We are proactive in setting the research agenda and undertaking theoretical and applied research in the areas of sustainable soil management, soil resources, soil biodiversity and soil ecosystem services.

Specific priority areas include:

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

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

  • Creating, maintaining and exploiting resource inventories and monitoring systems with Soil Spatial Informatics

  • Describing processes that expose or protect soils from threats; e.g. 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

  • Resource efficiency and valorisation of organic waste material as soil ameliorants.

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