Environmental Flows: research synthesis and access

Much of TRaCK research is focussed on relationships between flow and ecological structure and function of rivers and estuaries.

The Environmental Flow Tools project is designed to distill the findings from flow-related TRaCK research for water managers and planners.
The project offers three forms of access and engagement:

• Getting the research findings from the researchers in general language as a “flow principle”
• Getting feedback from agency endusers on the most useful ways the research findings can be delivered
• Delivering the research findings by 3 means: general models of how tropical rivers and estuaries function (usually conceptual diagrams), spatial database to show where TRaCK data has been collected and who by (so managers can follow up in more detail directly with researchers), and the “flow principles” which are essentially the simplified research findings from the flow projects.