Dr Gabriela Raducan’s study investigated the impacts of land use types on river water quality during base-flow and storm-flow conditions for areas subjected to bushfires in Victoria. She considered the analysis of the cumulative impacts of land use influence on the chemical, physical and biological properties of water and how these are affected by bushfire. Her research also evaluated how the use of refined digital elevation models (based on LiDAR) affects water quality modelling and how land managers can model both point source and diffuse inputs using GIS.
Gabriela founded and directs Tech4Future, is a Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe Innovation and Entrepreneurship Foundry, and is a lecturer and demonstrator at RMIT University.