Professor Derek Eamus

Name:	Professor Derek Eamus
Position:	Professor of Environmental Sciences and Associate
Organisation:	University of Technology Sydney
Department/Division:	Department of Environmental Sciences
Primary Areas:	Environment
Expertise:	Vegetation water use, groundwater dependent ecosystems, climate change, carbon fixaton by vegetation (photosynthesis), Australia's water balance, ecological footprint, water use of Australia, environmental science
Organisation type:	Academic
Website:	www.uts.edu.au
Personal Website:	www.c3.uts.edu.au/about/eamus-labgroup.html
Notes:	I was the inaugural Director of the Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management, 2002 - 2005. Currently an exec member of the climate change research cluster at UTS.
Expert's direct contacts:
Phone:	+ 61 2 9514 4154
Fax:	9514 4095
After hours:	9477 4351
This expert is available for:	Research collaboration, Consulting work, Expert witness work, Conference presentation opportunities, Other speaking engagements

Media Contact: (Note: For journalists only)
Contact:	Terry Clinton
Phone:	+61 2 9514 1623
After Hours:	0419 293 261
Fax:	+61 2 9514 1616
Postal:	Marketing and Communication Unit University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia

Publications:	Eamus D, and Froend R 2006. Groundwater-dependent ecosystems: the where, what and why of GDEs. Australian Journal of Botany 54 (2): 91-96 2006. Eamus D, Taylor DT, Macinnis-Ng CMO, de Silva 2008. Comparing model predictions and experimental data for the response of stomatal conductance and guard cell turgor to manipulations of cuticular conductance, leaf-to-air vapour pressure difference and temperature: feedback mechanisms are able to account for all observations. Plant, Cell and Environment 31, 269 – 277. Taylor, D., and Eamus, D. 2008 Coordinating leaf functional traits with branch hydraulic conductivity: resource substitution and implications for carbon gain. Tree Physiology 28, 1169 – 1177. Leal, S., Eamus, D., Grabner, Wimmer, R., and Cherubini, P. 2008. Tree rings from Pinus nigra from the Vienna basin (Austria) show evidence of change in climatic sensitivity in the late 20th century? Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38, 744 – 758. Whitley, R, Medlyn, B, Zeppel M, Macinnis-Ng, C and Eamus D 2009. Comparing the Penman Monteith equation and a modified Jarvis-Stewart model with an artificial neural network to estimate stand-scale transpiration and canopy conductance. Journal of Hydrology 373, 256 – 266. O’Grady, AP, Cook, PG, Eamus, D, Duguid, A, Wischusen JDH, Fass, T Worldege, D, 2009 Convergence of tree water use within an arid-zone woodland. Oecologia 160, 643 – 655. Hutley, L.B. A.P. O'Grady, D. Eamus (2001) Monsoonal influences on evapotranspiration of savanna vegetation of northern Australia. Oecologia 126:434-443. Eamus, D., Hutley, L. and O’Grady, A.P 2001. Carbon and water fluxes above a north Australian savanna . Tree Physiology, 21, 977-988. Hutley, L., Eamus, D., and O’Grady 2000. Evapotranspiration from Eucalypt open-forest savanna of northern Australia. Functional Ecology 14, 183-194. Eamus, D., O’Grady, A.P and Hutley,L. 2000. Dry season conditions determine wet season water use in the wet-dry tropical savannas of northern Australia. Tree Physiology 20, 219-226.