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Conference Papers and Proceedings

Resilience of eastern irrigated farm businesses

This power point presentation looks at using land for both cotton and grains to take advantage of land resources and moisture reserves can mean economic and water use efficiency gains.

The Healthy Soils Symposium - Can Australian Soils Sustain our Agricultural Systems?

Proceedings

Investors in the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms programme are proud to convene a Symposium on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The event poses a challenging question and invites farmers, scientists, agronomists and economists to find answers. Can Australian soils sustain our agricultural systems? At this event we are confident that delegates will go home with valuable new perspectives and a better capacity to formulate their own answers. We are particularly proud of (more)...

Minimising off-site movement of pesticides and impact on the Great Barrier Reef - Workshop

Novotel Cairns Oasis Resort 18th and 19th May 2009

Land & Water Australia brokered a policy-expert-practitioner’s workshop with CSIRO (Rai Kookana), James Cook University (Jon Brodie), the Australian Government (Kevin Gale) and Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water (Heather Hunter, Jason Dunlop, Melanie Shaw). The intent of the workshop was to bring together tools, approaches and experiences to help develop better on-farm management of pesticides, with a view to minimising (more)...

Citizen Science Roundtable

for Natural Resource Management

Land & Water Australia hosted a roundtable to bring together some of Australia’s leaders in the area of Citizen Science. The aim of the workshop was to showcase better Citizen Science approaches and share experiences of citizens engaging in the science of natural resources including climate, water, biodiversity, phenology, (life cycle events) and soil. What is Citizen Science? Citizen Science is a hands-on approach to engaging people to gather (more)...

Environmental Water Allocation Forum Presentations

Videos and summary of proceedings

To download video presentation files from the forum, right-click on a link below, select "save link as" and save it to a location on your computer. You will need the Quick Time player installed on your computer to run the files. The Quick Time player can be downloaded from here.

Ecosystem Services and Natural Resource Management Practice Change

Where the Rubber Hits the Road

On the 12 March 2009 a roundtable allowed Roel Plant and Simone Maynard to share the results of their research and experience. The meeting was hosted and funded by Land & Water Australia. Roel’s project was funded by the Social and Institutional Research Program and Simone’s travel to the US had been made possible through Social and Institutional Research funding. What is (more)...

Farming in the dry

During the last 12 years large tracts of southern and eastern Australia have experienced a sustained dry period. The last 7 years has been more severe than the previous years. At Birchip in north western Victoria where I come from for example, our growing season rainfall has been 38% less than average over the last seven years and 28% less over the last twelve years. Interestingly our growing season rainfall over the previous twelve years from 1985 to 1996 was 20% above average.

Improving Seasonal forecasts for SWWA

More than half of the variation in gross margins in wheat cropping in south-west Western Australia (SWWA) can be explained by growing season rainfall variability (May to October). Forecasting seasonal rainfall should therefore enable the adjustment of management practices to maximise returns from ‘good’ seasons and minimise losses from ‘bad’ seasons. Growing season rainfall forecasts from Australia’s seasonal climate forecast model POAMA 1.5 (more)...

From synoptics to climate change

Model predictions of climate variability and climate change emerge as variability and trends in the average behaviour of the model weather systems. Therefore, climate models must be able to represent weather processes accurately. If a model gets the right rainfall for the wrong reasons, this casts doubt on rainfall projections. The most important weather system associated with rainfall in south-east Australia is the cut-off low. A case study shows the complexity of moisture pathways (more)...

Remote drivers of rainfall variability in Australia

This work identifies and documents a suite of large-scale drivers of rainfall variability in the Australian region. The key driver in terms of broad influence and impact on rainfall is the ElNiño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). ENSO is related to rainfall over much of the continent at different times, particularly in the north and east with the regions of influence shifting with the seasons. The Indian Ocean Dipole (more)...