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Mark Skewes

Research Scientist, Drought ResponseM_Skewes

Phone: + 61 8 8595 9149
Email: mark.skewes@sa.gov.au

Roles and expertise:

  • Irrigation Efficiency
  • Soil Water Monitoring
  • Horticultural Crop Irrigation and Water Use
  • Drought Impacts on Permanent Horticultural Crops

Experience:

  • Determination of crop water requirements across climatic regions of South Australia
  • Irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring training delivery
  • Irrigation benchmarking of citrus, vines, potatoes, dairy, prime beef and prime lamb production
  • Wastewater Irrigation Monitoring Program development to meet EPA license requirements for wineries and fruit processors
  • Certified Agriculture Sprinkler Irrigation Designer (Irrigation Australia Limited)

Current and recent projects:

Recent publications:

Carruthers, R., B. Latcham, F. Enzmann, and M.A. Skewes, 2004. "Volumetric Conversion in South East, South Australia  A Driver for Change in Irrigation Practices ." Irrigation Australia 2004 (Adelaide Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Australia,  Irrigation Association of Australia, Adelaide, South Australia.

Carruthers, R., M.A. Skewes, S. Pudney, B. Latcham, and L. Schmidt, 2005. "Developing a Volumetric Allocation Model for the South East of South Australia." Irrigation Australia 2005 (Townsville, Qld,  Irrigation Association of Australia.

Pudney, Shannon, Phil R. Nicholas, and Mark A. Skewes. 2004. "Scheduling." Pp. 148-64 in Soil, Irrigation and Nutrition, Adelaide, South Australia: South Australian Research and Development Institute.

Skewes, M.A., 2006a. "Working Together Toward Volumetric Allocations." Irrigation Australia 2006 (RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, Queensland,  Irrigation Association of Australia, Brisbane, Queensland.

Skewes, M.A., 2006b. Climatic Variability and Volumetric Allocations in the South East, Government of South Australia, Adelaide.           ISBN 0 7590 1374 8.

Skewes, M.A., 2006c. Definition of Net Irrigation Requirements in the South East of South Australia, Government of South Australia, Adelaide.      ISBN 0 7590 1373 X.

Skewes, M.A., 2006d. Innovative Lucerne Seed Irrigation in the South East of South Australia, Government of South Australia, Loxton, South Australia.

Skewes, M.A., 2008. "Using ET0 to Determine Water Allocations." Pp. 609-15 in Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Irrigation of Horticultural Crops (Mildura, Victoria, Ian Goodwin and Mark G. O'Connell, International Society for Horticultural Science, Leuven, Belgium.

Skewes, M.A., 2009. "Monitoring Almond Water Use and Production Under Restricted Water Allocations", Australian Nutgrower 23(1):27-28.

Skewes, M.A., N. Treloar, and G. Bailey, 2005. "Irrigation Innovations in the South East of South Australia." One Life One River Our Future - ANCID 2005 (Mildura, Victoria,  Australian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, Mildura.

Sylvia, S. and M.A. Skewes, 2008. Maximising Returns From Water in the Australian Vegetable Industry: South Australia, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange, NSW.

Affiliations

Irrigation Australia Limited
International Society for Horticultural Science