Prof. George Kuczera
| Work Phone | (02) 4921 6038 |
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| Fax | (02) 4921 6991 |
| George.Kuczera@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Office | EA130, Engineering A |
Research Supervision
| Number of current supervisions | 7 |
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| Total current UoN Masters EFTSL | 1.25 |
| Total current UoN PhD EFTSL | 1.5 |
For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics, and the institution name is listed below the program name.
Current Supervision
| Commenced | Proposed Completion |
Program | Supervisor Type | Research Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2015 | M Philosophy (Civil Eng) | Co-Supervisor | The Influence of East Coast Lows (ECLs) on the Water Security of Coastal New South Wales (NSW) |
| 2013 | 2015 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Co-Supervisor | A Screening Method for Rural Flash Flooding Risk Assessment |
| 2012 | 2014 | M Philosophy (Civil Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Understanding and Reducing the Contribution of Hydraulic Transient Pressures to Pipe Failure |
| 2012 | 2016 | M Philosophy (Civil Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Understanding Anomalous Low Flows and Changes to Rainfall-Runoff Sequences During and Following the Millennium Drought |
| 2012 | 2016 | PhD (Environmental Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Revisiting Parameter Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis for Complex Hydrological Models |
| 2011 | 2014 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Recursive BATEA Estimation |
| 2009 | 2012 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | The Modelling of Urban Water Supply, Harvesting and Recycling Systems using Network Linear Programs |
Past Supervision
| Year | Program | Supervisor Type | Research Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Multi-objective Optimization of Urban Water Resource Systems |
| 2012 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Climate-Informed Stochastic Hydrological Modelling |
| 2011 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | A High-Resolution Hierarchical Model for Space-Time Rainfall |
| 2009 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Integrated Urban Water Management and the UrbanCycle Modelling Framework |
| 2009 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Co-Supervisor | Prediction of Ungauged Basins - Uncertain Criteria Conditioning, Regionalization and Multimodel Methods |
| 2008 | PhD (Biological Sciences) | Co-Supervisor | Water Quality, Incidental Treatment Train Mechanisms and Health Risks Associated with Urban Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Australia |
| 2007 | PHD Water & Sanitary Engineering University of Adelaide |
Co-Supervisor | Regionalization of a stochastic rainfall model |
| 2007 | PhD (Environmental Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Implementing Water Sensitive Urban Design: The Context of Changing Urban Stormwater Technologies in Australia |
| 2007 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Nonhomogeneity in Eastern Australian Flood Frequency Data: Identification and Regionalisation |
| 2007 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Co-Supervisor | Pacific and Indian Ocean Climate Variability - Implications for Water Resource Management in Eastern Australia |
| 2006 | PhD (Environmental Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Beyond Weights and Discount Rates: Integrated Evaluation Tools for Sustainability Planning |
| 2005 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Analysis of Input Data Uncertainty and Numerical Robustness in Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Modelling |
| 2004 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Spatio-Temporal Hidden Markov Models for Incorporating Inter-Annual Variability in Rainfall |
| 2003 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Sole Supervisor | Optimisation of Urban Water Supply Headworks Systems Using Probabilistic Search Methods and Parallel Computing |
| 2002 | PHD Water & Sanitary Engineering University of Adelaide |
Co-Supervisor | An improved engineering design flood estimation technique: Removing the need to estimate initial loss |
| 2002 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Sole Supervisor | Modelling Long-Term Persistence in Hydrological Time Series |
| 2002 | PhD (Civil Surv & Environ Eng) | Principal Supervisor | Rainwater Tanks Revisited: New Opportunities for Urban Water Cycle Management |
| 2001 | M Eng (Civil Surv & Env) [R] | Principal Supervisor | Estimation of Extreme Rainfall Exceedance Probabilities: Nondimensional Stochastic Storm Transposition |
| 2001 | Masters Hydrology University of Newcastle |
Sole Supervisor | Estimation of extreme rainfall exceedance probabilities: Nondimensional stochastic storm transposition |
| 1999 | PHD Hydrology University of Newcastle |
Co-Supervisor | Rainfall runoff model improvements incorporating a dynamic wave model and synthetic stream networks |
| 1998 | Masters Water & Sanitary Engineering University of Newcastle |
Sole Supervisor | Subcatchment scale investigation of stormwater time-area runoff model |
| 1998 | PHD Hydrology University of Newcastle |
Sole Supervisor | A methodology for hypothesis testing in conceptual catchment modelling |
| 1997 | PHD Water & Sanitary Engineering University of Newcastle |
Sole Supervisor | Network linear programming in pipe networks |
| 1991 | PHD Water & Sanitary Engineering University of Newcastle |
Sole Supervisor | Effect of demand uncertainty on the expected performance of urban headworks water supply systems |