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Prof Jim Cox

Principal ScientistProf Jim Cox

Phone: + 61 8 8303 9334
Email: james.w.cox@adelaide.edu.au

Roles and expertise:

  • Professor of Hydrology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide
  • Head of SARDI water resources and irrigated crops
  • Development and delivery of water research for the South Australian water sector including the irrigation industry.

Experience:

  • My research has been to identify the conditions which lead to the sources, pathways and fluxes of contaminants, and also the forms of the contaminant that were most mobile.
  • One of the first researchers to recognise the importance of the throughflow pathway for water and the transport of some contaminants (e.g. phosphorus) from catchments to waterways in Australia.
  • At the forefront of the design and evaluation of many of the methods to assess the impacts of land management strategies on the generation, pathways and fluxes of water-borne contaminants.

Current and recent projects:

Awards:

  • 1996 Recipient of the AW Howard Memorial Trust Award
  • 2003 Recipient of an Overseas Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Research Fellowship.
  • 2006 Awarded the University of Helsinki, Finland, Medal for contribution to science and teaching.

Recent publications:

Phogat V, Mahadevan M, Skewes M and Cox JW. 2011. Modelling soil water and salt dynamics under pulsed and continuous surface drip irrigation of almond and implications of system design. Irrigation Science (accepted Dec 2010).

Phogat, V., Yadav, A.K., Malik, R.S., Kumar, S. and Cox, J. 2010. Simulation of salt and water movement and estimation of water productivity of rice crop irrigated with saline water. Paddy and Water Environment 8:336-346.

Dahlhaus, P.G., Evans, T.J., Nathan, E., Cox, J.W., and Simmons, C.T. 2010. Groundwater-level response to land-use change and the implications for salinity management in the West Moorabool River catchment, Victoria, Australia. Hydrogeology Journal 18:1611–1623.

Varcoe, J., van Leeuwen, J.A., Chittleborough, D.J., Cox, J.W., Smernik, R.J. and Heitz, A. 2010. Changes in water quality following gypsum application to catchment soils of the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. Organic Geochemistry 41:116-123.

Dahlhaus, P.G., Cox, J.W., Smitt, C.M. and Simmons, C.T. 2008. Historical evidence of salinity in the Corangamite region, Australia, and the implications for current salinity management. Hydrogeology 16: 1283-1298.

Dougherty, W., Nash, D., Cox, J.W., Chittleborough, D.J., and Fleming, N. 2008. Small–scale, high–intensity rainfall simulation under-estimates natural runoff P concentrations from pastures on hill-slopes. Australian Journal of Soil Research 46: 694–702.

Davies, P., Cox, J.W., Fleming, N., Dougherty, W., Nash, D., Hutson. J. 2006. Predicting runoff and phosphorus loads from variable source areas: Application of a terrain based modelling approach. Journal of Spatial Hydrology 6: 82-104.

Poulsen, D.L., Simmons, C.T., Le Galle La salle, C. and Cox, J.W. 2006. Assessing catchment-scale spatial and temporal patters of groundwater and stream salinity. Hydrogeology 41: 1339-1359.

Dougherty, W.J. Nash, D., Chittleborough, D.J., Cox, J.W., and Fleming, N.K. 2006. Stratification, forms and mobility of P as a function of P status in the topsoil of a Chromosol used for dairying Australian Journal of Soil Research 44: 277-284.

Cox, J.W., Varcoe, J., Chittleborough, D.J. and van Leeuwen, J. 2005 Using gypsum to reduce phosphorus in runoff from sub-catchments in South Australia. Journal of Environmental Quality 34: 2118-2128.

Cox, J.W, Pitman, A., and Bellotti, W.D 2005. The role of shallow drains in removing “excess” water from texture-contrast soils. Australian Journal of Water Resources 9: 109-118.

Affiliations

CRC eWater
CRC Irrigation Futures
Adelaide University Environment Institute Water Centre 
Wine Innovation Cluster
CSIRO Land and Water
NRM Research Alliance