The pools that remain in northern Australian rivers during the long dry season provide an important refuge for stream fauna and flora and are often culturally significant. There is a common perception, however, that many of these riverine waterholes are being filled by sands. Changes in land-use upstream and the effects of climate change have been suggested as causes for sand accumulation. This project sought to determine, whether there was evidence for sustained infilling of pools within two north Australian river catchments.
Report
October 2016
Alluvial gully erosion rates and processes across the Mitchell River fluvial megafan in northern Queensland, Australia
Report
April 2015
Erosion, sediment transport and deposition in the Daly River catchment: Implications for catchment management (report)
Scientific Paper
October 2013
Sediment production and yield from an alluvial gully in northern Queensland, Australia
Shellberg, J., Brooks, A., & Rose, C. (2013). Sediment production and yield from an alluvial gully in northern Queensland, Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 38(15), 1765-1778. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3414
Other
October 2013
The hydrogeomorphic influences on alluvial gully erosion along the Mitchell River fluvial megafan
Shellberg, J., Brooks, A., Spencer, J., & Ward, D. (2013). The hydrogeomorphic influences on alluvial gully erosion along the Mitchell River fluvial megafan. Hydrological Processes, 27(7), 1086-1104. doi: 10.1002/hyp.9240
Other
October 2013
The hydrogeomorphic influences on alluvial gully erosion along the Mitchell River fluvial megafan
Report
November 2012
Alluvial gully erosion: A dominant erosion process across tropical northern Australia (report)
Scientific Paper
April 2012
The dominant erosion processes supplying fine sediment to three major rivers in tropical Australia, the Daly (NT), Mitchell (Qld) and Flinders (Qld) Rivers (scientific paper)
Caitcheon, G. G., Olley, J., Pantus, F., Hancock, G., & Leslie, C. (2012). The dominant erosion processes supplying fine sediment to three major rivers in tropical Australia, the Daly (NT), Mitchell (Qld) and Flinders (Qld) Rivers. Geomorphology, 151-152, 188–195.
Other
July 2010
Land-use change from indigenous management to cattle grazing initiates the gullying of alluvial soils in northern Australia (journal article)
Shellberg, J., Brooks, A., & Spencer, J. 2010. Land-use change from indigenous management to cattle grazing initiates the gullying of alluvial soils in northern Australia. Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World. International Union of Soil Sciences.
Scientific Paper
April 2010
Sediment sources and channel dynamics, Daly River, Northern Australia (scientific paper)
Wasson, R., Furlonger, L., Parry, D., Pietsch, T., Valentine, E., & Williams, D. (2010). Sediment sources and channel dynamics, Daly River, Northern Australia. Geomorphology, 114(3), 161–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.022
Scientific Paper
October 2009
Alluvial gully erosion: an example from the Mitchell fluvial megafan, Queensland, Australia
Brooks, A. P., Shellberg, J. G., Knight, J. and Spencer, J. (2009), Alluvial gully erosion: an example from the Mitchell fluvial megafan, Queensland, Australia. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 34: 1951–1969. doi:10.1002/esp.1883
Info Sheet
July 2009
Alluvial gully erosion: A dominant erosion process across tropical northern Australia
Info Sheet
February 2008
Sediment and Waterholes
The project was led by scientists at the Australian Rivers Institute (ARI) at Griffith University in Brisbane. They were supported by other scientists from CSIRO Land and Water (in Canberra), the Northern Territory Government and Charles Darwin University.
Andrew Brooks from the ARI was the project leade
