Visiting Fellow, iCAM
Hydrology, water quality
Phone: +61 (07) 4753-8605
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: david.post@csiro.au

February 1999 - Present : Research scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, examining the relationships between landscape attributes (especially landuse), and hydrologic response (including water quality) in tropical catchments, particularly in North Queensland.

July 1996 - January 1999 : Post-doctoral research fellow, Oregon State University, carrying out research into the factors influencing hydrologic response for a range of sites within the United States long-term ecological research (LTER) network.

April 1992 - June 1996 : Ph.D, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, ACT. 1997. Identification of relationships between catchment-scale hydrologic response and landscape attributes.

April 1990 - April 1992 : Experimental Scientist, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, carrying out research into the coupling of ocean and atmospheric general circulation models (GCM's).

December 1988 - December 1989 : B.Sc (Hons.), University of Newcastle, NSW. 1990. A preliminary study of fog and rainwater quality in the Barrington Tops and New England regions of NSW.

Research, Teaching & Professional Activities

Projects that I am currently involved in include:

Reducing Sediment and Nutrient Export from Grazed Lands in the Burdekin Catchment for Sustainable Beef Production - funded by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).

Ecological Monitoring of the Townsville Field Training Area (TFTA) - funded by the Department of Defence (DoD).

Increasing Sugarcane Productivity through Development of Integrated Surface Drainage Systems for low lying Canelands - funded by the Sugar Research Development Corporation (SRDC).

How do changing Agroforestry Landscape Mosaics in SE Asia Impact of Watershed Functions? - funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).

Selected Publications

Post, D. A. 2005. A new method for estimating flow duration curves : an application to the Burdekin River Catchment, North Queensland, Australia. IEMSs 2005 Proceedings of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Osnabruck, Germany, 14-17 June, 2005, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society.

Post, D. A., Kinsey-Henderson, A. E., Stewart, L. K., Roth, C. H. and Reghenzani, R. 2003. Optimising drainage from sugar cane fields using a one-dimensional flow routing model : A case study from Ripple Creek, North Queensland. Environmental Modelling and Software 18 : 713-720.

Post, D. A. and Croke, B. F. W. 2002. Predicting hydrologic response from physio-climatic attributes : an application to ungauged sub-catchments of the Burdekin River, North Queensland. IEMSs 2002 Proceedings of the first biennial meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Lugano, 24-27 June, 2002, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Volume 1, 334-339.

Post, D. A. and Jones, J. A. 2001. Hydrologic regimes of forested, mountainous, headwater basins in New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, and Puerto Rico. Advances in Water Resources 24 : 1195-1210.

Post, D. A. and Jakeman, A. J. 1999. Predicting the daily streamflow of ungauged catchments in S. E. Australia by regionalising the parameters of a lumped conceptual rainfall-runoff model. Ecological Modelling 123 : 91-104.

Post, D. A.; Grant, G. E. and Jones, J. A. 1998. Ecological hydrology : expanding opportunities in hydrologic sciences. Eos 79 (43) : 517,526.

Post, D. A.; Jones, J. A. and Grant, G. E. 1998. An improved methodology for predicting the daily hydrologic response of ungauged catchments. Environmental Modelling and Software 13 : 395-403.

Post, D. A. and Jakeman, A. J. 1996. Relationships between physical descriptors and hydrologic response characteristics in small Australian mountain ash catchments. Hydrological Processes 10 : 877-892.

Post, D. A.; Jakeman, A. J.; Littlewood, I. G.; Whitehead, P. G. and Jayasuriya, M. D. A. 1996. Modelling land cover induced variations in hydrologic response : Picaninny Creek, Victoria. Ecological Modelling 86 : 177-182.

Selected Student Theses

2003 : Mirjam Alewijnse. Grazing and water infiltration in the savanna landscape. Honours, James Cook University, Townsville.

2002 : Anne-Katrin Heine. Characterisation of gully erosion by airphoto interpretation and GIS techniques of rangelands in semiarid north-eastern Australia. Graduate Diploma, University of Bochum, Germany.

2000 : Christine Jurgensen. Gully and sheet erosion in grazed areas in north-eastern Queensland, Australia. Graduate Diploma, University of Osnabruck, Germany.