PhD scholar
Separation of Climate and Land Use Effects on Hydrology
E-mail: haksoo.kim@anu.edu.au

With climate change and water use competition being ever more important considerations in catchment management, improved understanding of the sensitivity of catchment response to climate and land use is paramount. This understanding includes the susceptibility of a catchment's response characteristics to shifts in the magnitude and seasonality of rainfall, temperature increases, as well as the impact of large scale land use changes.

This study focuses on the use of tools to isolate the impacts of land use variations, such as farm dams and other drivers like surface and groundwater extractions, from climate variability to identify effects on streamflow properties. Major subcatchments of the Googong (Queanbeyan River at Tinderry) and Cotter catchments (Cotter River at Gingera) are used.