Daly Basin Drilling, 2010

S. Tickell
Four investigation/monitoring bores were drilled at Florina Station to improve the coverage of regional water level monitoring in the Oolloo aquifer and to establish the nature of the newly recognised Florina geological formation that overlies the Oolloo Dolostone. The report includes drillers bore statements and geologists description of cuttings.

http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/hpa-services/techreport?report_id=WRD10024

Bayesian network models for environmental flow decision making in the Daly River, Northern Territory, Australia

Terence U. Chan, Barry T. Hart, Mark J. Kennard, Bradley J. Pusey, Will Shenton, Michael M. Douglas, Eric Valentine, Sandeep Patel
River Research and Applications, Sept 2010
This paper reports the development and application of two Bayesian Network models to assist decision making on the environmental flows required to maintain the ecological health of the Daly River. The abundances of two fish species—barramundi (Lates calcarifer) and sooty grunter (Hephaestus fuliginosus)—were chosen as the ecological endpoints for the models, which linked dry season flows to key aspects of the biology of each species. If current extraction entitlements were fully utilized, the models showed there would be significant impacts on the populations of these two fish species.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rra.1456/abstract

Water in the Daly region report

Report on water in the Daly region of the Timor Sea drainage division from the northern Australia Sustainable Yeilds Report.
This region report contains information on water availability and demand, context and water balance results for the Daly region, August 2009.

http://www.csiro.au/resources/Daly-report-NASY.html

Water in the Timor Sea Drainage Division report

A report to the Australian government for the CSIRO Northern Australia Sustainable Yeilds Project. August 2009
The Daly is one of six regions covered in this report. Water resources are assessed using available historical data and modelling under various climate scenarios. Knowledge gaps are identified.

http://www.csiro.au/science/NASY-Timor-Sea.html

High and low flow regime changes at environmental assets across northern Australia under future climate and development scenarios

DL McJannet, JW Wallace, A Henderson and J McMahon, December 2009.
A report to the Australian government from the CSIRO Northern Australia Sustainable Yields Project.
This report summarises the assessment of the impact of current and predicted future water resources development on key environmental assets. It includes technical details on the approaches used and data produced and summarises data and knowledge gaps which must be addressed for robust future sustaianble yeilds assessments.

http://www.csiro.au/partnerships/NASY-Science-Reports.html

Diffuse groundwater recharge modelling across northern Australia

Russell S. Crosbie, James L. McCallum and Glenn A. Harrington, December 2009
A report to the Australian government from the CSIRO Northern Australia Sustainable Yeilds Project.
This report investigates the impact of climate changes scenarios on groundwater recharge in a range of north Australian catchments.

http://www.csiro.au/partnerships/NASY-Science-Reports.html

Diurnal and seasonal variations in CH4 flux from termite mounds in tropical savannas of the Northern Territory, Australia

Hizbullah Jamali, Stephen J. Livesley, Tracy Z. Dawes, Garry D. Cook, Lindsay B. Hutley, Stefan K. Arnd 2010, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Termites are estimated to contribute between <5 and 19% of the global methane (CH4) emissions. We measured CH4 fluxes from four common mound-building termite species (Microcerotermes nervosus, M. serratus, Tumulitermes pastinator and Amitermes darwini) diurnally and seasonally in tropical savannas in the Northern Territory, Australia. Our results showed that there were significant diel and seasonal variations of CH4 emissions from termite mounds and we observed large species specific differences.

Information report for the Oolloo dolostone aquifer water allocation plan / Dept. of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport.

This document is designed to introduce stakeholders and the community to the water allocation planning process for the Oolloo Aquifer. The Oolloo aquifer lies wholly within the Daly Roper Water Control district, stretching beneath the Daly river from southwest of Katherine and extending northwest to just beyond the Douglas River. Key assessments are to define the extent and capacity of the aquifer, to estimate future consumptive use and Indigenous stakeholders aspirations and build a model of the aquifer to predict ground and surface water levels under extraction regimes. The plan is for all licences to be issued by late 2010.
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/water/oolloo/index.html

Tidal estuary width convergence: Theory and form in North Australian estuaries

Gareth Davies and Colin D. Woodroffe, Feb 2010
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 35 issue 7 p. 737-749

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/123269217/ABSTRACT
Digital Object Identifier 10.1002/esp.1864

Estimated Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Land Clearing In The Daly River Catchment Northern Territory, Australia

Simulated emissions using the National Carbon Accounting System, and imputed carbon pollution costs.

By Rob Law and Stuart Blanch

First published in May 2009 by the Environment Centre NT.


This report may be downloaded as a PDF file from the Environment Centre NT www.ecnt.org and WWF websites www.wwf.org.au

Understanding Carbon In The Northern Territory: An Analysis Of Future Land Use Scenarios Using The National Carbon Accounting Tool

Final report 14 December 2009

Report to the Tropical Savanna Management Cooperative Research Centre

Rob Law and Stephen T. Garret
School for Environmental Research
Charles Darwin University

This project asses the utility and performance of the National Carbon Accounting Toolbox (NCAT), particulary its Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM), for estimating carbon stocks and fluxes throughout the Northern Territory. The NCAT has been developed by the Australian Greenhouse Office as an integral component of the National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS). The report is presaged by caveats because the NCAT has not been fully parameterised for troical savannas in Australia.

This report is available

Fibre crops program environmental issues that relate to a pulp mill: Water management studies in the Daly River Basin

Dept of Primary Industry and Fisheries, 1990?
Assessment of water supply and wastewater disposal options were examined for a possible paper pulp mill operation in the Douglas/Daly area.

Copy available in NRETAS Library

Tidal estuary width convergence: Theory and form in North Australian estuaries

Gareth Davies, Colin D. Woodroffe, 2010.
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms v.35

In order to better understand the relations between tidal estuary shape and geomorphic processes, the width profiles of 79 tidal channels from within 30 estuaries in northern Australia have been extracted from LANDSAT 5 imagery using GIS. Statistics describing the shape and width convergence of individual channels and entire estuaries (which can contain several channels) are analysed along with proxies for the tidal range and fluvial inputs of the estuaries in question. ...
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123269217/abstract
DOI 10.1002/esp.1864