Hatton, Tom

Summary

Tom Hatton is an expert in water resource management. He has worked with the CSIRO for over 20 years on projects to do with salinity and tree water use and catchment management. He was notably involved in the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project (2007-2008). In 2004 Hatton was appointed Director of the CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship. His research into tree water use and allocation led to the development of the Greenspan sapflow meter, a tool which significantly improved the accuracy and ease with which tree water use was monitored. Hatton's work in this area helped to raise public awareness of the issue of salinisation. In 2009, Hatton became the Director of the CSIRO's Wealth From Oceans Flagship.

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Chronology

1981

Education - Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude), Range Management (Humboldt State University, California, USA)

1986

Education - PhD in Range Science with a thesis titled Redevelopment of Plant Communities on a Surface Coal Mine (Utah State University, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)

1997 - 2004

Career position - Officer-in-Charge of CSIRO Land and Water (WA) Laboratories

c. 2002 - c. 2004

Career position - Western Australian Co-ordinator of the Water for Healthy Country Flagship Program

c. 2002 - c. 2004

Career position - Deputy Chief of CSIRO's Land and Water Division

2004 - 2009

Career position - Director of the CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship

2009 -

Career position - Director of the CSIRO's Wealth From Oceans Flagship

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Published resources

Resources

• 'Hatton, T J (1958-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-548734. Details

Resource Sections

• Ward, C., 'Tom Hatton', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Hatton-Tom. Details