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| Name: |
Dr Robin Thwaites |
| Position: |
Lecturer |
| Qualifications: |
BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD |
| Organisational Area: |
School of Natural Resource Sciences |
| Teaching Discipline: |
Environmental Science |
| Research Program: |
Earth and Water Systems |
| Phone: |
+61 7 3138 2400 |
| Fax: |
+61 7 3138 1535 |
| Email: |
r.thwaites@qut.edu.au |
| Postal Address: |
School of Natural Resource Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001 |
Teaching Areas
- Environmental Science
- Geoscience
- Spatial science
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Areas of Expertise
- Geomorphology
- Soil science
- Land resource survey and assessment
- Terrain analysis
- Forest soils
[Further expertise and media contact]
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Professional Associations
- Australian Soil Science Society: Certified Professional Soil Scientist
- Institute of Foresters of Australia
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland
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Current Grants
- ARC Discovery DP0559791 Reducing uncertainties in greenhouse gas emissions from sub-tropical landuse systems
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Selected Research Projects
- Soil-geomorphological terrain analysis for forestry site management
- Regolith terrain analysis of the Atherton Tablelands region
- Disaggregating spatial land systems data to create digital land types
- Pedodiversity of natural, unmodified soils
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Selected Publications
- Thwaites, R.N. 2006, Conceptual and Digital Soil Landscape Mapping Using Regolith-Catenary Units. Developments in Soil Science, v. 31: 265-276
- Thwaites, R.N. and B.K. Slater 2000, Soil-landscape resource assessment for plantations - a conceptual framework towards an explicit multiscale approach. Forest Ecology and Management 138: 123-138
- Thwaites, R.N. 2002, Matching native tree species to sites for plantation using spatial predictive terrain analysis. New Forests 24(2): 81-95
- Thwaites, R.N. 2000, From biodiversity to geodiversity and soil diversity: a spatial understanding of soil in ecological studies of the forest landscape. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 12 (2): 388-405
- Smith, C., McDonald, G.T. and R.N. Thwaites 2000, TIM: Assessing the sustainability of agriculture at the planning stage. Journal of Environmental Management 60: 267-288
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Current Postgraduate Students
| Name |
Project |
| Mr Daniel Brough |
Spatial disaggregation of Land Systems |
| Mr Matthew Gibson |
Weathering rates of basalt regolith |
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