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Hatton, Tom

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Biologist, Ecologist and Water supply expert

Summary

Tom Hatton is an expert in water resource management. He has worked with the CSIRO for over 20 years on projects to do with salinity and tree water use and catchment management. He was notably involved in the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project (2007-2008). In 2004 Hatton was appointed Director of the CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship. His research into tree water use and allocation led to the development of the Greenspan sapflow meter, a tool which significantly improved the accuracy and ease with which tree water use was monitored. Hatton's work in this area helped to raise public awareness of the issue of salinisation. In 2009, Hatton became the Director of the CSIRO's Wealth From Oceans Flagship.

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In 2008 Hatton was awarded the CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence as team leader (with William Young and colleagues) for research that has delivered the most comprehensive and complex whole-of-basin water assessment ever undertaken in Australia.

Chronology

1981
Education - Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude), Range Management (Humboldt State University, California, USA)
1986
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Range Science with a thesis titled Redevelopment of Plant Communities on a Surface Coal Mine (Utah State University, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
1997 - 2004
Career position - Officer-in-Charge of CSIRO Land and Water (WA) Laboratories
1998 - 1999
Career position - Board Member, CRC for Catchment Hydrology
1998 - 2003
Career position - Member, Operations Committee, National Dryland Salinity Program
1999
Award - W. E. Wood Award for Excellence in Salinity Research and Development, National Dryland Salinity Program
1999
Career position - Member, Steering Committee (Dryland Salinity), National Land and Water Resources Audit
2000 - 2003
Career position - Member, Western Australian Water Resource Advisory Committee
2002 - 2004
Career position - Deputy Chief of CSIRO's Land and Water Division
2002 - 2004
Career position - Western Australian Co-ordinator of the Water for Healthy Country Flagship Program
2003
Career position - Deputy Chair, Western Australn Premier's Water Foundation
2004 - 2009
Career position - Director of the CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship
2008
Award - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence (as team leader)
2009 - 2012
Career position - Director of the CSIRO's Wealth From Oceans Flagship

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