Study

The Acid Sulfate Soils Centre (ASSC) welcomes enquiries from prospective post-graduate students about potential MSc and PhD projects.

We have a very successful track record of supervision of post-graduate students.

Please contact us if you would like to study or collaborate with the Centre.

Current and previous students

2012 - 2013 Matthew Bald (Honours): Origin and formation of a texture contrast soil near Keyneton, South Australia. The University of Adelaide.
2009 - 2015 Gerard Grealish (PhD). Delivery of soil survey information to non‐soil specialists to support land management by means of special purpose classifications and conceptual toposequence models.  The University of Adelaide.
2011 - 2015 Patrick Michael (PhD).  Effects of organic amendments and plants on the chemistry of acid sulfate soils under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. The University of Adelaide.
2009 - 2015 Nathan Creeper: (PhD). Inland Acid Sulfate Soils in the Floodplain Wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin: Regional occurrence using rapid methods and the impacts of reflooding on water quality.  The University of Adelaide.
2012 - 2015 Chaolei Yuan: (PhD): Remediation of acid sulfate soils by organic matter addition. The University of Adelaide.
2013 - 2016 Nilmini Jayalath: (PhD): Organic matter addition to remediate inland Acid Sulfate Soil. The University of Adelaide.
2013 - 2017 Tan Thanh Dang: (PhD): Capacity of Organic Materials to retain Metals and Protons Released from Sulfuric Acid Sulfate Soils. The University of Adelaide.
2011 - 2017 Kathleen Murray: (PhD): A study of patterns produced when selected Tasmanian soil types are transferred to clothing: Application of digital photography with image processing to support visible observations. The University of Adelaide.
2016 to present Sima Bargrizan: (PhD): Spectrophotometric determination of pH and its influence in soils. The University of Adelaide.