In this section:
Nigel Fleming
Senior Research Officer, Soil Fertility and Nutrient Movement
BAgrSci, MAgrSci
Phone: +61 8 8303 9351
Email: nigel.fleming@sa.gov.au
Roles and expertise:
The effect of agriculture and other land uses on water quality soil testing and soil fertility
Experience:
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Carried out numerous field trials to evaluate and calibrate soil tests for grazed pastures.
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Worked extensively in the dairy industry, and now in other industries to determine the impacts of primary production on water quality.
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Extensive collaboration with SA state government and interstate research, development and regulatory agencies.
Current and recent projects:
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CRC eWater: Ecological Management in the Mount Lofty Ranges
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Centre for Natural Resource Management: Primary Production to Mitigate Water Quality Threats
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Passive pesticide samplers in MLR monitoring sites
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Water and nutrient cycling on a Lower Lakes dairy farm
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South-east borehole monitoring and assessment - expansion of diffuse impacts project
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Passive pesticide samplers for water runoff
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Expansion of eWater project field work
Recent publications:
Mosley LM and Fleming N (2009) Reductions in water use following rehabilitation of a flood-irrigated area on the Murray River in South Australia. Agricultural Water Management (accepted June 2009)
Dougherty W.J., Nash D.M., Chittleborough D.J., Cox J.W., Fleming N.K. (2006) Stratification, forms, and mobility of phosphorus in the topsoil of a Chromosol used for dairying. Australian Journal of Soil Research 44, 277-284.
Davies, P.J., Cox, J.W., Fleming, N.K., Dougherty, W.J., Nash, D.M. and Hutson, J.L. (2006), Predicting runoff and phosphorus loads from variable source areas: A terrain-based spatial modelling approach, Journal of Spatial Hydrology, 6(2), 82-104.
Dougherty W.J., Fleming N.K., Cox J.W., Chittleborough D.J. (2004) Phosphorus Transfer in Surface Runoff from Intensive Pasture Systems at Various Scales: A Review. Journal of Environmental Quality 33, 1973–1988.
