Professor Okke Batelaan

Strategic Professorship

College of Science and Engineering

place Information Science & Technology
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Okke Batelaan is Strategic Professor in Hydrogeology at Flinders University since 2012. He was Dean of the School of the Environment at Flinders from 2015-2017. Formerly he was for more than 20 years faculty member at the Free University Brussels and the KU Leuven, Belgium. Professor Batelaan has a broad experience in teaching integrated water resources management, groundwater hydrology, groundwater modelling, GIS and remote sensing for hydrological applications. He (co-)supervised to successful completion more than 200 students for their Master or PhD thesis. He has extensive research experience and a publication record in shallow groundwater hydrology and modeling, recharge-discharge estimation and modeling, urban hydrology and distributed modelling, ecohydrology and impacts of landuse and climate change on groundwater systems. He coordinated and participated in a large number of projects in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and Australia. He is a board member of the Goyder Institute for Water Research, editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies and Chair of the Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Hydrology.

Qualifications

PhD in Engineering (Free University Brussels); MSc Hydrogeology (Free University Amsterdam)

Honours, awards and grants
  • Honorable medal of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (2010)
  • (Co-)Promotor of more than 100 research and educational national and international projects
  • Research leader for Goyder Institute for Water Research funded project: 'Assessment of Adelaide Plains Groundwater Resources'. See interview: ABC TV - Groundwater study with Professor Okke Batelaan
Key responsibilities

One Basin CRC Lead for Education and Training

Chair of Editors-in-Chief Journal of Hydrology

Board member Goyder Institute for Water Research

Teaching interests

I am coordinator of the Master of Science Water Resources Management, see for details: Water Resources Management postgraduate program

Topic coordinator
ENVS9722 Integrated Water Management
EASC9700 NCGRT Australian Groundwater School
EASC8742 Groundwater Modelling
Topic lecturer
EASC8742 Groundwater Modelling
EASC9700 NCGRT Australian Groundwater School
ENVS9722 Integrated water management
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Groundwater
Hydrology
Water resources
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Media expertise
  • Groundwater
  • Hydrology
  • Water resources
Further information

See for complete list of publications: publicationslist.org/okke.batelaan