Sam Culley
Grant-Funded Researcher (B)
School of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
I have completed a PhD that focused on climate change impact assessments, as applied to water resource systems. As part of my research I have developed techniques to improve these assessments including:
- Creating climate scenarios to investigate potential threats to water resource systems (foreSIGHT software)
- Identifying the critical changes in climate that will degrade systems
- Identifying operational changes to systems in response to changes in climate
This research has included the use of formal optimisation techniques, the specification of process driven and data driven models, and methods for decision making under deep uncertainty. Since completing my PhD I have had the opportunity to apply these climate change impact assessment tools to agricultural, water and energy systems.
For the past few years I have held a post-doctoral research position funded by the Future Fuels CRC. This research has focused on identifying the opportunities and barriers to the uptake of bioenergy projects in Australia. A webinar presenting an overview of this research is available here.
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Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2011 - 2014 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Civil & Structural Engineering (Hons)
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Journals
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2023 Maier, H. R., & Culley, S. (2023). Building capacity to achieve sustainable outcomes for wicked problems. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM (pp. 541-547). 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. 2021 Maier, H. R., Guillaume, J. H. A., McPhail, C., Westra, S., Kwakkel, J. H., Razavi, S., . . . Jakeman, A. J. (2021). Uncertainty, sensitivity and scenario analysis: how do they fit together?. In Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2021) (pp. 554-560). Canberra, ACT, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
2021 Culley, S., Westra, S., Bennett, B., Maier, H., Newman, J., van der Linden, L., & Irvine, M. (2021). Water security analysis of the Middle River supply system: a foreSIGHT application. In Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2021) (pp. 547-553). Canberra, ACT, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
2000 Lowe, A., McMahon, C., Shah, T., & Culley, S. (2000). AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENT OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION USED BY ENGINEERING DESIGNERS. In Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference Vol. 4 (pp. 17-28). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Conference Items
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 Bennett, B., Culley, S., Westra, S., & Maier, H. (2018). ForeSIGHT: An R-package to Support Scenario-Neutral Climate Impact Assessments. Poster session presented at the meeting of AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2018, H53Q-1819. Washington, DC, USA. 2018 Bennett, B. S., Westra, S., & Culley, S. (2018). An R tool for climate resilience analysis of water resource systems. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria. 2018 Culley, S. A., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., & Bennett, B. (2018). An R tool for scenario-neutral climate impact analysis of water resource systems. Poster session presented at the meeting of 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. 2018 Culley, S. A., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., & Bennett, B. (2018). Identifying the climate variables to which water resource systems are most sensitive. Poster session presented at the meeting of 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. 2017 Bennett, B. S., Culley, S., & Westra, S. (2017). Generating perturbed hydroclimate time series for use in scenario-neutral climate impact assessments. 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. -
Report for External Bodies
Year Citation 2022 Culley, S., Zecchin, A., & Maier, H. (2022). National scale assessment of viable biomethane locations in Australia: viable case studies report. 2022 Culley, S., Zecchin, A., & Maier, H. (2022). Where are the most viable locations for bioenergy hubs across Australia?. 2022 Culley, S., Zecchin, A., & Maier, H. (2022). Prototype online mapping tool: Identifying most viable sites for biomethane injection in Australia. 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. 2021 Culley, S., Zecchin, A., Hosseini, T., & Maier, H. (2021). Adelaide Case Study Report - Viability Assessment. 2021 Culley, S., Maier, H., & Zecchin, A. (2021). Final Framework Report. 2020 Culley, S., Maier, H., Zecchin, A., & Riddell, G. (2020). Methodology Report. 2020 Culley, S., Westra, S., Maier, H., Bennett, B., & Newman, J. (2020). WATER SECURITY RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE MIDDLE RIVER SUPPLY SYSTEM (2020/10). 2020 Culley, S., Zecchin, A., Hosseini, T., & Maier, H. (2020). Griffith Case Study Report - Viability Assessment: Assessment framework for bio-methane injection in gas networks (RP1.2-03). Future Fuels CRC. -
Software
Year Citation 2018 Bennett, B. S., Culley, S., Westra, S., Guo, D., & Maier, H. (2018). foreSIGHT: Systems Insights from Generation of Hydroclimatic Timeseries (Version 0.9.2) [Computer Software]. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=foreSIGHT: CRAN.
Research projects RP1.2-03, RP1.2-04 and RP1.2-06 in the Future Fuels CRC.
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2023 Co-Supervisor Quantitative Framework to Enable the Sustainable Renewable Energy Transition Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Jing Tian
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