Melbourne School of Engineering Australia-China Joint Research Centreon River Basin Management (Water Resources & Water Quality)Opportunities Research !ro"ectsThe University of Melbourne and the Australia China Centre on River Basin Management will support these h! student pro"ects#Established in $%&'( the University of Melbourne ma)es distinctive contributions to society in research( learning and teaching and engagement# *t is consistently ran)ed among the leading universities in the world( with international ran)ings of world universities placing it as number $ in Australia and number '+ in the world ,Times -igher Education ./$01./$&2#The centre( one of si3 4oint Research Centres co5funded by both the Australian and Chinese 6overnment( aims to develop collabrative research for sustainable river basin management in China and Australia to increase water productivity while protecting water ecosystems#!h# !ro"ectsWater Resources $ngineering %singhua &niversity an' &niversity o( Mel)ourneA Memorandum of Understanding for 4ointly Awarded h! !egree between the !epartment of *nfrastructure Engineering at The University of Melbourne and the !epartment of -ydraulic Engineering( Tsinghua University has been signed# #o*nloa'Memorandum of Understanding for 4ointly Awarded h! !egree 198kb pdf#o*nloa'Re7uirements for 4ointly Awarded h! !egree in 8ater Resources Engineering fromTsinghua University and the University of Melbourne 435kb pdf Ro)ust *ater recycle (or pota)le useBac+groun'The use of recycled water for a7uifer recharge and subse7uently( indirect potable recycle is a )eyissue to ensure sustainable urban water supply in many large cities worldwide# Ma)ing sure that the recharged water is both safe to drin) and does not contaminate the a7uifer for future generations is also a )ey concern# *ndeed( it is reasonable to assume that if the water was not ade7uate for direct potable recycle( it should not be recycled to an a7uifer used for drin)ing supply# Many recycle schemes concentrate on pathogen reduction in the recycled water and whilst this is important( there are a range of chemicals of concern that need to be considered as well# !evelopment of critical control philosophies that ensure that molecules with potential shortand long term health effects are always removed to safe levels is an important( even for highly contaminated supplies and as a result of one off events# The h! program will loo) at the ability of different treatment processes to achieve robust outcomes across a range of input scenarios#Research aims To determine the removal efficiency of a range of water treatment barriers to )ey contaminants in water supplied from secondary treated waste water effluent# To determine the operational robustness of different treatment barriers to large changes insupply conditions# To recommend the optimum treatment process for water supplies form a large range of inputs#,election criteriaAn outstanding candidate with chemistry9chemical engineering bac)ground is preferred#,upervisor !ro(essor !eter ,caleseter Scales is a rofessor in the !epartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering( the !eputy !ean of the School of Engineering and the leader of water research at the University of Melbourne# -e is also the !irector of the 4oint Australia5China Research Centre on River Basin Management# -e has seven years of industrial e3perience in particle and fluid processing as well as over twenty years of e3perience in academia#-is research interests are in the area of fluid and slurry flow( particle flocculation and dispersion(and molecular and particle separations technologies including thic)ening( sedimentation and membrane filtration#E: peter"s;unimelb#edu#au-oteThis h! student pro"ect applies to the Chinese students funded by Chinese Scholarship utrients can be considered as pollutants where their addition to otherwise clean watercourses leads to the growth of nuisance species such as algae and hence to eutrophication# !iffuse sources are typically associated with rural land uses( in particular livestoc) farming where the sources can be both animal waste and anthropogenic ,e#g# fertili?er applications2# The conse7uences downstream of both diffuse and point sources are similar( e#g# algal blooms and eutrophication in la)es and estuaries receiving runoff from these areas( but diffuse sources are inherently more difficult to monitor and 7uantify( and therefore mitigate# *t is also difficult to relate the cost of pollution to the source of the pollution as multiple agricultural activities usuallycontribute to the overall contamination#There are a range of models being used fre7uently today to ma)e predictions of impacts of catchment management on water 7uality and at present these models have very crude representations of water 7uality processes due in part to a lac) of proper catchment system understanding to underpin the models# There are also significant water 7uality data bases that could be e3amined to better understand the controls on basin scale water 7uality#Research aims!evelop an analytic and predictive framewor) informed by an integrated( multidisciplinary understanding that lin)s soil science( a7uatic science and hydrological science to e3tract )nowledge from spatial and temporal water 7uality data#,election criteriaAn outstanding candidate with strong statistical s)ills and sound hydrology9ecology9environmentscience9natural geography bac)ground is preferred#,upervisor !ro(essor An're* WesternAndrew 8estern is a rofessor and the !eputy -ead of the !epartment of *nfrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne#-e has more than fifteen years of e3perience in catchment and waterway research( teaching and consulting# -e is e3perienced in the fields of hydrology( water resources( hydraulics and related disciplines#rof 8estern has e3pertise in field monitoring( physically5based and conceptual catchment and river modelling( catchment analysis and remote sensing and has concentrated on integrating these areas to support catchment system understanding and management#E: a#western;unimelb#edu#au -oteThis h! student pro"ect applies to the Chinese students funded by Chinese Scholarship atural Resources Economics and h! in >atural Resources Management( !r 8ei has been leading cross5disciplinary research on socio5hydrology( systemic and adaptive water governance and co5evolution of social5ecological system at water catchment#E: ywei;unimelb#edu#au -oteThis h! student pro"ect applies to the Chinese students funded by Chinese Scholarship *CTA#!r ic)ens ational *CT Australia ,>*CTA2#!r 8 models and 6CMs,election criteriaAn outstanding candidate with strong mathematical( statistical and computing s)ills#,upervisor #r QJ Wang!r J4 8ang graduated in $I%0 from Tsinghua University with a F6raduate of E3cellenceE award#-e completed his MSc and h! studies at the >ational University of *reland( 6alway# !r 8ang was an academic at the >ational University of *reland and the University of Melbourne for over seven years# -e was appointed in $III to the position of rincipal Scientist at the Aictorian !epartment of rimary *ndustries to lead irrigation science# -e "oined CS*R< as an