Rate My Professor Angus Webb

Professor Angus Webb is a Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, at the University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD in marine ecology, BSc (Hons), and BA. Having originally focused on marine systems, he transitioned to freshwater ecology, establishing himself as a leading quantitative ecologist in environmental hydrology and water resources. His research centers on addressing large-scale environmental challenges in freshwater systems through innovative monitoring, evaluation, and adaptive management techniques, particularly for environmental flows. With more than 15 years of expertise, he leads the monitoring, evaluation, and adaptive management program for environmental water deliveries in the Goulburn River under the Australian government’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan since 2014. He also directs the Mallee Regional Innovation Centre and serves as Discipline Leader in Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources.

Webb has significantly influenced the field through his extensive publications, totaling 189 peer-reviewed works, including three books, 105 journal papers, ten book chapters, 38 conference proceedings papers, and 33 technical reports. Notable among these is his editorship of Water for the Environment (Elsevier, 2017), which unites 59 authors worldwide to cover the complete environmental water management cycle. He co-authored Environmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications (Wiley, 2019) and edited special issues on the science and adaptive management of environmental flows in Environmental Management (2018) and Freshwater Biology (2018). His scholarly impact is reflected in a Google Scholar h-index of 44 and i10-index of 115. Webb has served on the Board of Directors of the international Society for Freshwater Science and was elected Vice-President of the Australian Freshwater Science Society, underscoring his leadership in freshwater science.