Dr Juliette Woods

Adjunct Associate Professor Juliette Woods is Principal Groundwater Modeller at the SA Department for Environment and Water and a member of the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Unconventional Gas Development and Large Coal Mining Development. She is the co-lead, with Virginia Riches, of the National Water Grid Fund's project to revise the Australian groundwater modelling guidelines. 

Dr Woods has specialised in groundwater modelling since 1996, from theoretical aspects to the very practical. She has developed and reviewed groundwater models built for many different purposes across Australia, advising state and federal agencies on water allocation planning, environmental programs, mining applications, climate change impacts, managed aquifer recharge, salinity, industrial project assessments, and research programs. She has lead modelling teams in academia, industry and government, often fostering knowledge transfer across these sectors. She has a particular interest in the lower River Murray and in interconnections between groundwater, surface water, agriculture and ecology.

Dr Woods was awarded a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide in 2004, with support from CSIRO Land and Water and the Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology. Prior to her current appointments, she worked for the Department of Mines and Energy SA, the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas, the consulting firm Australian Water Environments, and the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training at Flinders University.

She is a committee member of the South Australian chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists.