Dr Michael Leonard

• Appointments

  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

• Awards and Achievements

  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	-

• Education

  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)

• Research Interests

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

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2025	Nguyen, T., Bennett, B., & Leonard, M. (2025). Robust hydrological evaluation of stochastic rainfall. Journal of Hydrology, 659, 133247. DOI
  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. DOI Scopus1
  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. DOI Scopus6 WoS6
  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. DOI
  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. DOI Scopus6 WoS6
  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. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
  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. DOI Scopus15 WoS12
  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. DOI Scopus9 WoS8
  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. DOI Scopus11 WoS10
  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. DOI Scopus8 WoS6
  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. DOI Scopus390 WoS362 Europe PMC63
  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. DOI Scopus38 WoS36
  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. DOI Scopus45 WoS40
  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. DOI Scopus56 WoS53
  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. DOI Scopus25 WoS20
  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. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
  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. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
  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. DOI Scopus156 WoS148
  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. DOI Scopus22 WoS21
  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. DOI Scopus89 WoS81
  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. DOI Scopus4 WoS1
  2018	Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Modeling spatial dependence of rainfall extremes across multiple durations. Water Resources Research, 54(3), 2233-2248. DOI Scopus13 WoS13
  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. DOI Scopus1657 WoS1550
  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. DOI Scopus122 WoS120
  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. DOI Scopus203 WoS192
  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. DOI Scopus89 WoS81
  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. DOI Scopus33 WoS24
  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. DOI Scopus12 WoS11
  2017	Do, X., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2017). A global-scale investigation of trends in annual maximum streamflow. Journal of Hydrology, 552, 28-43. DOI Scopus208 WoS191
  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. DOI Scopus19 WoS19
  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. DOI Scopus10 WoS9
  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. DOI Scopus106 WoS96
  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. DOI Scopus24 WoS23
  2015	Zheng, F., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2015). Opposing local precipitation extremes. Nature Climate Change, 5(5), 389-390. DOI Scopus69 WoS64
  2015	Zheng, F., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2015). Efficient joint probability analysis of flood risk. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 17(4), 584-597. DOI Scopus24 WoS22
  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. DOI Scopus619 WoS573
  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. DOI Scopus134 WoS127
  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. DOI Scopus150 WoS138
  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. DOI Scopus156 WoS145
  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. DOI WoS236
  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. DOI WoS16
  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. DOI WoS63
  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. DOI WoS25
  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. DOI WoS77
  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. DOI WoS14
  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. DOI WoS58
  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. DOI WoS7
  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. DOI WoS61
  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. DOI WoS13
  2013	Leonard, M. (2013). All in a good cause. NEW SCIENTIST, 217(2909), 31. DOI
  2012	Leonard, M. (2012). Sequencing loophole. NEW SCIENTIST, 216(2889), 31. DOI
  2012	Leonard, M. (2012). Future worries. NEW SCIENTIST, 213(2852), 33. DOI
  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. DOI WoS92
  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. DOI Scopus16 WoS14
  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. DOI Scopus178 WoS149
  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. DOI Scopus30
  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. DOI Scopus3
  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. DOI Scopus37 WoS33
  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. DOI Scopus41 WoS34
  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. DOI Scopus4 WoS3
  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. DOI Scopus111 WoS92
  2006	Leonard, M., Metcalfe, A., & Lambert, M. (2006). Efficient simulation of a space-time Neyman-Scott rainfall model. Water Resources Research, 42(11), 11503. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
  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. DOI Scopus161 WoS119
  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. DOI WoS2
  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. DOI WoS1
  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. DOI
  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. DOI WoS5
  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. DOI WoS128
  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. DOI WoS1
  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. DOI

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2009	Walker, D., Leonard, M., Metcalfe, A., & Lambert, M. (2009). Engineering modelling and analysis. United States: Taylor & Francis. DOI Scopus2
  2008	Lambert, M., Daniell, T., & Leonard, M. (Eds.) (2008). Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008 [electronic resource] : incorporating 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, and, 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research. Adelaide, Australia.

• Book Chapters

  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.

• Conference Papers

  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. DOI
  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.. Scopus1
  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. Scopus5
  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. Scopus1
  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. Scopus3
  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. Scopus8
  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. Scopus5
  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. Scopus2
  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. DOI
  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. Scopus1
  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. WoS19
  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.
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  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. WoS1
  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. WoS3
  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. WoS1

• 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	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.

• Report for External Bodies

  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.

• Theses

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

• Working Paper

  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.

• Internet Publications

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

• Datasets

  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. DOI
  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. DOI
  -	Thyer, M., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (n.d.). Onkaparinga Catchment Climate Change Modelling. DOI
  -	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>. DOI

• Software

  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]. DOI

• Media

  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. DOI

Teaching Activities 

Courses Developed

Courses Taught

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  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

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  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

• Other Supervision Activities

  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

• Committee Memberships

  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

• Memberships

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

• Community Engagement

  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

• Editorial Boards

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

• Expert Witness

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

• Presentation

  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

• Position: Associate Professor
• Phone: 83134319
• Email: michael.leonard@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 83134359
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Engineering North, floor 2
• Org Unit: Environmental Engineering