Visiting Fellow
Alan Wade's activities at CRES include: Supporting ANU water industry linkages within Australia l; providing support for PhD students and ANU research staff investigating water supply catchments; Research on high country fens and bogs on water yield and quality; Research on the impact of fire disturbed landscape on hydrological and water quality processes;Research on vegetation responses to landscape scale fire
Phone: +61 (0)2 612 50663
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: Alan.Wade@anu.edu.au

Professional Activities

Studies of impacts of landscape disturbanced on hydrological and water quality processes and of the hydrological function of high country fens and bogs

Academic Highlights

Selected Publications

Recent Readings Govinnage-Wijesekera, D., White, I., Wade, A., Mueller, N. 2004.. Turbidity and contaminant loads in Bendora Reservoir, Cotter River, ACT: relationship to fire and rainfall. Preliminary report to ActewAGL, 73 pp. Hope, G., Wade, A., White, I., and Mueller, N. 2006.. Stability and hydrological significance of wetlands in the Cotter River catchment, 9 pp. Mountain Occupation Project, Mires of the Australian Capital Territory, Division of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, and Ecowise Environmental. Report prepared for ActewAGL. Ingwersen, F., Wade, A., and Whiteway, T. 2003.. Interim report January 2003 fires impact of vegetation change on hydrological values of the Cotter River watershed, 9 April 2003, 27 pp. Report prepared for ActewAGL. Sparks, T., Mueller, N., Wade, A., Starr, B. 2004.. February 2004 Cotter catchment fire mapping. Report to ActewAGL, 54 pp., with four maps appended. Wade, A., Ian White, I. 2003.. Natural Pollution of Cotter River Dams: Implications for loading of biologically reactive contaminants derived from the Cotter Watershed. Report to ActewAGL, 10 pp. Wade, A., White, I. (26 February 2004). Montain fire regime and water values. Report to ActewAGL for ACT Bush Fire Council fire and water field program, Thursday 26 February 2004, 13 pp. Wade, A., White, I., Worthy, M., Mueller, N. 2005. Water quality report card for Cotter River storages, winter 2005, 12 pp. Report to ACTEW Corporation. Wade, A. 2006.. Need for evidence-based intervention monitoring and research, 8 pp. Lower Cotter Remediation Workshop, 31 March 2006. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University. Wade, A, White, I. 2006.. Lower Cotter water quality monitoring program: Understanding catchment system state and processes driving water quality in Cotter Dam, 18 pp. Report to ACTEW Corporation. Wasson, R. J. Worthy, M., Olley, J., Wade, A., Mueller, N. (23 March 2004). Sources of turbidity in Bendora Reservoir. Report to ActewAGL, 15 pp. Wasson, R. J., Croke, B.F., McCulloch, M. M., Mueller, N., Olley, J., Starr, B., Wade, A., White, I., Whiteway, T. (25 July 2003). Sediment, particulate and dissolved organic carbon, iron and manganese input to Corin reservoir. Report to ActewAGL, 65 pp. White, I., Jellett, D., Mueller, N., Wade, A., Ford, P. (26 May 2003), Preliminary analysis of turbidity profiles Bendora Dam, ACT 1993-2003. Report to ActewAGL, 15 pp. White, I., Wade, A., Mueller, N. (3 March 2004). Iron, manganese and turbidity in the bottom waters of Bendora Dam. Preliminary report to ActewAGL, 14 pp. White, I., Govinnage, D., Worthy, M., and Wasson, R., Wade, A., Mueller, N. 2005.. Impacts of the January 2003 bushfires on water supplies in the Australian Capital Territory, Engineers Australia 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, 21-23 February 2005, Canberra, 6 pp. White, I., Wade, A., Barnes, R., Worthy, M., Mueller, N., Knee R. 2006.. Impacts of the January 2003 wildfires on ACT water supply catchments: Water quality in the Cotter storages and catchment yield. Report to ActewAGL project WF-30039 Iron, manganese, and turbidity post bushfire. Paper presented at Enviro 06, 9 May 2006, 10 pp. White, I., Wade, A., Worthy, M., Mueller, N., Daniell, T., and Wasson, R. 2006.. The vulnerability of water supply catchments to bushfires: Impacts of the January 2003 wildfires on the Australian Capital Territory Australian Journal of Water Resources, Vol. 10, No.2, 16 pp. in press. White, I., Wade, A., Barnes, R., Worthy, M., Mueller, N. 2006.. Sediment and contaminant export, 12 pp. Lower Cotter Remediation Workshop, 31 March 2006. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University. White, I., Wade, A., Worthy, N., Mueller, N. 2006.. Interim water quality report for a low run off event of 10-11 June 2006 in the Lower Cotter catchment, 12 pp. Report to ACTEW Corporation. Worthy, M., Macphail, M., Wasson, R., Hope, G., Wade, A., Olley, J. (September 2005, Draft 8 September 2005). Environmental change of the alluvial infill of Muellers Rock Creek, Mountain Occupation Project, Mires of the Australian Capital Territory, Upper Cotter Valley, ACT, 9 pp. Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University.