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Centre for Water Research is proud to present the Swan-Canning River Basin On-Line project, with the vision to reconnect people to their environment and to foster interaction, resulting in participatory sustainable management of the Swan-Canning River Basin.

The tools below provides a system integrating the real world and the virtual world (World Wide Web) towards this vision.

  • Olaris
    Olaris displays data from a series of real-time data aquisition hardware units, models and 3rd party information. The data is displayed as a series of line plots and contours for easy understanding.

  • Simulations
    Simulation movies are the results of realtime data or simulated ELCOM / CAEDYM model output. The output typically shows a hydrodynamic cross section of a water body such as a river or lake.

  • GIS-Simulations
    The GIS-Simulations show information by geographic location for areas of interest. The Google Earth Plugin is required.



Notice:

  1. The simulations for all geographic sites, available through this website are obtained with the hydrodynamic model ELCOM and the coupled biogeochemical model CAEDYM, both developed at CWR and both used extensively around the world.

    Swan-Canning: The predictions for water temperature, salinity and turbidity have been validated, but all biogeochemical predictions still need to be validated with field monitoring, this will be done once more donations are received.

    Rio de la Plata Estuary: Validation is ongoing under a contract from AYSA and predictions appear to be excellent.

    Lake Iseo: No validation has been carried out. CWR is currently planning a major field experiment, funded by the Australian Research Council, to be carried out starting July 15 2010.

  2. You can help with the model validation process for the Swan Canning location by going to Centre for Water Research and making a donation. The work that you see on the website is a community service and is supported exclusively through donations.

  3. If you have any problems in using the site or have suggestions for improvements please email to: goodyear@cwr.uwa.edu.au.



Swan-Canning River Basin On-Line

The Swan-Canning River Basin has undergone extensive land use changes in the 20th Century and is facing severe threats from 21st century urban development, climate change and agricultural land use.

The Swan-Canning River Basin On Line project proposal is a joint initiative of the Centre for Water Research at The University of Western Australia and Curtin University.

It presents a simple strategy for reversing the current degradation of the Swan-Canning River Basin by setting up a modern adaptive management system that will allow the Swan-Canning River Basin and its receiving waters to be managed sustainably for the benefit of the Western Australian community. The system would allow all stakeholders from primary and high schools students, to teachers and researchers, to company officials and public servants to politicians, to explore various impacts on the Swan-Canning River Basin.

It will enable all of us to become connected to our immediate environment, become more knowledgeable about the Swan-Canning River's capacity to sustain further development and understand the cost effectiveness of proposed government and non-government actions. The system will allow all of us to participate in the management of "Our River" through an interactive, easy to use web portal.

To view the project proposal and to donate to this cause, click here.





Swan-Canning Project




Millenium Kids


Swan-Canning River Basin On-Line Education Network

The Swan-Canning River Basin On-Line Education Network is a joint initiative of the Centre for Water Research (CWR) and Millennium Kids (MK), as a sub-project of the larger scientific research of the Swan-Canning River Basin On-Line Project, aimed at the young people, the future generation of leaders.

MK is a not for profit and non-government organisation run by young people, for young people (10-25yrs) and aims to encourage young people to be environmental leaders by being active and aware in their environment. The project uses the Swan-Canning River Basin to connect students and teachers to their immediate environment, introducing them to a network of information. It offers them the opportunity to engage in 'real' environmental science.