crc_alumni

CRC Alumni
last updated 20th December 2009

Together the former Salinity CRC and the FFI CRC have produced 49 successful research doctorates with another 16 expected to finalise thesis in the coming year. These graduates currently have a 100% success rate in achieving employment in industry or research related endeavours.

The following table list successfully completed doctorates together with project titles, and current employment.

	First name	Surname	Uni.	Topic	Employer
1	Kirsty	Beckett	CUT	Airborne geophysical data applied to groundwater modeling.	Rio Tinto
2	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.	CSIRO
3	Jonelle	Black	UWA	Assessing and predicting community responses to government policy intervention and investment in natural resource management	UWA
4	Kathleen	Broderick	UWA	Indicators of ecosystem health in a WA salinity recovery catchment	Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
5	Scott	Carver	UWA	The effect of dryland salinity on biodiversity and trophic processes that regulate Ross River virus disease ecology	University of Montana
6	Megan	Chadwick	UWA	Does feeding saltbush to pregnant ewes alter the physiology of their offspring?	CSIRO
7	Amy	Cheung	UNSW	Economic Analysis of an Environmental Challenge: Salinity, Uncertainty and Property	UNSW
8	Kathi	Davies	UWA	Ecology and growth of perennial Strawberry Clover (Trifolium fragiferum).	DAFWA
9	Serina	Digby	UA	Physiological effects of high dietary salt on pregnant ewes.	University of Auckland
10	Rebecca	Doble	Flinders	Spatial distribution of salt accumulation and release in a floodplain environment, and the effects on vegetation health	CSIRO
11	Perry	Dolling	UWA	Simulating lucerne growth and water use using computer modelling	DAFWA
12	Graeme	Doole	UWA	Profitability and sustainability implications of phase farming systems in Western Australia: an investigation of crop sequences utilising bioeconomic modelling	UWA
13	Charlotte	Duke	MU	Information Economics and Environmental Policy - Experimental Economics	DPI VIC
14	Anna	Dutkiewicz	UA	Evaluation of hyperspectral imagery for detecting and mapping of symptoms of dryland salinity	DWLBC
15	Claire	Farrell	UWA	Ecological dynamics of leaf-litter driven recruitment on agricultural salt-land	UWA
16	Jim	Franklin-McEvoy	UA	Improving sheep production from saltbush	recently submitted
17	Alaina	Garthwaite (now Smith)	UWA	Salt and Waterlogging Tolerance in the genus Hordeum	DAFWA
18	Nicholas	George	UWA	An investigation of Acacia Saligna to facilitate its' development as a crop for dryland salinity management	North Carolina State University
19	Tennille	Graham	UWA	Economic instruments and market-based policy mechanisms for salinity management in Western Australia	recently submitted
20	Juan de Dios	Guerrero-Rodriguez	UA	Effect of salinity stress on the growth and nutritive value of perennial legumes.	Postgraduate College Sagarpa, Mexico
21	Richard	Hayes	CSU	The suitability of different perennial pasture species to dry the soil profile in 3 environments in southern NSW.	DPI NSW
22	Jeffrey	Hoffmann	CSU	Investigating the development and water extraction function of the deep roots of lucerne	Broad acre farmer
23	Justin	Hughes	CSU	Disaggregating surface and subsurface runoff events and their impact on stream hydrology	NSW DPI
24	Peter	Hutton	UWA	Investigation of native plants for their antimicrobial properties in ruminant livestock production.	Massey University, NZ
25	Andrew	Jardine	UWA	The impact of dryland salinity on mosquito abundance and distribution in Western Australia: An ecosystem health perspective.	NCIRS - Westmead Childrens Hospital
26	Laurence	Jassogne	UWA	Linking roots to soil structure and chemistry	COST - Brussels, Belgium
27	Sommer	Jenkins	UWA	Effects of salinity and waterlogging interactions on perennial pasture grasses	UniMelb
28	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	Curtin
29	Yuki	Kimura	UA	Use of rainfall radar for determining localised rainfall patterns in relation to topography	DEH SA
30	Wendy	March	CSU	The potential use of mistletoe in the vegetation management of saline environments	University of Adelaide
31	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?	AusAid, Tacloban, The Phillipines
32	Melissa	Millar	UA	Genetic risk to native vegetation from Agroforestry	DEC WA
33	Patrick	Mitchell	UWA	‘Characterising hydraulic functional types in species-rich communities of the central wheatbelt, Western Australia.’	UniMelb
34	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.	QED - Adelaide
35	Kelly	Pearce	Murd	Carcass and eating quality of animals on saltland pastures	Murdoch
36	Patricia	Please	CSU	Aspects of Self in Dryland Salinity Science	DEWHA - Canberra
37	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	URS Corp. - Perth
38	Richard	Reeve	UWA	Economics of water management in Western Australian rural towns.	Department of State Development, WA
39	Alison	Southwell	CSU	Density and composition effects within native perennial pastures and their influence on deep soil water use'	CSU
40	Marcus	Sounness	UWA	Production, economics and recharge of alternative grazing systems for annual and perennial pastures.	Broadacre farmer. Chair - WALG
41	Peter	Speldewinde	UWA	Corellations between ecosystem and human health	UWA
42	David	Summers	UA	Development of high spatial and spectral resolution tools for catchment scale land evaluation	CSIRO
43	Jingbo	Sun	UWA	A framework for building autonomic environmental sensor networks	UWA
44	Natasha	Teakle	UWA	Physiological and molecular basis of salt tolerance of Lotus Glaber, a new perennial pasture legume for Australian farming systems.	State Agriculture Biotechnology Centre, Perth
45	Mohamad	Tiong	UWA	Variation in Nutritive Value in River Saltbush	CSIRO
46	Angela	Wardell-Johnson	Murd	Creeks, Convention and Capital: The Social relationships of natural resource management in rural landscapes	UQ
47	Cathy	Waters	CSU	Developing seed provenance zones for Australian native grasses	I&I NSW
48	Robyn	Whipp	CSU	Historical vegetation change in the Pilliga State Forests of Northern NSW	recently submitted
49	Nathan	Wong	La Trobe	Management impacts on landscape level processes in native grasslands	BIOSYS - Melbourne

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