Director, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre

Tony Jakeman received his Bachelor of Science with first class honours in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the University of NSW in 1973. He was awarded his PhD in Applied Numerical Analysis from ANU in 1976. After holding a short-term postdoctoral position in Statistics at the University of Florida, he returned to ANU in 1976 and joined the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies. In 1997 he helped set up the Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) Centre, now comprising 10 research staff, and 12 PhD students, supported by a small, dedicated group of technical and management staff.

Tony has been President of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (www.mssanz.org.au) since 1987 and was Foundation President of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (www.iemss.org), until 2006. He is on the Board of numerous academic journals and is Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Modelling and Software, an Elsevier journal with an Impact Factor of 1.992. He has undertaken invited study leave at Stanford, Cambridge and Lancaster Universities, as well as at the University of Western Australia, CSIRO Land and Water and the UK Institute of Hydrology (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology).

Professional Activities

Research interests are hydrology, environmental systems modelling and integrated assessment of river basin issues to promote more sustainable outcomes. The focus is on developing the relevant disciplinary tools and their integration for this assessment. This problem-oriented work is facilitated by a project focus and networking with other research groups and industrial partners in Australia and internationally.

He has supervised over 30 postgraduate students, predominantly at the PhD level and is regularly involved in the supervision of Honours and earlier year undergraduate students. He is co-convenor of MATH 3133/3134H, a 3rd year course in Environmental Modelling usually offered in second semester. He is the Coordinator of Postgraduate Coursework in the Fenner School.

Selected Publications

Jakeman, A.J., Voinov, A.A, Rizzoli, A.E and Chen, S. (eds) (in press) State-of-the-art and Futures in Environmental Modelling and Software. Elsevier.

Jakeman, A.J., Letcher, R.A. and Norton, J.P. 2006. Ten iterative steps in development and evaluation of environmental models. Environmental Modelling and Software, 21: 602-614.

Giupponi, C., Jakeman, A.J., Karssenberg, G. and Hare, M.P. (eds) 2006. Sustainable Management of Water Resources: an Integrated Approach. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 361pp.

Croke, B.F., Merritt, W.S. and Jakeman, A.J. 2005.. A dynamic model for predicting hydrological response to land cover changes in gauged and ungauged catchments. J. Hydrology, 291:115-131.

Jakeman, A.J. and Letcher, R.A. 2003. Integrated Assessment and Modelling: Features, Principles and Examples for Catchment Management. Environmental Modelling and Software, 18: 491-501.