Tony Jakeman

Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society and Director of the Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre, Australian National University

For the past 30 years Professor Anthony (Tony) Jakeman has been at the forefront of international research in environmental modelling methods and practice.

His work in hydrology is extensive and includes new models of rainfall-runoff processes, surface-groundwater interactions, aquifer saline intrusion, two-dimensional groundwater flow and in-stream water quality.

Professor Jakeman’s research interests also include extensive involvement in professional activities outside his home university.

He is president of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and was the Foundation President of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society.

As Director of the iCAM Centre, Professor Jakeman leads a team of researchers with strong disciplinary backgrounds in areas such as surface and subsurface hydrology, economics, ecology, soil science, computer science, mathematics and physics.

He routinely undertakes joint research projects with the CSIRO, government agencies and other organisations and has a particular passion for research training.

Professor Jakeman’s work is distinctive in that it attempts to combine formulations of key processes and drivers in statistically rigorous ways. He pioneered the development of the IHACRES dynamic water balance model which has been applied worldwide to hundreds of catchments in most hydroclimatologies.

Since 1997, Professor Jakeman has been an international leader in the interdisciplinary field of integrated assessment with an emphasis on quantifying environmental and socioeconomic trade-offs in large catchments to aid decision-making.

His research is widely published and he is editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal, Environmental Modelling and Software.

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