Experience
International Development
Nick has been responsible for numerous international development programs including:
- Australia-Mekong Water Facility
- Myanmar Ayeyarwady State of Basin Assessment
- Vietnam Water Efficiency in Irrigation for Drought Affected Provinces
- Vietnam Water Utility Improvement Program
- Pacific Water and Wastewater Association Institutional Strengthening
- India River Basin Planning
- India Managed Aquifer Recharge through Village Level Interventions
- India National Water Data System
- Nepal Water Policy
- Young Water Professionals Programs in the Pacific, Myanmar and India and IRF Emerging Water Professionals and International Women in Rivers programs
- International Riverprize and Twinning programs in Asia, Europe, North American and global
- Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Water Security Risk Index
- Next Generation Irrigated Agriculture for Asia
- Himalayan River Basin Governance and Management
- Pacific Hydrological Services and Capacity Development
Australian R&D Partnerships Program Development
- National River Health Program
- National Environmental Flows Management Initiative
- National Program for Irrigation Research & Development
- National Eutrophication Management Program
- National Groundwater R&D Program
- National Wetlands R&D Program
- National Native Vegetation R&D Program
- Impact of Pesticides on the Riverine Environment
- Future Sustainable Landscapes
- High Innovation NRM Research
- Bauxite Mining and its Rehabilitation
- Estuary Eutrophication Studies
- River and Land Salinisation and Restoration
- Forest Silviculture Impacts on Water Resources
Recent Presentations
- Schofield, N.J. (2021). Climate change and water security in the Asia-Pacific – local to regional scales. Keynote presentation, Water Security and Climate Change Conference (WSCC2021), Hanoi, Vietnam.
- Schofield, N.J. (2019). Managing water scarcity. Keynote presentation Second International Conference on Sustainable Water Management November 2019, Pune, India
- Schofield, N.J. (2019) From salinity to global water issues – a current perspective. Keynote presentation Murray-Darling Basin Salinity Forum, Mildura
- Schofield, N.J. (2019). Water Infrastructure Development in the Asia-Pacific. UNSW Research Workshop, 28-29 November 2019
- Schofield, N.J. (2019) Exporting Australia’s know-how to solve global water issues, United Nations Association Australia, Canberra
- Schofield, N.J. (2018). Climate Change and Water Management – an Australian Perspective. International Conference on Sustainable Water Management 10-11 December 2018, Chandigarh, India
- Schofield, N.J. (2018). Bridging WaSH and water resources management. Keynote presentation WASH Futures Conference, Brisbane
- Schofield, N.J. (2018). Environmental Futures. Keynote presentation Defence Environment Conference 2018
Consultancies
- 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