All in Senior Research Fellowships

Dr Larry Barber - Visiting International Fellow

superuser — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:06:22 +0000

An Australian roadshow by Dr Larry Barber

Background

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Travelling Fellow

Researchers:

Dr Larry Barber

Subjects

Subjects:

Innovation

Keywords:

International Fellowship

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Visiting International Fellow - Burghard Meyer and Ralf Grabaum

superuser — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:15:17 +0000

Multicriteria Landscape Assessment and Optimisation

The system Multicriteria Landscape Assessment and Optimisation (MULBO) develops optimal land use combinations that are considered most likely to achieve sustainable landscapes (Meyer, Phillips & Annett 2008).

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IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Host Organisation:

Department of Sustainability and Environment - State Government Victoria

Researchers:

Burghard Meyer

Ralf Grabaum

Subjects

Subjects:

Landscape Management

Keywords:

International Fellowship

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Professor Sam Lake

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:41:40 +0000

For quite some time, Sam Lake has been carrying out research on the effects that natural disturbanc es such as floods and droughts have on the ecological structure and function of flowing waters. While the effects of floods on rivers and streams have been extensively studied, the effects of droughts on freshwater ecosystems (both standing and running waters) remain poorly studied and the findings, until now, have not been comprehensively reviewed. This is a major gap in current ecological research.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Researchers:

Professor Sam Lake

Subjects

Subjects:

Water (General)

Keywords:

Drought

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Resources

External Links:

Drought, the "creeping disaster": an interview with Senior Research Fellow, Professor Sam Lake (Land & Water Australia, 9 July 2009)

Dr Richard Evans

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:34:25 +0000

Dr Richard Evans is a Principal Hydrogeologist employed by Sinclair Knight Merz Consultants

In many catchments the water resources found above and below the ground are parts of the same system, linked in a poorly understood and complex manner. Yet access to surface water and groundwater is allocated as if they were independent of each other and without recognition of potential downstream impacts, particularly the effect pumping groundwater can have on stream and river flows.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Dr Richard Evans

Subjects

Subjects:

Catchment Management

Keywords:

Groundwater

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Dr David Freebairn

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:26:48 +0000

David Freebairn has worked on natural resource management issus for 30 years and has a deep understanding of environmental and production issues faced by land managers. He believes even the scientific community is confused by the values of models and processes, and questions whether the use of models actually gets in the way of basic understanding.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Dr David Freebairn

Subjects

Subjects:

Catchment Management

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Dr Mark Stafford-Smith

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:24:10 +0000

Mark Stafford-Smith has worked for CSIRO, predominantly based in Alice Springs for 21 years. He was the Chief Executive Officer for the CRC for Desert Knowledge and has a deep understanding, and love of the Australian Rangelands. He is one of Australia’s and the world’s leading rangeland scientists.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Dr Mark Stafford-Smith

Subjects

Subjects:

Landscape Management

Keywords:

Rangelands

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Mr Gary Stoneham

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:21:46 +0000

Gary Stoneham has played a leading role in developing the use of market-based instruments for allocating scarce resources in natural resource management.

An applied policy economist for more than 25 years, Gary has helped to better harness and target market forces so that they work to reward more sustainable practices by landholders and others. He is currently Chief Economist with the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Mr Gary Stoneham

Subjects

Subjects:

Governance and Markets

Keywords:

market based instruments

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Dr Richard Stirzaker

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:17:02 +0000

The Scientist’s Garden: reflections on food and water

The time has come for a scientific exposé of the backyard fruit and vegetable garden and, from there, to draw the links to the big NRM issues of our time.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Dr Richard Stirzaker

Subjects

Subjects:

People (General)

Keywords:

Vegetables

Gardens

Fruit

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Dr Greg McKeon

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:07:06 +0000

Climate change and natural resource management in Australia’s grazing lands

Greg McKeon’s Land & Water Australia Senior Research Fellowship is a synthesis of the significant management issues, uncertainties and risks analyses needed to inform productive and sustainable rangelands agriculture. Climate change impacts on rangeland livestock carrying capacity: where the risk of an already hot, dry and variable climate changes under global warming. The project has built on an analysis of historical degradation and climate phenomena to then review some of the major issues being encountered by land managers and researchers in the rangelands.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Dr Greg McKeon

Subjects

Subjects:

Climate Change

Keywords:

Grazing lands

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Dr Pauline Mele

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:02:31 +0000

A New Charter for Exploring Australia’s ‘hidden’ Natural Resource, the Soil Biota

The most diverse ecosystem on the planet, the soil biological ecosystem, is also the least well understood.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Dr Pauline Mele

Subjects

Subjects:

Soils

Keywords:

ecology

Soil biology

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Dr Peter Davies

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:58:36 +0000

What’s around the bend for Murray Darling Basin river system?

With over 27 years of experience in water policy & management under his belt Peter Davies has a deep understanding of all things water. His extensive experience stretches across review and development of government and industry policies, strategies and protocols for management of water, water quality, aquatic conservation, environmental flows and ecological health.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Dr Peter Davies

Subjects

Subjects:

Catchment Management

Keywords:

Murray Darling Basin river ecosystems

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Professor Derek Eamus

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:51:15 +0000

"Ecohydrology" - Water, Forests and Climate, a ménage à trois.

Professor Eamus’ research has resulted in several fundamental advances in our understanding of the water budgets of Australian ecosystems, by examining the linkages across leaf, tree, canopy and landscape-scale processes. His work has integrated the interactions of micro-meteorological, soil and plant variables, which determine the rates of water and carbon exchange between landscape and atmosphere.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Professor Derek Eamus

Subjects

Subjects:

Climate (General)

Landscapes

Water (General)

Keywords:

Ecohydrology

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Professor David Lindenmayer

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:44:44 +0000

Integrating agricultural production and biodiversity conservation

Professor Lindenmayer is Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised conservation biologist who has made a long-term contribution to the ecologically sustainable management of Australia’s natural environment.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Professor David Lindenmayer

Subjects

Subjects:

Landscape Management

Keywords:

Temperate woodland

wildlife ecology

landscape ecology

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Location

Locations:

South-Eastern Australia

Resources

External Links:

Australia's species meltdown (ABC Radio Australia, 10 June 2009)

Professor Graham Farquhar

superuser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:36:34 +0000

Linking plant evaporative demand and pan evaporation

Professor Farquhar is Professor of Environmental Biology at the Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU . He is a world leader in researching and modelling the interactions between plants and their environment. As a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Professor Farquhar shared the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize with other IPCC scientists.

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Professor Graham Farquhar

Subjects

Subjects:

Climate (General)

Innovation

Keywords:

carbon dioxide fixation

plants

Current Activities

Status:

Complete

Dr Neil Barr

superuser — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:32:39 +0000

Dr Neil Barr is the leader of the Rural, Social Research Team with the Department of Primary Industries, Victoria.

Why do some country football teams find it hard to survive? Why are Beaut Blokes weekends so popular? Why are some small country towns dying and others thriving? Will the corporate farm supersede the family farm? What is the ‘grass change’? Where does the city end and the country begin? What are the environmental concerns of farmers? Why are wind generators so controversial? How do we shape the countryside and its environment by what we choose in the supermarket?

IDs and People

Program:

Innovation

Program Theme:

Senior Research Fellowships

Research Type:

Senior Research Fellow

Researchers:

Dr Neil Barr

Subjects

Subjects:

People (General)

Socio-Economic

Project Information

Summary:

These are just some of the questions that researcher Neil Barr is being asked by rural communities in an effort to understand, explain and manage change in their communities.

The nature of Dr Barr’s rural social research work is changing as he responds to a growing number of requests to explain his research.

‘From once seeing these requests as an interruption to the work of a researcher, I am now seeing these requests as the reason for my career,’ said Dr Barr.

‘As a researcher, I find I am learning as much from the community as they learn from me. Their questions increasingly set my own preferred research agenda.’

The increasing need for explanations of the commercial applications and social implications of his research is changing the nature of Dr Barr’s career as a researcher.

The various reports of Dr Barr and his colleagues do not fill the expansive gap that remains beyond the reach of personal involvement. These reports are not always accessible, are often written for a specialised audience and most importantly, do not offer an holistic interpretation of the present and future of farming and rural communities.

The House on the Hill Book

This book is a result of the Land & Water Australia Senior Research Fellowship award which allowed Dr Barr the breathing space to complete a manuscript based on his experiences as a rural social researcher.

On the land and in country towns, the battle to survive goes on forever. Increasingly, the worlds needs food and fibre, but squeezes out the communities which provide them. Young people leave, farmers sell up, towns die, football teams amalgamate, communities keep reinventing themselves.

What’s going on? What can we do? Neil Barr looks close up and he looks at the big picture. What affects real people on the land affects everybody.

Current Activities

Status:

Complete