Dilanka Niroshan Athukoralalage

Dilanka Niroshan Athukoralalage

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology


I am a Ph.D. student at the department of ecology and evolutionary biology and I mainly focus on the drought impacts on river Murray water quality and water quality modeling. I basically work with existing and new river flow, meteorological and nutrient data to study the water quality during droughts and post-drought periods. I obtained my master's degree from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and I worked as a research assistant for more than six months in the ocean biogeochemistry research group, at the department of earth science, Memorial University. I also worked as a research scientist at the snow-hydrology research group at the University of Oulu, Finland.

I am a PhD student at the department of ecology and evolutionary biology and I mainly focus on the drought impacts on river Murray water quality and water quality modelling. I basically work with existing and new river flow, meteorological and nutrient data to study the water quality during droughts and post-drought periods. I also focus on the future drought predictions and potential water quality impacts in combined with climate change projections such as global circulation model.


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