Sustainable Land and Water Use

Our land use research is directed at the water quality effect on underlying groundwater of nitrate leached from agricultural land use.

 

The role of agriculture in sustainable water use is addressed in our research into a new stakeholder-driven approach to water allocation decision-making.

 

List of Projects:

 

- FarmSim nitrate discharge model

- AquiferSim groundwater nitrate model

- Vadose zone nitrogen transformations (Toenepi)

- Sustainable groundwater allocation research

 

Publications:

 

Bidwell, V.J. (2005) Realistic forecasting of groundwater level, based on the eigenstructure of aquifer dynamics.  Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 69:12-20.

 

Good, J., and Bright, J. (2005) An Object-Oriented Software Framework for the Farm-Scale Simulation of Nitrate Leaching from Agricultural Land Uses - IRAP FarmSim. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds) MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp. 662-668. ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9.

 

Painter, B.D.M., and Bright, J.C. (2006) Adaptive management of groundwater allocation: a New Zealand case study, Proceedings of “Adaptive Management of Water Resources: AWRA Summer Specialty Conference”, AWRA, June 26-28, 2006, Missoula, Montana, TPS-06-02, CD-ROM, ISBN 1-882132-71-8.

 

Stenger, R., Barkle, G., Wall, A., and Clague, J.  (2007) Low groundwater N contamination in spite of high land use intensity – the Toenepi dairying catchment experience.  In Designing sustainable farms – critical aspects of soil and water management (Eds L.D. Curry and J.A. Hanly).  Occasional Report No.20.  Fertilizer and Lime Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

 

Stenger, R., Barkle, G., Wall, A., and Clague, J.  (2007) Low groundwater N contamination in spite of high land use intensity - the Toenepi dairying catchment experience.  In Designing sustainable farms - critical aspects of soil and water.