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Apps for waterway research and management

urbanstreams.net

A hub for projects and products of the Waterway Ecosystem Research Group at the University of Melbourne,
and the Melbourne Waterway Research-Practice Partnership,
...and for Chris Walsh's raingarden diary and his occasional ruminations.

Apps for waterway research and management

Use the WERG apps to find the best sized rainwater tank or raingarden design for your property, find your local creek and its catchment, explore bug data collected from sites across the Melbourne region and more....

Research projects and publications

Projects and outputs of the Waterway Ecosystem Research Group and
the Melbourne Waterway Research-Practice partnership

My raingarden diary

Six years on and Chris's family's raingarden and stormwater management system continue to hold back most of the runoff produced by his property, protecting the local river and reducing local flooding, while providing shade, water, food, and occasionally, wildlife.

Bugnot, A.B., Hose, G.C., Walsh, C.J., Floerl, O., French, K., Dafforn, K.A., Hanford, J., Lowe, E.C. and Hahs, A.K. (2019). Urban impacts across realms: Making the case for inter-realm monitoring and management. Science of the Total Environment, 648, 711–719.

An output from a workshop at the University of New South Wales aiming to further collaboration between ecologists working in terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms. In this paper, we discuss that the terrestrial realm is most commonly a ‘net-donor’ of impacts, as most human activities occur on land and the resulting impacts are transferred to aquatic and atmospheric realms (although impacts in the reverse direction also occur). We conclude that, to achieve effective management strategies, greater collaboration is needed between scientists and managers focussing on different realms and regions and we present suggestions for approaches to achieve this.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.134

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Projects

Little Stringybark Creek Project

Can catchment-scale stormwater retention restore the hydrology, water quality & ecological structure and function of a degraded urban stream?

Wetland Forest Restoration

Reversing decline of the wetland forest in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve by reinstating a more natural flow regime

My Raingarden diary

Building and living with a household stormwater retention system that protects the local river and reduces local flooding, while providing shade, water, food, and occasionally, wildlife.

Well, I better get the raingarden diary going again then…

Thanks to Angela Ross and Annah Fromberg of the ABC for putting together their story on stormwater solutions featuring our raingarden. Nice work! It’s enough to shame me into keeping my new years resolution of resuming my raingarden story. The raingarden has really hit its straps this year, with a…

Melbourne Water bug database now available

We have worked with Melbourne Water to collate their collection of macroinvertebrate assemblage records from streams of the Greater Melbourne region over the last 25 years into a database, and have made it available and searchable on an open-access web interface (https://tools.thewerg.unimelb.edu.au/mwbugs/). This rich resource of biological information has been…

A data entry app for Australian stream macroinvertebrates

Sure, this might be a bit niche, but in preparation for the imminent release of a portal for Melbourne Water’s stream macroinvertebrate database, I’ve created a data-entry app for compiling macroinvertebrate assemblage data into a table that is suitable for entry into the database (and suitable for analysis on its…

A new year, a new server, a resolution of sorts

The desktop box that is urbanstreams.net is getting old. We are in the process of migrating the contents of this site to a more stable and secure location. The move has begun with our apps. Because he who is last will be first, the most recent app is the first…

Contact

This site is maintained by Chris Walsh,
Principal Research Fellow in the Waterway Ecosystem Research Group,
School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences at The University of Melbourne.

He lives in Richmond, where he obsesses about his house's stormwater runoff.
His research contributes to the Melbourne Waterway Research-Practice Partnership.

Other resources for Chris's research include:
Google Scholar, The Open Science Framework, GitHub,
The University of Melbourne's 'Find and Expert' page.

Contact details.
Waterway Ecosystem Research Group,
School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences
The University of Melbourne Burnley Campus
Building 903, 500 Yarra Boulevard
Burnley Victoria 3121, Australia
Tel: +613 8344 9155
Fax: +613 9349 4218
e-mail: cwalsh@unimelb.edu.au

For directions to the WERG,
click on the pointer in this version of the map.

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Little Stringybark Creek Project

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My Raingarden diary

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Well, I better get the raingarden diary going again then…

Melbourne Water bug database now available

A data entry app for Australian stream macroinvertebrates

A new year, a new server, a resolution of sorts

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