School of Earth and Environment
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Our research group conducts world-leading basic and applied research of high quality to develop new ecosystem management approaches and methods.
In co-operation with industry and government, we pursue cost-effective solutions for rehabilitating disturbed lands and disposing of wastes for the benefit of both business and the community.
Our research focuses on three main areas:
Post-mining land rehabilitation
- Restoration of pasture land post-mining
- effects of fertilisers on post-mining ecosystems development
- metallophyte research.
Ecosystems management
- Spatial and temporal assessment of CO2 evolution from soils on Barrow Island
- environmental risk assessment of acid sulphate soil formation and contaminant generation in Swan Coastal Plain
- optimising biodegradation and removal of organic and inorganic pollutants in wastewater using constructed wetlands
- effects of fertilisers on post-mining ecosystems development
- metallophyte research.
Agriculture
- Improved nitrogen use efficiency in wheat and barley
- role of tolerance to ion toxicities in crop adaptation to waterlogged soils
- role of organic matter and soil biota in optimising crop nutrition in sustainable farming systems.