Report

Travel Fellowship Report

The topic of this travel fellowship was the water-energy-emissions nexus in irrigated agriculture. This fellowship allowed Tamara to meet with world class researchers working on various aspects of this topic, extending her network of industry contacts. A key benefit was the exposure to the latest research and ideas, which will provide an opportunity for these to potentially be adapted to the Australian situation. Similar research carried out as part of her PhD studies and (more)...

Precision Irrigation

This report is the outcome from a NPSI funded review of relevant irrigation research, existing technologies and the use of precision irrigation. It includes an assessment of the role of current irrigation application technologies in precision irrigation, as well as variable rate applications, adaptive control and the sensing and decision support requirements. The review also provides a framework to guide research and development of precision irrigation (more)...

Long Term Sustainability of Precision Irrigation

This report details the research identifying the causes and the decline of soil structure under irrigation drippers in the Barossa Valley vineyards. Irrigated vineyards in Australia have seen extensive adoption of drip irrigation. At the start of this project there was concern about the sustainability of drip irrigation based on previous field observations. Drip irrigation conserves water but the concentrated nature of its application was believed to cause serious soil structural (more)...

Demonstration & Evaluation of Riparian Restoration in the Johnstone River Catchment

Demonstration and Evaluation of Riparian Restoration in the Blackwood Catchment

The Importance of Large Woody Debris in Sandy River Systems

Riparian Corridor Management for the Clarence Catchment

Riparian Restoration in the Far South Coast Catchments of New South Wales

Measuring return on 20 years of investment in natural resource management research & development

One of the key Australian Government agencies for NRM R&D funding has been Land & Water Australia which invested an average A$14.4m per annum (in 2008/09 dollar terms) of core government funds from 1990 to 2009, typically leveraged two to three times from industry and other public sources. To understand the impact of this investment and attribute it to its funding partners and the Australian Government, LWA commenced (more)...

Land & Water Australia Final Report 2009-10

Land & Water Australia’s final report for 2009-2010. Covering the last 4 months of operation.