We are proactive in setting the research agenda in the areas of soil resources, biodiversity and ecosystems, from conservation to wise management and restoration of these resources.

Specific priorities include:

  • Applying ecosystem thinking to built and social capital, to increase efficiency and well being in urban and rural contexts

  • Creating, maintaining and exploiting resource inventories and monitoring systems with soil spatial informatics

  • Describing processes that expose or protect soils from threats (eg. organic matter loss, erosion, contamination, compaction, loss of biodiversity and sealing) and developing policy and better technology for soil and land management in both rural and urban areas

  • Developing spatial geosciences techniques such as digital soil mapping and pedometric methods to represent thematic soil characteristics

  • Enhancing biodiversity in systems, from wastewater treatment to urban planning

  • Providing soil education and awareness to as wide an audience as possible

  • Understanding the physical, chemical and biological processes that make up natural capital and the ecosystem services which flow from them, in the socio-economic context.

Our soil resources, biodiversity and ecosystems work ranges from the highly applied to the fundamental, and is dependent upon our close working relationship with industrial partners, government and the research community.

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