Robyn Watts

Biography

Robyn's research interests include in the ecology, biodiversity, management and restoration of aquatic ecosystems. Specific areas of expertise include; flow-ecology relationships, river rehabilitation through altering the operation of weirs and dams, and ecosystem responses to environmental watering. A/Professor Watts has considerable experience working in multidisciplinary research teams in partnership with ecologists, hydrologists, geomorphologists, social scientists and natural resource management agencies. Robyn has led a number of research projects relating to environmental flows including an ARC project 'Developing indicators for the assessment of environmental flows', the assessment of variable flow releases from Dartmouth Dam, and several projects examining ecosystem responses to environmental flows. Robyn currently leads a multidisciplinary project 'Monitoring ecosystem responses to Commonwealth environmental water in the Edward‐Wakool system'. Robyn is a member of the Environmental Water Scientific Advisory Panel for the Australian Government Department of Environment.

Research Interest

biodiversity and connectivity in aquatic ecosystems