The late Dr Jim Galletly, agricultural ecologist, earned his doctorate in 2007 for a study of the baseflow in the aquifers in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane and his research contradicted the conventional wisdom. An obituary and abstract have been published by The Royal Society of Queensland, in Volume 128 of its Proceedings.
In addition to that abstract, QSN has uncovered a summary of his doctoral research, with more detail than the abstract (there is a word limit for the Proceedings) and QSN is pleased to bring this teaser to a wider audience.
QSN has also uncovered a submission Dr Galletly wrote to the Grantham Flood Commission of Inquiry in August 2015: “The aim of this paper is to highlight the different approaches to science used in the physical sciences (and as applied in hydraulics) and in the biological sciences (as applied by those who are trained in hydrology which is a component of ecology). This may help explain why Grantham residents were not warned about the possible flood which caused so many lives to be lost.”
Appended to the submission is a statement of his credentials – a mini-CV.
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