Working with HydroTerra

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From our partners, HydroTerra

One sector that aligns well with our capabilities is monitoring to improve natural resource management.

The Mulloon Institute is an Australian research, education and advocacy not-for-profit organisation. Learn about their aspirations here.

One of TMI’s research projects is the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative (MRI), which has been recognised by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network as one of five case studies globally to develop guidelines for sustainable but profitable and productive farming. 

We are currently engaged to develop a monitoring strategy and to assist with the turnkey implementation of the specified system. The key has been establishing TMI's indicators of catchment health and productivity, then documenting the requisite parameters required to calculate these indicators. 

Once this was nailed down:

  • monitoring methods were developed

  • technologies evaluated, technology integration optimised

  • data management flows documented

  • data provenance ensured through a metadata framework

  • remote oversight achieved through appropriate hardware and software selection

  • streamlined data publishing approaches identified through 3rd Party publishing mechanisms. 

The network consists of two climate stations, 80 automated piezometers, five stream gauging and water quality stations and 40 soil moisture monitoring sites. 

The outcome is a research site with a monitoring program capable of producing trusted data of known provenance for catchment health and productivity.

The Mulloon Rehydration Initiative is jointly funded through the Mulloon Institute and the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program and is supported by various affiliates.

[Edited from HydroTerra's June 2020 Newsletter]

Kelly Thorburn