Christine is an experienced engineer working across waterway, estuary, and coastal management. She started her journey with a Civil Engineering degree in NZ, followed by PhD Investigating sediment transport in rivers. This was followed by a post-doc at TU Delft in the Netherlands. From here Christine then spent 8 years working in the UK In the research and consulting roles, before moving to Victoria in 2008. Over the last 16 years she has been fortunate to work on a wide range of water related projects in Victoria and across Australia including catchment and coastal flood modelling, river and estuary environmental flows, and coastal hazard assessments.
She has maintained a keen interest in coastal and estuarine processes and the evolving challenges posed by climate change. Christine contributed to the Victorian Coastal Hazard Guidelines released for Victoria’s Resilient Coast Adapting to 2100+ program and has developed the Victorian Guidelines for Modelling the Interaction of Catchment and Coastal Flooding.