PLENARY—THE WHERE, WHY AND HOW OF SALINISATION AND WATER IMPACTS sponsored by the Australian Government

Dr Ken Lawrie, CRC Landscape Environment and Mineral Exploration, Australia
To what extend can recent advances in salinity mapping assessment create new salinity management (an policy) opportunities
Dr Don Suarez, US Salinity Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, USA
Irrigation salinity: the state of knowledge and emerging issues
Dr John Williams, NSW Natural Resources Commission, Australia
Dryland salinity: the state of knowledge and emerging issues

PLENARY—SUSTAINING THE ENVIRONMENT sponsored by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission

Dr Tom Hatton, CSIRO, Australia
Salinity in context: The inextricable links between environmental issues
Professor Max Finlayson, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Local responses to salinity and other environmental issues – dealing with science and global drivers

A1
Climate change and salinity

A2
Mapping and monitoring

A3
Risk and hazard assessment

A4
Regional policy dimensions

A5
Designing engineering solutions

A6
Irrigation systems and management

A7
Plant responses—forage and amenity plants

Peter Gell Trends in wetland salinity: Auditing the condition of wetlands relative to baseline

Peter Baker Use of stream sampling for salinity to target airborne electromagnetic surveys—examples from eastern Australia

Craig Beverly Building more robust hydrological models underpinned by new regolith-landform information

Anna Ridley Implementing SIF3 in Australian catchment regions

Phil Pfeiffer Saline groundwater disposal in the Murray–Darling Basin—a manager’s view on perceptions and realities

Andre Lauchli Does boron limit the use of saline water for irrigation?

Kenneth Marcum Salinity tolerance responses of urban landscape plants adapted to warm–temperate climatic zones

Pauline English The role of palaeovalley evolution in the manifestation of salinity across the Australian continent

Scott Macaulay Salinity and hydrogeological mapping in the lower Macquarie River catchment, NSW, Australia, using the TEMPEST™ airborne electromagnetic system

Jane Holzer

Jenny Alexander Victorian catchment management approaches to salinity investment

Andrew Telfer Salt interception schemes—hydrogeological settings and borefield design strategies in the Murray Basin

Riasat Ali Irrigation scheduling for water and salinity management in the Ord Irrigation Area

Maximo Alonso Modelling yield and quality of Bermuda grass irrigated with saline drainage water

Aleksandra Rancic Impact of the 1947 climate shift on rapid rise of groundwater tables, followed by dryland salinity expression in the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in NSW

Jonathan Clarke An Airborne Electromagnetic Survey Used To Address Salinity and Land Management Issues In The River Murray Corridor, S.E. Australia

David Rassam A simple approach to model the effects of multiple land use changes on discharge to streams

Ingrid Franssen The development of a salinity zoning policy to reduce future salinity impacts of irrigation in the South Australian Murray–Darling Basin

Peter Forward Design principles for aquifer and aquitard-controlled salt management basins for River Murray salinity control schemes in South Australia

Bakhshal Khan Lashari A farmer-managed tile drainage system: impacts on salinity management and lessons learnt from Sindh, Pakistan

Ghazi Abu Rumman Understanding salt and water dynamics to enhance the quality of turfgrasses irrigated with saline water in a Mediterranean environment: and evaluation of four species

Russell Speed Groundwater declines in response to a drier climate in the Northern Agricultural Region of Western Australia

Kok Piang Tan Airborne electromagnetic methods used in an integrated approach to assess salinity-related irrigation impacts on the Murray River floodplain

Brendan Christy Targeting landuse change to lower recharge to groundwater in dry environments

Andrew Bathgate Managing catchments for multiple objectives: the implications of land use change for salinity, biodiversity and economics

Richard Bell Salt-affected soils of south-west Australia: implications for deep drainage

Nicholas Kathijotes Wastewater reuse for irrigation: salinity evaluation of irrigated soils and examination of contamination hazards

Mary-Jane Rogers, The influence of salinity and waterlogging on growth, nutritive value and ion relations in Trifolium species

Syed Mahtab Ali Climate change impacts on water yields from irrigated catchments of south-west of Western Australia

Andrew Fitzpatrick Defining the magnitude and spatial patterns of floodplain salt storage and links with floodplain processes and vegetation health over the Kings Billabong floodplain

Anna Dutkiewicz Broadscale monitoring of salinity using satellite remote sensing: where to from here?

Ziaul Hoque Farm-level economic benefits of managing salinity with lucerne in the Central West Slopes of NSW

Geoff Hodgson Estimating current and future required artificial drainage for the Avon Basin, Western Australia, from LandMonitor salinity and valley hazard maps

James Ayars Sequential biological concentration: lessons learnt

Phillip Nichols Salt tolerance and avoidance mechanisms in germinating seedlings of annual pasture legumes

Linda O'Mullane Classical decision rules for adaptative policies in the Murray-Darling Basin in the face of climate change

Ian Overton Managing and protecting the local ecology and biodiversity of the lower Murray River floodplains in SE Australia using biophysical data derived from airborne EM survey data

Juliette Woods Modelling groundwater flow in regions with clay layers above the water table

Elizabeth Kington A comparison of different approaches to public funding for on-ground works to managing dryland salinity in the Western Australian Wheatbelt

Matt Giraudo Engineering salinity prefeasibility—Yenyenning Lakes Catchment

Wilko Schweers Aspects of groundwater use and salinity in the North China Plain

Natasha Teakle Lotus tenuis tolerates combined salinity and waterlogging: O2 transport to roots enables maintenance of ‘exclusion’ of Na and Cl from the xylem

Boama Amoafo Supporting the development and implementation of salinity management initiatives in the Sunraysia region in Victoria and NSW by enhancing our understanding of the regional hydrogeology through airborne geophysical data

James Burkitt Modelling the salinity impacts of catchment strategy implementation in the Shepparton Irrigation Region

Kelly Fyfe An integrated approach to managing river salinity impacts of water trade in the Victorian Mallee

Garrick Yandle Options to better manage the impacts of salinity on transport infrastructure within the Avon River Basin

John Rolls Success or over-kill: managing saline irrigation drainage water in the South Australian Riverland

Richard George Saline groundwater use and biomass production by lucerne in relation to groundwater salinity

PLENARY - MANAGING SALINITY ON THE GROUND

Associate Professor Mike Ewing, Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre, Australia
Plants for preventing, managing and living with saline landscapes: a global perspective
Professor Faisal Taha, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, UAE
Managing salinity in the developing world 

B1
Salinity process understanding

B2
Saltwater intrusion/ tsunami 2004

B3
Social dimensions: farming saline landscapes

B4
Economic dimensions of salinity

B5
Perennial plants for recharge

B6
Pasture production from saline land

B7
Salinity wetlands and stream health

Glenn Walker, Conceptual models for dryland salinity in the Australian landscape: Challenging the paradigm

Adrian Werner An Australian perspective of seawater intrusion

Rob England The friction of fact versus fiction

Kurt Schwabe Groundwater salinity management in California’s Central Valley: a common property evaluation

John Bartle, New woody crops and industries for the wheatbelt of southern Australia

Ed Barrett-Lennard Determining the suitability of saltland sites for the growth of saltbushes, tall wheatgrass and puccinellia (including Saltland Prospects Tutorial)

Russell Crosbie Should wetlands of the lower River Murray be subjected to wetting and drying cycles?

Mat Gilfedder An overview of catchment-scale salt mobilisation models

Hashim Carey Watertable tidal over-height: effects on near coastal groundwater flow

James Darling My salt, your salt: science, culture and agriculture

Bob Farquharson Public and private benefits of land use change in NSW and the policy implications for salinity management

Craig Neumann, Evaluating the performance of low rainfall woody crop species

Sarita Bennett Incorporating indicator species into predictions of watertable depth and soil salinity levels for land capability assessment

Glenn Passfield Do wetting and drying cycles for lower Murray wetlands prevent salt accumulation?

David Rowlands Temporal changes in stream salinity deduced from hydrochemistry and groundwater modelling

Peter Slavich Tsunami impacts on farming in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia

Liz Symes Clever salinity management using the science, the policy, the people, and the on ground actions

Robert Armour An economic case for drainage and leaching for salinisation control in the Orange-Riet and Orange-Vaal Water Users Associations of South Africa

Trevor Hobbs, Woody crops! What, where and how much?: spatial and economic analysis of potential in lower rainfall regions of southern Australia

Justin Hardy, User-friendly tool for saltland scoring, and solutions

Craig Beverly Protecting wetlands from salinity in the Avon Richardson catchment, Victoria Australia

Peter Dahlhaus Salinity without rising watertables: salinity processes and risk assessment in south-west Victoria, Australia

Achmad Rachman Salt leaching processes in the tsunami-affected areas of Aceh, Indonesia

Patty Please Who are we? Aspects of the self within salinity science

Jeffrey Connor, Integrated systems evaluation of climate change and future adaptation strategies for the Lower River Murray, Australia

Richard Harper, Using short rotation woody crops to reduce recharge and produce bioenergy

Andrew Bathgate The economic value of improving pasture production on saltland in southern Australia

Melissa White A floodplain vegetation restoration technique: injecting river water into a salinised aquifer

Ray Evans Conceptual model of groundwater connection to the Murray River in the Koondrook-Pericoota Forest, NSW, and possible salinity impacts of Living Murray actions

Fahmuddin Agus, Properties of tsunami-affected soils and the management implication

Chris Wright The Murray–Darling Basin Commission Salinity Registers—a contemporary environmental accountability framework

Sallyann Harvey Incorporating heterogeneous opportunity costs into contract design for salinity mitigating policies in Western Australia

Richard George Long-term monitoring of groundwater levels at 24 sites in Western Australia shows that integrated farm forestry systems have little impact on salinity

Richard Silberstein Salt and water balance of a salt bush grazing system—good news and bad news

Matt Stovold
An interpretative conceptual modeling approach for the identification of salinity within the Hotham-Williams-Murray Catchment in South-Western Australia

Sally Phelan and Michael Lloyd Saltland Revegetation Initiative—facilitating the adoption of saltland pastures in the Avon River Basin

Gerrit Schrale Economic impact of salinity on lower Murray horticulture

[to 1310] Nico Marcar Predicting plantation growth, water and salinity impacts with application to farm and catchment planning in western Victoria

Richard Silberstein Perennial pastures on saline land can change salt and water balances

PLENARY—SALINITY AND PEOPLE (SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS) / POLICY AND GOVERNMENT sponsored by Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation (SA)

Professor David Pannell, Australia
Salinity policy In Australia
Professor Steve Dovers, Australia
Salinity and sustainability: institutional and intellectual responses

C1
Mapping and monitoring

C2
Salinity process understanding

C3
Risk and hazard assessment

C4
Policy dimensions of salinity

C5/6
Plant responses

C7
Implications of engineering solutions

Graham Heinson Remote monitoring of groundwater flow in fractured rock using electrokinetic methods

Richard Cresswell CRESSWELL drives salinity! A personal view of dryland salinity in Australia

Riasat Ali Predicting impacts of current and future salinity on hydrology of major river systems of the Avon Basin of Western Australia

Shayne Annett Re-framing the debate for public investment in salinity management

Kib Jacobson The Ferron Irrigation Project—more than sprinklers

Paul Wilkes (TBC) Geophysical investigations in the mitigation of salinity in urban areas of Western Australia

Mark Silburn Salinity in Queensland—hydrologic change from soils to catchments

Daniel Brough Salinity in Queensland—irrigation

Geoff Park Transforming planning and practice for regional natural resource management: lessons from SIF3 in north central Victoria

Taek-Ryoun Kwon Roles of physiological works to link between genes and phenotypes for salinity tolerance in plants

Muhammad Saffar Mirjat Streamline pattern and salt leaching as affected by drain depths and differential flooding

Michael Hatch Techniques for defining variations in riverbed salt loads as an aid to managing river salinisation and the deterioration of nationally significant water resources

Greg Summerell, Stream event lateral flow contributions from a groundwater palaeochannel environment

John Triantafilis Salinity risk modelling in semi-arid Australia: a case study in the Bourke Irrigation District

Lee Georgeson National standards and methods for the measurement of land salinity

Maryam Tatari Effect of salinity and irrigation time on growth and yield of cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.)

Neil Viney Predicting the impacts of regional drainage management options on streamflows and salt loads in the major river systems of the Avon River Basin, Western Australia

Paul Thorn Resistivity methods and sensors for the detection and monitoring of saline intrusion into streams and groundwater wells

Jon Fawcett Dry land salinity associated with primary groundwater discharge zones in south-west Victoria

Ross Searle Assessing salinity risk: a new approach implemented in Queensland, Australia

Adam Hood, Dryland salinity in Australia—next steps—Ministerial Council Salinity Investment Principles

Abdulrasoul Al-Omran Effect of saline water and drip irrigation on tomato yield in sandy calcareous soils amended with natural conditioners

Ken McIntosh Moving from evaluation to planning implementation of engineering options for salinity management in the wheatbelt of south-west of Western Australia

Graham Heinson Electrical conductivity mapping of salinity: a new fractal approach

Justin Hughes Salt mobilisation in a large headwater catchment featuring a perennial stream

Cameron Wearing Fitzroy Basin salinity risk assessment

Ken Wallace Managing salinity and water for conservation outcomes

Joanne Pech Reducing foliar uptake of toxic ions from saline sprinkler irrigation

Riasat Ali Evaluating impacts of drainage discharge from engineering salinity schemes on water and soil chemistry of downstream river systems of the wheatbelt of Western Australia [title from abstract]

Michael Day Hyperspectral soil mineral mapping—a new tool for mapping soil salinity

Matthew Lenahan Geochemical evolution of saline groundwater in the unsaturated zone

Lance Mudgway Know what you are measuring—a detailed review of monitoring at Toolibin Lake and Lake Bryde

David Adamson Options for managing salinity in the Murray–Darling Basin under reduced rainfall

Ghorban Ali Roshani Evaluating water uptake models under salinity and water stress

Nick Cox The response of groundwater to drainage in bounded and un-bounded flow conditions

Mahmoud A Abdelfattah A model for salinity mapping using remote sensing and geographic information systems—a case study from United Arab Emirates

Mohammad Reza Mosaddeghi  Water characteristic curve and physical quality of soil as influenced by water salinity and sodicity

Amgad Elmahdi Forecasting lower Murray River salinity futures under climatic uncertainty and reduced dilution flow

Andrew McTaggart Salinity recovery of strategic water resource catchments in the South West of Western Australia

Rana Munns Sodium excluding genes from durum wheat and sea barley grass improve sodium exclusion of bread wheat

Rob Fitzpatrick Geochemistry and mineralogy of sulfidic drains in Tilley Swamp, South Australia

[to 1820] Mitsuhiro Inoue Evaluating the accuracy of dielectric moisture probes under saline condition

Matt Miles Integration of salinity and flow models for prioritisation of Lower River Murray Floodplains

D1
Geochemistry of saline soils and water sponsored by CRC LEME

D2
Catchment characterisation

D3
Social dimensions; practice change

D4
Regional case studies

D5
Grazing management speakers

D6
Saline resource industries

D7
Salinity and biodiversity

Steve Rogers Geochemical implications of salinity mitigation drainage engineering options—a global overview

Colin PainMulti-scale landscape mapping for catchment characterisation

Michael Robertson Constraints to farmers managing dryland salinity in the central wheatbelt of Western Australia

Ramón Aragüés Highlighting twenty years of salinity research in Spain's Ebro River Basin

Paul Sanford EverGraze—managing dryland salinity through profitable livestock production

Michael Longhurst Saline algae farming for biodiesel production and carbon capture

Rob Fitzpatrick Geochemical risks of saline acidic discharge from deep drains used to manage dryland salinity in Western Australia

John Wilford, Defining and evaluating hydrogeological-landscapes in upland regions of eastern Australia for salinity and water resource management

John Ginnivan, Mark Banting Irrigation landscape change

Phil Dyson Kamarooka re-loaded

Nick Edwards Sheep production in a puccinellia dominant pasture can be highly profitable on moderately saline, waterlogging prone saltland

Muhammad Irshad Sustainable management of salinity-induced land degradation

James Hall Identification of biodiversity assets and the potential for degradation by watertable-induced salinity

Ali Hassanli The Effect of Municipal Effluent with Different Irrigation Systems on Soil Salinity and Sodicity in an Arid Region

David Gibson Landscape evolution: a component of catchment characterisation

Bruce Munday Confessions of a communicator—sins of a spin doctor

Arunee Yuvaniyama Salinity problems and sustainable management in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeast Thailand

Justin Hardy An on-farm evaluation of the capability of saline land for livestock production in southern Australia

Wayne Hutchinson Utilising groundwater water from salinity interception schemes for aquaculture

Glen Bann Dryland salinity and terrestrial biodiversity in south-eastern Australia: surviving comes naturally

Brad Degens Geochemical risks of saline acidic discharge from deep drains used to manage dryland salinity in Western Australia: overview

James Hall Adding detail to the national Groundwater Flow Systems Framework—Kangaroo Island as a regional case study

Thomas Measham Complexity, knowledge and uncertainty: a social learning approach to overcoming constraints to managing salinity

Julie J Finnigan Implementing and monitoring salinity management practices within the Back Creek Catchment of Tasmania

Margaret Raeside Effect of grazing interval on the yield and quality of summer-active tall fescue herbage in western Victoria

Tahere Bagheri Investigation of blood serum osmo-ionregulation in great sturgeon (Huso huso) cultured in brackish water

Warren King Biodiversity and landscape function in salinised agricultural landscapes in Australia

Vanessa Wong Soil organic carbon fluxes in salt-affected soils

Nikki Mouat Identifying dominant catchment properties for predicting dryland salinity development in the Western Australian wheatbelt

Roger Wilkinson Tailoring salinity investment to the social needs of lifestyle landholders

David Kanzer The salinity control story in the upper Colorado River Basin illustrated by case studies

Rungruang Lertsirivorakul Saline water treatment using rice husk ash at salt-making area, Ban Dung District, Udonthani Province, Northeast Thailand

Matthew Humphrey The impacts of increasing soil salinities on epigeal invertebrate communities in a floodplain ecosystem in South Australia

Sara Beavis Salt cycling in bottom sediments of a salt disposal basin, Loveday Lagoon, South Australia: implications for management under drought or a changing climate

Kok Piang Tan An investigation of river and floodplain sedimentary systems and salinity along the Murray River using advanced coring technologies

Allan Nicholson Urban salinity—a journey from discovery to change implementation

Andrew Harding and Mervyn Lewis, Catchment planning for salinity management in the northern and Yorke region of SA

Jeffrey Turner Saline groundwater recovery, RO desalination and water use in a rural town V Merredin, WA

E1
Salinity extent in Australia

E2
Soil salinity and irrigation

E3
Regional policy dimensions

E4
Perennial plants for recharge control

E5
Regional case studies

E6
Nutritive value for livestock production

E7
Salinity and vegetation management

Richard George, Overview of the status of salinity extent in Australia and overview of trends in Western Australia

Jan Hopmans Sustainability of irrigated agriculture: climate change impacts on water resources and salinity

Lisa Robins, Capacity building for citizen-based regional NRM boards: delivering the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (2000–2008)

Matthew Helmers The adoptability of perennial-based farming systems for hydrologic and salinity control in dryland farming systems in Australia and the US

Bob Newman Forty years of living with salt—salinity management in the lower reaches of the Murray–Darling Basin

Hayley Norman  Old man saltbush in agriculture: feeding value for livestock production systems

Margaret Byrne Potential for genetic contamination of remnant native populations from planted stands of woody perennials in fragmented agricultural landscapes

Mark Reid Overview of groundwater trends and dryland salinity status in Victoria, 2007

Daniel Isidoro Twenty-five years of salt export loads in the irrigation return flows of La Violada irrigation district (Spain)

Rebecca Doble Future landscape scenarios in the lower River Murray corridor and their implications for river salinity and floodplain health

Phil Ward Production and water use by sub-tropical grasses in south-western Australia

Xiaobin Wang Assessment of irrigation and fertilisation practices for cotton crop in coastal salinity-affected areas near the Bohai Sea in China

Abdullah Al-Dakheel The potential of salt-tolerant plants and marginal resources in developing an integrated forage–livestock production system

Nathan Wong Limitations to shrub establish in native ecosystems

Mark Littleboy Salinity Audit update: upland catchments of the New South Wales Murray–Darling Basin

John L Hutson Simulating water and solute dynamics in irrigated soils: How complex do models need to be?

Sally Marsh Capacity needs for effective management of dryland salinity at the regional level: a tale of two catchment organisations

Alison Southwell The effect of pasture composition on the soil water deficits beneath native pastures in the high rainfall zone of south-eastern Australia

Chris Smitt Development of a vegetation and salinity monitoring and evaluation plan: Mallee CMA case study

Sharon Benes Forage production using saline drainage water: assessing the selenium hazard for grazing beef cattle

Lynley Stone Identifying and managing environmental weed risk posed by perennial pastures developed for dryland salinity mitigation

Colin Bastick
Salinity extent and trends—Tasmanian update

Tapas K Biswas Real-time vineyard root zone salinity monitoring with a modified suction cup

Glenice Batchelor Effectiveness of a publicly funded demonstration program to promote management of dryland salinity by landholders in the central wheatbelt of Western Australia

Richard Bennett New perennial pasture legumes: persistence and productivity of Australian Cullen species on deep acid sands in WA’s low-rainfall wheatbelt

Sara Beavis

Dianne Mayberry What is the optimal level of barley to feed sheep grazing saltbush?

Kate Holland The ‘Bookpurnong Experiment’: will groundwater management and flooding improve the health of the floodplain vegetation?

Trevor Dooley Salinity extent and trends in South Australia

Amy Richards Assessing Partial Rootzone Drying as a tool for salinity management in viticulture: outcomes from modelling and field trials

Eloise Seymour Understanding the capacity of catchment organisations to make decisions about natural resource management in Australia

Gorbachan Singh Reclamation and management of salt affected soils: Indian experience

Andrew Harrison Variations in catchment outlet base flow salinities and the relationship to spatial salinity distribution within the catchment. A study within the Murrumbidgee Valley NSW and the implications for salinity control works

Salah Attia-Ismail Feeding and nutritional value of halophytic plants as fed to small ruminants: a review

Claire Farrell Agricultural salt-land ecology: the seasonal effects of leaf litter and microsite on seedling recruitment in an alley-planted E. sargentii and Atriplex spp. system

Andrew Biggs, Secondary salinity status and assessment in Queensland, Australia

Thabo Thayalakumaran Is groundwater disposal necessary to preserve groundwater resource quality?

 Gemma Beard Local area planning: a collaborative approach to salinity management

Nico Marcar Tree-based approaches to managing salinity in Thailand and Pakistan

Syed Mahtab Ali Irrigation Scheduling for Improved productivity and salinity management in the southwest irrigation districts of Western Australia

Malem McLeod Suitability assessment for a range of Woody Germaplasm in Northern NSW