Michael Leonard

Research Interests

Environmental Engineering Modelling Numerical and Computational Mathematics Surfacewater Hydrology Water Resources Engineering

Dr Michael Leonard

Associate Professor

School of Civil Engineering and Construction

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I have experience in many areas of water engineering: hydrologic modelling, hydraulic modelling, flooding, water security and multivariate extremes.

Research Interests

I am interested in application of numerical and statistical modelling to environmental engineering problems. Many applications require an understanding of the risk of hazardous impacts, for example flooding from complex man-made or natural systems. My background is in stochastic modelling of rainfall fields at subdaily timescales, and I am keen to develop methods for improved assessment of flood risk.

Date Position Institution name
2024 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide
2019 - 2023 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
2016 - 2018 Education Specialist University of Adelaide
2015 - 2018 Scholarly Teaching Fellow University of Adelaide
2007 - 2015 Research Associate / Lecturer University of Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2015 Award GN Alexander Medal Engineers Australia Australia -
2014 Award Research Spotlight Award from American Geophysical Union (top 5% of papers in AGU) for Westra et al (2014) American Geophysical Union United States -
2009 Research Award Best presentation by a student or recent graduate Australian Mathematical Society Australia -
2008 Research Award Best presentation by a student or recent graduate Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Australia -
2006 Research Award Postgraduate Research Award, AWA AWA Australia -
2002 Research Award CAMWE prize for best honours Civil & Environmental project thesis University of Adelaide Australia -

Date Institution name Country Title
2015 - 2017 University of Adelaide Australia Graduate Diploma in Education
2003 - 2010 University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Civil Engineering (Hydrology)
1999 - 2002 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Engineering (Hons 1)

Year Citation
2025 Nguyen, T., Bennett, B., & Leonard, M. (2025). Robust hydrological evaluation of stochastic rainfall. Journal of Hydrology, 659, 133247.
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2025 Huang, J., Wu, W., Leonard, M., & Wang, Y. (2025). Charting uncertain waters: Insights into objective function formulations under future uncertainty. Journal of Hydrology X, 28-29, 100209.
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2024 McInerney, D., Thyer, M., Kavetski, D., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., Shanafield, M., . . . Leonard, M. (2024). Neglecting hydrological errors can severely impact predictions of water resource system performance. Journal of Hydrology, 634, 130853-1-130853-15.
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2023 Renard, B., McInerney, D., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., Thyer, M., & Vidal, J. (2023). Floods and Heavy Precipitation at the Global Scale: 100‐Year Analysis and 180‐Year Reconstruction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(9), 26 pages.
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2023 McInerney, D., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Bennett, B., Thyer, M., & Maier, H. R. (2023). A climate stress testing method for changes in spatially variable rainfall. Journal of Hydrology, 625, Part A, 129876.
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2023 Nguyen, T. H. T., Bennett, B., & Leonard, M. (2023). Evaluating stochastic rainfall models for hydrological modelling. Journal of Hydrology, 627(Part A), 130381-1-130381-18.
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2022 Dandy, G., Wu, W., Simpson, A., & Leonard, M. (2022). A Review of Sources of Uncertainty in Optimization Objectives of Water Distribution Systems. Water, 15(1), 1-17.
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2022 Renard, B., Thyer, M., McInerney, D., Kavetski, D., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2022). A Hidden Climate Indices Modeling Framework for Multi‐Variable Space‐Time Data. Water Resources Research, 58(2), 1-27.
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2022 Zecchin, A. C., Do, N., Gong, J., Leonard, M., Lambert, M. F., & Stephens, M. L. (2022). Optimal Pipe Network Sensor Layout Design for Hydraulic Transient Event Detection and Localization. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(8), 1-16.
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2022 Wu, W., Zhou, Y., & Leonard, M. (2022). Evolutionary algorithm-based multiobjective reservoir operation policy optimisation under uncertainty. Environmental Research Communications, 4(12), 11 pages.
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2021 Gudmundsson, L., Boulange, J., Do, H. X., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M. G., Koutroulis, A. G., . . . Zhao, F. (2021). Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change. Science, 371(6534), 1159-1162.
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2021 Wu, W., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2021). Estimating the probability of compound floods in estuarine regions. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(5), 2821-2841.
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2020 Do, H. X., Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Gudmundsson, L. (2020). Global-Scale Prediction of Flood Timing Using Atmospheric Reanalysis. Water Resources Research, 56(1), 19 pages.
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2020 Do, H. X., Zhao, F., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., Eric Stanislas Boulange, J., . . . Wada, Y. (2020). Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model-observation investigation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(3), 1543-1564.
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2019 Wu, W., & Leonard, M. (2019). Impact of ENSO on dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge. Environmental Research Letters, 14(12), 124043-[i]1-124043-13.
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2019 Bennett, B., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Lambert, M., & Bates, B. (2019). A virtual hydrological framework for evaluation of stochastic rainfall models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(11), 4783-4801.
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2019 Le, P. D., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2019). Spatially dependent flood probabilities to support the design of civil infrastructure systems. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(11), 4851-4867.
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2019 Gudmundsson, L., Leonard, M., Do, H. X., Westra, S., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2019). Observed trends in global indicators of mean and extreme streamflow. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(2), 756-766.
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2018 Le, P. D., Davison, A. C., Engelke, S., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Dependence properties of spatial rainfall extremes and areal reduction factors. Journal of Hydrology, 565, 711-719.
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2018 Bennett, B., Leonard, M., Deng, Y., & Westra, S. (2018). An empirical investigation into the effect of antecedent precipitation on flood volume. Journal of Hydrology, 567, 435-445.
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2018 Zscheischler, J., Westra, S., van den Hurk, B. J. J. M., Seneviratne, S. I., Ward, P. J., Pitman, A., . . . Zhang, X. (2018). Erratum to: Future climate risk from compound events (Nature Climate Change, (2018), 8, 6, (469-477), 10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3). Nature Climate Change, 8(8), 750.
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2018 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Modeling spatial dependence of rainfall extremes across multiple durations. Water Resources Research, 54(3), 2233-2248.
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2018 Zscheischler, J., Westra, S., van den Hurk, B., Seneviratne, S., Ward, P., Pitman, A., . . . Zhang, X. (2018). Future climate risk from compound events. Nature Climate Change, 8(6), 469-477.
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2018 Gudmundsson, L., Do, H., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata archive (GSIM)-part 2: quality control, time-series indices and homogeneity assessment. Earth System Science Data, 10(2), 787-804.
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2018 Do, H., Gudmundsson, L., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata archive (GSIM)-part 1: the production of a daily streamflow archive and metadata. Earth System Science Data, 10(2), 765-785.
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2018 Wu, W., Mcinnes, K., O'grady, J., Hoeke, R., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Mapping dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(4), 2461-2474.
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2018 Bennett, B., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Lambert, M., & Bates, B. (2018). A comprehensive and systematic evaluation framework for a parsimonious daily rainfall field model. Journal of Hydrology, 556, 1123-1138.
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2017 Wu, W., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2017). A basis function approach for exploring the seasonal and spatial features of storm surge events. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(14), 7356-7365.
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2017 Do, X., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2017). A global-scale investigation of trends in annual maximum streamflow. Journal of Hydrology, 552, 28-43.
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2017 Zheng, F., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2017). Application of the design variable method to estimate coastal flood risk. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 10(4), 522-534.
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2017 Leonard, M. (2017). Democracy needs more than a technical fix. NEW SCIENTIST, 235(3144), 52.
2016 Bennett, B., Lambert, M., Thyer, M., Bates, B., & Leonard, M. (2016). Estimating extreme spatial rainfall intensities. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 21(3), 04015074-1-04015074-12.
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2016 Johnson, F., White, C., van Dijk, A., Ekstrom, M., Evans, J., Jakob, D., . . . Westra, S. (2016). Natural hazards in Australia: floods. Climatic Change, 139(1), 21-35.
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2015 Zheng, F., Thibaud, E., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2015). Assessing the performance of the independence method in modeling spatial extreme rainfall. Water Resources Research, 51(9), 7744-7758.
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2015 Zheng, F., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2015). Opposing local precipitation extremes. Nature Climate Change, 5(5), 389-390.
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2015 Zheng, F., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2015). Efficient joint probability analysis of flood risk. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 17(4), 584-597.
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2014 Leonard, M., Westra, S., Phatak, A., Lambert, M., Van Den Hurk, B., McInnes, K., . . . Stafford-Smith, M. (2014). A compound event framework for understanding extreme impacts. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Climate Change, 5(1), 113-128.
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2014 Rajah, K., O'Leary, T., Turner, A., Petrakis, G., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2014). Changes to the temporal distribution of daily precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(24), 8887-8894.
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2014 Westra, S., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., & Lambert, M. (2014). A strategy for diagnosing and interpreting hydrological model nonstationarity. Water Resources Research, 50(6), 5090-5113.
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2014 Zheng, F., Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Sisson, S. (2014). Modeling dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge to estimate coastal flooding risk. Water Resources Research, 50(3), 2050-2071.
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2014 Davis-Richardson, A. G., Ardissone, A. N., Dias, R., Simell, V., Leonard, M. T., Kemppainen, K. M., . . . Triplett, E. W. (2014). <i>Bacteroides dorei</i> dominates gut microbiome prior to autoimnnunity in Finnish children at high risk for type 1 diabetes. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 5, 11 pages.
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2014 Folimonova, S. Y., Harper, S. J., Leonard, M. T., Triplett, E. W., & Shilts, T. (2014). Superinfection exclusion by <i>Citrus tristeza virus</i> does not correlate with the production of viral small RNAs. VIROLOGY, 468, 462-471.
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2014 Fagen, J. R., Leonard, M. T., Coyle, J. F., McCullough, C. M., Davis-Richardson, A. G., Davis, M. J., & Triplett, E. W. (2014). <i>Liberibacter crescens</i> gen. nov., sp nov., the first cultured member of the genus <i>Liberibacter</i>. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, 64(Pt_7), 2461-2466.
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2014 Leonard, M. T., Davis-Richardson, A. G., Ardissone, A. N., Kemppainen, K. M., Drew, J. C., Ilonen, J., . . . Triplett, E. W. (2014). The methylome of the gut microbiome: disparate Dam methylation patterns in intestinal <i>Bacteroides dorei</i>. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 5, 6 pages.
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2014 Zhalnina, K. V., Dias, R., Leonard, M. T., de Quadros, P. D., Camargo, F. A. O., Drew, J. C., . . . Triplett, E. W. (2014). Genome Sequence of <i>Candidatus</i> Nitrososphaera evergladensis from Group I.1b Enriched from Everglades Soil Reveals Novel Genomic Features of the Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea. PLOS ONE, 9(7), 15 pages.
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2014 Leonard, M. T., Valladares, R. B., Ardissone, A., Gonzalez, C. F., Lorca, G. L., & Triplett, E. W. (2014). Complete Genome Sequences of <i>Lactobacillus johnsonii</i> Strain N6.2 and <i>Lactobacillus reuteri</i> Strain TD1. GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS, 2(3), 2 pages.
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2014 Fagen, J. R., Leonard, M. T., McCullough, C. M., Edirisinghe, J. N., Henry, C. S., Davis, M. J., & Triplett, E. W. (2014). Comparative Genomics of Cultured and Uncultured Strains Suggests Genes Essential for Free-Living Growth of <i>Liberibacter</i>. PLOS ONE, 9(1), 11 pages.
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2013 Leonard, M. T., Panayotova, N., Farmerie, W. G., Triplett, E. W., & Nicholson, W. L. (2013). Complete Genome Sequence of <i>Carnobacterium</i> <i>gilichinskyi</i> Strain WN1359<SUP>T</SUP> (DSM 27470<SUP>T</SUP>). GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS, 1(6), 1 page.
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2013 Aris, J. P., Alvers, A. L., Ferraiuolo, R. A., Fishwick, L. K., Hanvivatpong, A., Hu, D., . . . Dunn, W. A. (2013). Autophagy and leucine promote chronological longevity and respiration proficiency during calorie restriction in yeast. EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY, 48(10), 1107-1119.
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2013 Nicholson, W. L., Leonard, M. T., Fajardo-Cavazos, P., Panayotova, N., Farmerie, W. G., Triplett, E. W., & Schuerger, A. C. (2013). Complete Genome Sequence of <i>Serratia liquefaciens</i> Strain ATCC 27592. GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS, 1(4), 1 page.
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2013 Leonard, M. (2013). All in a good cause. NEW SCIENTIST, 217(2909), 31.
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2012 Leonard, M. (2012). Sequencing loophole. NEW SCIENTIST, 216(2889), 31.
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2012 Leonard, M. (2012). Future worries. NEW SCIENTIST, 213(2852), 33.
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2012 Leonard, M. T., Fagen, J. R., Davis-Richardson, A. G., Davis, M. J., & Triplett, E. W. (2012). Complete genome sequence of <i>Liberibacter crescens</i> BT-1. STANDARDS IN GENOMIC SCIENCES, 7(2), 271-283.
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2011 Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., Need, S., & Renard, B. (2011). The open source RFortran library for accessing R from Fortran, with applications in environmental modelling. Environmental Modelling & Software, 26(2), 219-234.
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2010 Wong, G., Lambert, M., Leonard, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2010). Drought analysis using trivariate copulas conditional on climatic states. Journal of Hydrological Engineering, 15(2), 129-141.
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2009 Rixen, M., Book, J. W., Carta, A., Grandi, V., Gualdesi, L., Stoner, R., . . . Vandenbulcke, L. (2009). Improved ocean prediction skill and reduced uncertainty in the coastal region from multi-model super-ensembles. Journal of Marine Systems, 78(SUPPL. 1), S282-S289.
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2009 Berni, A., Merani, D., Leonard, M., & Rixen, M. (2009). Network-enabled rapid environmental assessment: Architectures for near-real-time data collection and fusion. Journal of Marine Systems, 78(SUPPL. 1), S408-S414.
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2008 Leonard, M., Lambert, M., Metcalfe, A., & Cowpertwait, P. (2008). A space-time Neyman-Scott rainfall model with defined storm extent. Water Resources Research, 44(9), 9402.
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2008 Leonard, M., Metcalfe, A., & Lambert, M. (2008). Frequency analysis of rainfall and streamflow extremes accounting for seasonal and climatic partitions. Journal of Hydrology, 348(1-2), 135-147.
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2007 Leonard, M., Metcalfe, A., Lambert, M., & Kuczera, G. (2007). Implementing a space-time rainfall model for the Sydney region. Water Science and Technology, 55(4), 39-47.
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2007 Zecchin, A., Maier, H., Simpson, A., Leonard, M., & Nixon, J. (2007). Ant colony optimization applied to water distribution system design: Comparative study of five algorithms. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 133(1), 87-92.
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2006 Leonard, M., Metcalfe, A., & Lambert, M. (2006). Efficient simulation of a space-time Neyman-Scott rainfall model. Water Resources Research, 42(11), 11503.
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2006 Zecchin, A., Simpson, A., Maier, H., Leonard, M., Roberts, A., & Berrisford, M. (2006). Application of two ant colony optimisation algorithms to water distribution system optimisation. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 44(5-6), 451-468.
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2006 Ghosh, A. K., Maji, A. K., Leonard, M. T., Rao, D. V., Letellier, B. C., Urgessa, G. S., & Ashbaugh, S. G. (2006). Accumulation and head-loss characteristics of selected pressurized water reactor loca-generated debris. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, 154(1), 69-84.
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2005 Owens, E. H., Liu, W. P., Smith, G. H., & Leonard, M. T. (2005). Droplet characterization of a novel orifice spray nozzle. ATOMIZATION AND SPRAYS, 15(5), 567-584.
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1994 LEONARD, M. T. (1994). ROUGH ESTIMATES OF SEVERE ACCIDENT CONTAINMENT LOADS ACCOMPANYING VESSEL BREACH IN BOILING WATER-REACTORS. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, 108(3), 320-337.
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1993 MCCLURE, P. R., LEONARD, M. T., & RAZANI, A. (1993). A MODEL FOR FISSION-PRODUCT RELEASE FROM LIQUID-METAL POOLS - DEVELOPMENT AND SENSITIVITY INVESTIGATION. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 114(2), 102-111.
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1989 WHITLOCK, M. E., SWENSON, T. L., RAMAKRISHNAN, R., LEONARD, M. T., MARCEL, Y. L., MILNE, R. W., & TALL, A. R. (1989). MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODY INHIBITION OF CHOLESTERYL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEIN-ACTIVITY IN THE RABBIT - EFFECTS ON LIPOPROTEIN COMPOSITION AND HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTERYL ESTER METABOLISM. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION, 84(1), 129-137.
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1988 HANSON, D. J., BLACKMAN, H. S., NELSON, W. R., WRIGHT, R. E., LEONARD, M. T., & DISALVO, R. (1988). ANALYSIS OF CONTAINMENT VENTING AT THE PEACH BOTTOM ATOMIC POWER-STATION. NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, 108(1-2), 71-81.
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1983 LEONARD, M. T. (1983). AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF A SMALL-BREAK LOSS-OF-COOLANT ACCIDENT WITH UPPER HEAD INJECTION. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, 62(1), 31-42.
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Year Citation
2016 Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Zheng, F. (2016). Interaction of coastal and catchment flooding. In J. Ball, M. Babister, R. Nathan, W. Weeks, E. Weinmann, M. Retallick, & I. Testoni (Eds.), Australian Rainfall and Runoff: A guide to flood estimation (ARR) (2016 ed.). Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2016.

Year Citation
2024 Maier, H. R., Westra, S., Nathan, R., Culley, S., Armstrong, M., Horne, A., . . . Bailey, J. (2024). Engineering 101: Why Do We Ignore Basic Engineering Principles When Dealing With Climate Change?. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Hwrs 2024 (pp. 134-137).
2024 Reeve, P., Anese, J., Mullins, B., Wallis, I., Batelaan, O., Fallowfield, H., . . . Leonard, M. (2024). Opportunities and risks associated with identifying, sourcing and treating brackish groundwater. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Hwrs 2024 (pp. 70-73). Melbourne, Australia: Engineers Australia.
2023 Nguyen, D. C. H., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2023). Use of climatic partitions for stochastic rainfall modelling. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM (pp. 635-641). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc..
2023 Nguyen, D. C. H., Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Dutta, D. (2023). Impact of infilling method on streamflow derivation. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM (pp. 628-634). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc..
2023 Devanand, A., Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Nguyen, D. C. H. (2023). NARCliM1.5 projections over the southern Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM (pp. 191-197). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc..
2022 Meijer, T., Raad, F., Leonard, M., Meier, F., Jennings, P., & Wilmes, A. (2022). Characterisation of transport capacity of human iPSC-derived proximal tubular-like cells. In TOXICOLOGY LETTERS Vol. 368 (pp. S168). NETHERLANDS, Maastricht: ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD.
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2022 Newman, J. P., Bennett, B., Culley, S. A., Maier, H. R., Westra, S., Thyer, M., . . . Leonard, M. (2022). Understanding Kangaroo Island water supply reliability in future climates and the path to augmentation solutions. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, HWRS 2022 (pp. 934-947). Online: Engineers Australia.
2022 Nguyen, T., Bennett, B., & Leonard, M. (2022). Does good-modelled rainfall translate to good-modelled runoff?. In Engineers Australia (pp. 9 pages). Online: Engineers Australia Pty. Ltd..
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2022 Leonard, M., Bennett, B., & Nguyen, T. (2022). Investigating catchment memory within a conceptual rainfall-runoff model. In ICWEE (pp. 62-68). Online: ICWEE.
2018 Joglekar, A., Sandoval, S., Jeppson, J., Liu, Z., Leonard, M. T., Swift, M., & Baltimore, D. (2018). Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells engineered with T cell receptors for immunotherapy for HIV infection. In JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY Vol. 200 (pp. 3 pages). TX, Austin: AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS.
2018 Joglekar, A., Leonard, M. T., Jeppson, J., Bethune, M. T., & Baltimore, D. (2018). T Cell Antigen Discovery using Signaling and Antigen-presenting Bifunctional Receptors (SABRs). In JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY Vol. 200 (pp. 3 pages). TX, Austin: AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS.
2017 Stephens, M., Marchi, A., Gong, J., Lambert, M., Leonard, M., & Simpson, A. (2017). Understanding the range of influence of moderate-sized and short-duration transients in water distribution systems. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI 2017) (pp. 1-9). online: CCWI.
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2016 Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2016). A Design Variable Method for Estimating Flood Risk in Australian Estuarine Catchments. In Online archive. Shoalhaven, Nowra.
2015 Johnson, F., White, C., van Dijk, A., Ekstrom, M., Evans, J., Jakob, D., . . . Westra, S. (2015). How and why are floods changing in Australia?. In Proceedings of the 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: The art and science of water (pp. 1284-1291). Barton, ACT: Engineers Australia.
2015 Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Thyer, M. (2015). A principles-evaluate-discuss model for teaching journal and conference paper writing skills to postgraduate research students. In A. Oo,, A. Patel,, T. Hilditch,, & S. Chandran, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (pp. 1-10). Geelong, Victoria: School of Engineering, Deakin University.
2015 Leonard, M., Westra, S., Zheng, F., Babister, M., & Varga, I. (2015). Developing water level maps in the joint probability zone influenced by extreme tide and rainfall events. In Proceedings of the 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: The art and science of water (pp. 96-103). Barton, A.C.T., Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2015 Bates, B., Argueso, D., Evans, J., Green, J., Griesser, A., Jakob, D., . . . Westra, S. (2015). Preliminary assessment of the impact of climate change on design rainfall IFD curves. In 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium : The art of science and water (pp. 1-8). Hobart, Tas: Engineers Australia.
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2014 Seed, A., Jordan, P., Pierce, C., Leonard, M., Nathan, R., & Kordomenidi, E. (2014). Stochastic simulation of space-time rainfall patterns for the brisbane river catchment. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2014, HWRS 2014 - Conference Proceedings (pp. 1026-1039). online: Engineers Australia.
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2014 Soltyk, S., Leonard, M., Phatak, A., & Lehmann, E. (2014). Statistical modelling of rainfall intensity-frequency-duration curves using regional frequency analysis and Bayesian hierarchical modelling. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2014 (pp. 302-309). online: Engineers Australia.
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2014 Zheng, F., Westra, S., Sisson, S., & Leonard, M. (2014). Flood risk estimation in Australia’s coastal zone: modelling the dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge. In Proceedings of the 35th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2014 (pp. 390-396). Perth, Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2014 Leonard, M., Jordan, P., Seed, A., Nathan, R., Hill, P., Raymond, M., . . . Pierce, C. (2014). Stochastic Simulation of Inflow Hydrographs for Wivenhoe and Somerset Dams. In Proceedings of. Canberra.
2012 Leonard, M., & Lambert, M. (2012). Spatial variability of stochastically generated rainfall. In E. Loucks (Ed.), Proceedings, World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries, Proceedings of the 2012 Congress (pp. 1993-2002). Albuquerque, New Mexico: ASCE.
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2012 Bennett, B., Lambert, M., Thyer, M., Bates, B., & Leonard, M. (2012). Estimation of extreme spatial rainfall intensities. In Proceedings of the 34th Hydrology and Water Resources Symosium, HWRS 2012 (pp. 160-168). online: Engineers Australia.
2012 Westra, S., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., & Lambert, M. (2012). Diagnosing non-stationary behaviour in a hydrological model. In Proceedings of the 34th Hydrology & Water Resources Symposium, HWRS 2012 (pp. 256-264). Australia: Engineers Australia.
2012 Leonard, M. T., Schneider, R., Boneham, P., Lehner, J., Hakobyan, A., Burns, E. T., . . . Petti, J. (2012). Development of the Level 2 PRA Standard. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND THE ASME 2012 POWER CONFERENCE - 2012, VOL 4 (pp. 103-110). CA, Anaheim: AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
2011 Leonard, M., Ball, J., & Lambert, M. (2011). On the coincidence of extreme rainfall bursts with duration. In Proceedings of the 34th IAHR World Congress (pp. 694-701). Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2010 Leonard, M., Lambert, M., Metcalfe, A., & Mohdisa, F. (2010). An analysis of shifts in rainfall across Southern Australia. In Proceedings of. Quebec City.
2009 Qin, J., Leonard, M., Kuczera, G., Thyer, M., Metcalfe, A., & Lambert, M. (2009). A high-resolution hierarchical space-time framework for single storm events and its application for short-term rainfall forecasting. In IAHS AISH Publication Vol. 333 (pp. 330-340).
2008 Osti, A., Leonard, M., Lambert, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2008). A temporally heterogeneous high-resolution large-scale gaussian random field model for Australian rainfall. In Proceeding of the 17th IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling (pp. 1-6). USA: IASTED.
2008 Wong, G., Leonard, M., Lambert, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2008). Forecasting drought in eastern Australia. In M. Lambert (Ed.), Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008 (pp. 133-144). CD: Engineers Australia.
2008 Leonard, M., Osti, A., Lambert, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2008). Spatially inhomogeneous poisson model of rainfall across Australia. In M. Lambert (Ed.), Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008 (pp. 459-470). CD: Engineers Australia.
2008 Osti, A., Leonard, M., Lambert, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2008). A high resolution large-scale gaussian random field rainfall model for Australian monthly rainfall. In M. Lambert (Ed.), Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008 (pp. 1783-1794). CD: Engineers Australia.
2008 Qin, J., Leonard, M., Kuczera, G., Thyer, M., Metcalfe, A., & Lambert, M. (2008). A high resolution spatio-temporal model for single storm events based on radar images. In M. Lambert (Ed.), Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008 (pp. 1582-1594). CD: Engineers Australia.
2006 Leonard, M., Lambert, M., Metcalfe, A., & Kuczera, G. (2006). A simulation method for calibrating cluster-process rainfall models. In Geoff Brayford (Ed.), Proceedings of the 30th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (pp. CDROM1-CDROM6). CDROM: Conference Design Pty Ltd.
2006 Qin, J., Leonard, M., Kuczera, G., Thyer, M., Lambert, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2006). Statistical characteristics of rainstorms derived from weather radar images. In Geoff Brayford (Ed.), Proceedings of the 30th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (pp. CDROM1-CDROM6). CDROM: Conference Design Pty Ltd.
2004 Leonard, M., Maier, H., Simpson, A., Zecchin, A., Roberts, A., Berrisford, M., & Nixon, J. (2004). Hydraulic risk assessment of water distribution systems. In H. Chanson, & J. Macintosh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th National Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering 2004 (pp. CD-ROM 1-CD-ROM 8). CD-ROM: The Institution of Engineers Australia.
2003 Zecchin, A., Maier, H., Simpson, A., Roberts, A., Berrisford, M., & Leonard, M. (2003). Max-min ant system applied to water distribution system optimisation. In D. Post (Ed.), Integrative modelling of biophysical, social, and economic systems for resource management solutions (pp. 795-800). IAS, ANU, Canberra: The Modelling and Simulation Soc of Aust and NZ Inc.
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2003 Ahmer, I., Lambert, M., Leonard, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2003). Stochastic modelling of tidal anomaly for estimation of flood risk in coastal areas. In M. Boyd, J. Ball, M. Babister, & J. Green (Eds.), About Water - Symposium Proceedings volume 3 (pp. 203-210). ACT, Australia: Institution of Engineers, Australia.
1991 LEONARD, M., & PRIVETT, K. (1991). ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS OF RECLAIMED LAND IN THE UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA. In M. C. R. DAVIES (Ed.), LAND RECLAMATION (pp. 235-240). WALES, UNIV WALES, COLL CARDIFF, CARDIFF: ELSEVIER APPL SCI PUBL LTD.
1985 MARTINS, J. B., LEONARD, M. T., LUND, D. D., & SCHMID, P. G. (1985). SUBENDOCARDIAL INFARCTION PRODUCED BY 2 HOUR OCCLUSION AND REPERFUSION RESULTS IN CHOLINERGIC DENERVATION OF OVERLYING NORMAL EPICARDIUM. In CLINICAL RESEARCH Vol. 33 (pp. A811). SLACK INC.
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1984 LEONARD, M. T., & GRIFFITH, P. (1984). THE EFFECTS OF A NONCONDENSABLE GAS ON PRESSURIZER INSURGE TRANSIENTS. In TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY Vol. 46 (pp. 844-845). AMER NUCLEAR SOC.
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1984 CONSTANTIN, L., LEONARD, M. T., & MARTINS, J. B. (1984). MECHANISMS OF SPONTANEOUS VENTRICULAR-TACHYCARDIA IN ONE DAY OLD CANINE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION. In CLINICAL RESEARCH Vol. 32 (pp. A729). SLACK INC.
1984 CONSTANTIN, L., LEONARD, M. T., & MARTINS, J. B. (1984). BETA-ADRENERGIC-BLOCKADE SLOWS SPONTANEOUS VENTRICULAR-TACHYCARDIA OCCURRING 24 HOURS AFTER EXPERIMENTAL CORONARY-OCCLUSION BY A DIRECT EFFECT IN THE ISCHEMIC ZONE. In CLINICAL RESEARCH Vol. 32 (pp. A729). SLACK INC.
1981 SHIMECK, D. J., & LEONARD, M. T. (1981). RESULTS FROM SEMISCALE MOD-2A UPPER HEAD INJECTION TEST SERIES. In TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY Vol. 39 (pp. 589-590). AMER NUCLEAR SOC.
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Year Citation
2021 Leigh, R., Knowling, M., Westra, S., Bennett, B., Zecchin, A., Maier, H., . . . Devanand, A. (2021). A multi-modelling framework to stress-test water resource systems under change. Poster session presented at the meeting of 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2021) Book of Abstracts. Sydney, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc..
2018 Gudmundsson, L., Seneviratne, S., Do, H. X., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2018). Investigating hydrological change using the Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata (GSIM) archive. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Do, H. X., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., & Senerivatne, S. (2018). Global-scale prediction of flood timing using atmospheric reanalysis and
the Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata (GSIM) archive. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018.
2018 Do, H. X., Gudmundsson, L., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata (GSIM) archive – A Collection of 30,959 Streamflow Records across the Globe. Poster session presented at the meeting of AGU Fall Meeting 2018.
2018 Gudmundsson, L., Do, H. X., Gosling, S., Leonard, M., Liu, J., Schmied, H. M., . . . Zhao, F. (2018). Using big data to detect and attribute global hydrological change. Poster session presented at the meeting of AGU Fall Meeting 2018.
2018 Leonard, M., Wu, W., & Westra, S. (2018). Censored Continuous Simulation for Flood Probability Estimation in Estuarine Regions. Poster session presented at the meeting of Floodplain Management Australia,. Gold Coast.
2018 Westra, S., Bennett, B., Evans, J., Johnson, F., Leonard, M., Sharma, A., . . . Wu, W. (2018). Impact of Climate Change on Australian Flood Risk: A Review of Recent Evidence. Poster session presented at the meeting of Floodplain Management Australia. Gold Coast.
2018 Makarewicz, A., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Investigating the relationship of low flows to local scale hydrology. Poster session presented at the meeting of DEWNR-NRM Science Conference. Adelaide.
2018 Makarewicz, A., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Improving the understanding of runoff generation at the hillslope scale with low-cost instream sensors. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Joint probability and conditional probability of flooding in complex systems. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Wu, W., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2018). A comparison of flood estimation methods in estuarine regions. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Do, X., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., & Seneviratne, S. (2018). Global-scale prediction of flood timing using atmospheric reanalysis and the Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata (GSIM) archive. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Zscheischler, W., Westra, S., van den Hurk, B., Seneviratne, S., Ward, P., Pitman, A., . . . Zhang, X. (2018). Future climate risk: The challenge of compound events. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Makarewicz, A., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2017). Improving the understanding of runoff generation at the hillslope scale with low-cost instream sensors. Poster session presented at the meeting of Goyder Institute Water Forum 2017. Adelaide.
2017 Wu, W., Westra, S., Leonard, M., & McInnes, K. (2017). Mapping dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge across the Australian coastline using ROMS. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2017. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Leonard, M., Wu, W., & Westra, S. (2017). A Basis Function Approach to Simulate Storm Surge Events for Coastal Flood Risk Assessment. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2017. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2017). Conditional probability of rainfall extremes across multiple durations. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2017. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Do, X. H., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., & Seneviratne, S. (2017). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata archive (G-SIM): A compilation of global streamflow time series indices and meta-data. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2017. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Bennett, B. S., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Lambert, M., Bates, B., Evin, G., . . . Hingray, B. (2017). A comprehensive and systematic evaluation framework for evaluating spatio-temporal rainfall models. Poster session presented at the meeting of 22nd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
2016 Bennett, B. S., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Lambert, M., & Bates, B. (2016). Parsimonious simulation of daily rainfall fields. Poster session presented at the meeting of DEWNR-NRM Science Conference. University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
2016 Bennett, B. S., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., & Lambert, M. (2016). Continuous simulation of spatial daily rainfall fields. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. Vienna, Austria.
2016 Do, X. H., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2016). A global-scale investigation of trends in annual maximum streamflow. Poster session presented at the meeting of OzEWEX 3rd National Workshop. Canberra, Australia.
2016 Do, X. H., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2016). Are worldwide floods changing? Evidence from global high-quality annual maximum streamflow records. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2016. Vienna, Austria.
2016 Leonard, M., Westra, S., Deng, Y., & Lambert, M. (2016). The role of antecedent moisture conditions on flood response. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria.
2016 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2016). Calibrating max-stable models of rainfall extremes at multiple timescales. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2016. Vienna, Austria.
2016 Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2016). Estimating flood exceedance probabilities in estuarine regions. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2016. Vienna, Austria.
2015 Johnson, F., White, C., Van Dijk, A., Ekstrom, M., Evans, J., Jakob, D., . . . Westra, S. (2015). Past and future trends in Australian floods: what are the causes?. Poster session presented at the meeting of 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Gold Coast.
2015 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2015). Demonstration of max-stable models for estimating catchment flood risk. Poster session presented at the meeting of 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Gold Coast.
2015 Bennett, B. S., Leonard, M., Thyer, M., & Lambert, M. (2015). Simulation of daily rainfall across a range of space and time scales. Poster session presented at the meeting of 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
2013 Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2013). A compound event framework. Poster session presented at the meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Brisbane.
2013 Leonard, M., & Need, S. (2013). A latent variabel kriging method for spatial rainfall. Poster session presented at the meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Conference. Brisbane.

Year Citation
2022 Westra, S., Leigh, R., Knowling, M., Beh, E., Devanand, A., Thyer, M., . . . McInerney, D. (2022). Assessment of current and future water security in the Barossa and Eden Valleys.
2022 Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Nguyen, D. C. H. (2022). Multi-site Rainfall, Evapotranspiration and Temperature Generation for the Southern Region: Evaluation Report (2022/1).
2021 Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Devanand, A. (2021). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX F –Western region stochastic evaluation. (2021/01).
2020 Devanand, A., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2020). Implications of Non-Stationarity for Stochastic Time Series Generation in the Southern Basins.
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Bennett, B. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin (2020/01).
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Bennett, B. (2020). Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX A –Gwydir region stochastic evaluation (2020/02).
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Bennett, B. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX B –Border region stochastic evaluation (2020/03).
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Bennett, B. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX C –Namoi region stochastic evaluation (2020/04).
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Devanand, A. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX D –Far North Coast region stochastic evaluation.
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Devanand, A. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX E –North Coast region stochastic evaluation.
2019 Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Bennett, B. (2019). Multisite Rainfall and Evaporation Data Generation for the Macquarie Water Infrastructure Project (2019/01).
2018 Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Bennett, B. (2018). Accounting for climate change in the management and development of South Australia’s stormwater infrastructure.
2018 Wu, W., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2018). A unified approach for estimating coastal flood risk.
2014 Westra, S., Zheng, F., & Leonard, M. (2014). Joint Probability Analysis of Rainfall events and tidal levels at Fremantle.
2014 Leonard, M. (2014). Review of Supplementary Report: Ipswich Flood Frequency Analysis.
2014 Westra, S. P., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., & Lambert, M. (2014). Impacts of climate change on surface water in the Onkaparinga catchment - Final report volume 1: hydrological model development and sources of uncertainty (14/22). Goyder Institute for Water Research.
2014 Westra, S. P., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., & Lambert, M. (2014). Impacts of climate change on surface water in the Onkaparinga catchment - Final report volume 2: hydrological evaluation of the CMIP3 and CMIP5 GCMs and the Non-homogenous Hidden Markov Model (NHMM) (14/23). Goyder Institute for Water Research.
2014 Westra, S. P., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., & Lambert, M. (2014). Impacts of climate change on surface water in the Onkaparinga catchment - Final report volume 3: impact of climate change on runoff in the Onkaparinga catchment (14/27). Goyder Institute for Water Research.
2014 Zheng, F., Westra, S. P., & Leonard, M. (2014). Australian Rainfall and Runoff: Revision project 18: Coincidence of fluvial flooding events and coastal water levels in estuarine areas (Stage 3 Report) (P18/S3/011).
2012 Leonard, M., Jordan, P., Seed, A., Nathan, R., Pierce, C., & Kordomenidi, E. (2012). Brisbane River Dams Operations and Alternatives Study, Briefing Document for Workshop.
2011 Leonard, M. (2011). Review of: Brisbane River 2011 Flood Frequency Analysis.
2011 Leonard, M., Thyer, M., Lambert, M., Maier, H., & Dandy, G. (2011). Task 4 Milestone 1 Report, Application Test Bed, Onkaparinga Catchment Case Study: Surface Water Hydrological Modelling.
2009 Leonard, M., Lambert, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2009). Step Change Analysis of Rainfall in Southern Australia.
2003 Leonard, M., Lambert, M., & Metcalfe, A. (2003). Seasonal IFD Analysis of Adelaide Rainfall.

Year Citation
2010 Leonard, M. (2010). A stochastic space-time rainfall model for engineering risk assessment. (PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide).

Year Citation
2012 Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2012). Discussion paper: A typology of compound events?. CSIRO workshop, 11th April, Melbourne.
2009 Leonard, M. (2009). Patterns of rainfall in space and time for use in flood risk estimation, discussion paper. ARR Technical Committee Workshop, Melbourne.

Year Citation
2015 Leonard, M., Zheng, F., & Westra, S. (2015). Sydney storm: are extreme rains and flash floods increasing?. The Conversation.

Year Citation
2018 Do, H. X., Gudmundsson, L., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive - Part 1: Station catalog and Catchment boundary.
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2018 Gudmundsson, L., Do, H. X., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive (GSIM) - Part 2: Time Series Indices and Homogeneity Assessment.
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- Thyer, M., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (n.d.). Onkaparinga Catchment Climate Change Modelling.
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- Nguyen, T. H. T., Bennett, B., & Leonard, M. (n.d.). <b><i>Supplementary Materials for paper titled </i></b><b><i>Tracking rainfall contribution in a conceptual runoff model</i></b>.
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Year Citation
2016 Leonard, M., Westra, S., Zheng, F., & Stensmyr, P. (2016). Interaction of River and Coastal Flooding, http://p18.arr-software.org/ (Version 0.1.0) [Computer Software]. Engineers Australia.
2016 Leonard, M., Bennett, B., Thyer, M., Marchi, A., Guo, D., Visintin, P., & Wright, D. (2016). Algorithmik Apps, http://www.algorithmik.org.au/ [Computer Software].
2014 Zheng, F., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. P. (2014). jointPm: Risk estimation using the joint probability method, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/jointPm/index.html (Version 2.3.1) [Computer Software]. The Comprehensive R Network.
2004 Frost, A., Heneker, T., Jennings, S., Kuczera, G., Lambert, M., & Leonard, M. (2004). Stochastic Climate Library: DRIP, subdaily rainfall generation, https://toolkit.ewater.org.au/Tools/SCL/ [Computer Software]. eWater.
- Leonard, M., Bennett, B., Thyer, M., Marchi, A., Visintin, P., Wright, D., & Guo, D. (n.d.). Algorithmik Apps [Computer Software].
- Leonard, M., Bennett, B., Thyer, M., Marchi, A., Visintin, P., Wright, D., & Guo, D. (n.d.). Algorithmik Apps [Computer Software].
- Leonard, M., Bennett, B., Thyer, M., Marchi, A., Visintin, P., Wright, D., & Guo, D. (n.d.). Algorithmik Apps [Computer Software].
- McInerney, D., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., Thyer, M., & Maier, H. (n.d.). Code and data for 'Tailored Calibration of Stochastic Weather Generators for Enhanced Hydrological System Evaluation' by McInerney et al [Computer Software].
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Year Citation
- Thyer, M., McInerney, D., Kavetski, D., Westra, S., Maier, H., Shanafield, M., . . . Leonard, M. (n.d.). Neglecting hydrological errors can severely impact predictions of water resource system performance.
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Competitive Research Funding

Date Project/No. Investigators Funding Body Amount
2015-2017 A unified approach for estimating coastal flood risk Westra, S. & Leonard, M. ARC Linkage AUD $156,905

Consultancies

Date Project Title Client Agency
2018-2025 Stochastic modelling of NSW regions NSW DPIE
2014 Joint Probability Analysis of Rainfall events and tidal levels at Fremantle WA WaterCorp
2012 Brisbane River Dams Operations and Alternatives Study, Workshop 1 SEQ Water
2012 2-week, Geostatistics teaching intensive to Iraqi delegates AusAID
2011 Expert Witness, Queensland Flood Commission of Inquiry Queensland Flood Commission of Inquiry
2009 Step Change Analysis of Rainfall in Southern Australia Dept. Water, Land & Biodiversity Conservation, SA Gov.

Teaching Activities 

Courses Developed

Date Course Title Institution Class Size Course Level/ Code URL
2007-2009;
2013-2018		 Engineering Modelling & Analysis IA University of Adelaide 200+ First Year C&ENVENG 1012
2010-2016 Computing for Geostatistics University of Adelaide ~10 Masters C&ENVENG 7063
2019-2025 Resources and Energy in the Circular Economy University of Adelaide ~30 First Year CEME 1003
2019,2021 Programming (Matlab and Excel) University of Adelaide 100+ First Year ENG 1003
2020-2022 Transportation Engineering and Surveying University of Adelaide 100+ Second Year CEME 2005
2023 Design Practice (Hydraulic design) University of Adelaide 100 Fourth Year CEME 4050
2024-2025 Advanced Water Distribution Systems University of Adelaide 20 Foruth Year CEME 4004

Courses Taught

Date Course Title Institution Class Size Course Level/ Code URL
2022,2023 Special Studies, Vietnam Tour University of Adelaide 30 Mixed cohort - 
2022-2024 Introduction to Infrastructure (water module)  University of Adelaide 100 First Year CEME 1002
2021-2024 Introduction to Engineering University of Adelaide 400 First Year ENG 1001
2020, 2025 Introduction to Environmental Engineering University of Adelaide 100 First Year CEME 1001
2018 Water Engineering IIA University of Adelaide 180 Second Year C&ENVENG 2071
2015-2018 Final Year Research Project (Coordination) University of Adelaide ~200 Fourth Year C&ENVENG 4222
2014-2020 Engineering Management IV University of Adelaide 200-250 Fourth Year C&ENVENG 4034
2010-2019 Introduction to Geostatistics University of Adelaide 50-100 Fourth Year / Masters C&ENVENG 7043
2004, 2008 Water Engineering III B University of Adelaide 100-150 Third Year C&ENVENG 3079

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 Principal Supervisor Development off Flash Flooding Adaptation Strategy under Climate Change for Jeddah City Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Obaid Mohammad O Alharbi
2021 Co-Supervisor Extending the virtual hydrological framework for stochastic rainfall model evaluation. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Truong Huy Thien Nguyen

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Uncertainty in Hydrological Modelling Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Jason Hunter
2018 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Multivariate Modelling of Geological and Geometallurgical Variables Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Emmanuel Addo Junior
2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Quantifying Intermittent Streamflow with Low-cost Sensors and Fully Integrated Hydrological Modelling of Upstream Runoff Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Alicja Natalia Makarewicz
2015 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Flood Hazard Characteristics at the Global Scale: An Observation-based Perspective Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hong Do
2014 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Stochastic Spatial Rainfall Modelling for Hydrological Design: Development of a Parsimonious Simulation Approach and Virtual Hydrological Evaluation Framework Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time APrf Bree Sarah Bennett
2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor A new flood estimation paradigm for the design of civil infrastructure systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Phuong Dong Le

Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
2024 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Optimisation of water resources in Adelaide University of Adelaide - Master - Yuanheng Zhu
2024 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Cost calculator for desalination of brackish groundwater University of Adelaide - Master - Ziyi Li; Suyash Vijay Mohite; Abhishek Shrestha; Gaurav Nehra
2024 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Banrock Station Wetlands Management University of Adelaide - Honours Full Time Sam Munger, Doug Watson, Priyam Trivedi
2024 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Flooding in Jeddah City University of Adelaide - Master - Obaid Al Harabi
2023 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Monitoring and Analysis of a Wetland for Environmental Flows University of Adelaide BE(Civil) Honours Full Time Mitchell Odegaard, Somil Boora, Toby Costi, Patrick Doddridge
2023 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Use of alternative water sources University of Adelaide - Doctorate Full Time Caleb Gray
2022 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Multi-objective optimisation of transportation networks The University of Adelaide - Honours - Zihao Xu, Wenhao Xiao
2022 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Comparison of continuous simulation and event based modelling for flood design The University of Adelaide - Master - Hang Zheng, Ruikun Xiam Zehao Zhang
2022 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Evaluation of historical and naturalised floods on the Murray River The University of Adelaide - Honours - Zhixin Barnett, Yimeng Zhuo, Hong Tang
2021 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Determining the impact of sensor layout on the locatability of pipe bursts University of Adelaide - Honours - Junlin Liu, Shixiao Sun
2021 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Using microsimulation to assess traffic impacts on the Belair-Blackwood road corridor University of Adelaide - Honours - Andrew Iuliano, Bang Ao Qin
2021 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Using microsimulation to determine flood evacuation outcomes for the 2021 Sydney flood University of Adelaide - Honours - Phong Tran, Myo Zaw Aung
2021 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)To Infer Water Availability and Behaviour on Mars University of Adelaide - Honours - Yufan Liu, Yiding You, Dongbo Wei
2021 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Water balance modelling for riverland wetland operations University of Adelaide - Master - Xiaoyi Ma, Ummi Ahmat
2020 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Improving techniques to estimate design floods in ungauged catchments Australia-wide University of Adelaide - Honours - Piotr Grodecki, Jeruben Jude, Titus John, Matthew Dutton
2019 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Evaluating minor losses in networks University of Adelaide - Honours - Siyuan Ding, Jiahua Huo, Priya Saravanah, Huiyu Xu
2019 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Improving hydrological models rainfall-runoff predictions in Australian semi-arid catchments University of Adelaide - Honours - Ty Edwards, Congyun Huang, Yin Mo Marco Lau, Saeed Safavi Arjmand
2019 - 2019 Co-Supervisor : Improving hydrological predictions through robust numerical models University of Adelaide - Master - Joe Mario Jacob, Xiang Lyu, Xiuling Su
2018 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Using digital imagery and cheap sensors to estimate water levels University of Adelaide - Master - Duy Vuu, Aidian Lin, Yingwen Xu
2018 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Evaluation of the Aqualibrium network with estimation of minor losses University of Adelaide - Honours - Wenfeng Liu
2018 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Exploiting spatial correlation in the estimation of conceptual hydrological models University of Adelaide - Honours - Samuel Hack, Paul Hawkins, Lachlan Cotton, Ben Mullin
2017 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Estimating the intermittency of flow in semi-arid catchments using cheap sensors University of Adelaide - Honours - Marco du Bruyn, Matthew Bell, Renae Hawke, Daniel Woods
2017 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Assessing the performance of conceptual models at multiple sites within a region and for contrasting time periods University of Adelaide - Master - Hao Yuan, Thi Hai Duong Ninh, Yunjie Li
2017 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Investigating numerical artefacts of differential solvers for hydrological models University of Adelaide - Honours - Athena Jiang
2017 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Optimal placement of sensors for calibration of unknown pipe network parameters University of Adelaide - Honours - Jason Hunter
2016 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Quantifying the residual capacity of reinforced concrete members with corroded reinforcement University of Adelaide - Honours - Athan Varvaris, Scott Parkinson, Domenico Zerella, Nestor Sequera
2016 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Joint probability in estuarine regions: uncertainty and climate change estimation University of Adelaide - Honours - Dominic McDevitt, Samuel Sexton, Ciaran Hoare, Stefan O'Toole
2016 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Groundwater and surface-water modelling in semi-arid regions University of Adelaide - Honours - Xinyi Mao, Yufeng Zhou, Yayao Wang
2015 - 2017 Co-Supervisor A unified approach for estimating coastal flood risk University of Adelaide - Postdoctorate - Wu W
2015 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Salinity modelling of Lake Hawdon Catchment using MIKE-SHE University of Adelaide - Honours - Alicja Makarewicz, Christian Bell, Liupengfei Wu, Zhihao Jiang
2015 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Estimating low flows in semi-arid regions University of Adelaide - Honours - Timothy Rowland, Declan Warda, Andrew Clarkson, Hayley Whitington
2015 - 2015 Co-Supervisor The performance of infiltration equations using rain-on-grid flood methodology University of Adelaide - Honours - Dylan Bone, Jordan Franks, Henry Moore, Rory Owen
2014 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Economic impact assessment of flooding under a future climate University of Adelaide - Honours - Matthew Matricciani, Gianni Marchetti, Nicholas Boniciolli, Martin Pappas
2013 - 2013 Principal Supervisor Determining Correlated Tributary Flows Using a Distributed Model University of Adelaide - Master - Hien Tran
2013 - 2013 Principal Supervisor Joint Probability Flood Modelling of Brisbane City University of Adelaide - Master - Zhu Jin
2013 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Implications of Global Rainfall Inequality University of Adelaide - Honours - Rajah, K., O'Leary, T., Turner, A., Petrakis
2012 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Comparison of Point and Spatial Rainfall Input Using Distributed Models University of Adelaide - Master - Siyuan Chang

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2023 - 2024 Chair National Commitee on Water Engineering Engineers Australia Australia
2019 - ongoing Chair Hydrological Society South Australia Hydrological Society South Australia Australia
2016 - ongoing Member Hydrological Society South Australia - Australia
2016 - ongoing Member National Committee of Water Engineering Engineers Australia Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2013 - ongoing Member Engineers Australia Australia
2003 - ongoing Member Hydrological Society of South Australia Australia

Date Title Engagement Type Institution Country
2020 - 2020 Open Day Talk Public Community Engagement University of Adelaide Australia
2020 - 2020 STEM Academy - Environmental Engineering Public Community Engagement University of Adelaied -
2019 - 2019 Open Day Talk Public Community Engagement University of Adelaide Australia
2019 - 2019 SAASTA Stem Academy Scientific Community Engagement SAASTA, Univerity of Adelaide Australia
2019 - 2019 Ingenuity SACE Research Project Scientific Community Engagement University of Adelaide Australia
2018 - 2018 Young Women in Technology - Highschool outreach seminar Public Community Engagement University of Adelaide Australia
2018 - 2018 Tertiary Studies & Careers Expo Adelaide - Aqualibrium Activity Public Community Engagement University of Adelaide -
2017 - 2017 Open Day Talk Public Community Engagement University of Adelaide Australia
2017 - 2020 Oliphant Science Awards Scientific Community Engagement SASTA Australia
2016 - 2016 Open Day Talk Public Community Engagement University of Adelaide -
2016 - 2016 ECMS highschool outreach talks Public Community Engagement University of Adelaide Australia

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2016 - ongoing Associate Editor Australian Journal of Water Resources Engineering Australia Australia

Date Case Institution Country
2012 - 2012 Queensland Flood Commission of Inquiry University of Adelaide Australia

Date Topic Presented at Institution Country
2018 - 2018 Impact of Climate Change on Australian Flood Risk: A Review of Recent Evidence University of Adelaide, Charles Hawker Hydrological Society SA Australia
2018 - 2018 Management Systems for Water Stress, to delegates from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Stamford Plaza Adelaide Icewarm Australia
2018 - 2018 Interview - Cape Town's Disaster Drought Radio Adelaide Interview University of Adelaide Australia
2017 - 2017 Invited talk - A typology of compound events WCRP Workshop ETH Zurich Switzerland
2016 - 2016 Proposal pitch - A typology of compound events Ozewex Symposium Ozewex Australia
2016 - 2016 Overview of Australian Rainfall and Runoff 2016 Inkgarni Wardli Hydrological Society SA Australia
2014 - 2014 Workshop - Interaction of Coastal Processes and Severe Weather Events Practical Responses to Climate Change Confererence Australian Rainfall & Runoff, Engineers Australia Australia
2014 - 2014 Workshop - Joint Probability Modelling in Estuarine Regions Hydrology & Water Resources Symposium Australian Rainfall & Runoff Australia

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