Landscape Futures Projects

Wayne Meyer is Principal Investigator in the Landscape Futures Project ‘Climate Change, Communities and Environment - adaptation options for South Australian landscapes'. This is a capacity building project supported by the SA Premiers' Science and Research Fund. It is a collaborative project with researchers from CSIRO, DWLBC, DEH, SARDI and two regional NRM Boards. Wayne is co-coordinator of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme (NCRIS) project for the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) with funding of $7.75million. A field site in the Mallee ecosystem of the South Australian Riverland will link into the national "Ozflux" network that is measuring the CO2 and water exchanges with major ecosystems of Australia.

Megan Lewis currently leads a major vegetation remote sensing project in the ‘Allocating Water and Maintaining Springs within the Great Artesian Basin' program funded by the National Water Commission. She is also Principal Investigator of the ARC-funded project ‘Spatial and Temporal Monitoring of Soil Erosion risk with Satellite Imagery', conducted in collaboration with DWLBC. Other key projects include an evaluation of remote sensing potential for monitoring revegetation across South Australia, and condition of the remote Alinytjara Wilurara lands.

Bertram Ostendorf has research projects funded by ARC, State Government agencies and from several Cooperative Research Centres (Future Farm Industries, Bushfire, and Desert Knowledge). These involve identification of more and less profitable production areas to identify the opportunities to use land to capability and generate a better mix of conservation and production ecosystems.

David Chittleborough is investigating the nature and dynamics of carbon in soils in an ARC project. "Identifying cost effective reforestation approaches for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in the Australian wet tropics" is a joint project with ecologists from the Universities of Queensland, Lancaster and East Anglia. He is also undertaking research on the effects of drought on nutrient availability in another ARC project with CSIRO "Explaining the interactions between drought and fertilizer use efficiency using tracing and imaging techniques".
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