These include further conference proceedings, lectures and presentations, Federal Council and Branch minutes

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

9.3.10
DERM/ASSSI Soil Health Workshop

1.12.08
Soils 2008 - The Living Skin of Planet Earth, New Zealand

1.7.08
Soil Solutions for a Changing World, Queensland

15.9.07
History of Soil Conservation in Queensland - Opportunities to Achieve the Sustainable Use and Management of Land in Queensland

3.12.06
ASSSI – ASPAC – ACMS National Soils Conference - Soil Science Solving Problems

14.4.05
Understanding Soils and their Interactions with Land Management - Refresher Training Course, Queensland

5.12.04
SuperSoil 2004, Sydney

April 2002
Understanding Soils, Soil Data and Land Management Issues - Refresher Training Course and Field Trip, Queensland

1.11.00
Understanding Soils, Soil Data and Land Management Issues - Refresher Training Course, Queensland

22.4.96
Land Management for Urban Development, Queensland

9.2.93
Environmental Soil Science - A Training Course For the Non-Soils Specialist, Queensland

5.12.88
Understanding Soils and Soil Data - Refresher Training Course in Soil Science, Queensland

9.12.85
Identification of Soils and Interpretation of Soil Data - Refresher Course in Soil Science, Queensland

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DERM/ASSSI Soil Health Workshop, 9 March 2010

• Agenda for Workshop (576 KB Word)

• Talk 1 - Phil Moody - Soil Health: ecosystem functions and soil properties (705 KB PDF)

• Talk 2 - Bernie Powell - National Perspectives of Soil Health (217 KB PDF)

• Talk 3 - Dave Lyons - The Laboratory and Soil Health (1 MB PDF)

• Talk 4 - Mike Grundy - Soil health across landscapes (6.7 MB PDF)

• Talk 5 - Mike Bell - Microbial Inoculants (617 KB PDF)

• Talk 6 - Ram Dalal - Soil Carbon and Soil Health (1.8 MB PDF)

• Talk 7 - Mike Bell - Future research priorities to foster healthy soils in sustainable farming systems – a northern perspective (2.1 MB PDF)

• Talk 8 - Dave Lawrence - Soil Health Projects (1.9 MB PDF)

• Talk 9 - Adam Wilson - Practical Examples (11 MB PDF)

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Soil Symposium & Field Trip - "Soil Solutions for a Changing World", 1-2 July, 2008 - for images click on the Seminar & Conference Images above.

• Agenda for Symposium (46 KB PDF)

• Agenda for Field Trip (38 KB PDF)

• Presentations from Symposium
  • Talk 1 - Soils in Space and Time by Alex. McBratney (2 MB PDF)
  • Talk 2 - Soil Use and Management by Mike McLaughlin (1.6 MB PDF)
  • Talk 3 - The Role of Soils in Sustaining Society and the Environment by Lyn Abbott (2.2 MB PDF)
  • Talk 4 - Soils and Landscapes of Queensland by Andrew Biggs (1.7 MB PDF)
  • Talk 5 - Clive Bell's presentation is not available. For more information on this topic, please contact Clive at clive.bell@bigpond.com
  • Talk 6 - A Revolution in Soil Science: New cold, hard facts using soils to: 1. predict extreme environmental impacts from record low river inflows and 2. solve criminal investigations by Rob Fitzpatrick (5.2 MB PDF)
  • Talk 7 - Stephen Nortcliff's presentation is not available. For more information on this topic, please contact Stephen at iuss@reading.ac.uk.
  • Talk 8 - Leading Soil Science Research in Germany by Rainer Horn (4.3 MB PDF)
  • Talk 9 - Deep Drainage and Soils – Practical Implications by Philippa Tolmie (482 KB PDF)

• Field Trip Notes (2.3 MB PDF)

For images of DLU Reunion click on the Seminar & Conference Images link above.

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History of Soil Conservation in Queensland

Opportunities to Achieve the Sustainable Use and Management of Land in Queensland - Proceedings of a seminar at the Bunya Mountains, September 15, 2007 (PDF 2.45 MB)

This proceedings is essentially a concise history of soil conservation in Queensland. Early farming and grazing practices had a disastrous impact on our land. For example, by 1950, there were 16000 ha of land on the Darling Downs that was so severely eroded it could no longer be cultivated.

In the late 1940s, the Queensland Government began a program of extension and research to promote soil conservation activities and to enable a greater appreciation of erosion processes and the suitability of different soil types for particular land uses.

Extension officers worked closely with farmers to help them plan and implement soil conservation programs. Great success has been achieved and the ‘disaster’ paddocks of the 1950s are now a thing of the past. But the task is far from complete and further work needs to be done. The proceedings includes the results of a workshop held at the seminar to provide advice on initiatives to continue the implementation of sustainable land management practices in Queensland.

The proceedings contains the following papers:

Paper	Author	Page
Critical events in soil conservation in Queensland – an agency's perspective on achievements on the ground and future directions	Bruce Carey	1
A landholder’s experiences in the evaluation of soil conservation in Queensland	Nev Ronnfeldt	27
Soil conservation research in achieving more sustainable land use and management in Queensland	David Freebairn	30
Land resource assessment and soil conservation in Queensland	Mike Grundy	38
Extension and public and school education relating to soil conservation in Queensland	Ken Keith	48
Delivering public investment – The role and impact of community-led decision making for NRM outcomes	Phillip McCullough	60
Proceedings of the workshop Opportunities to achieve the sustainable use and management of land in Queensland		69