Name:

Okke Batelaan

Highest qualification and awarding university

PhD, Free University Brusssels

Designation

Strategic Professor

Employer

Flinders University

Contact details:

  1. Email:

  2. WhatsApp number/Mobile number

 

 

Okke.batelaan@flinders.edu.au

+61405500015

 

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https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/okke.batelaan

Key areas of interest

shallow groundwater hydrology and modeling, recharge-discharge estimation and modeling, urban hydrology and distributed modelling, ecohydrology and impacts of landuse and climate change on groundwater systems, integrated water management, water-energy-food

 

Web link for personal profile

 

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=hbNmp4EAAAAJ

 

Brief career profile

Okke Batelaan is Strategic Professor in Hydro(geo)logy at Flinders University since 2012. Formerly he was for more than 20 years faculty member at the Free University Brussels and the KU Leuven, Belgium. Professor Batelaan has a broad experience in teaching groundwater hydrology, groundwater modelling, GIS and remote sensing for hydrological applications. He supervised more than 200 MSc/PhD students from all continents. He has extensive research experience and a publication record in shallow groundwater hydrology and modeling, recharge-discharge estimation and modeling, urban hydrology and distributed modelling, ecohydrology and impacts of landuse and climate change on groundwater systems. He coordinated and participated in a large number of projects in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and South America. He is editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies and associate editor of Journal of Hydrology.

 

Research projects completed or on-going

  1. Integrated water, soil and nutrient management for sustainable farming systems in South Central Coastal Vietnam and Australia. Funding: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.

  2. Exploring opportunities to expand groundwater use for livelihood enhancement and climate change adaptation in Laos. Funding: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.

  3. Geophysics to Enhance Agricultural Productivity and Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers through Improved Groundwater Management of the Vientiane Plain, Lao PDR. Funding: Society of Exploration Geophysicists-Geoscientists without Borders.

 

Key Publications

  1. Gutiérrez-Jurado, K.Y., Partington, D., Batelaan, O., Cook, P. and Shanafield, M., 2019, What triggers streamflow for intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams in low-gradient catchments in mediterranean climates. Water Resources Research 55(11): 9926-9946. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr025041

  2. Berezowski, T., Partington, D., Chormański, J. and Batelaan, O., 2019, Spatiotemporal dynamics of the active perirheic zone in a natural wetland floodplain. Water Resources Research 55(11): 9544-9562. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr024777

  3. Chen, A., Guan, H., Batelaan, O., Zhang, X. and He, X., 2019, Global Soil Moisture-Air Temperature Coupling Based on GRACE-Derived Terrestrial Water Storage. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124(14): 7786-7796. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030324

  4. Enemark, T., Peeters, L.J.M., Mallants, D. and Batelaan, O., 2019, Hydrogeological conceptual model building and testing: A review. Journal of Hydrology 569: 310-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.12.007

  5. Bresciani, E., Cranswick, R.H., Banks, E.W., Batlle-Aguilar, J., Cook, P.G. and Batelaan, O., 2018, Using hydraulic head, chloride and electrical conductivity data to distinguish between mountain-front and mountain-block recharge to basin aquifers. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22(2): 1629-1648. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1629-2018