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A/PROF IAN RUTHERFURD



Contact Details

Organization: Resource Management and Geography, Resource Management and Geography
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow), ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/staff/rutherfurd.html
Work: 8344 9374
Room: 220
Level: 02
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University 31-Dec-1993

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
ITT Fulbright Fellowship (FULL) 31-Dec-1998

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Riparian land management: concepts, floods and erosion Chief Investigator LAND & WATER AUST Project Grant Proposals 09/10/2002
THE GEOMORPHOLOGY OF POOLS ALONG THE LOWER-MEKONG RIVER IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE TRANSBOUNDARY IMPACTS OF RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT Principal Supervisor ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY The Ralph Brown Expedition Award 08/03/2006
Historical changes in floodplain sedimentation in SE Australia: using radionuclides to validate a new approach Chief Investigator AINSE Special Awards 01/01/2008
Historical changes in floodplain sedimentation in SE Australia: using radionuclides to validate a new approach Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/05/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
THE GEOMORPHOLOGY OF POOLS ON THE LOWER-MEKONG RIVER: POOL SPACING, SIZE, MAINTENANCE AND POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF FLOW REGULATION. Chief Investigator MEKONG RIVER COMMISSION 01/05/2006

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
SUMMER FLOW RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE GOULBURN RIVER Chief Investigator UMEE LTD

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Reports

  • Remote sensing of rivers: A potential contribution to the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Rivers Audit
    Year: 2008
    Customer: Murray-Darling Basin Commission
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • The geomorphic and ecological effectiveness of habitat rehabilitation works: Continuous measurement of scour and fill around large logs in sand-bed streams
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Volume: 89
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 205-216
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • City people eat rivers: estimating the virtual water consumed by people in a large Australian city
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 5th Australian Stream Management Conference, Australian Rivers: making a difference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from the 5th Australian Stream Management Conference, Australian Rivers: making a difference
    Page numbers: 348-353
    Publisher: Charles Sturt University(Wagga Wagga)
    Author(s):
  • Which confluences should we use to differentiate stream segments for management? A geomorphic assessment
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 5th Australian Stream Management Conference, Australian Rivers: making a difference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from the 5th Australian Stream Management Conference, Australian Rivers: making a difference
    Page numbers: 473-478
    Publisher: Charles Sturt University(Wagga Wagga)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • An analysis of the influence of riparian vegetation on the propagation of flood waves
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Environmental Modelling and Software
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 1290-1296
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  • Quantifying uncertainty in environmental flow assessments
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Water Resources
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 151-160
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Reports

  • Controlling willows along Australian rivers


    Year: 2006
    Customer: Land and Water Australia
    Report No:: 6
    Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service(Canberra)
    Authors:

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Geomorphology of the Barmah-Millewa Forest
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
    Volume: 117
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 23-39
    Publisher: Royal Society of Victoria
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  • Measuring the reach-scale geomorphic diversity of streams: application to a stream disturbed by a sediment slug
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Rivers Research and Applications
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 39-59
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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  • Re-evaluation of the wave model as a tool for quantifying the geomorphic recovery potential of streams disturbed by sediment slugs
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 221-242
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(The Hague)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A literature review of the factors that control root characteristics of riparian trees
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 483-488
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Comparing apples with pears: a procedure for adding geomorphology to a stream health assessment (the Victorian Index of Stream Condition)
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 274-280
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Continuous monitoring of pool habitats in sand bed streams: a new method using a pressure-transducer
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 103-107
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • How Victorian catchment management authorities make decisions about priorities in stream rehabilitation
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 260-267
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • How does riparian vegetation condition influence floods?
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 47-51
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Linking hydrology to habitat: large woody debris, fish and pool scour in the Granite Creeks and the Snowy River
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
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  • Merging the fish, the wood and the engineer: the complex physical response to additions of woody debris
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 95-102
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Modelling streambank erosion at catchment scale - what is important for model predictions
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 320-325
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Not all benches are created equal: proposing and field testing an in-channel river bench classification, with implications for environmental flows
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 629-635
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Quanitfying uncertainty in environmental flow assessments
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
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  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimating environmental flow requirements
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 553-561
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • ROVER: Introducing a unified model to estimate the hydraulic resistance of vegetation
    Year: 2005
    Event name: MODSIM 2005: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Conference Publication: MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: Modelling & Simulation Society of Australia & New Zealand(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Suspended sediment yield following riparian revegetation in a small southeast Queensland stream
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 410-414
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Testing uncertainty in a model of stream bank erosion
    Year: 2005
    Event name: MODSIM 2005: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Conference Publication: MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Page numbers: 2714-2720
    Publisher: Modelling & Simulation Society of Australia & New Zealand(Melbourne)
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  • The complex effect of fine tree roots on shear stress of cohesive stream banks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 52-58
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
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  • The initiation of avulsions
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 326-332
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • The riparian rehabilitation experiment: evolution of a practical methodology
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 40-46
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Variability in river bench elevation and the implications for environmental flow studies
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Vegetation roughness and flood magnitude: a case study of the relative impact of local and catchment scale effects
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: Water Capital
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia(Barton)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • The influence of trees on stream bank erosion: evidence from root-plate abutments
    Year: 2004
    Book: Riparian vegetation and fluvial geomorphology
    Publisher: American Geophysical Union(Washington DC)
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Journal Articles

  • Evaluating stream rehabilitation projects: reasons not to, and approaches if you have to
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Water Resources
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 57-68
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia
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  • Phase-shifts in shear stress as an explanation for the maintenance of pool-riffle sequences
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 737-753
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Reports

  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Habitat Reconstruction in Rivers
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 04
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Monash)
    Authors:

Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An Australian handbook of stream roughness coefficients
    Year: 2003
    Event name: About Water: 28th International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 28th International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 65-71
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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  • An analysis of the influence of riparian vegetation on the propagation of flood waves
    Year: 2003
    Event name: MODSIM 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of MODSIM 2003
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 897-902
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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  • Estimating catchment-scale sediment yield from bank erosion using simple distributed variables: an example from Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2003
    Event name: MODSIM 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of MODSIM 2003
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 308-313
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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Reports

  • Environmental flow recommendations for the Goulburn River below Lake Eildon
    Year: 2003
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Publications in 2002

Conference Publications/Papers

  • 'We don't have time for that!': Realistic approaches to evaluating stream restoration projects
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 27th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 21-28
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Creighton's Creek (Central Victoria, Australia)
    Year: 2001
    Book: Source-to-Sink sedimentary cascades in Pacific Rim Geo-systems
    Publisher: Matsumoto Sabo Work Office(Nagona)
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  • Glenelg River (South West Victoria, Australia)
    Year: 2001
    Book: Source-to-Sink sedimentary cascades in Pacific Rim Geo-systems
    Publisher: Matsumoto Sabo Work Office(Nagona)
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  • Ringarooma Creek (North East, Tasmania, Australia)
    Year: 2001
    Book: Source-to-Sink Sedimentary Cascades in Pacific Rim Geo-systems
    Publisher: Matsumoto Sabo Work Office(Nagona)
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Journal Articles

  • Australia versus the World: do we face special opportunities and challenges in restoring Australian streams?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Water Science and Technology
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 165-174
    Publisher: IWA Publishing(London)
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  • Large-scale patterns of erosion and sediment transport in river networks, with examples from Australia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Marine and Freshwater Research
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 81-99
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  • The distribution and strength of riparian tree roots in relation to riverbank reinforcement
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Hydrological Processes
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 63-79
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Enhancing instream habitat with large woody debris: a flume experiment
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Conference Publication: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 397-402
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Clayton)
    Author(s):
  • Predicting pre-disturbance loading and distribution of large woody debris
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Conference Publication: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 391-396
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Clayton)
    Author(s):
  • Rehabilitating pool and riffle sequences: the role of alternate bar dynamics and flow constriction
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Conference Publication: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 681-687
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Clayton)
    Author(s):
  • Statistics, snags and sand: measuring the geomorphic recovery of streams disturbed by sediment slugs
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Conference Publication: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 15-21
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Clayton)
    Author(s):

Reports

  • Snowy River Rehabilitation Monitoring, Physical Aspects
    Year: 2001
    Customer: East Gippsland Catchment Managment Authority
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
    Authors:
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