{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260100532"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260100532","attributes":{"code":"DE260100532","administering-organisation":"Monash University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Monash University","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-12-31","anticipated-end-date":"2030-01-09","grant-summary":"Hotspots and legacies: integrating history into water quality modeling. This project aims to develop a new transdisciplinary approach to enhance river water quality predictions by unlocking information contained in historical lake sediments. Nutrient pollution in rivers leads to ecosystem collapse and undermines human access to safe and secure water supplies. Catchment water quality models are an essential tool in the fight against pollution. Building upon the CI's previous work with industry and government, this project will generate new knowledge of pollution inputs into rivers, which will be used to develop improved models to predict impacts on water quality. This will enable waterway managers to design effective strategies to safeguard water supplies and ecosystem health for future generations.","funding-current":532778.00,"funding-at-announcement":528543,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Anna","familyName":"Lintern","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-2121-0301 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Anna","familyName":"Lintern","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-2121-0301 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Monash University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Monash University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4005","name":"Civil Engineering","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"400513","name":"Water Resources Engineering","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"180306","name":"Measurement and Assessment of Freshwater Quality (Incl. Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water)","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["France","Spain","United States of America"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Waterway pollution threatens water security. Agricultural activities, if not managed properly, can contribute to waterway pollution. This research will benefit Australians economically, socially and environmentally through the protection of rivers from pollution generated by agricultural activities – ensuring safe drinking water supplies, healthy waterways for tourism and ecosystems, and clean irrigation water for agriculture. This project will provide new knowledge about nutrient sources and transport pathways in catchments, which will underpin a modelling tool that can be used to model water quality in agricultural catchments. This project will contribute to: (i) improving our understanding of nutrient sources and how the arrangement of these source areas within catchments impact water quality; and (ii) uncovering and quantifying the impact of historical activities on present-day pollution in rivers using data sets not traditionally used in hydrology. The outcomes from this project will be integrated into a model validated using existing water quality monitoring data from rivers across Victoria. The model will be co-designed with the water quality modelling community. The CI’s strong networks in industry and government will maximise translation and adoption of this tool - for the ultimate goal of protecting Australian rivers for future generations."}}}