Professor Okke Batelaan

Okke Batelaan is Strategic Professor in Hydro(geo)logy at Flinders University since 2012. He was Dean of the School of the Environment at Flinders from 2015-2017. Formerly he was for more than 20 years faculty member at the Free University Brussels and the KU Leuven, Belgium. Professor Batelaan has a broad experience in teaching groundwater hydrology, groundwater modelling, GIS and remote sensing for hydrological applications. He supervised more than 200 MSc/PhD students from all continents. He has extensive research experience and a publication record in shallow groundwater hydrology and modeling, recharge-discharge estimation and modeling, urban hydrology and distributed modelling, ecohydrology and impacts of landuse and climate change on groundwater systems. He coordinated and participated in a large number of projects in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and South America.

• Coordinating and partner in projects on the groundwater resources of the (Northern) Adelaide plains, funded by the Goyder Institute.
• Chief investigator in the ARC-Linkage project 'Cross-cultural management of freshwater on resource-constrained islands', which focusses on the water resources of Millingimbi island, NT.
• Partner in ACIAR funded projects in Laos and Vietnam on developing assessment methods for sustainable use of groundwater resources for agriculture.
• Partner in a study on forest water use in the SE of South Australia.
• Editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies and associate editor of Journal of Hydrology.