Blogs about: River Research
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The chemical soup named “I”
Quickie post here to highlight a City Paper article on modern day river and water pollution. Click Here to read the article Something’s Fishy by Bill O’Driscoll. The article details resear… more →
Screaming Weasel
Blackflies (Simuliidae) and river blindness
wrote 1 month ago: Many years ago, while at a conference, I was having breakfast with a well-known US freshwater scient … more →
Leonardo da Vinci: water, rivers, science and art (Part 1)
wrote 4 months ago: Leonardo da Vinci was a truly remarkable polymath. He is variously known as a painter, sculptor, sc … more →
Floodplain farmland is so fertile because rivers flood
wrote 6 months ago: Recent concerns have been expressed by Murray farmers downstream of Lake Hume about the devastation … more →
So you want to do a PhD in river ecology in Australia (part 2)
wrote 7 months ago: This is the second part in my series on factors that may influence your choice of where to go, what … more →
Book on the Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes
wrote 7 months ago: I am pleased to announce that the Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes book, edited by Paul Humph … more →
Seminar on Historical Ecology by Paul Humphries: "Making the Dead Speak"
wrote 7 months ago: On the 1st of November I gave a seminar in a series on water in the Murray-Darling Basin entitled Ma … more →
So you want to do a PhD in river ecology in Australia (Part 1)
wrote 8 months ago: So, you’ve decided to do a PhD in river ecology in Australia. Good choice! But where is the b … more →
An investigation of the archaeological and ecological significance of Aboriginal fish traps in the Murray-Darling Basin
wrote 9 months ago: By Damian Kelly, Masters candidate, School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Sturt University Fishi … more →
Doing experiments in rivers: it's hard but not impossible
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wrote 10 months ago: Broadly speaking, there are two ways to do science: make observations or do experiments. Of c … more →
Why we will make mistakes managing the Murray-Darling, and why that’s OK
wrote 11 months ago: This was a piece I wrote for The Conversation in early May and thought I’d reproduce it here. … more →
Measuring change in freshwater ecosystems: contemporary and palaeoecology of freshwater mussels
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wrote 1 year ago: By Christine Reid, PhD candidate, Charles Sturt University A change is as good as a holiday? Well, s … more →
Droughts, floods and riverine biota: natural disturbance or environmental catastrophe?
wrote 1 year ago: We humans often think that the whole world revolves around us, and that if something affects our liv … more →
A must-read opinion piece on failures in river restoration by Graham Harris
wrote 1 year ago: Graham Harris, former Chief of CSIRO Land and Water, and one of Australia’s most insightful an … more →
Update to biggest Murray cod story
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wrote 1 year ago: Will Trueman, who is well known for his historical fish research and writings recently wrote to me i … more →
Young fish dispersal in rivers: get (in) the drift?
wrote 1 year ago: It makes sense, if you live in rivers, to make use of river currents to get around. After all, it s … more →
River morphology: what runoff from storm-water drains can show us
wrote 1 year ago: On holiday on Phillip Island in January of 2012, I went for a walk along a beach the day after a dow … more →
Schematic representation of the main river ecosystem concepts
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wrote 1 year ago: Below is my attempt to represent the main river ecosystem concepts schematically. Read through the … more →
A brief history of river ecosystem function, part 4: riverscapes to river ecosystem synthesis
wrote 1 year ago: The hunt was on for a single concept that synthesized the various ones that had been proposed so far … more →
A brief history of river ecosystem function, part 3: riverine productivity to functional process zones
wrote 1 year ago: As often happens with scientific concepts or models, the more they are investigated, the more they a … more →
