Technical Program


Sunday, 5 December 2004
15:00 – 16:30	NSW ASSSI AGM, Great Hall
15:00 – 20:00	Registration, Northern Vestibule, Great Hall
17:30 – 18:00	Opening Ceremony, Great Hall
18:00 – 19:30	Welcome Reception, Quadrangle and Cloister area
Monday, 6 December 2004
07:30 – 17:00	Registration, Eastern Avenue Complex (EAC) Foyer
08:30 – 10:30	Concurrent Session 1
	Symposium 1: Acid sulfate soils	Symposium 3: Contaminant bioavailability and terrestrial ecotoxicology	Symposium 14: Soil aggregation and structural quality	Symposium 9: Soil and farming systems	Symposium 11 Soil formation and landscape processes
Room	EAC Seminar Room 310	EAC Lecture Theatre	EAC Seminar Room 312	EAC Auditorium	EAC Seminar Room 311
Chair	Rob Fitzpatrick, CSIRO Land and Water	Ron McLaren, Lincoln University, New Zealand	Stephen Cattle, The University of Sydney	Robert White, University of Melbourne	Geoff Humphries, Macquarie University
08:30 – 08:50	Weathering of sulfide minerals at circum-neutral-pH in semi-arid/arid environments: influence of water content Edgardo Alarcón León	Long-term sludge experiments: soil metal bioavailability to crops and microbes Paul Gibbs	Water potential based modelling and interpretation of soil shrinkage Thomas Baumgartl	Sampling scale to assess soil fertility processes –a brief review Scott Black	The life and times of tree roots: preliminary results for root-mediated weathering in the rhizosphere David Little
08:50 – 09:10	Sulfidic soils associated with salinity in the Murray-Darling Basin Leigh Sullivan	A risk assessment of irrigation needs and pesticide fate under vineyards Steve Green	Soil compaction and water content effects on lodgepole pine seedling growth in British Columbia Vikki Blouin	Management effects on biological cycling of phosphorus in Southern Australia Else Bünemann	Plant accessible phosphorus as a discriminator of native vegetation in the upper Blue Mountains Ben Harrington
09:10 – 09:30	Acidity, metals and acid sulfate soils Ben Macdonald	Influence of copper on soil microbial biomass and biodiversity in some NSW soils: Nargis Banu	X-ray CT investigations of undisturbed soil cores with and without crop roots Ann McNeill	Soil management techniques to improve soil water use in raised bed cropping in south west Victoria: Gary Clark
09:30 – 09:50	Contemporary and relict processes in a coastal acid sulfate soil sequence: macroscopic and geomorphic features: Brett Thomas	Current waste soil disposal practices in NSW Peter Graham	Soil structural degradation in irrigated viticulture: the impact of irrigation on the integral water capacity of vineyard soils: Dougal Currie	Nitrification in pastures on the Northern Tablelands of NSW: Tina Dalby
09:50 – 10:10	Is artificial drainage the cause of acid sulfate soil profile oxidation? Mike Melville	Competitive adsorption of heavy metals onto kaolinite Prashant Srivastava	Identifying the interrelationship between soil properties that influence the function of the soil Damien Field	Subsoil constraints in the grain cropping soils of Queensland: Yash Dang
10:10 – 10:30	Jarosite, schwertmannite, goethite, ferrihydrite and lepidocrocite: the legacy of coal and sulfide ore mining Enver Murad	Heavy metals contamination of home grown vegetables near metal smelters in NSW Anthony Kachenko	Soil structural form: the effect of irrigation water with varying SAR on several Vertosols Simon Speirs	Micrometeorological measurements of ammonia emissions during phases of the grazing rotation of irrigated dairy pastures Tom Denmead
10:30 – 11:00	Morning tea
11:00 – 12:30	Keynote Lectures
Room	EAC Auditorium
Chair	Alex McBratney, The University of Sydney
11:00 – 11:45	Grand challenges and opportunities in basic soil science research and the discipline of soil science Prof Donald Sparks S. Hallock duPont Chair of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, USA.
11:45 – 12:30	Facing future challenges for soil science Prof Johan Bouma Formerly Wageningen University and Research Center, The Netherlands
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch and poster session. Poster symposia numbers 1, 3, 9, 11, 12 and 14 will be presented on levels 1 and 3.


14:00 – 15:40	Concurrent Session 2
	Symposium 1 continued: Acid Sulfate soils	Symposium 3 continued: Contaminant bioavailability and terrestrial ecotoxicology		Symposium 14 continued: Soil aggregation and structural quality		Symposium 9 continued: Soil and farming systems		Symposium 12: Soil health, quality and function
Room	EAC Seminar Rm 310	EAC Seminar Rm 311		EAC Seminar Rm 312		EAC Auditorium		EAC Lecture Theatre
Chair	Ben MacDonald, ANU Canberra	Rai Kookana, CSIRO Land and Water, Adelaide		Ann McNeill, University of Adelaide		Nanthi Bolan, Massey University, New Zealand		Damien Field, The University of Sydney
14:00 – 14:20	Clay structure development in coastal acid sulfate soils Jason Reynolds	Heavy metal concentrations of natural soils in the Sydney basin Tom Knowles		Image analysis evaluation of soil structure under raised bed and conventional cultivation in southwest Victoria: Jonathan Holland		Spatial variability of nitrous oxide emission from an irrigated dairy pasture system Debra Turner		Pedological principles in rehabilitation of infertile copper mine tailings for growing crops in China Robert van de Graaff
14:20 – 14:40	Influence of land use on the emission of sulfur dioxide from acid sulfate soils: Mira Dürr	Use of a thin slicing technique to study rhizosphere metal concentrations in a biosolids-amended soil Ron McLaren		The effect of soil crust ageing, through wetting and drying, on some surface structural properties Stephen Cattle		Emission of nitrous oxide from fertilised potatoes Glyn Francis		Canola residues decomposition: the effect of particle size on microbial respiration and cycling of sulfur in a sandy soil Bhupinderpal Singh
14:40 – 15:00	Community capacity building to manage acid sulfate soils in NSW and the role of soil scientists Peter Slavich	Cadmium desorption from goethite in the presence of desferrioxamine B and oxalic acid Ghulam Mustafa		The influence of increased sodicity on soil hydraulic conductivity and erosion by rain and runoff Hossein Ghadiri		Causes and management of subsoil acidity Caixian Tang		Long-term site productivity of New Zealand’s plantation forests: reliance on soil health, quality and function Peter Clinton
15:00 – 15:20	Sulfur gas emissions from coastal acid sulfate soils Andrew Kinsela	Evaluation of cadmium toxicity to Collembola (Proisotoma minuta) using electron microscopy Ayulungit Nursita		The dynamics of soil quality in livestock grazing systems Neil Southorn		Limitations of bioassays in macronutrient deficiency determination Christopher Guppy		An overview of acid-sodic soils in two regions of New South Wales, Australia Brian Jenkins
15:20 – 15:40						Using potassium potentials to examine nutrient availability in an acid sulfate soil landscape, northern Australia: Annabelle Keene		Effect of sampling position in a sugarcane field on organic matter status and the size, activity and metabolic diversity of the soil microbial community Richard Haynes
15:40 – 16:00	Afternoon tea
16:00 – 18:00	Concurrent Session 3
	Symposium 5: GIS, remote sensing and digital soil mapping		Symposium 3 continued: Contaminant bioavailability and terrestrial ecotoxicology		Symposium 10: Soil and climate change		Symposium 9 continued: Soil and farming systems		Symposium 12 continued: Soil health, quality and function
Room	EAC Auditorium		EAC Seminar Rm 311		EAC Seminar Rm 312		EAC Seminar Rm 310		EAC Lecture Theatre
Chair	Alex McBratney, The University of Sydney		Phil Mulvey,, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Sydney		Kevin Tate, Landcare Research, New Zealand		Ian Packer, NSW DIPNR		Brain Jenkins, NSW DIPNR
16:00 – 16:20	Mapping soil properties for irrigation development in the Riverland of South Australia using the EM38 Roderick Davies		Recent research on bioavailability of persistent organic pollutants in soils and implications for risk assessment : Rai Kookana		Significant bomb 14C enrichment in deep soil: a previously unrecognized decadal C pool? Troy Baisden		Rhizotoxicity of aluminate and polycationic aluminium at high pH Peter Kopittke		Development of reconstructed soils and vegetation communities at a central Queensland coal mine: a preliminary investigation of twelve years of monitoring Gillian Kopittke
16:20 – 16:40	Spatial prediction of soil properties in a radiata pine forest, northern New Zealand: How does forest harvesting affect the performance of prediction techniques? Haydon Jones		The effect of copper toxicity on the growth and morphology of Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana) in solution culture Anna Sheldon		Quantification of biologically significant pools of organic matter in Mallee soils and their inclusion in models of soil C and N dynamics: Jeffrey Baldock		Measuring water use efficiency of dairy forages James Neal		Macadamia husk compost improves soil health in sub-tropical horticulture Justine Cox
16:40 – 17:00	Mapping regolith strength for bauxite mine rehabilitation using instrumented bulldozers Faron Mengler		Arsenic in the New Zealand environment Brett Robinson		Estimating the size of Australia’s soil carbon sinks; Michele Barson		Influence of soil type and characteristics on wheat response to fluid and granular phosphorus fertilisers Therese McBeath		Cation retention properties of recent volcanic ash soils of Papua New Guinea Paul Nelson
17:00 – 17:20	Applying geostatistics, fuzzy logic and geographic information systems to soil quality assessment: Inakwu Odeh		A novel technique for investigating the sorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants to soil Ron Smernik		Dynamics and environmental significance of dissolved organic matter in soil Nanthi Bolan		Increasing phosphate rock availability using a lupin green manure crop Roger McLenaghen		Scattered native trees and soil heterogeneity in grazing land on the Northern Tablelands of NSW Brian Wilson
17:20 – 17:40	The use of remotely sensed data to analyse spatial and temporal trends in patchiness within rehabilitated bauxite mines in the Darling Range Agnes Kristina Prananto		Using a sequential extraction procedure to determine the bioavailability of Pb and Zn from highly contaminated soils Dahmon Sorongan		Estimating NPP and impacts of climate change on sandy soils in Australia using a soil carbon model calibrated to measurements of soil carbon, nitrogen and carbon isotopes John Carter		Developing a farm nutrient loss index for grazed pastures in Australia Alice Melland		The effect of herbicides and permanent swards on soil microbial populations in the vineyard Melanie Whitelaw-Weckert
17:40 – 18:00									Viewing soil quality in the context of the sustainable agriculture: Yongping Wei
18:00 – 20:00	BBQ, The Well, Student University Village


Tuesday, 7 December 2004
07:30 – 17:00	Registration, EAC Foyer
08:30 – 10:30	Concurrent Session 4
	Symposium 5 continued: GIS, remote sensing and digital soil mapping	Symposium 3 continued: Contaminant bioavailability and terrestrial ecotoxicology		Symposium 10 continued: Soil and climate change			Symposium 9 continued: Soil and farming systems		Symposium 12 continued: Soil health, quality and function		Symposium 6: Management of Soil Salinity
Room	EAC Seminar Rm 310	EAC Seminar Rm 311		EAC Auditorium			EAC Lecture Theatre		EAC Seminar Rm 312		EAC Seminar Rm 403
Chair	Elisabeth Bui, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra	Pam Hazelton, University of Technology Sydney		Brian Murphy, NSW DIPNR Cowra			Glyn Francis, Crop & Fodd Research, NZ		Damien Field, The University of Sydney		Inakwu Odeh, The University of Sydney
08:30 – 08:50	Digital soil mapping in the Edgeroi area Alex McBratney	The effects of environmental factors on HGT frequencies in New Zealand soils Stephanie Watson		Modelled soil-carbon changes after reforestation Miko Kirschbaum			Targeted water management planning to maximise water use in a grazing landscape Ian Packer		Fine root turnover under cropping, pasture and native Mulga Woodlands of SW Queensland Rajesh Jalota		Simulated hydrological behaviour of a shallow palaeochannel system under irrigation Christopher Vanags
08:50 – 09:10	Geophysical tools and digital elevation models: Tools for understanding crop yield and soil variability Paul Rampant	Review of impacts on soil biota caused by copper residues from fungicide application Lukas Van Zwieten		The change of soil carbon stocks and fine root dynamics after land use change from native pasture to pine plantation LanBin Guod			Mineralisation of C and N during decomposition of sugarcane and soybean residues Fiona Robertson		Influence of Fire on Ecological Conditions of Sandy Podzol Soils in Pine Stands of Central Siberia Irina Beskorovainaya		On the lower limit of soil water availability in saline soils Cameron Grant
09:10 – 09:30	Land evaluation for pulse production in WA Wendy Vance	Symposium 7: Managing disposal of waste and wastewater on land		Soil Carbon and Nutrient Pools in Three Adjacent Forest Ecosystems Zhihong Xu			Nitrous oxide emissions from grazed pastures Surinder Saggar		Effect of humic acid and fertilisers on soil quality parameters in an Alfisol and Inceptisol Sathiyabama Kaliappan		Preliminary investigation of moisture and salt profiles in the soils of primary salinity sites Austin Brown
		Chair: Aravind Surapaneni, Primary Industries Research Victoria
09:30 – 09:50	Predicting plant available water by remote and proximal sensing David Mitchell	The response of some New South Wales coastal floodplain soils to irrigation of high strength organic wastewaters Roy Lawrie		Soil carbon and soil nitrogen changes after clearing of mulga vegetation Ben Harms			Mitigating gaseous losses of nitrogen from pasture soil with urease and nitrification inhibitors Jagrati Singh				Putting salt on the map: arresting salinity and finding new water resources David Dent
09:50 – 10:10	S-map – a new soil database for New Zealand Linda Lilburne	A sustainability framework for land disposal systems involving highly saline industrial effluent Bing So		Organic matter in microaggregates - potential for carbon sequestration Jessie Horton			The effect of lodging in cereals on morphological properties of the root-soil complex Adrian Tams				Comparison of applications of sand and polyacrylamide for separating the impact of the physical and chemical properties of sodic soils on the growth and nutrition of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Kylie Dodd
10:10 – 10:30		Phosphorus characteristics of soils treated with sewage effluent using land filtration at the Werribee sewage treatment complex, Victoria Muhammad Muneer		An Equilibrium Analysis of the CENTURY Soil Organic Matter Model Alister Metherell							Impact of saline and/or sodic irrigation water on important NSW soils Harnam Gill
10:30 – 11:00	Morning tea
11:00 – 12:30	Keynote Lectures
Room	EAC Auditorium
Chairs	Cameron Grant, University of Adelaide John Adams, Lincoln University, New Zealand
11:00 – 11:45	After more than a century of Australian research, why do we still mismanage our soil and water? Prof Bob Gilkes University of Western Australia
11:45 – 12:30	Soil science in New Zealand: requiem or renaissance? Dr Brent Clothier HortResearch, New Zealand
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch and poster session. Poster symposia numbers 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 will be presented on levels 1 and 3.
14:00 – 15:40	Concurrent Session 5
	Symposium 8: Pedotransfer functions and soil inference systems	Symposium 7 continued: Managing disposal of waste and wastewater on land	Symposium 10 continued: Soil and climate change			Symposium 9 continued: Soil and farming systems			Symposium 15: Water and solute transport in soil		Symposium 6 continued: Management of Soil Salinity
Room	EAC Seminar Rm 310	EAC Auditorium	EAC Seminar Rm 311			EAC Seminar Rm 312			EAC Lecture Theatre		EAC Seminar Rm 403
Chair	Budiman Minasny, The University of Sydney	Aravind Surapaneni, Primary Industries Research Victoria	Hugh Wilde, Landcare Research, New Zealand			Surinder Saggar, Landcare Research, New Zealand			Willem Vervoort, The University of Sydney		David Dent, World Soil Information, The Netherlands
14:00 – 14:20	Patterns of global soil distribution as revealed by two major soil databases Jonathan Gray	Using nutrient budgeting and environmental monitoring to assess the sustainability of effluent reuse from piggeries in New South Wales, Australia: Chris Dorahy	The effects of salinity and sodicity on soil carbon turnover Vanessa Wong			A spatially referenced water and nitrogen management model (WNMM) for (irrigated) intensive cropping and pasture systems Deli Chen			Passive-wick water fluxmeters: theory and practice Glendon Gee		Developing a deep drainage risk map for the Border Rivers area Willem Vervoort
14:20 – 14:40	Soil colour as a indicator of erosions risk on an overburden material at greenbushes mine in Western Australia Amy Hearman	Utilisation of seafood processing waste – challenges and opportunities Ian Knuckey	Soil carbon densities in the cropping areas of NSW with emphasis on the red soils of the Western Wheatbelt Brian Murphy			Effects of tillage and soil moisture on forage production and nitrous oxide emissions from simulated grazing of a winter forage crop Steve Thomas			Soil moisture measurement in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica using Hydra soil moisture probes Megan Balks		Measurement of exchangeable cations in saline soils Neal Menzies
14:40 – 15:00	Estimation of readily available waterholding capacity using field hand texture Ken Wetherby	The Impacts of Recycled Water on Soil Properties in Vineyards in the Great Western Region Karen Hermon	Calibration of the RothC model to turnover of soil carbon under eucalypts and pines Keryn Paul			Nitrogen management following crop residue retention in sugarcane production Peter Thorburn			Prediction of steady-state flux through variably saturated zones within a septic absorption trench Cara Beal		Application of Geographic Information System to determine soil salinisation potential John Triantafilis
15:00 – 15:20	Classification, strength and water retention characteristics of laterite subsoil materials in the Darling Range, Western Australia: Geoff Kew	Survival and possible transmission of pathogens from sewage sludge (biosolids) to lettuce plant tissue Jacqui Horswell	Managing the microbial community for soil carbon management Charles Rice			Mehlich No. 3 Soil Test - The Western Australian experience Katrina Walton			Treating grazed pasture soil with a nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide, to decrease nitrate leaching: Hong Di		The effect of organic amendments and phosphogypsum on sodic soil under wastewater irrigation at Mooroopna, Victoria Corrie Bos-VanderZalm
15:20 – 15:40		Changes in the growth and nutrition of Pinus radiata in two soils and effluent additions of different qualities John Lavery	Nature of the association of organic carbon with soil microaggregates Kaye Spark			Investigation of the contribution of nitrification and denitrification to nitrous oxide emissions from intensive dairy pastures Luke Wylie			Dispersion and re-deposition of colloidal particles and their effects on hydraulic conductivity in sandy soils: Oagile Dikinya		Soil and water management of waterlogged and saline soils Derk Bakker
15:40 – 16:00	Afternoon tea
16:00 – 17:40	Concurrent Session 6
	Symposium 8 continued: Pedotransfer functions and soil inference systems	Symposium 7 continued: Managing disposal of waste and wastewater on land			Symposium 10 continued: Soil and climate change			Symposium 13: Soil management under high nutrient regimes		Symposium 15 continued: Water and solute transport in soil
Room	EAC Seminar Room 310	EAC Auditorium			EAC Seminar Room 311			EAC Seminar Room 312		EAC Lecture Theatre
Chair	Trevor Webb, Landcare Research, New Zealand	Kaye Spark, University of Queensland			Robert Edis, University of Melbourne			Chris Dorahy, NSW DIPNR		Megan Balks, University of Waikato, New Zealand
16:00 – 16:20	Spatial variability of drainage and phosphate retention and their inter-relationship, in soils on the river terraces of the northern Manawatu region, New Zealand Ashok Senarath	Wastewater irrigation in a forested ecosystem: nutrient leaching Gujja Magesan			Soil carbon changes and uncertainties with New Zealand land-use change KevinTate			Losses of phosphorus, carbon and other chemicals over four years from dairy pasture in South Australia Nigel Fleming		Soil Water Availability – the importance of considering physical constraints Damien Adcock
16:20 – 16:40	Development of a soil inference system for evaluating soil quality Budiman Minasny	The agronomic effectiveness of a fish waste based P fertiliser – spatial variability of Olsen P and pasture responses Aravind Surapaneni			Organic matter Transformation catalysed by clays: Model reactions for carbon sequestration in soils Philip Wallis			Phosphorus budgeting and distribution on dairy farms in coastal New South Wales Simon Eldridge		Climate controls of preferential flow - analysing first-order controls of rapid transport Christoph Hinz
16:40 – 17:00		Sorption characteristics of heavy metals to coal fly ash Travis Robinson			Long-term carbon mitigation potential of no-till, nitrogen application and stubble retention practices in a subtropical cereal cropping system Weijin Wang			Response of maize and potassium dynamics in Vertosols following potassium fertilization Balwant Singh		Handling the water content discontinuity at the interface between layered soils within a numerical scheme Chris Matthews
17:00 – 17:20		Reducing availability of heavy metals from sewage sludge Tom Speir			The influence of developing forest ecosystems to the carbon balance in the soil Liudmila Mukhortova			Phosphorus between soil, soil water and overland flow for established and laser graded, border-check irrigation systems Benjamin Webb		Measuring Water and Solute Balance with new Lysimeter Techniques Ralph Meissner
17:20 – 17:40										Quantification of preferential flow in undisturbed soil columns using dye tracers and image analysis Sacha Mooney
17:45 – 19:30	ASSSI Federal AGM, EAC Auditorium
19:30 – 21:30	Association of Commercial Soil Surveyors (ACSS) General Meeting, EAC Auditorium


Wednesday, 8 December 2004
Mid-conference Tours
07:30	Hunter Valley Tour coach departs Eastern Avenue Complex
08:30	Camden District Tour coach departs Eastern Avenue Complex
08:30	Western Sydney Tour coach departs Eastern Avenue Complex
09:00	Suburban Sydney Tour coach departs Eastern Avenue Complex
Thursday, 9 December 2004
07:30 – 17:00	Registration, EAC Foyer
08:30 – 10:30	Concurrent Session 7
	Symposium 2: Communicating and utilising soil information	Symposium 16: Water quality and soil management	Symposium 4: Emerging soil analytical techniques in the laboratory and the field	Symposium 13 continued: Soil management under high nutrient regimes	Symposium 15 continued: Water and solute transport in soil
Room	EAC Seminar Room 310	EAC Auditorium	EAC Lecture Theatre	EAC Seminar Room 311	EAC Seminar Room 312
Chair	Neil McKenzie, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra	Roy Lawrie, NSW DPI, Richmond	Neal Menzies, University of Queensland	David McKenzie, Precision Land Management, Orange	Ralph Meissner, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research,
08:30 – 08:50	Redeveloping soil mapping key descriptors from generic soil series profiles for University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury campus soils Jane Aiken	Nutrient distribution within a dairy farm Sharon Aarons	Soil colloid analysis by Flow Field-Flow Fractionation David Chittleborough	The impact of soil spatial variation on the efficacy of nitrogen applications to cotton in eastern Australia Craig Stewart	Measuring and modelling water dynamics under effluent irrigated pine trees Iris Vogeler
08:50 – 09:10	We don’t want urban capability assessment: How much will this development cost? Greg Chapman	Characterisation of bushfire residues and their leachates Daniel Bennett	Development of an on-the-go soil sensing system for determinations of soil pH and lime requirement Raphael Viscarra Rossel	Nitrate and ferrous iron concentrations in the lower Burdekin aquifers: assessing denitrification potential Thabonithy Thayalakumaran	Scale-dependent hierarchical hydraulic properties to simulate soil profile water and solute flow Markus Deurer
09:10 – 09:30	How pedology and mineralogy helped solve a double murder? Rob Fitzpatrick	Phosphorus export between the paddock and the farm boundary Kirsten Barlow	New insights into pedogenesis using cosmogenic radionuclides and OSL dating Geoff Humphreys	Kinetics of potassium desorption in some cotton soils (Vertosols) of NSW Sevag Bedrossian
09:30 – 09:50	Online Soil Information Resources for Victoria Mark Imhof	Flux meters for quantifying the leaching of agrichemicals on the island of Tongatapu, The Kingdom of Tonga: Brent Clothier	Evaluation of Vertosol soil fertility using ultra-violet, visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy Kamrunnahar Islam
09:50 – 10:10	LANDSCAN™ practical landscape and soil test interpretation workshops for sustainable farm management Michael Keys	Rainfall simulation underestimates runoff phosphorus concentrations from dairy pastures Warwick Dougherty	Application of synchrotron X-ray fluorescence to cadmium contamination in soils Timothy Payne
10:10 – 10:30	Developing a regional soil health strategy using a land use impact model Richard MacEwan	Increasing the NH4+-retention efficiency of sandy soils by adding a modified kaolin material: MesoLite Naoko Zwingmann	Biotrack® Using soil biodiversity for objective monitoring Mark Dangerfield
10:30 – 11:00	Morning tea
11:00 – 12:30	Keynote Lectures
Room	EAC Auditorium
Chair	Graeme Tupper, NSW Department of Primary Industries
11:00 – 11:45	Challenges of changing from degrading to ecologically sustainable land management: what will it take? Prof Stuart Hill University of Western Sydney
11:45 – 12:30	Soil: our common ground – a humanities perspective Ms Rebecca Lines-Kelly NSW Dept of Primary Industries, Wollongbar
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch and poster session. Poster symposia numbers 2, 4, 13, 15 and 16 will be presented on levels 1 and 3.


14:00 – 15:40	Concurrent Session 8
	Symposium 2 continued: Communicating and utilising soil information	Symposium 16 continued: Water quality and soil management
Room	EAC Lecture Theatre	EAC Auditorium
Chair	Greg Chapman, NSW DIPNR, Sydney	Warwick Dougherty, University of Adelaide
14:00 – 14:20	The Australian Soil Resource Information System Neil McKenzie	Sediment generation and management from unsealed forest roads and tracks Gary Sheridan
14:20 – 14:40	The concept of pedodiversity and its application in diverse geoecological systems Robin Thwaites	Application of Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) to estimate soil erosion from single storm rainfall events from construction sites Madhu Pudasaini
14:40 – 15:00	Issues with the dissemination of spatial information in a technological age: A case for the Australian Cotton Soil Information System James Taylor	Nitrogen losses in artificial drainage and surface runoff from pasture following grazing by dairy cattle David Houlbrooke
15:00 – 15:20	The Corangamite Land Resource Assessment Project – providing consistent land resource information across south-west Victoria Nathan Robinson	Modelling soil erosion on the catchment and landscape scale using landscape evolution models – a probabilistic approach using digital elevation model error Greg Hancock
15:20 – 15:40		Investigating post fire changes in forested catchment exports of sediment and nutrients as a function of soil and hill slope properties Patrick Lane
15:40 – 16:00	Conference closure, EAC Auditorium
16:00 – 16:30	Afternoon tea
18:30	Coaches depart Eastern Avenue Complex and Mercure Hotel for Dinner Cruise
19:00 – 22:30	SuperSoil 2004 Dinner Cruise on Captain Cook III

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