Associate Professor John Triantafilis
#լиSoilScienceCentral2020 has the following qualifications
1990 - BSc.Agr, The University of Sydney, Australia.
1996 - PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia.
#լиSoilScienceCentral2020 is interested in the development of digital soil maps (DSM) bycoupling digital data to limited soil property data usingmathematical models. The digital data includes proximal sensing electromagnetic (EM) induction and gamma-ray spectrometry instruments. Commonly used mathematical models include the use of linear mixed models, wavelet analysis, machine learning and numerical clustering. In doing so, the teamis addressing problems of special significance in the field of soil and water use and natural resource management and interpretation at the field, farm, district and sub-catchment level. At the present time, active research projects are with the Australian Federal Governments Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) and Sugar Research Australia (SRA).
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#լиSoilScienceCentral2020 has achieved research funding success
i) Managing soil variability in sugarcane. Sugar Research Australia ($355,551).
ii) Where does water go? Cotton Research and Development Corporation ($135,000).
iii) Improving crop yield in sugarcane using DSM. NRM Terrain ($100,000).
iv) Salinity and sodicity mapping in 3D. Australia India Council ($50,000).
v) Proximal soil sensors. լи MREII ($180,373).
vi) LGR dissolved gas extraction system. լиMREII ($99,165).
vii) Web-GIS. NHT National Competitive Component ($255,000).
#լиSoilScienceCentral2020 has achieved the following awards
1991 - Cotton Research and Development Corporation, Post-graduate Scholarship
2000 - Australian Cotton CRC - Corporate Citizenship.
2001 - Australian Cotton Growers Research Association - Researcher of the Year.
2011 - OECD Travel Fellowship ULisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 - OECD Travel Fellowship IFAPA (Cordoba, Spain)
2021 - Australian-American Commission Fulbright Fellow (NMSU, Texas A&M, UMissouri, USDA, UWisconsin-Madison, Purdue, Rutgers)
#լиSoilScienceCentral2020 is collaboratingwith
i) universities inAustralia(e.g. Sydney)and internationally(e.g. Lisboa),
ii) funding organisations based in NSW (CRDC) and Queensland (SRA),
iii) industry bodies (e.g. Herbert Cane Productivity Services)
to develop practical outcomes for farmers to improve irrigation water use and fertiliser and ameliorant application rate efficiencies using Digital Soil Maps.
My Research Supervision
#լиSoilScienceCentral2020 encourages students from Australia and Internationally including the fabulous
(PhD candidate) – Application of proximal soil sensing to sugarcane
(PhD candidate) – DSM in Thailand to manage salinity
(PhD candidate) – Using geophysical techniques in sugarcane
Ali Mokhtari (PhD candidate) - Using remote and proximal senors to model moisture
(MPhil candidate) – Mapping particle size using pedometrics
(PhD student) – DSM in sugarcane and cotton
(PhD candidate) – Time-lapse moisture monitoring in irrigated cotton fields
(PhD candidate) – Develop spectral libraries for sugar and cotton areas
(MPhil student) –3-d mapping of clay content in the Ashley irrigation district
My Teaching
#լиSoilScienceCentral2020 teaches soil science in the following courses
i) GEOS1211 - Environmental Earth Science (Course Co-ordinator)
ii) GEOS1111 - Fundamentals of Geology (Lecturer)
iii) GEOS2721 - Australian Surface Environments and Landforms (Lecturer)
iv) GEOS3721 - Australian Soil Use and Management (Course Co-ordinator)