Sam Culley

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2011 - 2014	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Civil & Structural Engineering (Hons)

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2024	Van Wettere, W. H. E. J., Culley, S., Swinbourne, A. M. F., Leu, S. T., Lee, S. J., Weaver, A. C., . . . Westra, S. (2024). Heat stress from current and predicted increases in temperature impairs lambing rates and birth weights in the Australian sheep flock. Nature Food, 5(3), 206-210. DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC2
  2024	Hosseini, T., Culley, S. A., Zecchin, A., Maier, H. R., & Ashman, P. J. (2024). Impact of co-digestion and degree of centralization on the yield and viability of biomethane production: A case study in regional Australia. Energy Conversion and Management: X, 22, 100585. DOI Scopus2
  2024	Tian, J., Culley, S., Maier, H. R., Zecchin, A. C., & Hopeward, J. (2024). Diagnostic Approach and Tool for Assessing and Increasing the Sustainability of Renewable Energy Projects. Sustainability (Switzerland), 16(24), 17 pages. DOI
  2021	Bennett, B., Devanand, A., Culley, S., Westra, S., Guo, D., & Maier, H. R. (2021). A modelling framework and R-package for evaluating system performance under hydroclimate variability and change. Environmental Modelling and Software, 139, 104999-1-104999-18. DOI Scopus15 WoS5
  2021	Culley, S., Westra, S., Maier, H., & Bennett, B. S. (2021). Identifying critical climate variables for use in scenario-neutral climate impact assessments. Environmental Modelling and Software, 136, 14 pages. DOI Scopus27 WoS13
  2019	Culley, S., Bennett, B., Westra, S., & Maier, H. R. (2019). Generating realistic perturbed hydrometeorological time series to inform scenario-neutral climate impact assessments. Journal of Hydrology, 576, 111-122. DOI Scopus23 WoS15
  2016	Culley, S., Noble, S., Yates, A., Timbs, M., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., . . . Castelletti, A. (2016). A bottom-up approach to identifying the maximum operational adaptive capacity of water resource systems to a changing climate. Water Resources Research, 52(9), 6751-6768. DOI Scopus96 WoS75

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2023	Maier, H., & Culley, S. (2023). Building capacity to achieve sustainable outcomes for wicked problems. In J. Vaze, C. Chilcott, K. Hutley, & S. M. Cuddy (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 541-547). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
  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. DOI Scopus1
  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. DOI
  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. DOI Scopus12

• 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.

Decision making for sustainable solutions

• 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

• Position: Grant-Funded Researcher (B)
• Phone: 83131231
• Email: sam.culley@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Engineering North, floor N2
• Org Unit: Environmental Engineering