GFR provides expert services in climate change, water security, sustainability, international development, astrophysics, futures, strategy and the science-policy interface.

Consulting services

• Strategic management and advice
• Investment planning and prioritisation
• Science synthesis for policy, planning and management
• International development engagement and practice
• Integration approaches across disciplines, sectors, governance levels and scales
• Futures methods of scenario planning, environmental scanning and issues analysis
• Evaluation, risk management and business/organisational review

International development experience

• Australia-Mekong Water Facility
• Myanmar Ayeyarwady state of basin assessment (SOBA)
• Myanmar groundwater assessment of the Central Dry Zone
• Myanmar environmental flows policy and implementation
• Myanmar Young Water Professionals program
• Vietnam water use efficiency for drought affected provinces
• Vietnam water utility improvement program
• Australia-Thailand water co-operation
• China water stewardship program
• Cambodia irrigation infrastructure program
• Laos dam safety program
• Mekong River fish monitoring program
• Indonesia water stewardship program
• Indonesia water utility improvement program
• India river basin planning program
• India national data centre establishment
• India Young Water Professionals program
• India village level managed aquifer recharge groundwater program
• Nepal water policy implementation
• Pacific Water and Wastewater Association governance and institutional strengthening
• Pacific Young Water Professionals program
• Pacific SPC water collaboration
• ICIMOD collaboration on the great basins of the Himalayas
• UN-FAO on next generation irrigation for Asia

Consulting experience

• Review of the Alluvium International Strategic Plan (2020-2025)
• Malaysia MegaScience MasterPlan and RoadMap to 2050
• New Zealand Business Strategy to Capitalise on the Indirect Impacts of Climate Change
• Comparative analysis of river assessment methods in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Evaluation of the Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee
• Evaluation of the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative
• Australia-wide assessment of water recycling
• National Multiple Land Use Framework
• Benefit Cost Analysis of integrating the Border Rivers Commission with Murray-Darling Basin Authority
• Strategic review of water resource plan reporting requirements for Queensland
• Strategic Review of Joint Programs in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Policy analysis to implement Victoria’s White Paper Securing our Natural Future
• Study into the implications of increasing the supply of non-potable water through recycling and re-use in the ACT
• Framework for future needs for Australia data management and product development
• Review of climate change impacts on ecohydrology and plant physiology
• Use of best available science in water planning and policy
• Roadmap for Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration measurement
• Climate risks for ecosystems, water quality, people, communities and industries in the Murray-Darling Basin
• MDBA Basin Plan Monitoring & Evaluation Program – assessment and costing
• Review and evaluation of the NRM (NT) Board
• Scoping and delivery of a mechanism for marine assets framework delivery to NRCAs
• Strengthening basin communities – a future with less water
•  Impacts of climate change on NRM in the Murray-Darling Basin – a synthesis
• Coordination of academic science reviews of climate change in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Climate scenarios for the Mallee CMA (Mallee CMA)
• Assessment of the ecological assets of Northern Australia
• Best practice environmental water management
• Risks to shared water resources program roll-out in Murray-Darling Basin
• Groundwater Science Plan for the Lower Burdekin Region
• Strategic planning for the water policy directorate MDBA
• Climate Change and Variability Research and Investment Strategy MDBA
• New water entitlement products for Australia
• Strengthening environmental water governance in Australia
• R&D Strategy 2009-2014 Goulburn-Murray Water
• Irrigation drainage future scenarios Victoria
• Strategic overview of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Australia