Professor Robyn Watts has been teaching in the fields of freshwater ecology, river hydrology and geomorphology, and the management and restoration of aquatic ecosystems for over 25 years. She has supervised 20 PhD and 15 Honours students in the field of river ecology and river restoration.

Professor Robyn Watts has undertaking research on the ecology, management and restoration of aquatic ecosystems for over 25 years. She has extensive experience in flow-ecology relationships, environmental flows, and adaptive river management. She has been Project Leader of several large interdisciplinary projects (total grant funding more than $13M) examining ecosystem responses to environmental watering actions in the Mid-Murray River system in the southern Murray-Darling Basin.

Through collaborations with ecologists, hydrologists, environmental chemists, social scientists, natural resource managers, First Nations peoples, and the community, Prof Watts has contributed to improved adaptive water management and river health in the Murray-Darling Basin. Professor Watts is recognised nationally and internationally as an expert in environmental flows and has been an Invited speaker at conferences and invited author in special journal issues focussing on adaptive river management and environmental flows.

Robyn has co-authored over 150 publications (including journal papers, book chapters and commissioned peer-reviewed Technical Reports). Along with colleagues she was a recipient of the 2015 Charles Sturt University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Team Research Excellence.