×L1. Catchment water quality modelling

Deteriorating water quality in rivers and streams can have significant environmental, economic and social impacts. As such, it is increasingly important to enhance our understanding of key catchment processes and to predict future water quality through catchment modelling.

This session aims to address recent advances in modelling water quality in natural and rural catchments, including:

• Representation and understanding of catchment water quality processes, and predicting future water quality
• Modelling to assist water quality policy development, decision-making and management for natural/rural catchments
• Approaches and techniques in water quality modelling and analysis, such as integration of water quality models with ecological systems and modelling across environments, land uses and scales.

Besides catchment-scale modelling, we particularly welcoming contributions relevant to large-scale programs such as the Great Barrier Reefs, as well as paddock- or lot-scale modelling within catchments.

Key topics: Catchment water quality, Modelling, Pollution, Variability