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CANBERRA ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Mark Glover is a soil and landscape scientist with CSIRO Agriculture and Food's Soil Process and Function Group. This group is focused on closing the yield gap and improving the biophysical base through measurement and the development of management strategies through spatial and temporal modelling of soil physical and biochemical processes. He has worked extensively in Australian and international field settings developing a transferable, conceptual framework to evaluate relationships between soil properties (including Plant Available Water Capacity PAWC), soil forming processes and landscape position (landscape evolution/geomorphology). This capacity enables the transfer of sophisticated soil and landscape concepts to end users in targeted and effective formats. He has developed and applied sensor technologies within these areas to improve the on-ground agricultural decisions of researchers, agricultural advisors and growers. In international settings Mark's involvement relates to food security and sustainable farming practices in developing countries of the Asia Pacific region. Marks geospatial skills used to assess the spatial variability of soil properties have been enhanced via his successful completion of CSIRO Agriculture and Foods Data School in 2024.
Professional Areas
Fields of Research
Current Roles
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Assessment soil forming process, understanding soil and landscape relationships to predict and map Plant Available Water Capacity
Grains Research and Development Corporation - CSP00210 Methods to Predict Plant Available Water Capacity in Agriculture -
Field soil, groundwater and landscape assessment including Geophysical interpretation and yield covariance analysis
Cropping system intensification in the salt-affected coastal zones of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research LWR/2014/73 -
Field soil and landscape assessment to support digital soil mapping and land resource assessment
Land resource evaluation for productive and resilient landscapes in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research LWR/2014/075
Academic Qualifications
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2003
Bachelor of Applied Science - Earth and Land Sciences
University of Canberra -
1999
Diploma Applied Science - Geoscience
Canberra Institute of Technology -
1988
Assiciate Diploma of Applied Science - Geoscience
Canberra Institute of Technology -
1986
Certificate Geoscience
Canberra Institute of Technology -
1985
HSC
Yanco Agricultural High School
Professional Experiences
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2016-2019
Spatial Prediction of Plant Available Water Capacity and it's Implications For Austrlian Agriculture. Using ground geophysical techniques as geospatial covariant to yield in the salinity affected coastal zone of Bangladesh and West Bengal India. Develop new soil sensing network technology for tracking soil water and nitrogen availability, managing risk and improving management decisions.
CSIRO -
2013-2016
Assessments of plant available water capacity and its spatial distribution in the landscape SE NSW, Nitrous Oxide emmission assessments in cotton farming system N NSW, Digital soil mapping to support land resource assesment - Myanmar and Philippines, soil salinity assessments - implications for irrigated Agriculture in Bangladesh and India.
CSIRO -
2011-2013
Digital soil mapping to support land resource assessments in Nth QLD and Southern Philippines
CSIRO -
2009-2011
Development of rapid proximal sensing technology for paddock scale soil mapping TAS & NSW
CSIRO -
2005-2009
Catchment scale natural resource management incorporating farming systems and ecconomics S NSW
CSIRO -
2000-2005
Catchment scale natural resourse management including Hillslope hydrological monitoring, soil mapping and groundwater mapping for the Heartlands Project S NSW and N VIC
CSIRO -
1997-2000
Groundwater and salinity mapping using airborne geophysics SW NSW
Australian Geological Survey Organisation -
1992-1996
Coastal environmental assessments including mapping coastal geomorpology of Cape York QLD (CYPLUS). Various acid sulfate soils assessments on the East Coast of Australia. Baseline coastal environmental survey South Australia and W Victoria.
Australian Geological Survey Organisation -
1988-1992
Groundwater and Environmental geoscientific projects in the Murray and Great artesian Basins Eastern Australia
Australian geological Survey Organisation -
1987-1987
Mineral Exploration - Mt Isa - Cloncurry N QLD
Australian Ores and Minerals -
1986-1987
Groundwater & Salinity mapping Murray Basin SE Australia
Bureau of Mineral Resources
Achievements and Awards
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2023-2024
Graduated Data School Cohort 2.1 March 2024
CSIRO Agriculture and Food -
2019-2019
Nuffield Fellow 2019 Global Focus Program Delegation
Nuffield Australia and CSIRO Agriculture and Food -
2018-2018
Non cash reward for “fantastic team work to complete and deliver on time three soil inventory reports and two case study assessments for the GRDC Methods to predict Plant Available Water Capacity project”
CSIRO Agriculture and Food Business Unit -
2017-2017
Non cash reward “in recognition for your significant and high-quality contribution to the Crop intensification in the coastal zone of Bangladesh and West Bengal project. Your dedication and preparedness to go ‘above and beyond’ has exemplified the type of behavior that CSIRO values.”
CSIRO Land and Water Business Unit -
2013-2014
1. Non cash reward for “2013 CSIRO Land and Water Health, safety and Environment Award”
CSIRO Land and Water Business Unit
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