Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP190100927

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP190100927

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Predicting the impacts of groundwater drawdown on groundwater ecosystems. This project aims to tackle a critical challenge of groundwater management – to understand and predict the impacts of declining groundwater levels. Over pumping and declining groundwater tables are a global problem, yet the effects on the ecosystems that exist within aquifers are poorly known. This project will create a world first evidence-based model of how lowering water tables affects the microbes, invertebrates (stygofauna) and ecological processes in groundwater ecosystems, and will demonstrate the consequences of such changes to groundwater quality and availability. This model will allow impacts to be reliably forecast and avoided or mitigated, vastly improving how major developments affecting groundwater are planned and implemented.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 17-05-2021

End Date: 16-05-2024

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $366,244.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Impact Assessment

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments |

Other Keywords

Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments | Environmental Impact Assessment | Environmental Science and Management | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences

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