- Application and advancement of water productivity and footprinting science and methods to assess and improve water use and its management;
- Advances in irrigation and drainage in agricultural systems;
- Identifying processes and pathways capable of attenuating environmentally sensitive elements such as nitrate moving from agricultural soils to surface and groundwater bodies;
- Monitoring and modelling of water and solute transport through unsaturated and saturated zones; and
- Integration of hydrological modelling with field observations, geographical and remote sensing information for field- to catchment-scale analysis of land and water management practices.