[OSGeo Oceania] VACANCY: Catchment Rehydration Selection Tool

[Jonah Sullivan]

*Interesting opportunity with a mate of mine. He's looking for some help
with geospatial Python work. Remote work is available. Pay is negotiable.
Let me know if you want to see the longer version of the Project Briefing
(6 pages). Contact is luke at themullooninstitute.org
<luke at themullooninstitute.org>.*

*Regards,*
*Jonah Sullivan*

*Project Briefing*
The Mulloon Institute (TMI) has entered a contractual partnership with NSW
DPI Agriculture for the development of a Catchment Rehydration Selection
Tool. Funded as part of the DPI’s Climate Smart Pilots Project,
Demonstrating Adaptation Program, the selection tool will be designed to
evaluate catchment scale regions across NSW for the feasibility of
implementing landscape rehydration practices which have been successfully
demonstrated by TMI at the Mulloon Creek catchment, Bungendore, NSW, and
other catchments around Australia.

Direct benefits arising from implementing landscape rehydration practices
are the improved utilisation of water resources - slowing stream flow
velocity, increasing groundwater/aquifer recharge, increasing the degree
and duration of soil water content and improving biological diversity in
the riparian and flood zones. Subsequent indirect benefits, particularly
when combined with other regenerative and sustainable farm practices, have
positive impact at the farm and regional level - improvement in soil
health, enterprise productivity, ecological diversity and resilience in the
face of drought, floods and bushfires.

The Catchment Rehydration Selection Tool will provide a spatial output akin
to a ‘heat map’ which grades agricultural regions of NSW according to their
potential for effective adoption of landscape rehydration practices. The
enormous breadth of benefits from rehydration means several players will
have an interest in use of the Selection Tool. Stakeholders are likely to
include, but not be limited to:
• farmers and farm advisors,
• catchment communities,
• government agencies with interests aligned with Sustainable Development
Goals,
• investors seeking to achieve scale for aggregation in environmental
credits programs,
• regulators,
• insurers in the evaluation of risk, and
• LGA’s for evaluation of water access and quality.

Widespread adoption of the catchment rehydration approach will require the
Selection Tool to meaningfully account for the risk and return profile
associated with deployment of the new practices. Therefore, the model
development phase will draw on requisite expertise to establish a
methodology for assessing the potential effectiveness of rehydration.
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