Natasha Harvey

PhD Student

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Natasha Harvey is a PhD student at the Fenner School of Environment & Society and is affiliated with The Institute of Water Futures. Natasha’s PhD research titled “Reimagining the representation of snow hydrology in watershed models within an age of emerging technologies for sensing, data science and machine learning” bridges experimentalist and modelling worldviews by bringing together recent advances and breakthroughs in multiple technology areas, including machine learning, image analysis and sensitivity analysis. Natasha received a Bachelor of Environmental Systems (Honours) from The University of Sydney and a M.A. in Geography from The University of Colorado Boulder.    

Affiliations

Research interests

  • Catchment hydrology
  • Snow hydrology
  • Ecohydrology
  • Machine learning 

Publications

First authored publications:

Harvey, N., Burns, S.P., Musselman, K.N., Barnard, H. and Blanken, P.D., 2025. Identifying canopy snow in subalpine forests: A comparative study of methods. Water Resources Research61(1), p.e2023WR036996.

Harvey, N., Razavi, S. and Bilish, S., 2024. Review of hydrological modelling in the Australian Alps: from rainfall-runoff to physically based models. Australasian Journal of Water Resources28(2), pp.208-224.

Harvey, N., Marshall, L. and Vervoort, R.W., 2023. Verifying model performance using validation of Pareto solutions. Journal of Hydrology621, p.129594.

Harvey, N., Guillaume, J.H., Merritt, W., Ticehurst, J. and Thompson, K., 2023. How could managed aquifer recharge be feasible in the Coleambally Irrigation Area?. Australasian Journal of Water Resources28(1), pp.86-100.

 

Co-author: 

Convergent and transdisciplinary integration: On the future of integrated modeling of human‐water systems

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