Associate Professor John Triantafilis
#UNSWSoilScienceCentral2020 has the following qualifications
1990 - BSc.Agr, The University of Sydney, Australia.
1996 - PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia.
#UNSWSoilScienceCentral2020 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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#UNSWSoilScienceCentral2020 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. UNSW MREII ($180,373).
vi) LGR dissolved gas extraction system. UNSWMREII ($99,165).
vii) Web-GIS. NHT National Competitive Component ($255,000).
#UNSWSoilScienceCentral2020 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)
#UNSWSoilScienceCentral2020 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.