David Mitchell

Technical Specialist Salinity Management, Orange Agricultural Institute,  Department of Primary Industries, New South Wales

A specialist in salinity management, Dr David Mitchell has been involved in one of the first comprehensive and scientifically credible studies in Australia to validate models of how water and salt move under a range of common landuses.

As leader of the statewide National Action Plan research project Key Sites, he is studying the effect of landuse and climate on eight small upland dryland catchments in New South Wales.

The research is challenging much of the commonly held conceptual understanding of hydrology processes that are used as the basis for investment of public funds and natural resource policy development.

Dr Mitchell has a PhD in surface hydrology and spent several years researching aspects of water balance science. Among his achievements is the development of a framework to measure water balances over a series of nested spatial scales.

He will be a principal investigator in NCGRT’s sub-program involving the integration of hydrochemical and hyrogeological methods for analysing regional groundwater flow.

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