Ross Ackland
Research Manager
Contact
Building 108, North Road, ANU Campus
Tel: +61 2 6216 7044
Mob: +61 419 409 129
Fax: +61 2 6216 7111
Email
Themes
- IWIS
Projects
- IWIS Theme Leader
Science Area
- Web Services
Biography
Mr Ross Ackland leads the Integrated Water Information Systems (IWIS) Theme of the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, a national research program addressing one of Australia's most pressing natural resource issues - sustainable management of our water resources. Mr Ackland leads a team of over 50 research scientists and technical staff developing a new generation of water information infrastructure to provide timely and accurate national water accounts at greatly reduced cost, providing automated and efficient ways of routinely monitoring, analysing and reporting on Australia’s water resources. This research is done in collaboration with the Bureau of Meteorology through a water information research and development alliance (WIRADA).
Mr Ackland has worked for the last twenty years in research and development environments for both small and large organisations in the areas of real-time systems, communications, networking, and more recently web based spatial information systems. Ross' expertise is primarily in the management of IT based research projects with a strong software engineering background. He has key skills in building and leading research teams that can work in areas of newly emerging technologies, particularly in the areas of web based information systems. He also involved the Australian office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that develops the standards for the Web.
Academic Qualifications
| 1984 | MEngSc University of New South Wales. |
| 1978 | BE (Elec) University of New South Wales. |
Recent Professional Experience
| June | 2006- Research Manager IWIS Theme |
| 2003-2006 | Research Manager CSIRO ICT Centre |
| 2001-2003 | Science & Industry Manager CSIRO Mathematics & Information Sciences (CMIS) |
| 1999-2003 | Group Leader Spatial Information Systems, CMIS |
| 1997-1999 | Project Leader CMIS |
| 1994-1997 | Software Engineer Division of Information Technology |
Achievements & Awards
| 1996 | CSIRO Medal for research achievement. Team member: Spatial Information Systems Research. |
Top 10 Publications
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| Ackland, R., Taylor, K., Lefort, L., Cameron, M., Rahman, J.: Semantic Service Integration for Water Resource Management. International Semantic Web Conference 2005, LNCS Conference Proceedings ISWC 2005, pp. 816 – 828 |
| Taylor, K., Ackland, R., Walker, G. and Jackson, D. (1997). WWW delivery of spatio-temporal modelling results for catchment management: A case study. Proceedings of MODSIM 97, International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Spatial and Temporal Dynami |
| Abel, D. J., Taylor, K., Ackland, R., and Hungerford, S. (1998). An exploration of GIS architectures for Internet environments. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 22(1):7-23. |
| Taylor, K., Ackland, R., Walker, G., and Jackson, D. (1997). WWW delivery of spatio-temporal modelling results for catchment management: A case study. In A. D. McDonald and M. McAleer (eds), Proceedings of MODSIM 97, International Congress on Modelling an |
| Abel, D.J, Yap, S.K, Walker, G, Cameron, M.A. and Ackland, R.G. (1992). Support in Spatial Information Systems for Unstructured Problem-Solving. Proceedings: 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 3-7 August |
| Abel, D.J., Yap, S.K., Ackland, R., Cameron, M.A., Smith, D.F. and Walker, G. (1992). Environmental decision support system project: an exploration of alternative architectures for geographical information systems. International Journal of Geographical In |