Postgraduate researchers

Postgraduate Researchers

updated 15th July 2008

Current FFI CRC Postgraduates

First name	Surname	University	Topic area
Nadia	Bazihizina	UWA	Ecophysiological studies of salt land pastures
Richard	Bennett	UWA	Adaptation and evaluation of Australian Cullen species for use as perennial pasture legumes in Western Australia
David	Brautigan	UA	Phytotoxicity of Aluminium in Alkaline soils
John	Broster	CSU	Shelter Belts/Lamb Survival rates
Davide	Cammarano	UM	Integrating remote sensing and spatial crop modeling for wheat nitrogen management in a rain-fed environment.
Ian	Cole	CSU	Managing native pastures to promote perennial native grasses and control annual weeds
Bronwyn	Crowe	UWA	The design of biodiversity conservation contracts under uncertainty.
Lauren	Forrest	CSU	Educational technology development, and its' role in extension and adoption
Kevin	Foster	UWA	Mechanisms of drought tolerance of Bituminaria Bituminosa var albomarginata and crassiuscula
Matthew	Gardner	CSU	Best practice management of Chicory in an Australian context
Catherine	Gulliver	CSU	Large scale field trials on the effect of short term lupin supplementation as well as summer active perennials on ovulation rates in ewes
Felicity	Gummer	CSU	Relationship between earliness and vigour across a range of cereal species
Serenity	Hill	UM	Landholder adaptation to climate and other complex change and what this means for the resilience of the food system: Case studies in perceived 'resilient' and 'vulnerable' landscapes
Tim	Hutchings	CSU	Management of risk on Australian farms
Nicole	Hyde	CSU	Above and below ground dynamics of perennial wheat, and their subsequent impact on the environment.
Muhammad	Javid	UM	Physiological and genetic mechanisms of salt and boron tolerance in brassica juncea
Sukirat	Kaur	UA	Genetics and physiology of bud dormancy in grasses
Frances	Leng	UWA	Are reptiles good indicators of the biodiversity benefits of perennial farming systems?
Emily	Mendham	CSU	The rural rebound and changes in rural property ownership: Trends, challenges and opportunities for natural resource management.
Dion	Nicol	UWA	Drought tolerance and water use of C. cinereum and C. graveolens
Susan	Orgill	CSU	Investigations into the role of perennial pastures in building soil carbon (C) in phase farming systems
Padmaja	Ramankutty	UWA	Model selection in complex statistical regression
Sarah	Rich	UWA	Aquatic adventitious roots - functioning and significance for plant survival during flooding
Penny	Roberts Craig	UA	Evaluation of intercropping in the Southern Region of South Australia
Eloise	Seymour	CSU	Asset-based approaches for regional NRM investment: The role for scientific and community-based valuation
David	Waters	CSU	Investigation of the use of Biochar to enhance soil physical and chemical properties under dry land cropping
Joseph	Ziegler	UWA	Mobile Sensor Networks

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Current Salinity CRC Postgraduates

First name	Surname	University	Topic area
Simon	Abbot	Curtin	Application of geophysical technologies for 3D visualization of palaeochannels and use of this information for management of dryland salinity in Western Australia
Kim	Brooksbank	UWA	Quantifying patterns of water use in oil mallees.
Helena	Clayton	UWA	Social dimensions of market-based instruments: Implications for NRM
Eleftheria	Dalmaris	UWA	Ecophysiological and genetic variation amongst provenances of Eucalyptus Wandoo
Gillian	Earl	CSU	Saving biodiversity in saline landscapes: Learning from remnant protection programs
Jim	Franklin-McEvoy	UA	Improving sheep production from saltbush
Melissa	Fraser	UA	Root exploration in soils with sub-soil constraints
Thomas	Giles	UA	Increased water usage with a short term perennial legume grown in a relay crop system in areas prone to waterlogging.
Tennille	Graham	UWA	Economic instruments and market-based policy mechanisms for salinity management in Western Australia
Saide	Gray	CSU	Theme: Towards sustainability in agriculture and science: Social processes of change in scientific and lay interpretations of dryland salinity.
Sallyann	Harvey	UWA	Economic incentives in managing dryland salinity: An analysis of contract design
Wesley	Hibbitt	UWA	Efficacy of PFT compared to alternative methods of recharge control
Matthew	Humphrey	CSU	The impacts of Dryland salinity on the composition of ground dwelling invertebrates.
Laurence	Jassogne	UWA	Linking roots to soil structure and chemistry
Lori	Kroiss	UWA	Management of weed risk in perennial landuse systems
David	Mitchell	UA	Increasing spatial resolution of soil maps using geophysics and GIS
Patrick	Mitchell	UWA	‘Characterising hydraulic functional types in species-rich communities of the central wheatbelt, Western Australia.’
Nikki	Mouat	UWA	Investigation of Toolibin catchment, including application of Beverly model
Keely	Ough	Deakin	Impacts of increased salinity on the flora of temporary freshwater wetlands
Patricia	Please	CSU	Dryland salinity on the couch - Changing selves and changing relationships in a changing landscape
Richard	Reeve	UWA	The economics of surface water management in rural Western Australian towns
Graeme	Sandral	UWA	Ecology of perennial Lotus species growing in acid and waterlogged conditions associated with significant water recharge
Alison	Skinner	CSU	Identifying how grassland states influence tree regeneration processes
David	Summers	UA	Development of high spatial and spectral resolution tools for catchment scale land evaluation
Jingbo	Sun	UWA	A framework for building autonomic environmental sensor networks
Sharon	Tay	UWA	Gene expression and the regulation of salt tolerance in sheep.
Kosta	Voltchanskii	UWA	Adaptation of Melaleuca spp. to waterlogging and salinity: Morphological and physiological aspects
Robyn	Whipp	CSU	Historical vegetation change in the Pilliga State Forests of Northern NSW
Bree	Wilson	CSU	Interractions with plant symbionts such as salt tolerant Mycorrhizae in order to combat dryland salinity
Nathan	Wong	La Trobe	Management impacts on landscape level processes in native grasslands

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CRC Alumni

Lindsay	Bell	UWA	Adaptation of Dorycnium hirsutum (hairy canary clover), D. rectum and D. pentaphyllum (prostrate canary clover) in south-western Australia: Drought tolerance and water use factors.
Kirsty	Beckett	Curtin	Airborne geophysical data applied to groundwater modeling.
Jonelle	Black	UWA	Assessing and predicting community responses to government policy intervention and investment in natural resource management
Kathleen	Broderick	UWA	Indicators of ecosystem health in a WA salinity recovery catchment
Scott	Carver	UWA	The effect of dryland salinity on biodiversity and trophic processes that regulate Ross River virus disease ecology
Megan	Chadwick	UWA	Does feeding saltbush to pregnant ewes alter the physiology of their offspring?
Serina	Digby	UA	Physiological effects of high dietary salt on pregnant ewes.
Rebecca	Doble	Flinders	Spatial distribution of salt accumulation and release in a floodplain environment, and the effects on vegetation health
Perry	Dolling	UWA	Simulating lucerne growth and water use using computer modelling
Graeme	Doole	UWA	Profitability and sustainability implications of phase farming systems in Western Australia: an investigation of crop sequences utilising bioeconomic modelling
Charlotte	Duke	MU	Information Economics and Environmental Policy - Experimental Economics
Anna	Dutkiewicz	UA	Evaluation of hyperspectral imagery for detecting and mapping of symptoms of dryland salinity
Claire	Farrell	UWA	Ecological dynamics of leaf-litter driven recruitment on agricultural salt-land
Alaina	Garthwaite	UWA	Salt and Waterlogging Tolerance in the genus Hordeum
Nicholas	George	UWA	An investigation of Acacia Saligna to facilitate its' development as a crop for dryland salinity management
Juan de Dios	Guerrero-Rodriguez	UA	Effect of salinity stress on the growth and nutritive value of perennial legumes.
Richard	Hayes	CSU	The suitability of different perennial pasture species to dry the soil profile in 3 environments in southern NSW.
Jeffrey	Hoffmann	CSU	Investigating the development and water extraction function of the deep roots of lucerne
Justin	Hughes	CSU	Disaggregating surface and subsurface runoff events and their impact on stream hydrology
Peter	Hutton	UWA	Investigation of native plants for their antimicrobial properties in ruminant livestock production.
Andrew	Jardine	UWA	The impact of dryland salinity on mosquito abundance and distribution in Western Australia: An ecosystem health perspective.
Sommer	Jenkins	UWA	Effects of salinity and waterlogging interactions on perennial pasture grasses
Michele	John	UWA	The economics of dryland salinity management in low rainfall environments. Using a whole farm bio-economic model (MUDAS) to review the trade-off between water use and profitability
Yuki	Kimura	UA	Use of rainfall radar for determining localised rainfall patterns in relation to topography
Wendy	March	CSU	The potential use of mistletoe in the vegetation management of saline environments
Dianne	Mayberry	UWA	Getting into the guts of a salty problem. Does the high level of salt in saltbush reduce the benefits that sheep would otherwise gain from microbial fermentation of the forage?
Melissa	Millar	UA	Genetic risk to native vegetation from Agroforestry
Michael	O'Connell	UNE	Economic analysis of options for the productive use of salinised land and water resources in the Lower Great Southern and Western South Coast regions of Western Australia.
Kelly	Pearce	Murdoch	Carcass and eating quality of animals on saltland pastures
Gabriella	Pracilio	UWA	Assessing the value of soil landscape information from gamma radiometric, ground electromagnetic and topographic data, for understanding the performance and potential returns from plant based applications
Marcus	Sounness	UWA	Production, economics and recharge of alternative grazing systems for annual and perennial pastures.
Alison	Southwell	CSU	Density and composition effects within native perennial pastures and their influence on deep soil water use'
Peter	Speldewinde	UWA	Corellations between ecosystem and human health
Natasha	Teakle	UWA	Physiological and molecular basis of salt tolerance of Lotus Glaber, a new perennial pasture legume for Australian farming systems.
Mohamad	Tiong	UWA	Variation in Nutritive Value in River Saltbush
Angela	Wardell-Johnson	Murdoch	Creeks, Convention and Capital: The Social relationships of natural resource management in rural landscapes
Cathy	Waters	CSU	Developing seed provenance zones for Australian native grasses

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