ARWA Centre for Ecohydrology
Seeking to Understand and Manage Water

Associate Professor Neil Coles

Neil Coles BSc Grad Dip Comp. e MBA. PhD

Project Director

Dr Coles graduated from James Cook University iun 1986, with a BSc in Geology and Hydrology, and completed a PhD in Catchment Hydrology at University of Western Australia in 1993. He recently completed an executive MBA (2008) through the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. For the last 10 years he has been a Senior Research Scientist with the Department of Agriculture and Food WA.

Dr Coles has over twenty years of research, teaching and practical experience in the agricultural, water resources and mining industry in the UK, Queensland and Western Australia. He was elected as Chairman of the State Hydrology and Water Resources Panel for 2009, and is a Member of the Advisory Committee for the Purity of Water and serves on a number of other government panels and industry advisory boards. Dr Neil Coles was recently appointed as the Project Director of the Centre of Excellence for Eco-hydrology, University of Western Australia (UWA) and is now focused on the initiation and development of new projects and research links at the Centre.

The Centre is a collaborative research program that links researchers from UWA, The Department of Agriculture and Food, Edith Cowan University, Water Corporation, Department of Environment and Conservation and other industry partners. Research in the Centre will encompass: (i) catchment to local -scale studies including modelling and climate variability analysis; (ii) integration of land and water management; (iii) resource condition monitoring and evaluation; (iv) development and application of industry best practice to enhance biodiversity, water resources and industry productivity.

PUBLICATIONS


CONFERENCE

TECHNICAL

CONFERENCE

  1. Coles, NA, Cattlin, T, Farmer, and Stanton, D.. 2004. Water management: What's in a name? Proc. Of 13th Int. Soil Con. Org. Conf. Conserving Soil and Water for Society: Sharing Solutions ISCO 2004 Bris. July 2004
  2. Coles, N.A., Farmer, D. , Cattlin, T. Stanton, D. 2004 . Managing water, the key to preserving biodiversity in the dryland agricultural areas of Western Australia. Proc. of Int. Conf. Hydrology Science and Practice for the 21st Century. BHS. London. July. 2004
  3. Coles, NA. Warren, J. and Roe, J. 2005. Engineering partnerships for salinity management. Proc. Of 1st National Salinity Engineering Conf. Nov. 2004.
  4. Eow, B. T., Sivapalan, M., Struthers, I., Coles, N. 2006 The Development and Application of a Townsite Water Resources Management Tool for the semiarid regions of Western Australia, AGU Spring Joint Meeting 2006, 23rd-26th May 2006, Baltimore, USA.
  5. Farmer, D., Cattlin, T, Stanton, D and Coles, NA., 2004. A revised criteria for runoff management in south-west western Australia. Proc. Of 13th Int. Soil Con. Org. Conf.: Conserving Soil and Water for Society: Sharing Solutions ISCO 2004 Bris. July 2004
  6. Farmer, D., Stanton, D., Coles, NA., and Cattlin, TV., 2005. Addressing the paradox: effective and farmer friendly surface water management structures. Proc. of the State Landcare Conf.. Denmark 2005.
  7. George R. and Coles NA. 2005. Wet options for dry farmers in saline landscapes. Proc. Agricultural Conference, AGCON 2005 Perth WA..
  8. Kinimonth, I. van Gool, D. and Coles NA. 2005. Climate change, land use suitability and water security. Crop Updates Conf 2005. Perth WA.

TECHNICAL

  1. Cattlin, T., Stanton, D., Farmer D., and Coles, NA. 2002. Surface water management strategy. Report for the Shire of Yilgarn. EWM Group Tech. Rep. Dept. of Agric. WA.
  2. Chandler, K., and Coles, NA. 2003. Review of Deep Drains to Manage Salinity in Western Australia. Engineering Evaluation Initiative. Mis. Pub. 2/2004. Dept. of Agric. WA
  3. Coles, NA. 2003. Treatment of leaky dams. Department of Agriculture. Farmnote No 5/2003
  4. Coles, NA. and Tetlow, S. 2003. Subsurface drainage and surface water management for salinity control. Department of Agriculture. Farmnote No 52/2003
  5. Farmer, DL and Coles, NA. 2005. Introduction to surface water hydrology in Western Australia. Teaching guide. Centre for Groundwater Studies, Adelaide. SA.
  6. Farmer, DL, Coles, NA, Chandler, K, and Stanton, D. 2003. Review of surface water management to manage salinity in Western Australia, Engineering Evaluation Initiative. Tech. Rep. Dept. of Agric. WA.
  7. Farmer, D and Coles, NA. 2003. Assessing the storage reliability of farm dams. Tech. Rep.245 Dept. of Agric. WA. ISSN 0729-3135.
  8. Farmer, D., Stanton, D. and Coles NA. 2002. Surface water assessment and recommendations for the Upper Fitzgerald-Lake Magenta recovery catchment. EWM Group. Tech. Rep. Dept. of Agric. WA
  9. Philpott, N. Cohen, B. Coles, N.A. and Manning R. 2007. Improving the efficiency of roaded catchments. Technical Paper 2.
  10. Short, R., Farmer, D., Whale, P. and Coles N.A. 2004. Surface water assessment for the Buntine-Marchagee Recovery Catchment. EWM Technical Report prepared for the Department of Conservation and Land Management.
  11. Tetlow, S and Coles, NA. 2003. Grade banks to manage water erosion. Department of Agriculture. Farmnote No 75/2003
  12. Tetlow, S and Coles, NA. 2003. Shallow relief drains. Department of Agriculture. Farmnote No 76/2003.
  13. Tetlow, S and Coles, NA. 2003. Seepage interceptor drains. Department of Agriculture. Farmnote No 81/2003.