Environment and Resource Management

Technical reports

Product title Brief description Availability
Salinity hazard mapping in Queensland

This report describes the salinity hazard mapping done in parts of Queensland during 2000–2001

Authors: Moss J et al.

In preparation
For more information, email James Moss or phone: 07 3896 9630
Water Level Trends in the Original St George Irrigation Area, Lower Balonne Region, Southern Queensland, Australia

This report describes an assessment of trends in groundwater levels under the St George Irrigation Area

Authors: Pearce BR and Hansen JWL (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Lower Balonne Region and SA07 Airborne Geophysics Calibration Program

Authors: Hansen JWL, Barclay DF, Hogan BL and Pearce BR (2003)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Dawson River Sub-Catchment

Authors: Hansen JWL and Pearce BR (2003)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Fitzroy River Sub-Catchment

Authors: Hansen JWL, Lee RB and Pearce BR (2004)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Belyando and Suttor Rivers

Authors: Hansen JWL and Pearce BR (2004)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report for the National Action Plan – Salinity, Bremer Valley River Catchment

Author: Musk M (2004)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Northeast Darling Downs Region

Authors: Hansen JWL, Hogan BL, Barclay DF and Pearce BR (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Comet River Sub-Catchment

Authors: Hansen JWL, Pearce BR and Stegler J-CP (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Nogoa River Sub-Catchment

Authors: Hansen JWL, Pearce BR and Stegler J-CP (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Isaac and Mackenzie River Sub-Catchments

Authors: Hansen JWL, Lee RB and Pearce BR (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Southern Burnett River Sub-Catchments

Authors: Hansen JWL and Pearce BR (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Northern Mary River Sub-Catchment

Authors: Hansen JWL and Pearce BR (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Northern Burnett River Sub-Catchments

Authors: Hansen JWL and Pearce BR (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Upper Brisbane River Sub-Catchment

Authors: Hansen JWL and Pearce BR (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Progress Drilling Report: Lockyer Creek Sub-Catchment

Authors: Hansen JWL and Pearce BR (2005)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Belyando and Suttor Rivers, Central Queensland, Australia

Authors: Jensen GR, Cornish T, Willmott A, Pearce BR, Hansen JWL and Reading LP (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Comet River Sub-Catchment, Central Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR and Hansen JWL (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Dawson River Sub-Catchment, Central Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR, Hansen JWL and Jackson JA (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Northeast Darling Downs Region, Southern Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR, Hansen JWL, Stegler J-CP, Lee RB and Jackson JA (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Fitzroy River Sub-Catchment, Central Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR and Hansen JWL (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Nogoa River Sub-Catchment, Central Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR and Hansen JWL (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Isaac and Mackenzie River Sub-Catchments, Central Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR and Hansen JWL (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Monto–Eidsvold Region, Northern Burnett River Sub-Catchments, Southern Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR, Hansen JWL, Reading LP, white TT and Zirilli JP (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Kingaroy–Murgon Region, Southern Burnett River Sub-Catchments, Southern Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR, Hansen JWL, Reading LP, white TT and Zirilli JP (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Bremer River Sub-Catchment, Southeast Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR and McMahon GA (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Investigation of the Lockyer Creek Sub-Catchment, Southeast Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR, Hansen JWL and White TT (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Hydrogeological Conceptual Model for the Lower Balonne Region, Southern Queensland, Australia

Authors: Pearce BR, Hansen JWL, Lee RB, Stegler J-CP, Reading LP, Jackson JA and Durick AM (2006)

Available by emailing Bruce Pearce or phone: 07 3896 9129
Creation of Soil Attribute Surfaces for Landscape Salinity Hazard Assessment

This report describes the creation of soil attribute layers for inclusion in the Salinity Hazard Mapping (SA01) project

Author: Brough DM (2001)

Available by emailing Daniel Brough or phone: 07 3896
Creation of Soil Attribute Surfaces for Landscape Salinity Hazard Assessment - Version 2

This report is an updated version of the procedures used to create soil attribute surfaces for salinity hazard assessment

Author: Brough DM (2003)

Available by emailing Daniel Brough or phone: 07 3896
A Rapid Method for Soil Bulk Density Sampling in Queensland

This report describes the new standard method for measuring soil bulk density in Queensland, from field collection to laboratory measurement

Authors: Sharpe G, Conlon D, Claridge J and Brough DM (2004)

Available by emailing Daniel Brough or phone: 07 3896
Soil and landscape attributes: A report on the creation of a soil and landscape information system for Queensland

This report describes the creation of an enhanced range of soil and landscape attribute layers for use in environmental modelling (e.g. salinity and water quality); it also includes information on the procedures used in selecting new site locations for field data collection

Authors: Brough DM, Claridge J and Grundy MJ (2006)

Available by emailing Daniel Brough or phone: 07 3896
Modelling the land surface: Technical report on the creation of digital elevation models for the NAP catchments of Queensland

This report describes the processes used to generate new high resolution digital elevation models for Queensland, including information on the statistical verification of the digital elevation models

Authors: Smith DM and Brough DM (2006)

Available by emailing Daniel Brough or phone: 07 3896
Key Reference Sites for Queensland – a compendium of soil and regolith reference sites

This report contains detailed morphological and chemical information about the 39 key reference sites for Queensland

Authors: Harms BP and Main AK (2006)

Available by emailing Ben Harms or phone: 07 3896 9609
Mapping Land Use in Queensland – Technical Report on the 1999 Land Use Map for Queensland

This report describes the mapping methodology and results for the 1999 Queensland land use data

Authors: Witte C, van den Berg D, Rowland T, O’Donnell T, Denham R, Pitt G and Simpson J (2006)

Available by emailing Christian Witte or phone: 07 3896 9832
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Salinity risk analysis (SRA) – a tool for analysing and managing risk of salinity

This report describes a paper based tool for learning about factors that drive or manage salinity potential in a locality

Authors: Owens JS, Gammie N, Freebairn D, Claridge J, Rattray D and Silburn DM (2004)

Email Mark Silburn or phone: 07 4688 1281
Deep Drainage – so what? Part A. Report on the 2nd Northern Murray-Darling Water Balance Workshop

This report describes the outcomes from a deep drainage workshop held at Narrabri from 19-20 Nov 2003, published by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation

Authors: Silburn DM, Vervoort RW, Schick N (2004)

Available online at Cotton Research and Development Corporation or by emailing Mark Silburn or phone: 07 4688 1281
Streamflow modelling, groundwater balance and recharge estimates for Hodgson Creek, Condamine Catchment, Queensland

This report describes an assessment of the groundwater status, pumping and trends, and streamflow and baseflow, in a sub-catchment on the Condamine

Authors: Sunil D and Silburn DM (2005)

Email Mark Silburn or phone: 07 4688 1281
Salinity (EC), salt load and stream flow in Hodgson Creek

This report describes an analysis of stream salt loads and catchment salt balancein a sub-catchment on the Condamine

Authors: McNeil V and Silburn DM (2005)

Email Mark Silburn or phone: 07 4688 1281
Understanding dryland salinity in the Belyando Suttor: some preliminary findings

This report describes an initial investigation into understanding salinity in the Belyando-Suttor subcatchment of the Burdekin

Authors: Belyando Suttor Implementation Group (2005)

Assessment of the potential for salinity and waterlogging in the Felton Valley landcare area: final report to Condamine Alliance

This report describes an assessment of soil salinity (using EM survey), to assess approaches for prioritising where to invest in managing salinity at the local scale (within a group of farms), in the Felton Valley, Darling Downs, Queensland

Authors: Silburn DM, Moss JB, deVoil RC and Huggins J (2005)

Email Mark Silburn or phone: 07 4688 1281
Evaluation of the 2Csalt model for Hodgson Creek

This report describes the evaluation of a catchment surface and ground water and salt balance model, which considers effects of spatial land use

Authors: Silburn DM and Owens JS (2005)

Email Mark Silburn or phone: 07 4688 1281
Salinity risk in the Cattle Creek sub-catchment of the Mitchell River, Queensland

This report describes the irrigation salinity risk assessment conducted in the Cattle Creek sub-catchment

Authors: Webb I, Hateley L, Nelson P and Dwyer D (2005)

Available by emailing NRSc Data Coordinator or phone: 07 3896 9502
Landscape and Salinity Assessment of the Black Snake Creek Catchment, south east Queensland

This report describes the investigation into salinity processes operating in the Black Snake Creek Catchment

Authors: MD Ellis and RC Bigwood (2006)

Available by emailing Marissa Ellis or phone: 07 4131 5843
Strategic Salinity Risk Assessment in the Condamine Catchment

This report describes the current and potential salinity risk in the Condamine catchment

Authors: Searle RD, Watling KM, Biggs AJW and Secombe KE (2007)

Available by emailing Kristie Watling or phone: 07 4688 1092
Salinity Risk Assessment for the Fitzroy Basin

This report describes the current and potential salinity risk in the Fitzroy Basin

Authors: Chamberlain T, Silburn DM, Forster BA, Wearing C, Moss J, Reading LP, Owens JS and Pearce BR

For more information, email Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
A review of salinity occurrences in the Fitzroy Basin

Fitzroy Basin Salinity Risk Assessment Project Component Report: This reports describes the currently known salinity occurrences in the Fitzroy Basin

Author: Forster BA

In preparation
For more information, email Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Deep drainage estimates under a range of land uses and soils in the Fitzroy Basin

Fitzroy Basin Salinity Risk Assessment Project Component Report: This report describes deep drainage estimates for soil-land use-climate combinations across the Fitzroy Basin, derived using soil water balance modelling

Authors: Owens JS, Silburn DM, Forster BA, Chamberlain T and Wearing C

In preparation
For more information, email Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
BC2C modelling of the Fitzroy Basin

Fitzroy Basin Salinity Risk Assessment Project Component Report: This report describes response times of stream salinity to changes in land use for subcatchments of the Fitzroy

Authors: Reading LP and Pearce BR

In preparation
For more information, email Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Catchment salt balances for the Fitzroy Basin

Fitzroy Basin Salinity Risk Assessment Project Component Report: This report describes stream salt loads and catchment salt balances for subcatchments of the Fitzroy

Authors: Silburn DM, Owens JS, Chamberlain T, Vitkovsky J, Cresswell R and McNeil V

In preparation
For more information, email Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Land use history of the Fitzroy Basin

Fitzroy Basin Salinity Risk Assessment Project Component Report: This report describes the history of land clearing and development in the Fitzroy Basin

Authors: Wearing C and Verwey P

In preparation
For more information, email Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Salinity Risk Assessment in the Queensland Murray-Darling Report

This report will describe the current and potential salinity risk in the Queensland Murray-Darling catchment

Authors: Watling KM et al.

In preparation
For more information, email Kristie Watling or phone: 07 4688 1092
Product title Brief description Availability
Salinity investigations using airborne geophysics in the Lower Balonne area, southern Queensland

This report describes the results from investigations in the Lower Balonne area, which were done to enhance the understanding of the regolith, soils, salt stores and groundwater status of the area

Authors: Wilkinson K and Chamberlain T (2004)

Available by emailing NRSc Data Coordinator or phone: 07 3896 9502
Progress report on drilling for the National Action Plan – Salinity: Maranoa, Lower Balonne and Moonie catchments (incorporating airborne electromagnetic survey calibration program)

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Barclay D, Hansen J, Hogan B, Jackson J, Pearce BP, Watts S and Voke S (2003)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Spatial soil properties in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia: Technical Report 2004

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Claridge J and Grundy MJ (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Fluvial architecture of the subsurface of the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Clarke JDA and Riesz AL (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Hydrochemistry of diamond core profiles from the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Author: Coram J (2003)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Chlorine 36 analysis of diamond core profiles from the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Author: Cresswell R (2003)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Groundwater ages, sources of salt and recharge mechanisms in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland: isotope and geochemical data

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Author: Herczeg AL (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Diamond core drilling for stratigraphic logging, geophysical logging and pore fluid analysis in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Author: Jones G (2003)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Applicability of airborne electromagnetics at farm scale in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Jones G, Mullen I and Kellett J (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Drilling for AEM calibration in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Kellett J and Mullen I (2003)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Regolith landforms in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Kernich A, Pain CF, Kilgour P and Maly B (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Constrained inversion of AEM data from the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Lane R, Brodie R and Fitzpatrick A (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Air drilling for field measurement of hydrogeological properties in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Macaulay S and Kellett J (2003)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Flowtube modelling in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Macaulay S and Mullen I (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Palynostratigraphic analysis of core samples from the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Author: Macphail MK (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Salt load calculations based on pore fluid chemistry and AEM in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Mullen I and Kellett J (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Groundwater salinity interpretation using AEM in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Mullen I and Kellett J (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Laboratory methods and analysis of pore fluids from diamond core samples in the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Mullen I, Kellett J, Plazinska A and Spring J (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Core descriptions of ten conventional cores from the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Payenberg THD and Reilly MRW (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
A report on the compilation of a hydrogeological conceptual model for the Lower Balonne area, Southern Queensland, Australia

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Authors: Pearce BR, Hansen JWL, Jackson JA, Lee RB, Stegler JP, Voke SJ and Vowles CM (2004)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897
Investigation into the salinisation of the Goondoola Basin, southern Queensland: Masters in Engineering Science thesis, University of New South Wales

Lower Balonne Airborne Geophysics Project Component Report

Author: Wilkinson K (2003)

Available by emailing Tessa Chamberlain or phone: 07 3896 9897

Last updated: 22 December 2008

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