postgraduate researchers

Postgraduate Researchers

updated 19th August 2009

Graduates of the program

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

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Current FFI CRC Postgraduates

1	Donkor	Addai	UWA	Farming systems economic analysis of complex farm technologies
2	Sharif	Ar-Raffi	UWA	Genetics and physiology of salt tolerance in H. marinum-wheat cytogenetic lines
3	Nadia	Bazihizina	UWA	Ecophysiological studies of salt land pastures
4	Richard	Bennett	UWA	Adaptation and evaluation of Australian Cullen species for use as perennial pasture legumes in Western Australia
5	David	Brautigan	UA	Phytotoxicity of Aluminium in Alkaline soils
6	John	Broster	CSU	Shelter Belts/Lamb Survival rates
7	Natalie	Browne	UM	Impact of farm management practises on agricultural emissions
8	Kerrie	Burns	UWA	The role of Biochar in smoke water in sustainable land management and the mitigation of climate change
9	Davide	Cammarano	UM	Integrating remote sensing and spatial crop modeling for wheat nitrogen management in a rain-fed environment.
10	Ian	Cole	CSU	Managing native pastures to promote perennial native grasses and control annual weeds
11	Felicity	Cox	CSU	Understanding sheep grazing of complex native pastures to better manage natural resources and production outcomes
12	Bronwyn	Crowe	UWA	The design of biodiversity conservation contracts under uncertainty.
13	Chelsea	Fancote	UWA	Effect of high dietary salt on meat yield/quality.
14	Lauren	Forrest	CSU	Educational technology development, and its' role in extension and adoption
15	Kevin	Foster	UWA	Mechanisms of drought tolerance of Bituminaria Bituminosa var albomarginata and crassiuscula
16	Frederico	Gallopin	UA	Influence of soil-landscape variability on woody perennial plant growth.
17	Matthew	Gardner	CSU	Best practice management of Chicory in an Australian context
18	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
19	Felicity	Gummer	CSU	Relationship between earliness and vigour across a range of cereal species
20	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
21	Tim	Hutchings	CSU	Management of risk on Australian farms
22	Nicole	Hyde	CSU	Above and below ground dynamics of perennial wheat, and their subsequent impact on the environment.
23	Muhammad	Javid	UM	Physiological and genetic mechanisms of salt and boron tolerance in brassica juncea
24	Sukirat	Kaur	UA	Genetics and physiology of bud dormancy in grasses
25	Christine	Kershaw	UWA	Integrating economic methods into natural resource management planning and policy
26	Frances	Leng	UWA	Are reptiles good indicators of the biodiversity benefits of perennial farming systems?
27	Gina	Lennox	CSU	Drive-in, Drive-out Farming: Its' drivers and implications for industry, people and the environment
28	Claire	Lewis	UM	Evaluation of novel perennial plant systems for livestock production in the high rainfall zone.
29	Manpreet Singh	Mavi	UA	Dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics in salt affected soils
30	Anna	McBeath	UA	The potential of charcoal as a carbon sink and as a soil amendment for sustainable agricultural systems
31	Emily	Mendham	CSU	The rural rebound and changes in rural property ownership: Trends, challenges and opportunities for natural resource management.
32	Meredith	Mitchell	CSU	The ecology of Microlaena stipoides var. stipoides (Labill.) R. Br in grazing systems
33	Dion	Nicol	UWA	Drought tolerance and water use of C. cinereum and C. graveolens
34	Susan	Orgill	CSU	Investigations into the role of perennial pastures in building soil carbon (C) in phase farming systems
35	Padmaja	Ramankutty	UWA	Model selection in complex statistical regression
36	Sarah	Rich	UWA	Aquatic adventitious roots - functioning and significance for plant survival during flooding
37	Janie	Rioux	UA	Adaptive capacity for climate change adaptation in agricultural landscapes
38	Penny	Roberts	UA	Evaluation of intercropping in the Southern Region of South Australia
39	Raj	Setia	UA	Understanding organic matter dynamics in salt affected soils using remote sensing, organic matter chemistry, and geo-informatics
40	Eloise	Seymour	CSU	Asset-based approaches for regional NRM investment: The role for scientific and community-based valuation
41	Lalith	Suriyagoda	UWA	Response of perennial pasture legume Cullen australasicum, to low water and phosphorus availability and the use of modelling to predict adaptation to the southern Australian wheatbelt.
42	Tamara	Sysak	UM	Resilience and vulnerability to change in rural communities.
43	David	Waters	CSU	Investigation of the use of Biochar to enhance soil physical and chemical properties under dry land cropping
44	Joseph	Ziegler	UWA	Mobile Sensor Networks

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Continuing Salinity CRC Postgraduates

2	Kim	Brooksbank	UWA	Quantifying patterns of water use in oil mallees.
3	Helena	Clayton	UWA	Social dimensions of market-based instruments: Implications for NRM
4	Eleftheria	Dalmaris	UWA	Ecophysiological and genetic variation amongst provenances of Eucalyptus Wandoo
5	Gillian	Earl	CSU	Saving biodiversity in saline landscapes: Learning from remnant protection programs
6	Melissa	Fraser	UA	Root exploration in soils with sub-soil constraints
7	Thomas	Giles	UA	Increased water usage with a short term perennial legume grown in a relay crop system in areas prone to waterlogging.
8	Saide	Gray	CSU	Theme: Towards sustainability in agriculture and science: Social processes of change in scientific and lay interpretations of dryland salinity.
9	Sallyann	Harvey	UWA	Economic incentives in managing dryland salinity: An analysis of contract design
10	Matthew	Humphrey	CSU	The impacts of Dryland salinity on the composition of ground dwelling invertebrates.
11	Lori	Kroiss	UWA	Management of weed risk in perennial landuse systems
12	Nikki	Mouat	UWA	Investigation of Toolibin catchment, including application of Beverly model
13	Keely	Ough	Deakin	Impacts of increased salinity on the flora of temporary freshwater wetlands
14	Margaret (Maggie)	Raeside	CSU	Grazing ecology of tall fescue.
15	Graeme	Sandral	UWA	Ecology of perennial Lotus species growing in acid and waterlogged conditions associated with significant water recharge
16	Alison	Skinner	CSU	Identifying how grassland states influence tree regeneration processes
17	Sharon	Tay	UWA	Gene expression and the regulation of salt tolerance in sheep.
18	Bree	Wilson	CSU	Interractions with plant symbionts such as salt tolerant Mycorrhizae in order to combat dryland salinity

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