PhD Opportunities

Submit a general expression of interest to undertake a PhD through the One Basin CRC by sending your CV and cover letter.

This project aims to explore how biochar can transform agricultural waste into valuable, climate-smart products that enhance irrigation efficiency and support regional economic growth.

Explore how to bring diverse communities together for meaningful discussions around water quality, using a trust-building, proactive, and non-punitive approaches that can be adapted to other sensitive landscape issues. 

Quantify the impacts and return on investment from current conservation efforts which are leading to restored wetland function within and beyond the Ramsar site.

Quantify the impacts on native fish and return on investment from a range of current projects in the Northern Basin in order to inform future investment and prioritisation.

Undertake action research in collaboration with First Nations and other local communities to investigate using practices such as riparian fencing & in-river infrastructure to recreate or create wetlands and establish nature refuges for extreme dry and drought periods.  

Investigate how land management methods employed by farmers and land managers work to slow overland water flow resulting in improved soil health and other beneficial outcomes. 

This project will enhance the sustainability and economic growth of the Australian pistachio industry, and has the potential to contribute to improved chill management across other nut crops, temperate deciduous fruits, and forest trees.

The project will work with growers to establish best management practices in the management of individual almond varieties, which in turn will encourage sustainable farming systems and contribute to a healthy, resilient and sustainable river system and communities.

This project will develop novel, decision-centric approaches to support end users with the identification of opportunities in the Murray-Darling Basin with the highest potential for utilising brackish groundwater, as well as any associated challenges. 

This project will develop case studies to explore how multiple benefits can be identified, valued and achieved through rethinking the outcomes of water management and its processes, considering aspects of space, time and delivery to diverse values.

This research will explore ways that water assessment tools can be more inclusive of First Nations’ values and knowledge. This will involve an examination of how water-related problems are framed differently by the different cultures, and how water assessment tools can be transformed to capture different ways of seeing and knowing.

This project will apply innovative numerical techniques (e.g. robust optimisation, bottom-
up stress-testing) to support harvest planning and scheduling decisions, considering the interaction between on- and off-farm factors and how these interactions might change into the future.

The aim of the PhD project is the explore ways to leverage landholder and institutional networks to better target intervention programs and policies towards farmers’ adaptation to future in the Basin with less water.

This project aims to forge an advanced framework uniting data science, machine learning, simulation, multi-objective optimization, and uncertainty-based decision making.

After more than a decade since the end of the millennium drought, within the MDB water security remains an unresolved challenge for rural communities, irrigators, and the sustainability of water-sensitive ecosystems. One option to enhance water supply security is through water banking, where basin aquifers are recharged during periods of surface water surplus for later use via managed aquifer recharge (MAR).