Program 2 - The Catchment

Program Leader: Jane Macfarlane, Cotton CRC

Enable best practice cotton enterprises to deliver sustainable ecosystems and reduced impacts on catchments by:




  • Characterising river health and ecological responses to flow variability in two key floodplain catchments and assisting catchment bodies to develop science-based riparian health indicators 
  • Benchmarking current groundwater conditions in cotton catchments and improving the reliability of aquifer recharge modelling by at least 10 per cent
  • Establishing baselines for on-farm water quality and developing remediation processes with the capacity to deliver both farm and catchment benefits
  • Developing best practice techniques and guidelines to enable industry and catchment bodies to better assess, manage and monitor biodiversity and ecosystem services in cotton catchments
  • Developing a set of farm and catchment information resources and tools that are consistent with good science, best practice, practical adoption and catchment goals 
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