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Biography
Darran King is a senior experimental scientist with the Integrated Freshwater Landscapes team, Water Security program, CSIRO Environment. He came to CSIRO in 2004 and conducts research focused on natural resource management decisions and policy planning at local and regional scales.
His principle research interests focus on the integration of spatially explicit environmental, economic and social metrics to guide trade-off decisions for landscape, regional and, local scale natural resource decision makers. Applying key skills in GIS, python, GAMS, and biophysical modelling applications, Darran develops bespoke integrated systems models to assess the impact of external drivers on key aspects of the natural environment.
With over 20 years’ experience in geographic information systems, natural resource management and quantitative modelling design and development, Darran has undertaken research across a wide range of disciplines including; Climate change impacts, crop modelling, species modelling under climate change, biofuels and biomass under climate change, network analysis and hedonics, irrigated agriculture, Flood inundation mapping, river control infrastructure for ecological optimization, quantitative economic optimization models used to inform policy.
Professional Areas
- Natural Resource Management and policy planning
- Systematic Landscape management planning and policy
- Water resource and land use economics
- Geographic Information Systems, spatial modeling, analysis
- Irrigated Biophysical systems modelling
- Programming (python, R, GAMS, aml)
- High performance computing and big data
Academic Qualifications
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2001
BA., Environmental Management
Flinders University
Professional Experiences
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2004-present
CSIRO Research Projects Officer
CSIRO -
2003-2004
Natural resource management Field Officer, Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board
OWCMB -
2002-2003
Water Quality Monitoring Analyst, Water Data Services
Water Data Services
Achievements and Awards
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2008/-2008
Spatial Excellence Award for Environmental Sustainability
Spatial Sciences Institute SA -
2007-2007
Strategic Excellence – Partnership Excellence Award
CSIRO -
2007-2007
Land and Water Strategic Excellence – Partnership Excellence Award
CSIRO
Publications
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