Professor Jenny Davis has made the offer to speed up action to improve the health of the upper estuary.

Professor Davis, who grew up at Trevallyn, also hopes that the offer will encourage other government departments and relevant organisations to provide similar support.

Launceston alderman Jeremy Ball will ask the council at its meeting on Monday to convene a meeting with a stakeholders so Professor Davis can present her theory on Tamar estuary management and a potential restoration project.

Professor Davis's area of expertise is freshwater ecology and she returns regularly to Launceston particularly.

Stakeholders for the meeting would include senior management from Hydro Tasmania, Parks and Wildlife, NRM North, University of Tasmania, Pitt&Sherry, Ben Lomond Water, Launceston Flood Authority, sailing and rowing clubs and tourism operators.

Alderman Ball wants senior representatives from various government departments and Bass Labor MHR Geoff Lyons to also be invited.

Professor Davis has had extensive experience working on research projects supporting the adaptive management of wetlands in Western Australia.

This included membership of a group run by local councils to address problems of poor water quality.

She leads a CSIRO university partnership project looking at ecological responses to altered flow regimes that will form the adaptive management of water resources in the Murray- Darling Basin.

And she chairs two federal government committees looking at water quality.

"Restoring aesthetic values and recreational amenity to the upper Tamar while supporting other major ecosystem services including the generation of hydro electricity, provision of drinking water, flood mitigation and waste transport is most likely to be achieved by a program of adaptive management," she said.