Aboriginal People and Groundwater
Channel: GeoscienceAustralia
Date: 2021-06-16

Presented by: Assoc. Professor Bradley Moggridge

In 2005 I completed a Master’s thesis unpublished at UTS’s then National Centre for Groundwater Management (NCGM), titled: Aboriginal People and Groundwater, which looked at the relationship in Australia between Aboriginal people and groundwater reviewing: The Dreaming, art and oral history and observations (missionaries, surveyors, explorers etc.) and up to modern day (being 2005). Move forward to early in 2020, when I was encouraged to publish my thesis, as “Moggridge. 2020. Aboriginal People and Groundwater” within “Springs of the Great Artesian Basin” (Arthington, et al., Editors, 2020), a Special Issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. This presentation will explore the thesis and paper.

Bradley Moggridge is a proud Murri from the Kamilaroi Nation with over 20 years' experience in Aboriginal engagement, water and environmental science, having worked in applied research, policy development, legislative reviews and project management. Bradley is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science (hydrogeology and environmental science) and part-time PhD candidate at University of Canberra along with being the Indigenous Liaison Officer for the Threatened Species Recovery Hub under NESP. He was named in 2019 CSIRO Indigenous STEM Career Professional, ACT Tall Poppy Award for Science, ACT NAIDOC Scholar of the Year and received the inaugural Academy of Science 2019 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Travel Award, also a Fellow of the Peter Cullen Trust and International Water Centre leadership courses.