Research Partners

We engage and collaborate with the following organisations:

Federally funded research organisations

• Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
• CSIRO Land & Water Flagship
• Fisheries Research & Development Corporation
• National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
• Horticulture Innovation Australia Ltd
• High Performance Soils CRC
• Australian Research Council

Federal Government departments and agencies

• Commonwealth  Environmental Water Office (CEWO)
• Murray Darling Basin Authority
• National Mental Health Commission
• Australian Landcare International
• Australian Embassy, Laos
• Department of Environment & Energy (National Carp Control Plan)
• Department of Health
• National Landcare program
• Department of Energy & Environment) House of Representatives Standing Committee on DEE inquiry into Commonwealth Environmental Water)
• Australian Law Reform Commission
• Federal Government’s Aged Care Workforce Strategy Taskforce
• Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
• Regional Development Australia - Riverina

State Government departments and agencies

• NSW Office of Environment & Heritage (OEH)
• NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)-Fisheries
• NSW Department of Primary Industries –NSW Agriculture
• Mid North Coast Local Health District
• Murrumbidgee Primary Health District
• Marathon Health
• WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation & Attractions
• Family & Community Services (FACS) NSW Liveable Communities
• Forestry Corporation of NSW
• Queensland Department of Health
• NSW Police Force
• Northern Territory Parks & Wildlife Commission
• NSW Land and Property Information
• SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
• VIC Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning (DELWP)
• Western NSW Local Health District
• Murray Dissolved Oxygen Group
• NSW Office of Water
• NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water
• Regional Development Australia-Murray region
• NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
• NSW Department of Industry
• NSW Environment Trust
• NSW Agriculture

International organisations and NGOs

• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre
• UK Darwin Initiative Fund
• National Geographic Society
• World Wildlife Fund Bhutan
• Red Panda Network
• Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhutan
• Farmers Conservation Alliance (USA)
• World Vision International, Raebia (Timor Leste)
• Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
• Global Mangrove Alliance
• The Nature Conservancy, U.S.
• DryFlux (Germany)
• Panthera, Colombia
• Asian Development Bank
• World Bank
• International Lake Environment Committee
• Wilderness Society
• WWF
• Society of Facilitators and Trainers (SOFT), Pakistan
• IUCN-Pakistan

International government departments and agencies

Africa

• Department of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation Development, Harare, Zimbabwe

Bhutan

• Bhutan Departments of Livestock, Forests and Parks
• Regional Livestock Development Centre, Bhutan

Cambodia

• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
• Ministry of Water Resources and Management.

Europe

• Norway Government

Indonesia

• Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Centre, Inland Fisheries Resources Development and Management Department
• Department of Public Works

Laos

• Department of Irrigation
• Department of Livestock and Fisheries
• Mekong River Commission
• Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
• Ministry of Energy and Mines

Myanmar

• Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) - Department of Fisheries, Irrigation and Water Utilities Management Department

Pakistan

• Punjab Irrigation Department (PID)
• Sindh Irrigation Department (SID)
• Balochistan Irrigation & Power Department (BID)
• Department of Environmental Protection
• Agriculture, Supply & Prices, Government of Sindh,

United States

• United States Agency for International Aid (USAID)
• US Geological Survey
• US State Department, Washington
• US Embassy, Laos
• US Department of the Interior
• National Parks Service (Alaska)
• National Historic Landmark Program
• American Battlefield Protection Program and the Aleutian WWII National Historic Area

Vietnam

• Government fisheries agency

Industries

• Murray Irrigation Ltd
• Snowy Hydro Ltd
• Environmental Earth Sciences International Ltd
• Danone/Evian
• Group Training Northern Territory
• Xayaburi Power Company Limited, Laos
• AWMA Solutions, Cohuna, Australia
• BHP Heritage Research Division
• Tenure Chasers
• Leading Age Solutions
• Murrumbidgee Irrigation Ltd
• Hendricks Consulting, Australia.

Catchment Management Authorities (CMA) and Local Land Services (LLS)

• Murray LLS
• Riverina LLS
• Goulburn Broken CMA
• Mallee CMA
• North East CMA
• North Central CMA

Local shires and councils

• Albury City Council (NSW)
• Federation Council (NSW)
• Etheridge Council (QLD)
• Corowa Shire Council (NSW)
• City of Melbourne
• Blue Mountains City Council
• Bathurst Regional Council
• Hastings (Port Macquarie) Council

Australian NGOs & Lobby groups

• ANZ Trustees Foundation (Holsworth Research Endowment Fund)
• Lake Cowal Foundation
• Bush Heritage Australia
• Hermon Slade Foundation
• Ian Potter Foundation
• Recreational Fishing Trust
• Birdlife Australia
• Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
• Conservation Volunteers (Australia)
• Crawford Fund
• Nature Conservation Council
• Trust for Nature
• Albury Conservation Company
• Australian Wildlife Conservancy
• Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia
• Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group
• Invasive Species Council
• Ningaloo Coast World Heritage

Statutory bodies & Associations

• NSW Environment Trust
• SEGRA Foundation
• Murray Darling Association
• Queensland Murray Darling Committee
• Winton Wetlands Committee of Management
• Sydney Olympic Park Authority
• North East Water
• Murray Darling Association
• Goulburn Murray Water
• Goulburn Valley Water

National tertiary institutions & research organisations

• University of Technology, Sydney
• Monash University
• University of NSW
• University of SA
• Queensland University of Technology
• Deakin University
• Griffith University
• LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Bendigo, Wodonga
• Southern Cross University
• University of Sydney
• Australian Academy of Science (WH Gladstone’s Population & Environment Fund)
• Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (Global Connections Fund)
• University of WA
• ICE-Warm
• Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems, La Trobe University (formerly Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre
• University of the Sunshine Coast
• University of Southern Queensland
• University of Wollongong
• Australian National University
• Arthur Rylah Institute
• South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) Aquatic Sciences
• Australian College of Nursing
• Riverina Institute of TAFE
• University of Sydney Rural Medical School
• Notre Dame School of Rural Medicine
• Western Sydney University
• FAUNA Research Alliance
• University of New England

International tertiary organisations

• Living Aquatic Resources Research Centre (Laos)
• National University of Laos
• IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands)
• Pennsylvania State University (USA)
• Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR)
• International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (Pakistan)
• University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF)(Pakistan)
• PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (UAAR) (Pakistan)
• Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) (Pakistan)
• Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET) (Pakistan)
• NED University of Engineering & Technology (NED) (Pakistan)
• Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture (MNSUAM)
• Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering & Management Sciences (BUITEMS) (Pakistan)
• International Waterlogging & Salinity Research Institute (IWASRI) (Pakistan)
• Research Institute for Aquaculture in Vietnam (No 2)
• University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• University of Vienna, Austria
• National Defence University of Malaysia
• International College Selangor, Malaysia
• University Teknikal Malaysia Melakai
• Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Federal University of Sao Joao del-Rei (UFSJ), Minas Gerais, Brazil
• University of Otago, New Zealand
• Institute for Wetland Research, China Academy of Forestry
• Manhattanville College, U.S.
• University of Vermont, U.S.
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
• Stetson University College of Law
• Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
• Kenya Network for Dissemination of Agricultural Technologies (KENDAT), University of  Nairobi, Kenya
• Centre for Agricultural Mechanization and Rural Technology (CAMARTEC) ), Arusha,  Tanzania
• Selian Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Arusha, Tanzania University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
• James Madison University, Virginia, U.S
• University of Mysore, India
• Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, UK
• Centre for Water Management and Climate Change, Vietnam National University