Songyan Yu MIEAust

Degrees

PhD, Hydro-ecology (2019)
Thesis title:Spatio-temporal dynamics and hydro-ecology of intermittent streams in eastern Australia
Australian Rivers Institute
Griffith University
Brisbane, Australia

MEng, Hydrology and Water Resources (2015)
Colleage of Water Sciences
Beijing Normal University
Beijing, China

BEng, Agriculture Water Conservancy Engineering (2012)
School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering
Wuhan University
Wuhan, Hubei, China

Publications

• Yu S., Shanafield M., Kennard M. (2024). Assessing the influence of zero-flow threshold choice for characterising intermittent stream hydrology. Hydrological Processes.
• Walters A., Clancy N., Archdeacon T., Yu S., Rogosch J., Rieger E. (2024). Refuge identification as a climate adaptation strategy to promote fish persistence during drought. Fish and Fisheries
• Price A., (including Yu S.). (2024). Biogeochemical and community ecology responses to the wetting of non-perennial streams. Nature Water.
• Shanafield M., (including Yu S.). (2024). Australian non-perennial rivers: Global lessons and research opportunities. Journal of Hydrology.
• Seybold E., (including Yu S.). (2023). How Low Can You Go? Widespread challenges in measuring low stream discharge and a path forward. Limnology and Oceanography Letters.
• Messager M., (including Yu S.). (2023). A metasystem approach to designing environmental flows. BioScience, biad067.
• Yu, S., Hamilton D. (2023). Future climate risks to water quality under low and variable levels in Australian water storages. Health Stream.
• Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Yu, S., Gao, Y., Dong, J., Zhang, J., Gao, X., Li, X., Li, J., Xiong, J. (2023). Two machine learning approaches for predicting cyanobacteria abundance in aquaculture ponds. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 258
• Yu, S., McBride, C., Frassl, M., Hipsey, M., Hamilton, D. (2022). dycdtools: an R package for autocalibration and output visualization of the DYRESM-CAEDYM lake ecosystem model. R Journal, 14(4).Package tutorial
• Datry T., Truchy A., Olden J., Busch M., Stubbington R., Dodds W., Zipper S., Yu, S., Messager M., Tonkin J., Kaiser K., Hammond J., Moody E., Burrows R., Sarrenmejane R., DelVecchia A., Form M., Little C., Walker R., Walters A. & Allen D.(2022). Causes, Responses, and Implications of Anthropogenic versus Natural Flow Intermittence in River Networks. BioScience, 73(1).
• Yu, S., Rose P., Bond N., Bunn S. & Kennard M. (2022). Prioritising surface water refuges for on-ground management to sustain freshwater biodiversity in intermittent stream networks. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 1-12.
• Yu, S., Burrows R., Shanafield M., & Kennard M. (2022). Water Level Recession Characteristics in Isolated Pools within Non-perennial Streams. Advances in Water Resources, 166, 104267.
• Yu, S., Sturm, K., Gibbes, B., Kennard, M., Veal, C., Middleton, D., Fisher, P., Rotherham, S., & Hamilton, D. (2022). Developing best practice guidelines for lake modelling to inform quantitative microbial risk assessment. Environmental Modelling and Software, 150, 105334
• Yu, S., Do, H. X., van Dijk, A. I. J. M., Bond, N. R., Lin, P. & Kennard, M. J. (2020). Evaluating a landscape-scale daily water balance model to support spatially continuous representation of flow variability throughout stream networks. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24, 5279–5295.
• Yu, S., Bond, N. R., Bunn, S. E., & Kennard, M. J. (2019). Development and application of predictive models for surface water extent to identify aquatic refuges in eastern Australia. Water Resources Research. 55, 9639-9655.
• Yu, S., Bond, N. R., Bunn, S. E., Xu, Z., & Kennard, M. J. (2018). Quantifying spatial and temporal patterns of flow intermittency using spatially contiguous runoff data. Journal of Hydrology, 559, 861-872.
• Yu, S., Xu, Z., Wu, W., & Zuo, D. (2016). Effect of land use types on stream water quality under seasonal variation and topographic characteristics in the Wei River basin, China. Ecological Indicators, 60, 202-212.
• Yu, S., Xu, Z., Liu, X., Dou, T., & Xu, C. (2015). Identifying and validating freshwater ecoregions in Jinan City, China. Journal of Hydrology, 528, 763-772.
• Wu, W., Xu, Z., Zhan, C., Yin, X., & Yu, S. (2015). A new framework to evaluate ecosystem health: a case study in the Wei River basin, China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 187(7), 1-15.