Water, water everywhere! Join the Tasmanian Division of EIANZ as they present the second of the water Wednesday webinars, which comes just after International Water Day on Saturday 22 March 2025.

Dr Hardie investigates monitoring design, condition assessments and the integration of science into management and policy. These typically focus on strategies that can positively influence the bigger picture of waterway management in Tasmania and Australia. These strategies typically involve finding new approaches to monitoring while disentangling and managing impacts on inland waterways. We hope you'll join us for this excellent talk that brings far-reaching research into narrow focus on Australian waters.

Dr Scott Hardie | University of Tasmania

Scott is a freshwater ecologist with extensive experience in studying freshwater ecosystems in Tasmania, Australia (particularly rivers and lakes) and providing high-level science and advice to water resource managers in the State. He is particularly interested in managing water for the environment and the balance between the maintaining aquatic biodiversity and water resource use, and the effects of catchment activities on waterway health. He work alongside water managers and policy makers, whose research is directly applicable to current and emerging issues in water resource management.

His work focuses on determining how much water freshwater ecosystems need to function (e.g. environmental flows, lake water level regimes) and relationships between hydrological regimes and aquatic biota (i.e. macroinvertebrates and fish). He has also coordinated, undertaken and reviewed broad-scale river health monitoring in Tasmania, and lead several studies that have used this extensive dataset to examine the status of rivers in Tasmania and environmental factors that influence river health. In addition, he has a keen interest in freshwater fish ecology and conservation, which stems from his research into the life histories and habitat requirements of several endemic and threatened Tasmanian fish species.

During 2023, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship that will enable him "To investigate approaches to monitoring, disentangling and managing impacts on inland waterways" in New Zealand, the US and Canada during 2024. Through this Fellowship, he aims to bring back learnings that will improve the management of waterway health in Tasmania, and Australia more broadly.

This event will run off Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) and will run for 1 hour. The webinar will be recorded therefore attendees and a link to the webinar will be sent to all registered attendees in the days after the webinar.

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