Nutrient Transport: On and Offsite Impacts

Export of nutrients from intensive agricultural systems results in on farm economic loss and environmental degradation of water bodies. This research looks at ways of keeping nitrogen and phosphorus on farm through various management strategies and the development of catchment scale models for industry best practice.

Projects

An integrated investigation of nutrient generation and delivery processes and pathways from paddock to small catchment scales

Funded by: ARC-discovery 2009/12

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Phosphatic Fertilisers of Varying Solubility for Victorian Dairy Pastures Under Irrigated Conditions

NIWA

Research Group Contact Information

Name and Honorifics: Dr Tony Weatherley
Title: Lecturer
Dept: Department of Agriculture and Food Systems
Email: anthony@unimelb.edu.au
Ph: +61 3 8344 4642
Faculty: Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne

Researchers

Research Students

Andrew Smith
Shabnam Shafapour (MPhil): Estimating real time infiltration parameters from irrigation advance and recession data in Border irrigation systems
Rubel Biswas Chowdhury: Systems wide modeling of phosphorus

Publications

Weatherley, A.J., Quin, B.F., Dassanayake, K.B. and Rowarth, J.S. (2011). Runoff losses from irrigated dairy pastures treated with phosphorus fertilisers of differing solubility in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Soil Research 49, 633-641
S Saffarpour, R Adams, AJ Weatherley, V Folkman, MR Grace, AW Western (2011). The Major Ion and Nutrient Behaviour of streams on a dairy Farm, Victoria, Australia. 34th IAHR World Congress - Balance and Uncertainty Water in a Changing world