School of Agriculture

Teaching involvement / responsibilities

• Programme Manager of the newly established Foundation Degree in Science - Environmental Conservation and Heritage Management, commenced October 2009
• Programme Manager of the Countryside Management top-up honours degree
• Introduction to Environmental Conservation and Heritage Management
• Environment and Woodland Management
• Organic Soil Management
• Practical Conservation

Research interests

Recent

• Carbon pool assessment in the farmed landscape
• Soil attribute variability, particularly carbon and bulk density, both spatially and through time at different scales. Sampling regimes/intensities to best describe and account for the variability of soil attribute data.
• Prediction of total soil carbon and carbon fractions using mid-infrared spectroscopy (MIR).
• Impact of land use transformations and associated management regimes on soil and other ecosystem components.
• Adaptations to climate change: Carbon sequestration potential in Australian agricultural soils.
• Environmental monitoring schemes.

Previous

• Soil survey and land evaluation (Thai Department of Agriculture)
• Assessment of soil management through field experimentation - sugarcane (tillage systems and economic comparisons) and tropical horticultural crops
• Impact of forest fallow farming systems on soil quality
• Green manure crops and rhizobial inoculation in legumes
• Amendments of crop nutrient deficiencies by foliar spraying
• Recycled organics
• Environmental impacts of urban expansion in Bangkok, Thailand
• The role of civil society (Thailand) in environmental management

Memberships

• British Society of Soil Science (BSSS)
• Butterfly Conservation