School of Real Estate and Land Management

Teaching Involvements/ Responsibilities

• Course Manager of the newly established Foundation Degree in Environmental Conservation and Heritage Management, commenced October 2009.
• Course 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 dat
• 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