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Associate Professor Richard Silberstein

Academic

Staff Member Details
Email: r.silberstein@ecu.edu.au

Richard is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Ecosystem Management, studying the inter-relationships between hydrology and vegetation communities. He runs an atmospheric flux and groundwater monitoring station in Banksia woodland north of Perth, as part of the national OzFlux and international FluxNet communities.

Current Teaching

  • Not currently teaching

Background

Associate Professor Silberstein was previously with CSIRO Land and Water for 19 years, as a Principal Research Scientist. He has 25 years of experience studying catchment and groundwater hydrology and the responses of hydrological and vegetation systems to land use and climate change. He runs field experiments as well as being one of the developers of the sophisticated Topog catchment model that simulates the physical hydrology and the dynamics of vegetation response in natural and managed systems.

Prior to this he has worked for the WA Departments of Agriculture, Environment, and Environmental Protection.

Professional Memberships

  • Member of the American Geophysical Union

Research Areas and Interests

  • 25 years’ experience in hydrology, micrometeorology and environmental science
  • Delivering simulation models for groundwater and surface water management, forests and catchments
  • Simulating and observing impacts of climate and land use on catchment water balance for water resources, ecosystem health and salinity management
  • Off-site impacts of mining, post-mining pit water balance
  • Multi-disciplinary project management

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia, 1999.
  • Bachelor of Science with Second Class Honours in Physics, The University of Western Australia, 1979.

Research

Recent Research Grants

  • WA State Government Co-Investment for NCRIS, Project Plan 2019-2022 for NCRIS TERN – WA Node,  Department of Education, Skills and Employment,  National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Project,  2019 - 2022,  $16,000.
  • TERN OzFlux - Ecosystem Processes - carbon, water and energy balances of Banksia woodland,  Department of Education, Skills and Employment,  National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Project,  2019 - 2022,  $335,191.
  • OzFlux - measurement of atmospheric fluxes over a native vegetation at Gingin,  Department of Education, Skills and Employment,  National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Project,  2015 - 2019,  $328,870.
  • TERN Gingin Banksia Woodland SuperSite,  Department of Education, Skills and Employment,  National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Project,  2017 - 2019,  $66,658.
  • Off-site impacts of mining on the hydrology of Yamba catchment,  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),  CSIRO - Grant,  2015 - 2016,  $32,400.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Journal Articles

  • White, DA., Silberstein, R., Balocchi-Contreras, F., Quiroga, J., Ramírez De Arellano, P., (2020), Contribution of advanced regeneration of Pinus Radiata D. Don. to transpiration by a fragment of native forest in Central Chile is out of proportion with the contribution to sapwood area. Forests, 11(2), Article number 187, DOI: 10.3390/f11020187.
  • Macfarlane, C., Grigg, A., McGregor, R., Ogden, G., Silberstein, R., (2018), Overstorey evapotranspiration in a seasonally dry Mediterranean eucalypt forest: Response to groundwater and mining. Ecohydrology, 11(5), Article number e1971, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1971.
  • Beringer, J., Hutley, L., McHugh, I., Arndt, S., Campbell, D., Cleugh, H., Cleverly, J., De Dios, V., Eamus, D., Evans, B., Ewenz, C., Grace, P., Griebel, A., Haverd, V., Hinko-Najera, N., Huete, A., Isaac, P., Kanniah, K., Leuning, R., Liddell, M., Macfarlane, C., Meyer, W., Moore, C., Pendall, E., Phillips, A., Phillips, R., Prober, S., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Rutledge, S., Schroder, I., Silberstein, R., Southall, P., Yee, MS., Tapper, N., Van Gorsel, E., Vote, C., Walker, J., Wardlaw, T., (2016), An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network - OzFlux. Biogeosciences, 13(21), 5895-5916, Copernicus GmbH, DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-5895-2016.
  • Van Gorsel, E., Wolf, S., Cleverly, J., Isaac, P., Haverd, V., Ewenz, C., Arndt, S., Beringer, J., De Dios, V., Evans, B., Griebel, A., Hutley, L., Keenan, T., Kljun, N., Macfarlane, C., Meyer, W., McHugh, I., Pendall, E., Prober, S., Silberstein, R., (2016), Carbon uptake and water use in woodlands and forests in southern Australia during an extreme heat wave event in the "angry Summer" of 2012/2013. Biogeosciences, 13(21), 5947-5964, Copernicus GmbH, DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-5947-2016.
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