Visiting Fellow
Water industry and water catchment processes
Phone: +61 2 6125 0663 Fenner
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
+61 2 6125 2533
E-mail: alan.wade@anu.edu.au
awade@grapevine.com.au

Alan Wade's activities at Fenner School and BoZ0 include: Supporting ANU water industry linkages; providing support for PhD students and ANU research staff investigating water supply catchment processes; Research on the impact of fire disturbed landscape on hydrological and water quality processes and on vegetation responses to landscape scale fire; Phytochemistry of herbivore-eucalypt interface.

Professional Activities

Australian Volunteer Abroad; Secretary NHMRC Water Quality Committee; Board member of CRC for Water Quality and Treatment; Principal catchment officer ActewAGL

Studies of impacts of landscape disturbances on hydrological and water quality processes and of the hydrological function of high country fens and bogs. Study of Mugga ironbark impacts on honeybees

Selected Publications

Gill, A.M., Worthy, M., Wade, A., White, I., Mueller, N. (in prep) Fire and water: Framing the fire and fuel management of water supply catchments. Water Down Under 2008, Joint 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research, Adelaide Convention Centre, 15-18 April 2008.

Wade, A., Ingwersen, F., Hope, G. (in prep). Flora of the ACT High Country. An illustrated checklist of vascular plants found in the Cotter River, Tidbinbilla and Nass River landscapes, 33 pp.

White, I., Wade, A., Barnes, R., Worthy, M., Mueller, N., Knee R. 2006..  Impacts of the January 2003 wildfires on ACT water supply catchments: Water quality in the Cotter storages and catchment yield. Report to ActewAGL project WF-30039 Iron, manganese, and turbidity post bushfire. Paper presented at Enviro 06, 9 May 2006, 10 pp.

White, I., Wade, A., Worthy, M., Mueller, N., Daniell, T., Wasson, R. 2006.. The vulnerability of water supply catchments to bushfires: Impacts of the January 2003 wildfires on the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Journal of Water Resources 10 (2) 179-193.

White, I., Wade, A., Worthy, M., Gill, A.M., Mueller, N., Newell, B., Wasson, R., M., (in prep). Natural and human Induced fire impacts on water quality in water supply catchments. Water Down Under 2008, Joint 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research, Adelaide Convention Centre, 15-18 April 2008.