Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
Albert's area of research includes water resources, ecosystem function, global change, and satellite Earth observation. In his early career, he studied groundwater in the Netherlands, carbon exchange by forests across Europe, and soil conservation in Indonesia. He was research scientist at CSIRO from 2003-2012, where he developed land management practices to optimise water quantity and quality, and used satellite and ground data to keep track of water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin and elsewhere in Australia. Albert led development of the computer system now used by the Bureau of Meteorology’s to help produce the National Water Account and other water information. He has been professor in Water Science and Management at the Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, since 2012. He has written more than 130 scientific publications.
2022 was a good year for nature in Australia – but three nasty problems remain
Mar 28, 2023 14:11 pm UTC| Nature
A new report card on Australias environment reveals 2022 was a bumper year for our rivers and vegetation but it wasnt enough to reverse the long-term decline in plant and animal species. The analysis was drawn from...
To predict droughts, don't look at the skies. Look in the soil... from space
Jan 29, 2019 12:39 pm UTC| Nature
Another summer, another drought. Sydneys water storages are running on empty, and desalinisation plants are being dusted off. Elsewhere, shrunken rivers, lakes and dams are swollen with rotting fish. Governments,...
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