Articles

1. E. Kavehei, M.E. Roberts, C. Cadier, M. Griffiths, S. Argent, D.P. Hamilton, J. Lu, M. Bayley, M.F. Adame,(2021) Nitrogen processing by treatment wetlands in a tropical catchment dominated by agricultural landuse, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112800.
   
2. Roberts M. E., Rawlinson, A.A. and Wang, Z. (2021) Ember risk modelling for improved wildfire risk management in the peri-urban fringes. Environmental Modelling & Software. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104956
   
3. Roberts M. E. (2020) MERGE: modelling erosion resistance for gully erosion – a process-based model of erosion from an idealised linear gully. Soil Research. https://doi.org/10.1071/SR20027
   
4. Roberts, M. E. (2019). The erosion of an ideal gully under steady state conditions (pp. 1–7). Presented at the 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 1 to 6 December. https://mssanz.org.au/modsim2019/G1/roberts.pdf

5. M. F. Adame, M. E. Roberts, D. P. Hamilton, C. E. Ndehedehe, V. Reis, J. Lu, M. Griffiths, G. Curwen and M. Ronan (2019). Tropical Coastal Wetlands Ameliorate Nitrogen Export During Floods. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 769–18. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00671

6. Melanie E. Roberts, Celia Kueh, Emma Greenbank, Daniel Clarke, Sibylle van Hove, David J.W. Simpson, Alan Williams, and James Williams. Modelling the mechanical action of a front loading washing machine. In Luke Fullard and A. J. Roberts, editors, Proceedings of the 2017 Mathematics and Statistics in Industry NZ Study Group, MINZ-2017, volume 59 of ANZIAM J., pages M30–M62, August 2019. http://journal.austms.org. au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/article/view/13473 [2019-08-16]
   
7. Melanie E. Roberts and Robin Ellis.  Effects of Temporal Variation in Sediment Reduction Following Improved Land Management Practices on End-of-System Delivery: a Modelling Investigation of a Grazed Catchment in Queensland, Australia. In WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, pages 9–20. WIT Press, Southampton UK, July 2019. doi: 10.2495/RBM190021
8. Mark C Quigley, Luke G Bennetts, Patricia Durance, Petra M Kuhnert, Mark D Lindsay, Keith G Pembleton, Melanie E Roberts, and Christopher J White. The provision and utility of earth science to decision-makers: synthesis and key findings. Environment Systems and Decisions, pages 1–19, July 2019.  doi: 10.1007/s10669-019-09737-z
   
9. Mark C Quigley, Luke G Bennetts, Patricia Durance, Petra M Kuhnert, Mark D Lindsay, Keith G Pembleton, Melanie E Roberts, and Christopher J White. The provision and utility of science and uncertainty to decision-makers: earth science case studies. pages 1–42, April 2019 doi: 10.1007/s10669-019-09728-0
   
10. Melanie E. Roberts, Jason J. Sharples, and Andrew A. Rawlinson. Incorporating ember attack in bushfire risk assessment: a case study of the Ginninderry region. In G. Syme, D. Hatton MacDonald, B. Fulton, and J. Piantadosi, editors, Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, pages 1145 – 1151. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2017. www.mssanz.org. au/modsim2017/H10/roberts.pdf
    
11. Tony Miller, Melanie E. Roberts, Brooke A. Swaffer, Graeme Hocking, Bill Whiten, and Robert McKibbin. Modelling microbial pollutant loads associated with surface water run-off in water supply catchments. In Proceedings of the 2016 Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group, MISG-2016, ANZIAM J., 2018. doi: 10.21914/anziamj.v58i0.12015
    
12. Ziyuan Wang, Melanie E. Roberts, and Laura Rusu. Dynamic personalised recommendations for reducing property risk, using mobile and cloud technologies. In Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Disaster Management Conference, pages 197 – 212, May 2016. https://anzdmc.com.au/bop/bop-pr16.pdf
    
13. Melanie E. Roberts, Mark McGuinness, Xing Ju Lee, and Bill Whiten. Modelling the probable maximum precipitation for large catchments. In Troy Farrell and A. J. Roberts, editors, Proceedings of the 2015 Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group, MISG-2015, volume 57 of ANZIAM J., pages M205–M236, October 2016. http://journal.austms.org.au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/article/view/10274. doi:10.21914/anziamj.v57i0.10274
    
14. M. E. Roberts and S. Vasudevan. Fine-grained multi-factor hail damage modelling. In Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), 2015, pages 517–524, Nov 2015. doi: 10.1109/TAAI.2015.7407101
    
15. Melanie E. Roberts and Andrew P. Bassom. Stability of a time-periodic flow incorporating a simple model for noise. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 79(6):1089 – 1106, 2014 doi: 10.1093/imamat/hxt007
    
16. Melanie E Roberts, M. G. Trefry, N. Fowkes, Andrew P. Bassom, and P. C. Abbott. Water-table response to tidal forcing at sloping beaches. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 69:291–311, 2011. doi: 10.1007/s10665-010-9407-7
    
17. G.C. Hocking, W.L. Sweatman, M.E. Roberts, and A.D. Fitt. Coating deformations in the continuous hot- dipped galvanizing process. In T. Marchant, M. Edwards, and G. Mercer, editors, Proceedings of the 2009 Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group, pages 75 – 108, 2009 https://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@inf/@math/documents/doc/uow067226.pdf
    
18. Melanie E. Roberts. Groundwater response to tidal forcing. In Geoffry N. Mercer and A. J. Roberts, editors, Proceedings of the 14th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference, CTAC-2008, volume 50 of ANZIAM J., pages C640–C653, December 2008. http://anziamj.austms.org.au/ojs/index. php/ANZIAMJ/article/view/1401 [December 24, 2008]. doi: 10.21914/anziamj.v50i0.1401

Other Publications

1. Melanie Roberts and Fernanda Adame. The role of wetlands in improving water quality and protecting coastal ecosystems. Catchment to Coast: Stories of science from the Australian Rivers Institute. 21 May 2020. https://catchmenttocoast.org/2020/05/21/the-role-of-wetlands-in-improving-water-quality-and-protecting-coastal-ecosystems/
2. Melanie Roberts. Timeframes – another key element for planning Great Barrier Reef recovery interventions. Catchment to Coast: Stories of science from the Australian Rivers Institute. 9 December 2019. https://catchmenttocoast.org/2019/12/09/timeframes-another-key-element-for-planning-great-barrier-reef-recovery-interventions/
   
3. Melanie E. Roberts. How emerging technologies can be applied in insurance risk mitigation. CoverNote, September 2017 https://issuu.com/benefitz/docs/iba171206_covernote_september_2017_
   
4. Mark Quigley, Adrian Ickowicz, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia, Ben Galton-Fenzi, Christopher J White, Gery Geenens, Keith Gerard Pembleton, Kirsty Kitto, Kyra Hamilton, Luke Bennetts, Madhura Killedar, Mark Lindsay, Melanie Roberts, Patricia Durance, and Petra Kuhnert. Listen up: a plan to help scientists get their research heard by decision-makers. The Conversation, 1 February 2017 https://theconversation.com/listen-up-a-plan-to-help-scientists-get-their-research-heard-by-decision-makers-71627
   
5. Professor Mark Colyvan, Associate Professor Mark Quigley, Dr Kirsty Kitto, Dr Luke Bennetts, Dr Patricia Durance, Dr Benjamin Galton-Fenzi, Dr Gery Geenens, Dr Kyra Hamilton, Dr Adrien Ickowicz, Dr Mad- hura Killedar, Dr Petra Kuhnert, Dr Mark Lindsay, Dr Keith Pembleton, Dr Melanie Roberts, Associate Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia, and Dr Christopher White. Group 4: Uncertainty, ignorance, and partial knowledge. In Recommendations from the 2016 Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank An Interdisciplinary Approach to Living in a Risky World, 2016 https://www.science.org.au/think-tanks/risky-world
   
6. Melanie Roberts, Andrew Rawlinson, and Ziyuan Wang. A model of ember risk for improved bushfire risk management in the peri-urban fringes. In Proceedings of the 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Melbourne, Australia. International Association of Wildland Fire, Missoula, Montana, USA, 2016
   
7. M. Roberts and T. Miller. Modelling pollutant density associated with surface water run-off. In Mathematics in Industry Study Group 2016 Industry Project Reports: Equation Free Summaries, 2016
   
8. M. Roberts and M. McGuinness. Modelling the probable maximum precipitation for large catchments. In Mathematics in Industry Study Group 2015 Industry Project Reports: Equation Free Summaries, 2015
   
9. IBM. Gold Coast, Australia Smarter Cities Challenge report. Technical report, International Business Machines, January 2014
   
10. IBM. Gold Coast, Australia Smarter Cities Challenge executive summary. Technical report, International Business Machines, 2013. https://www.smartercitieschallenge.org/cities/gold-coast-australia
    
11. C. Tu, D. Yuen, G.C. Hocking, W.L. Sweatman, and M.E. Roberts. Coating deformation in the jet stripping process. In Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group 2009 Industry Project Reports: Equation Free Summaries, pages 9 – 10, 2009. https://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@inf/@math/ documents/doc/uow059729.pdf
    
12. M. E. Roberts. GIMMC and IPSW 2008, report to australian mathematical sciences institute, 2008. Available online at http://maths.org.au/index.php/2012/103-events/education-events-2008/114-pims-camp-and- ipsw-workshop
    
13. R. Hickson and M.E. Roberts. Oil detection analogous heat equation problem. In Report on PIMS 2008 GIMMX and IPSW (2008), pages 17 – 25, 2008. Available online at http://www.pims.math.ca/files/ 08ipsw_final_report.pdf
    
14. E. van den Berg, D. Clark, M.E. Roberts, E. Doolittle, R. Hickson, N.F. Guzmán, and J.F. Vigueras. Plow, plow, plow the field with Accutrak. In Report on PIMS 2008 GIMMC and IPSW, 2008. Available online at http://www.pims.math.ca/files/08ipsw_final_report.pdf

Patents

1. J. R. Kozloski, C. Pickover, M. E. Roberts, and M. Vukovic. Cognitive contextualization of emergency management system communications, April 2018. International Business Machines
2. M. E. Roberts and A. Vishwanath. Identifying and mitigating risk associated with weather conditions, April 2018. International Business Machines
   
3. M. E. Roberts, R. I. Hickson, O. J. Smith, and M. Gambhir. Dynamically adjustable training simulation. Published April 2020. International Business Machines. (Patent pending)
   
4. T. M. Lynar, S. M. Moore, M. E. Roberts, J. M. Wagner, and S. Zhuk. Personalized particulate matter exposure management using fine-grained weather modeling and optimal control theory. Published January 2018. International Business Machines. (Patent pending)
   
5. T. M. Lynar, M. E. Roberts and O. J. Smith. Optimizing grain collection and transportation based on estimated moisture content. Published March 2017. International Business Machines. (Patent pending).