Contact details:
GLEN OSMOND SA 5064 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Dr Tanya Doody leads integrative and multidisciplinary science to link ecological responses of floodplain and riparian tree vegetation to altered water availability in the Murray-Darling Basin and beyond. Research outcomes provide management options and tools to natural resource managers, local industry and government bodies, to monitor tree water stress changes over the last 20+ years. Critical to providing these outcomes is innovation to scale up robust field measurements of tree water use to broader scales using 30m monthly remote sensing timeseries data and machine learning. Tanya has published several papers to assist management understanding of floodplain and riparian tree water requirements, to inform environmental flow management.
Tanya also leads the Managing Water Ecosystems Group in CSIRO’s Land and Water, which investigates how riverine ecosystems respond to different water resource management and allocation strategies, including environmental water provisions. Tanya also leads the Vegetation Theme in Flow-MER, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office’s on-ground Monitoring, Evaluation and Research program which works in partnership with scientists, water managers and communities across the Murray-Darling Basin to help us understand how fish, birds, vegetation and river connectivity are responding to Commonwealth environmental water (https://flow-mer.org.au/).
Other Interests
Dr Doody has a very broad research base with skills in field data collection, remote sensing, GIS, floodplain inundation modelling as well as measurement/modelling of evapotranspiration and intergrative ecohydrology studies such as that undertaken in Nepal (https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/pub?list=SEA&pid=csiro:EP164232&sb).
Professional Areas
Fields of Research
Current Roles
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Project Leader
Efficient Floodplain Management -
Assistant Research Group Leader
Managing Water Ecosystems -
Ecology lead
SDIP - Nepal -
Project Leadeer
Soil moisture and riparian vegetation - Calperum Floodplain -
Team Member
Benefits of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan -
Project Leader
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Explanatory Notes -
Team Member
COST Action - Riparian management in the European Union
Academic Qualifications
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2013
PhD (Deans Commendation)
The University of Adelaide -
2008
Grad. Dip. GIS and Remote Sensing with High Distinction
Charles Sturt University -
1993
BSc
The University of Adelaide
Professional Experiences
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2008-2013
Adjunct student
The University of Adelaide
Achievements and Awards
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2013-2013
CSIRO Land and Water Research Excellence Award
CSIRO -
2014-2014
Deans Commendation for PhD Thesis Excellence
The University of Adelaide -
2013-2014
Host - CSIRO CEO Visiting Scientist Award Dr Pamela Nagler
CSIRO -
2012-2013
GDE Atlas - Geospatial World Forum Application Excellence
Goespatial World Awards -
2012-2013
GDE Atlas - 8th Victorian Spatial Excellence, Spatial Enablement category
Victorian Government -
2009-2010
CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive Study Award
CSIRO
Other highlights
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2014-2018
Editor - Hydrological Processes
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2017-2018
Mentor