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Watery88 P1.Pub Newsletter No 88 March 2019 Annual General Meeting St Helena Tour Members are cordially invited to attend our 35th An- Also included in this missive is an invita- nual General Meeting on Thursday 2 May. The formal tion to participate in a walking tour of St Hele- notice etc is included with this missive. na Island on Thursday 16 May. We are delight- Traditionally this meeting has been held on the last ed to have engaged the services of “Old Boy” Thursday of April but this year, because of complications Dennis Howarth-Crewdson as our guide for with Easter and Anzac Day, we have moved the date to this excursion. May. The venue will be the same as recent meetings of To whet your appetite without, hopefully, WRRA – the Victory Hotel, 127 Edward Street. stealing too much of Dennis’s thunder, here Do come along for the usual meeting activities – are some extracts from Wikipedia. reports and elections. Our co-patrons have been invited as St Helena is a heritage listed island 4 kilo- usual for them, or their nominees, to grace us with a metres east of the mouth of the Brisbane River “State of the Nation” address. in Moreton Bay. Originally used as a prison, it As is customary, the meeting will be followed by a is now a national park. Local aborigines called convivial lunch at the expense of the Association – this the island Noogoon but it was renamed St Hel- time in the congenial atmosphere of the Victory Beer ena after an aboriginal named Napoleon was Garden. exiled there in 1827. The island is visible from We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible. the mainland. It has its own permanent water supply, a spring in the centre of the island. Many migratory birds use the island as a wa- tering hole. Part of the Moreton Bay and Pum- From the Editor’s Chair icestone Passage, it is an important bird area Once again, the weather has brought catastrophe to because it supports large numbers of migratory the north of the State. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to waders or shorebirds. all those adversely affected. In the 19th century St Helena Island was a But as usual, there is a clear lack of understanding quarantine station which became one of the about a large number of factors. No distinction is made most profitable prisons in Queensland history. between flood mitigation (which dams can provide under The island was used to house prisoners and some circumstances) and flood prevention (which they staff for 65 years. Many of those involved in clearly cannot). And the uneasy alliance between flood the 1891 Shearers Strike were imprisoned mitigation and water storage functions of multi-purpose there along with murderers and bushrangers. structures continues to exercise public opinion. This no doubt will be a most enjoyable day The Townsville flood event was described as the one in out, but we have a maximum of 30 places a hundred year flood. When that was subsequently available, so early booking is advisable. changed to a one in five hundred year flood, the implica- We’ll see (some of) you on board the Cat- tion was that this resulted in five times as much water! O-Nine-Tails. And of course, such a flood won’t happen again for an- other 500 years! (See also page 9) New Members Inevitably, there have been calls yet again for the We are always pleased to welcome new Bradfield Scheme to be implemented immediately along members to the Association and are delighted with many new dams and flood prevention infrastruc- to add Stuart Duncan and Doug Flanders as ture. It all seems to depend on where we sit in the hydro- our latest members. illogical cycle. There is no limit to the number of members Until next time, au reservoir. and it would be nice to swell our ranks. You Ian Pullar, Editor could encourage your former colleagues to join us: they don’t even have to be retired! Queensland Future Climate Dashboard Dashboard provides high resolution simulations for 30 On 21 February, Dr Ralph Trancoso addressed an different metrics grouped in six climate themes: (i) audience of 20 very interested attendees at our regular Mean Climate; (ii) Heatwaves; (iii) Extreme Tempera- February get together on the subject of “Queensland ture Indices; (iv) Extreme Precipitation Indices; (v) Future Climate Dashboard”. Droughts; and (vi) Floods. The spatial information for Dr Trancoso works at the University of Queens- regional projections was spatially aggregated from 10 land at the Global Institute and for the Department of km pixel-size grids to specific regions. The following Environment and Science. Originally from Brazil, five specific regions in which regional projections are Ralph is enjoying living in Queensland (although he presented are: (i) Local Government Areas; (ii) Re- prefers a cold climate) and is engaged in ground- gional Plan Areas; (iii) Bioregions; (iv) Major River breaking work which is intended to help the authorities Basins; and (v) Disaster Districts. In addition, users to deal with the effects of climate change. He started can visualize and download future climate data across his talk with a number of graphs showing an increas- calendar seasons, wet and dry periods as well as ing trend in both sea and air temperatures through the annual basis. Information is summarized for four 20- rest of this century. He provided the following infor- year time slices centred in 2030, 2050, 2070 and 2090. mation on his fascinating talk. More information can The Queensland Future Climate Dashboard offers a be obtained from the WRRA website and from the fully interactive interface; that is users can customise links below. maps and plots, as well as download summary statis- tics, screenshots and spatial data for different purposes Understanding the need to provide reliable regional such as local and regional planning, biodiversity man- scale simulations of future climate, the Science Divi- agement, water management and emergency services. sion from the Department of Environment and Scienc- By combining cutting-edge high resolution climate es (DES) has downscaled 11 state-of-the-art global models and latest trends in big data visualization within climate models to 10 km grid-cells. Higher spatial reso- an interactive visualisation platform, DES expects to lution means that Regional Climate Models (RCMs) bridge climate science and adaptation through an take into account local biophysical properties such as topography, vegetation and land-sea contrast and bet- enjoyable experience for end-users. ter simulate local climate as a result. Another relevant For a snapshot of our modelling approach and its bene- improvement in Queensland’s future climate simulation fits: https://app.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/climateFacts/ is the continuous projections until the end of the centu- Future heatwaves: https://app.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/ ry rather than previously used time-windows. However, heatwave/ improving spatial and temporal resolutions produces Future water security: https://app.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/ larger files and creates new barriers for data accessibil- water/ ity. In order to facilitate data access and support cli- Queensland Future Climate Dashboard: https:// mate adaptation policies and management. DES has app.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/dashboard/#responseTab1 conceptualized and implemented a new online platform Following the presentation, many of the attendees with information about future climate. The Queensland enjoyed the company of the others over lunch in the Future Climate Dashboard summarises information of Victory beer garden. 11 state of-the-art climate models with regional scale It was another enjoyable reunion for those who simulations until 2099. The dashboard is a visualisation attended, as well as an enlightening experience. (There platform composed of drop-down menus, maps, plots was also some discussion over lunch about climate and tables whereby users can customise, visualise and change and its implications, with relief that it is no export summarised future climate information accord- longer our problem to deal with.) ing to their interest. The Queensland Future Climate Member Bill Fossett passed away on 17 December 2018 aged 91. Bill was an administration officer and was in charge of ordering materials for the construction of Tinaroo Dam. During the construction of the MDIA channels Bill lived in Muchilla. Once the work finished he moved into the office in Mareeba and worked there until he retired. In his retirement he loved making items in timber such as toys. Our condolences to his widow, Pat. Members might also be interested to be informed of the passing of other former colleagues. Bob Deskins was an administrative officer in the Department of Local Government prior to and after its amal- gamation with Water Resources. He died in February at the age of 74. Mike Wilke’s death in February was also reported. Mike was an engineer who left the Commission many years ago to pursue a career in the consulting world. This led to a number of jobs, including a major manageri- al post in the USA for a number of years. Mike had been ill for some time before his death at the age of 71. Watery Sauces No 88 Page 2 Profile of WRRA Membership (For as long as I have been associated with WRRA, membership has been constant at around 200. In response to a number of questions, Treasurer Gary Corbett has produced some interesting statistics on membership.- Ed. Obviously it is much easier for residents of south-east Queensland to attend WRRA functions, but the offer is still open for sponsorship from the committee for any event organised in the regions. It is always a pleasure to wel- come the occasional country mem- ber who manages to make it to one of our gatherings.
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