[Sres-postdocs] Seminar of interest - notice just received

[Zosha Smith]

BRS SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS:

Friday 14 July 2006
  New insights into salinity in the Murray Darling Basin
Mary Colreavy - Natural Resource Management, DAFF
Scott Macaulay and Margaret Allan - Bureau of Rural Sciences, DAFF

Salinity is an important resource issue, with impacts on farm 
productivity and on the quality of our environment and natural 
resources. More information on the sources of salt and freshwater in 
catchments is needed to better manage the problem. To gain a better 
understand of salinity in the Murray Darling Basin (MDB), the 
Australian Government has provided $20 million for the Bureau of 
Rural Sciences to manage a series of community stream sampling and 
salinity mapping projects across the region. 

Community based stream sampling investigations across 15 Catchment 
Management Organisations in the MDB will build a snapshot of salinity 
across the Basin, while detailed investigations using airborne 
geophysical surveys will generate detailed three dimensional models 
of salinity and water process at a small number of critical sites. 
These results will be combined with an investigation of the social 
and environmental history of land use practices which will identify 
the salinity trends over time associated with land-use changes and 
map them against current conditions.


11.00am - 12:00noon (morning tea at 10:45am)
Edmund Barton Conference Centre (in the courtyard)
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Edmund Barton Building
Kings Avenue, Canberra
Bookings not required.

Parking can be a problem, we suggest taking public transport or a taxi.

For further details, please call the BRS Seminar Coordinator on 6272 
4011. For further information on BRS Seminars or to obtain 
papers/presentations supplied by previous seminar presenters, please 
visit our website at: 
<http://www.brs.gov.au/brsseminars>www.brs.gov.au/brsseminars

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