New South Wales

GISERA expanded its social and environmental research focus to NSW in 2015. Work was initially focused around the Macarthur and Narrabri regions of NSW.

Community wellbeing and attitudes to coal seam gas development in 2022, in Narrabri Shire, NSW

Monitoring changes in community wellbeing and local attitudes to coal seam gas (CSG) development in the Narrabri Shire, NSW, between 2017 and 2022

Namoi region landscape and trees NSW

Remote sensing and threatened species surveys in the Narrabri Gas Project region

Understanding risks of forest fragmentation from CSG activities for species and ecosystems in the Pilliga Forest, NSW

Volcanics in the Namopi region

Review of beneficial reuse and end-use options for brine from the Narrabri region

This project reviews options for the beneficial reuse and end-use of brine in the Narrabri Gas Project (NGP) region of New South Wales

CSIRO seismic survey Narrabri AgTEM equipment on 4WD

Understanding connectivity between coal seams and aquifers

Integrating geochemical modelling and airborne geophysical surveys to refine the understanding of connectivity between coal seams and overlying aquifers

Groundwater modelling and predictive analysis

Groundwater modelling and predictive analyses to inform the baseline assessment, monitoring and management of coal seam gas impacts to the Great Artesian Basin and alluvial aquifers in the Namoi subregion

DNA sequencing

Microbial degradation of chemicals used in coal seam gas activities

Understanding microbial communities and their ability to degrade prospective chemicals used in coal seam gas activities

Monitoring wellbeing and attitudes to CSG (pre-construction phase)

Research around community attitudes following the baseline survey (pre-construction phase) in Narrabri, NSW

Truck on highway, near Cowra, NSW, with Canola and wheat fields in the background.

Assessing and projecting gas effects on regional economic activity in NSW

Understanding the role of onshore gas across a range of socio-economic indicators

Assessment of faults as potential connectivity pathways

Understanding connectivity and pathways for groundwater systems

Scientist monitoring during hydraulic fracturing

Groundwater contamination risk assessment

Assessing the risk of the contamination of surface and ground waters

coal seam gas well

Decommissioning pathways for CSG projects

An integrated approach to the decommissioning of wells

Two girls and a dog in a grassy landscape

Potential human health effects of coal seam gas

A framework to study potential CSG health effects

Aerial photo of Narrabri, NSW

Improving the representation of the impact of CSG in groundwater models

Better models for assessing potential groundwater impacts from CSG

Santos worker at monitoring station

Spatial design of groundwater monitoring networks, Narrabri

Improved design of bore networks in the Narrabri Gas Project area, New South Wales

Narrabri streetscape

Economic and demographic trajectories of CSG regions in NSW

Analysing future variables in regions of CSG development and operations

Social research animation for Narrabri

Social baselines of the Narrabri region in relation to CSG development

Measuring community attitudes to CSG development in New South Wales

Regional methane emissions in NSW CSG basins

Quantifying methane emission sources in the Pilliga

Water and vegetation in Narrabri Gas Project area

Impacts of CSG depressurisation on the Great Artesian Basin flux

Understanding Great Artesian Basin (GAB) groundwater flow