Streamology is constantly updating the science of waterway management and for each consulting project can draw upon a broad network to provide the specific expertise required.
Management and research need each other
Consulting
Streamology can offer strategic solutions to your waterway management challenges and opportunities. We work with you, listen to your needs, and assess the project in context. We are specialists in fluvial geomorphology, ecohydraulics, hydrology and waterway science, monitoring and management. We draw upon our network to incorporate disciplines required for the project including ecology, economics, policy, and design and construction. To see some of Streamology's previous projects click the link below.
Watch now to understand how Streamology bridges the gap between science and management
Research
Streamology undertakes research through direct linkages with the University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University to further our knowledge of waterway management, including on-ground monitoring, novel approaches, and through the supervision of our next generation of waterway scientists and managers. If your passionate about diverging from the business-as-usual have a read of some of the journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. We hope they help with your own research or project.
Putting research into practice
To demonstrate how Streamology bridges the gap between consulting and research, here are some recent projects, news and educational material.
As we’ve transitioned from a narrow focus on ‘channel stability’, waterway managers have had limited guidance on how to work with rivers.
If we want to protect and restore the various ecological, social, cultural and economic values provided by rivers, we need to understand and manage the physical form, processes and landscape interactions that support them.
To enable this, Streamology and it’s think tank (looking at you Ian Rutherfurd and James Grove) have drafted a set of high-level, reasonably simple principles to inform the management of physical form and process – the Physical Form Five.