Name:

Craig T. Simmons

Highest qualification and awarding university

PhD, Flinders University

Designation

Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor & Schultz Chair in the Environment

Employer

Flinders University

Contact details:

  1. Email:

  2. WhatsApp number/Mobile number

 

craig.simmons@flinders.edu.au

+61405184645

Home page link on your employer web site if available

https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/craig.simmons

Key areas of interest

Groundwater, Hydrogeology, Groundwater Modelling

 

Web link for personal profile

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5399-6292 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5399-6292

Web of Science ResearcherID: H-7458-2015 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/H-7458-2015

Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/2389810/craig-t-simmons/

Scopus Author ID: 7103173883 http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7103173883

Google Scholar: Craig T. Simmons http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=48O1q80AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

ResearchGate: Craig T. Simmons http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Craig_Simmons2

 

 

Brief career profile

Professor Craig Simmons FTSE is a leading groundwater scientist, recognised for major national and international contributions to groundwater science, science leadership, education and policy reform. Professor Simmons is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Hydrogeology, Schultz Chair in the Environment at Flinders University and Foundation Director of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training. He is Executive Director for Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences at the Australian Research Council. Prior to this, he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Research Projects) at Flinders University. He is an Honorary Professor at The Australian National University (ANU). Professor Simmons is a member of the Australian Government’s Statutory Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development (IESC) and Chair of the Alligator Rivers Region Technical Committee (ARRTC) which provides the Commonwealth Government with advice on Ranger Uranium Mine in world-heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. He is a member of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development. Professor Simmons is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. His work has been recognised by numerous national and international research and teaching awards including the Anton Hales Medal for outstanding contributions to research in the Earth Sciences by the Australian Academy of Science and an Australian Award for University Teaching. He was named 2015 South Australian Scientist of the Year and 2017 Australian Water Professional of the Year. He is a 2017 Convocation Medallist of Flinders University and a 2017 Biennial Medallist of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Professor Simmons has served as an Editor and Associate Editor for numerous major international journals including Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrogeology Journal, Groundwater, Australian Journal of Water Resources, Vadose Zone Journal, Geofluids and Heliyon.

 

Research projects completed or on-going

  1. Cooperative Research Centre on Transformations in Mining Economies (CRC-TiME).

  2. Effect of faults and barriers on groundwater flow and solute transport, ARC Linkage Grant, ARC, Rio Tinto, WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation.

  3. Simmons, C.T., Groundwater Modelling Decision Support Initiative, BHP and Rio Tinto.

 

Key publications

1. Rajabi, M., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., and Simmons, C.T., 2018. Model-data Interaction in Groundwater Studies: Review of Methods, Applications and Future Directions, Journal of Hydrology, 567, 457–477.

2. Brunner, P., Therrien, R., Renard, P., Simmons, C.T., and Hendricks Franssen, H.J., 2017. Advances in understanding river - groundwater interactions, Reviews of Geophysics, 55, 818–854.

3. Elder, J.W., Simmons, C.T., Diersch, H.-J.G., Frolkovič, P., Holzbecher, E., and Johannsen, K., 2017. The Elder Problem, Fluids, 2(1), 11, doi:10.3390/fluids2010011.

4. Ward, J.D., Sutton, P.C., Werner, A.D., Costanza, R., Mohr, S.H., and Simmons, C.T., 2016. Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible? PloS one, 11(10), e0164733.

5. Yang, Y., Guan, H., Batelaan, O., McVicar, T.R., Long, D., Piao, S., Liang, W., Liu, B., Jin, Z., and Simmons, C.T., 2016. Contrasting responses of water use efficiency to drought across global terrestrial ecosystems, Nature Scientific Reports, 6, 23284; doi: 10.1038/srep23284.