Overview
Topic status: In progress
Overview
Part of a bigger project looking at modelling the effects of climate change scenarios on soil and soil-landscape processes for SEQ (with Griffith U and DERM). The eventual outcome is a spatial model of possible changes in soil-landscape characteristics under different climate scenarios predicted by climate change modellers.The immediate project entails gathering spatial data sets together for the SE corner of SEQ for subsequent environmental analysis and modelling using an environmental change model (MaxEnt); creating specific spatial data sets for soil–landscapes, terrain and substrate in the study area; validating soil-landscape data in the field.
Research activities
Collaboration with scientists at DERM to access all appropriate data. Organise spatial data sets into local database. Identify map data that requires digitising or conversion to appropriate formats. Digitise any analogue map data required. Field sampling of soils and terrain / substrate for calibrating and validating spatial data in areas where there is little or no historical data.
Expected outcomes
Preliminary set of soil/terrain data for the study area in accessible form for further digital modelling work. Digitised soil landscape and soil maps for the study area available for further digital soil-terrain modelling work. Preliminary soil-landscape map for the study area with field validation data for the major units.
Duration of project
4 weeks, January – February 2012
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scholarship
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor for enquiries.
