Jakin Ravalico

PhD Candidate

Contact Information

Email: jravalic@civeng.adelaide.edu.au
Phone: +61 8 8303 6139
Room: Engineering North Building, N223

Research Interests

My research interest revolve around the general concept of sustainability and its achievement. The specific focus of this interest is in the field of Environmental and Integrated Assessment modelling, particularly relating to modelling water resources and their management.

Research Project

Title: New methods of sensitivity analysis for complex environmental models This research proposes a new distance-based method of sensitivity analysis to be used for complex and integrated models, which utilises optimisation to determine the minimum change in parameters required to alter the model outputs significantly. The advantage of this method is its simplicity and its ability to assess the stability of model solutions, which is of particular importance when large-scale management decisions are being made on the basis of these model outputs. The method is based on the premise of using a set of acceptable model outcomes to derive a set of model inputs which will result in acceptable outputs.

Supervisor(s)

Prof Graeme Dandy - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Adelaide.

Professor Holger Maier - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Adelaide.

Professional / Consulting Experience

2004 Coorong District Council Stormwater Project Officer

Academic Qualifications

1999-2003 Bachelor of Civil and Environmental Engineering The University of Adelaide, South Australia