CQUni duo not wasting chance to present at major water training event
Published on 18 July, 2011
CQUniversity academics Ben Kele and Ted Gardner are at the Gold Coast this week to present their new Decentralised Wastewater Treatment course for IWES, Australia's leading provider of short courses for environment professionals.
Our new Senior Research Fellow Ted (CV and related link below) was course leader and both Ted and Ben helped write the new course, using case studies from CQUniversity research.
Ted Gardner (left) and Ben Kele
"It was mainly due to Ted that we were invited to present at the Gold Coast training event. It means our water research is beginning to get more widely recognised," Ben said.
These water researchers are attached to IRIS, the Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability at CQUniversity. Details on IWES and the Gold Coast event are available via www.iwes.com.au .
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* Before joining IRIS in February 2011, Ted Gardner was principal research scientist in the Integrated Urban Water Systems group of CSIRO Land and Water. He lead Urban Water Security Research Alliance funded projects into decentralised technologies, and storm water harvesting and reuse in south-east Queensland. He was also principal scientist with the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, leading the Urban Water Cycle group at the Environment and Resource Sciences Division in Indooroopilly.
Ted has had 40 years' experience in the area of edaphology, irrigation and catchment hydrology/salinity, effluent reuse, and urban water sustainability. His special skill is systems thinking which he has applied to the urban water cycle over the last 15 years. He is also a frequent guest lecturer at UQ and QUT, in faculties ranging from agriculture to architecture to engineering, on the topics of sustainable urban water cycle and water recycling.
Ted has won several awards including Australia Day Award of the Public Service Medal for his work on water recycling and urban water supply in 2005, was appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Schools Land and Food Sciences and Agriculture and Horticulture at the University of Queensland in 2005 and the Distinguished Service Award by the Australian Water Association, Queensland Branch, in 2004. Ted was also recently nominated for the Queensland Urban Utilities - Waterways Champion Award happening on 22 June 2011.