POSTPONED - Confirmation of Candidature - Candidate : Leyde Briceno Medina

Fish kills have been reported during the summer across several rivers in Australia. However, there are areas across the Murray-Darling Basin that are more susceptible to these events. Many causes have been identified leading to these events, where the primary cause reported is low dissolved oxygen level. Although several studies have been carried out to predict water quality parameters, little is known about predicting low dissolved oxygen in terms of water temperature stratification for low flow rivers. Consequently, this doctoral project will provide novel machine learning methods of predicting levels of dissolved oxygen in water in terms of duration of thermal stratification in low flow rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin, and explanations for the most likely causes of fish deaths.

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