Senior Lecturer (joint appointment with MSI)
Streamflow and water quality modelling, with particular emphasis on predicting flow in ungauged catchments
Phone: +61 2 6125 0666
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: barry.croke@anu.edu.au

Barry Croke has a BSc in Theoretical Physics and a PhD in Astrophysics from UNSW. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Physics Department at the University of Crete between April 1994 and September 1996. From September 1996 to June 1999, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Environmental Research Laboratory at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, working in the fields of hydrology and atmospheric research. In August 1999 he joined iCAM at the Fenner School as a visiting fellow, and is now a Senior Lecturer in a joint appointment with the Fenner School and the Department of Mathematics.

Professional Activities

My research interests include development of models for prediction of streamflow and water quality. This includes prediction of flow at ungauged sites, which requires techniques for predicting hydrologic response based on catchment attributes such as topography and land use. This involves development of models suitable for such work, as well as exploring the relationships between model parameters and key catchment attributes. In addition, research on modelling water quality is being undertaken including estimation of sediment, nutrient and pathogen exports. A key research component is investigating model response to uncertainty in parameter values and input data through sensitivity analysis. This is an important component of model development due to the sparse nature of environmental datasets. I am one of the co-founders of the Top-Down Modelling Working Group, and was co-leader of Science Theme 6 (development of new model approaches) within the Prediction in Ungauged Basins initiative of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences from April 2005 to July 2007.

Selected Publications

Ferguson C.M., B.F.W. Croke, P.J. Beatson, N.J. Ashbolt, and D.A. Deere, 2007. Development of a process-based model to predict pathogen budgets for the Sydney drinking water catchment, Journal of Water and Health, 5(2), 187-208.

Croke, B.F.W., J.L. Ticehurst, R.A. Letcher, J.P. Norton, L.T.H. Newham, A. J. Jakeman, 2007. Integrated assessment of water resources: Australian experiences, Water Resources Management, 21, 351-373 (doi: 10.1007/s/11269-006-9057-8).

Croke, B.F.W., R.A. Letcher and A.J. Jakeman, 2006. Development of a distributed flow model for underpinning assessment of water allocation options in the Namoi River Basin, Australia, Journal of Hydrology, 319, 51-71 (doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.07.001).

Croke, B.F.W., 2006. A technique for deriving the average event unit hydrograph from streamflow-only data for quick-flow-dominant catchments, Advances in Water Resources. 29, 493-502 (doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.06.005).

Letcher, R.A., B.F.W. Croke and A.J. Jakeman, 2004. Model development for integrated assessment of water allocation options. Water Resources Research, 40, W05502, (doi:10.1029/2003WR002933).

Croke, B.F.W., W.S. Merritt and A.J. Jakeman, 2004. A Dynamic Model for Predicting Hydrologic Response to Land Cover Changes in Gauged and Ungauged Catchments, Journal of Hydrology, 291, 115-131.