) in the Murray-Darling Basin is ongoing. We will continue to use long-term datasets that Julia helped establish, to predict outcomes of environmental watering actions and assist the management of river ecosystems.

I am one of the Project Directors for the MER Program. I also organise and implement the communication strategies for the MER Program in the Gwydir Selected Area. My role involves liaising with all stakeholders and analysing, writing up and communicating our findings with CEWH through our annual reports.

I am one of the Project Managers for the Gwydir Selected Area. I organise and undertake field trips, liaise with stakeholders in both areas and carry out technical work associated with hydrology and vegetation indicators. My role also includes writing up the project findings in our annual reports.

I am one of the Project and Research Managers for the Gwydir Selected Area. I sample and analyse the water quality, microinvertebrate and macroinvertebrate indicators. I am also responsible for the overall reporting of project findings.

Gavin is the fisheries leader, and oversees and directs the fish sampling, analysis and reporting for the project. He even gets his feet wet sampling from time to time.

I work for the University of New England and I am responsible for research and monitoring of biodiversity including frogs and turtles. This involves organising and undertaking field work, liaising with landholders and recording our findings so they can be written up in our annual reports for the Program.

I’m the vegetation ecologist for the Aquatic Ecology and Restoration Research Group at the University of New England. My role in Flow-MER is to continue to build upon the good ecological work done before me. I collect data on the different wetland and floodplain plant species that come and go as a result of water availability.

I am responsible for sample processing, data collation and reporting our findings for invertebrates. I coordinate the upload of all indicator data to the Monitoring Data Management System for the CEWH. I am also passionate about communicating our findings to the broader scientific community.

My role is to conduct the biannual waterbird surveys in the Gwydir Selected Area. This involves going out in the field and identifying birds by sight and sound.

I work in stakeholder engagement and reporting. I help to compile and share our stories, write our reports and spend time in the field undertaking surveys.

I am a Fisheries Project Manager/Fisheries Scientist. I frequently assist with the field work, data analysis and reporting. I also enjoy being a voice in the project design.

I schedule and run the Fisheries field surveys and handle data entry and data Quality Assurance and Control. I get in the boat and in the waders sampling fish in the most unlikely places.

I  undertake fisheries field survey, data entry and data Quality Assurance and Control, including ensuring sampling equipment is in good order.

I am an aquatic ecologist working with the Aquatic Ecology and Restoration Research Group at the University of New England. My role with Flow-MER involves conducting field surveys for a variety of aquatic indicators and providing support through laboratory and statistical analysis.

I am involved with stakeholder engagement. I contribute to compiling and sharing of our stories as well as assisting with field surveys.

Angus is an ecologist in the Water, Environment and Agriculture Program at the University of Melbourne. He has almost 20 years working in the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin attempting to apply complex statistical methods to make better use of existing knowledge from experts, the literature and from environmental monitoring data sets, to better understand these environments.

Xue Hou is a research fellow in Environmental Flows at the University of Melbourne. She graduated with a Master of Engineering (Environmental) with Honours from the University of Melbourne in December 2018. She completed a project “The Effects of Environmental Flow Delivery in the Murray-Darling Basin on Gross Primary Production and Respiration in Streams”, based on the Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project.

Simon is a Principal River and Wetland Ecologist at Jacobs. He has over twenty years of experience specialising in environmental flow and wetland water regime assessments and habitat rehabilitation. He provides advice to catchment management authorities and government agencies on waterway management across south eastern Australia.

Ben has twelve years of experience in hydrology and water resources modelling, providing data and modelling analysis for water authorities and CMAs. Ben has been involved in projects related to water resources and flood management for catchments across rural and urban Victoria.

Geoff is a fluvial geomorphologist (water and sediments) and the Director of the consulting company Streamology Pty Ltd. Streamology is focused on ensuring good science informs the management of rivers for ecological and social benefit. In addition to consulting Geoff is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne where he runs a waterway physical form program. He has more than 20 years’ experience working on rivers, including a large proportion of this focusing on the Goulburn River.

Mike is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry at Monash University, with teaching and research strengths in aquatic, analytical and environmental chemistry and in freshwater ecology (especially stream metabolism, carbon cycling and impacts of drugs).

Vin is the Chief Investigator for the Aquatic Environmental Stress (AQUEST) research group, RMIT University. He has over 30 years’ experience in the design and conduct of a broad range of biological and water quality research and monitoring programs that help catchment management authorities, water authorities and environmental regulators identify and address the priority issues impacting aquatic ecosystems. He has produced over 100 published journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers.

Kay works at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (Department of Environment Land Water and Planning). She undertakes research on wetland and riparian vegetation to support evidence-based management and policy. Her research spans four broad areas: (i) understanding vegetation responses to threatening process including altered water regimes, salinization and nutrient enrichment, (ii) developing monitoring and evaluation programs to assess the effectiveness of management actions, (iii) understanding temporal and spatial patterns of plant dispersal by wind, water and waterbirds, (iv) modelling landscape patterns of biotic wetland connectivity.

Wayne works at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning). Wayne has undertaken research extensively across Victoria, and more broadly in south-eastern Australia, including in the Goulburn River since 2003. The focus of much of Wayne’s recent work relates to the environmental water requirements of native fish and movements and migrations of freshwater fish species. Current projects include the Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program, diadromous fish migrations and links to flows using passive integrated transponder technology, and oceanic migrations of anguillid eels using satellite tracking. Wayne also regularly provides specialist advice to waterway managers on the environmental flow requirements for fish.

Simon is the Environmental Water and Wetland Manager at the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority. He has over 18 years of experience in natural resource management including environmental water planning, delivery and associated ecological monitoring.

Daniel has extensive experience developed over nearly 20 years managing water resources thorough in Northern Victoria. Daniel is employed at the Goulburn-Broken CMA as an environmental water co-ordinator has been involved in river and wetland management including the planning, delivery, monitoring and reporting of environmental water. As a result his experience Daniel has developed a strong understanding of the values, threats, hydrology, stakeholders, flow management and environmental water requirements of the streams of the Goulburn and Broken Catchment as well as water resource management tin the broader Murray Darling Basin.

Fiona is the the Communications Manager at the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority. She has more than 20 years’ experience working as a journalist for regional and metropolitan daily newspapers and in communications for the private sector and local and state governments.

Kerry is the Goulburn MER Project Manager at the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder. She has around 35 years’ experience developing policy and coordinating major programs across multiple disciplines including in health, education and the environment. Her focus has been on the communications and engagement aspects of the work, and in particular interacting with stakeholders to ensure that products and messages are suitable for their professions and useable by community interest groups.

Project Leader

Qifeng is a principal fish ecologist with extensive research experience in environmental water requirements of native fish and ecological impacts of river regulation.

Task Leader

Matt is an expert in hydrological/ hydraulic models, river restoration, uncertainty analysis, forecasting and salinity modelling.

Task Leader

Rod’s work focus on population dynamics and composition of phytoplankton; and how these influence water quality, aquatic food webs and ecosystem function.

Task Leader

Justin is an expert limnologist with considerable experience in developing tools to assist determining flow requirements in the MDB.

Task Leader

Jason is an experienced plant ecologist with excellent knowledge of aquatic and riparian vegetation of the south-eastern Australia particularly of the MDB.

Task Leader

Deborah’s work focuses on the impact of environmental water on zooplankton community dynamics and the ecology of the Murray River system.

Task Leader

Chris’s research focuses on the fish movement, fish passage, threatened species ecology and the response of fishes to changing in flow regimes.

Flow-MER Project Officer

George is a fish ecologist with interests in ecological indicators of environmental flows, trophic dynamics and food webs.

Engagement and Communication Coordinator

Luciana is a fish ecologist with interest in engaging with fishing and first nations communities, communicating research findings and knowledge exchanging

CEWH Manager

Anthony has worked on environmental water delivery and aquatic ecosystems policy and programs in the MDB since 2013,  He has a background in environmental science, education and natural history, and feels a strong drive to help restore the living rivers and waterways of southern Australia.  He is a CEWH Environmental Water and Lower Murray Manager.

Key Researcher

Matt is an expert in hydrodynamic-biogeochemical modelling, using models to quantify the relationships between hydrology, water quality and habitat.

Key Researcher

Russ specialises in taxonomy and ecology of zooplankton and littoral microfauna, particularly responses to perturbation, and food web interactions.

Key Researcher

Brenton is a fish ecologist with an interest in the life histories of fish and the dynamics of populations. His research in the Murray-Darling Basin concerns the impact of river flow on fish spawning, recruitment and movement, and ultimately the health of fish populations.

Skye is the Principal Scientist and an internationally recognised ecologist at Charles Sturt University specialising in aquatic ecology and the conservation of wetland dependant amphibians.

Andrew is an earth system scientist at Charles Sturt University with specialist knowledge in climatology and vegetation remote sensing, with his work being reliant on expert application of geographic information science and remote sensing image analysis.

Damian is a Senior Research Fellow and landscape ecologist at Charles Sturt University with expertise in wildlife conservation and management, and reptile and amphibian ecology. He has a broad background in developing community engagement programs and science communications products.

Gaye is a Senior Technical Officer at Charles Sturt University with expertise in project management, aquatic and terrestrial field surveys, data management and curation, and community engagement. (Gaye’s pic provided separately)

Gilad is a Research Fellow at the University of NSW with experience in statistical modelling. His research focuses on understanding the underlying processes shaping biodiversity at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Jennifer is a Senior Scientist with the Water and Wetlands Science Division of the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. She has extensive expertise in waterbird breeding ecology and ecological monitoring.

Kate is a Research Fellow and freshwater ecologist at the University of NSW with specialist expertise in wetland ecology and waterbird breeding ecology.

Yoshi is a Senior Research Scientist and freshwater ecologist with the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. His research focuses on planktonic microbial communities and their utility in understanding the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems.

Rachael is a freshwater ecologist with the Water and Wetlands Science Division of the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.

Jason is a Research Scientist and fish ecologist with the Division of Freshwater Ecosystems at the Department of Primary Industries. His research focuses on assessing native fish responses such as movement, spawning and recruitment to environmental water delivery.

I am one of the Project Directors for the MER Program. I also organise and implement the communication strategies for the MER Program in the Warrego-Darling Selected Area. My role involves liaising with all stakeholders and analysing, writing up and communicating our findings with CEWH through our annual reports.

I am one of the Project Managers for the Warrego-Darling Selected Area. I organise and undertake field trips, liaise with stakeholders and carry out technical work associated with hydrology and vegetation indicators. My role also includes writing up the project findings in our annual reports.

I am one of the Project and Research Managers for the Warrego-Darling Selected Area. I sample and analyse the water quality, microinvertebrate and macroinvertebrate indicators. I am also responsible for the overall reporting of project findings.

Gavin is the fisheries leader, and oversees and directs the fish sampling, analysis and reporting for the project. He even gets his feet wet sampling from time to time.

I work for the University of New England and I am responsible for research and monitoring of biodiversity, including frogs and turtles. This involves organising and undertaking field work, liaising with landholders, and recording our findings so they can be written up in our annual reports for the Program.

I’m the vegetation ecologist for the Aquatic Ecology and Restoration Research Group at the University of New England. My role is to continue build on work already undertaken and collect data on the different wetland and floodplain plant species that come and go as a result of water availability.

I am responsible for sample processing, data collation and reporting our findings for invertebrates. I coordinate the upload of all indicator data to the Monitoring Data Management System for the CEWH. I am also passionate about communicating our findings to the broader scientific community.

My role is to conduct the biannual waterbird surveys in the Warrego Selected Area. This involves going out in the field and identifying birds by sight and sound.

I work in stakeholder engagement and reporting. I help to compile and share our stories, write our reports and spend time in the field undertaking surveys.

I am a Fisheries Project Manager/Fisheries Scientist. I frequently assist with the field work, data analysis and reporting. I also enjoy being a voice in the project design.

I schedule and run the Fisheries field surveys and handle data entry and data Quality Assurance and Control. I get in the boat and in the waders sampling fish in the most unlikely places.

I  undertake fisheries field survey, data entry and data Quality Assurance and Control, including ensuring sampling equipment is in good order.

I am an aquatic ecologist working with the Aquatic Ecology and Restoration Research Group at the University of New England. My role with Flow-MER involves conducting field surveys for a variety of aquatic indicators and providing support through laboratory and statistical analysis.

I am involved with stakeholder engagement. I contribute to compiling and sharing of our stories as well as assisting with field surveys.