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Albert Van Dijk established and leads the Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics at the Fenner School of Environment and Society.
Professor Van Dijk received his undergraduate, Master's degree (1996) and PhD (2002) in Environmental Sciences from VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
He was with CSIRO Land and Water from 2003 to 2012, where he won awards for his leadership role in the Murray-Darling Sustainable Yields project, possibly the most ambitious water resources study ever undertaken, and subsequently, for leading development of the Australian Water Resources Assessment system, a model-data integration system now operational in the Bureau of Meteorology.
Professor Van Dijk has authored more than 130 publications. His research often addresses the interaction between vegetation and the hydrological cycle and related processes, such as soil erosion, nutrient cycling, salinity, the surface energy balance, the carbon cycle, fire risk, biodiversity, ecological resilience, and crop growth.
He has a passion for practical research applications, including the observation and forecasting of natural hazards, water resources, environmental condition and agricultural production. The theory and technology involved are drawn from environmental science and management, satellite remote sensing, IT, statistics and simulation modelling.
Professor Van Dijk was inaugural chair and is currently co-chair of the Australian Energy and Water Exchange Initiative (OzEWEX).
Research interests
- Environmental Monitoring050206
- Natural Resource Management050209
- Photogrammetry And Remote Sensing090905
- Ecosystem Function050102
- Surface Processes040607
- Surfacewater Hydrology040608
- Hydrogeology040603
- Water Resources Engineering090509
Projects
- Principal investigator, Assimilating GRACE observations into a global water cycle model
- Principal investigator, Assimilating streamflow gauging and satellite altimetry into a spatial water balance model
- Principal investigator, Combining multiple precipitation data sources to improve drought monitoring and forecasting in data poor regions
- Principal investigator, Cosmic ray sensors for fire and flood warning
- Principal investigator, Creating and using ecosystem accounts
- Principal investigator, Crop production forecasting using a global biophysical model
- Principal investigator, Designing a global drought and crop production information system
- Principal investigator, Developing a long-term satellite vegetation biomass time series
- Principal investigator, Developing a multi-variable, multi-scale ensemble Kalman filter for global land surface modelling
- Principal investigator, Mapping forest fuel load and structure from airborne LiDAR data
- Principal investigator, Satellite remote sensing of forest fuel load, structure and moisture content
- Principal investigator, Seamless global forecasting from days to seasons
- Principal investigator, Spatially predicting fire impacts on landscape values
- Principal investigator, Using multiple data sources to constrain water and carbon modelling
- Supervisor, Assimilating GRACE observations into a global water cycle model
- Supervisor, Assimilating streamflow gauging and satellite altimetry into a spatial water balance model
- Supervisor, Combining multiple precipitation data sources to improve drought monitoring and forecasting in data poor regions
- Supervisor, Cosmic ray sensors for fire and flood warning
- Supervisor, Creating and using ecosystem accounts
- Supervisor, Crop production forecasting using a global biophysical model
- Supervisor, Designing a global drought and crop production information system
- Supervisor, Developing a long-term satellite vegetation biomass time series
- Supervisor, Developing a multi-variable, multi-scale ensemble Kalman filter for global land surface modelling
- Supervisor, Mapping forest fuel load and structure from airborne LiDAR data
- Supervisor, Satellite remote sensing of forest fuel load, structure and moisture content
- Supervisor, Seamless global forecasting from days to seasons
- Supervisor, Spatially predicting fire impacts on landscape values
- Supervisor, Using multiple data sources to constrain water and carbon modelling
