Kath Bowmer graduated from the University of Nottingham in agricultural sciences and soil chemistry and has published widely in aquatic ecology, water quality, pesticide chemistry and catchment governance.
She became a Chief Research Scientist while employed in CSIRO Division of Irrigation Research at Griffith, New South Wales, became Deputy Chief of CSIRO Division of Water Resources (1989-1996), Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), at Charles Sturt University (1996-2001) and a Business Director of CSIRO Land and Water (2001-2004). Kath is a consultant to governments and industry, has supervised ten research higher degrees and examined research theses for seven Universities. She took up a personal Chair in Water Policy at Charles Sturt University in January 2004.
Kath was invited to prepare material for the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (1995-6); and was a member of the Australian Research Council Earth Sciences Panel (1999-2001), chairing the panel for two years. She chaired the Murrumbidgee River Management Committee (1998-2003) which developed the Murrumbidgee Water Sharing Plan that was gazetted in December 2002.
She is a board member of the CRC for Sustainable Rice Production, the CRC for Freshwater Ecology, the Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre, and the National Rivers Consortium of Land & Water Australia. She is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was awarded the Pol Eureka Prize for Environmental Research in 1995.
Kathleen.Bowmer@bigpond.com
T 61 2 6931 4699
M 0411 041 790
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