Senior Research Engineer
Academic and professional history:
- 1994- present – Senior Research Engineer, Lincoln Environmental Research, Lincoln Ventures Ltd
- 1990-1993 – Senior Research Engineer
- 1987 1990 - General Manager
- 1985-1987 - Research Section Leader
- 1974-1985 – Research Officer/Senior Research Officer, New Zealand Agricultural Engineering Institute
- 1972-1974 - Senior Engineer, ENEX/Government of Malaysia
- 1970-1972 – Research Associate, Engineering Research Center, Colorado State University
Member of:
- Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand
- Royal Society of New Zealand
- New Zealand Hydrological Society
- Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia
Research subjects:
-Sustainable land and water use
- Groundwater quality
- Sub-surface contaminant transformations and flows
- Water resource management
Recent publications
Bidwell, VJ, Stenger, R and Barkle, GF (2008). Dynamic analysis of groundwater discharge and partial-area contribution to Pukemanga Stream, New Zealand. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 12, 975-987
Bidwell, V. J. and Good J.M. (2007) Development of the AquiferSim Model of Cumulative Effect on Groundwater of Nitrate Discharge from Heterogeneous Land Use over Large Regions. In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 1617-1622. ISBN : 978-0-9758400-4-7.
Bidwell, V.J. (2005): Realistic forecasting of groundwater level, based on the eigenstructure of aquifer dynamics. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 69:12-20.
Bidwell, V.J. (2005): Groundwater recharge interface and nitrate discharge: Central Canterbury, New Zealand. In Acworth, R.I.; Macky, G. and Merrick N.P. (eds.) Proceedings of the NZHS-IAH-NZSSS 2005 Conference "Where Waters Meet", Auckland, 28 November - 2 December 2005, Paper I17. ISBN 0 473 10627 2.
Bidwell, V.J.; Lilburne, L. and Good, J.M. (2005): Strategy for developing GIS-based tools for management of the effects on groundwater of nitrate leaching from agricultural land use. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds) MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005. pp. 1354 1360. ISBN 0-9758400-2-9.
Bidwell, V.J. (2003): Groundwater Management Tools: Analytical Procedure and Case Studies. MAF Technical Paper No: 2003/6.
Bidwell, V.J. and Morgan, M.J. (2002): The eigenvalue approach to groundwater modelling for resource evaluation at regional scale. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling, Prague, 17-20 June 2002:92-95.
Bidwell, V.J. (2001): An operational model for managing the effect of land treatment of wastewater on groundwater quality. Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Canberra, 10-13 December 2001:511-515.
Bidwell, V.J. and Thorpe, H.R. (2001): Kinematic cell model of macropore flow from intermittent irrigation pulses. Australian Journal of Soil Research 39(5):837-849.
Bidwell, V.J. (2000): Decision support for protecting groundwater from land treatment of wastewater. Environmentrics 11:553-562
Bidwell, V.J. (2000): A formula for predicting advection-dispersion in the vadose zone at uneven drainage internals. Water Resources Research 36:3077-3080.
Bidwell, V.J. (1999): State-space mixing cell model of unsteady solute transport in unsaturated soil. Environmental Modelling and Software 14(2-3):161-169.
Carey, P.L.; Bidwell, V.J.; McLaren, R.G. (2002): Chromium(VI) leaching from large undisturbed soil lysimeters following application of a simulated copper-chromium-arsenic (CCA) timber preservative. Australian Journal of Soil Research 40:351-365.
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