Lauchy Bye (Uni Sunshine Coast) researched the use of new technology to support flood and hydraulic modelling. His thesis focussed on the lack of data to properly understand and calibrate models, which led to his design of new tools for data collection. He developed two prototypes; a GPS enabled drifter that can be placed in a river during a flood event to record velocity and track position, and an accellerometer + camera + drifter that can be put into a stormwater system to trace the network and find new inflows/junctions (through wobbles recorded by the accellerometer).
