Supervisor

Prof Okke Batelaan
Batelaan, Okke (Professor)
okke.batelaan@flinders.edu.au
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Project description

How do we know how deep groundwater is below our feet? Understanding the water table distribution is useful for sourcing water for crop irrigation, for ecosystem management, and even for predicting the movement of subsurface salts and contaminants. To map the water table, however, we rely on measurements from bores which only represent a very limited extent of an aquifer. This project aims to improve the way that we interpolate groundwater level measurements across an aquifer using point-source data from bores combined with more novel datasets from geophysical surveys, satellite imagery, or even surface water-groundwater connectivity mapping. You have the opportunity to combine hydrogeological and geophysical field data collection with geospatial data analysis. I will mentor you to build your understanding in hydrogeology, geostatistics, and computer coding.

Co-supervisors

Flinders/CSIRO Dr Saskia Noorduijn CSIRO Dr Sarah Marshall Dr Luk Peeters

Industry involvement

CSIRO is partner in this project


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