BROOK SOLUTIONS

Experience

Projects & experience

This work was delivered by Iuma Bani before and during the founding of Brook Solutions.

Team standing at the fenced Cape Quiros Automatic Weather Station, with a V-CAP II project sign

V-CAP II: river gauges and early warning

Department of Climate Change, Vanuatu

Helped procure and calibrate real-time river gauges for V-CAP II sites.

Team members crouched by a river setting up monitoring equipment

Van-KIRAP: hydrology data and capacity building

VMGD / Public Works Department

Supported river measurements, LiDAR data collection and hydrological hazard analysis, and gave GIS training to PWD engineers.

Iuma Bani presenting research from the University of Tsukuba on sand mining and flooding along the La Colle River, Port Vila

Sand mining and river flooding, La Colle River

Water Department / University of Tsukuba collaboration

Scientific case study that combined historical and field data to recommend sustainable management and flood mitigation.

Set of seven flood susceptibility factor maps: rainfall, elevation, slope, distance to rivers, drainage density, topographic wetness index and land use/land cover

Flood susceptibility mapping

Teouma Valley, Efate

Figure comparing shoreline analysis in ArcGIS Pro and the Digital Shoreline Analysis System, showing a baseline, historical shorelines and transect lines

Coastal erosion rate assessment

Shark Bay, Efate

Map of the study area at Augusta showing shoreline types (estuarine, mixed, sandy, rocky) and study zones: Flinders Caravan Park, East Augusta, River Mouth, The Spit and Molloy Island

Coastal Hazard Risk Management & Adaptation Planning (CHRMAP)

Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, Western Australia

Aquatic macroinvertebrate larvae photographed under magnification

River rehabilitation plan

Peel Main Drain, Serpentine River, Western Australia

Field team in bushland beside a survey plot marked with pink ribbon

Plant biodiversity co-management plan

Mount Melville, Albany, Western Australia

Layout diagram of a proposed recirculating aquaculture facility at 1 Underwood Avenue, Shenton Park, showing tank systems, pump house and a pump specification table

Aquaculture EIA and RAS design

NDVI 2025 vegetation map of an urban campus beside a river, classed as sparse, moderate and dense vegetation, derived from Landsat 8 imagery via Google Earth Engine and processed in QGIS; map produced by Iuma Bani, September 2025

Urban heat island assessment

UWA Crawley Campus

Team members in a clear river installing a gauge on a rock

Early warning and DRR research

Indo-Pacific Studies Centre

Contributed to regional research and a publication on early warning systems and disaster risk reduction.