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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-05-07 human Thomas Spurling and Gavan McCarthy updated 2026-04-28 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007680b.htm person Allison Graham Bruce FTSE AACR2 21 May 1943 2 September 2025 Place of Birth Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Hydrologist (groundwater) Graham Allison is internationally recognised for his contributions to groundwater hydrology, landscape and river salinisation, arid zone hydrology and isotope hydrology. He has published more than 100 research papers, book chapters and conference papers. In the mid-1980s he initiated studies on the possible progress of salinisation of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB). This work had a major impact of the management of the MDB. He was Chief of the CSIRO Division of Water Resources from 1988 to 1997. After CSIRO he has been a consultant to Land and Water Australia. He has been a Board member of the SA Water Corporation and Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Board.

Key publications:
C J Barnes and G B Allison, Tracing of water movement in the unsaturated zone using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen, Journal of Hydrology, 1988, 100, 143-176

G B Allison, G W Gee and S W Tyler, Vadose-zone techniques for estimating groundwater recharge in arid and semiarid regions, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 1994, 58, 6-14

G B Allison and M W Hughes, The use of natural tracers as indicators of soil-water movement in a temperate semi-arid region, Journal of Hydrology, 1983, 60, 157-173

1964 1964 Award - David Murray Scholarship 1964 1964 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc (Hons 1)) in Chemistry, University of Adelaide 1968 1968 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Adelaide 1968 1968 Award - CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship 1969 1969 Career position - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oxford University 1970 1988 Career position - Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Soils 1977 1977 Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada 1977 1977 Award - Nuffield Foundation, Royal Society Bursary 1984 1984 Award - French Scientific Fellowship 1984 1984 Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Paris South, France 1985 1985 Award - Weizmann Institute Grant 1988 1988 Career position - Visiting Professor, Flinders University 1988 1997 Career position - Chief, CSIRO Division of Water Resources 1989 1989 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) 1989 1991 Career position - Member, Australian Water Research Advisory Council (AWRAC) 1990 1995 Career position - Member of AWRAC Standing Committee 1997 1997 Career position - Founded Allison Partners Pty Ltd 2002 2002 Award - Peter Hughes Award, Australian Water and Wastewater Association 2002 2012 Career position - Board member, South Australian Water Corporation CSIRO Division of Water Resources, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1988 - 1997)

Chief 1988 - 1997

 CSIR/O Division of Soils, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1929 - 1997)

Research scientist 1970 - 1988

 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (1987 - )

Elected Fellow 1989

 'Allison, Graham Bruce', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Allison, Graham Bruce Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Fellows of the Academy Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Fellows of the Academy 2024