One of our students, Melissa Moyce is enjoying a Sydney experience, thanks to this year's Sydney Achievers International Scholarships and Dr Abdul Kalam International Scholarships.
A two-day intensive workshop has been presented on 4-5 April 2013 at the Soil Security Lab. The workshop covered three relevant areas of; how to process spectral data and how this can be used to measure the soil properties; techniques for soil spectral inference, and making it work in the field.
The Soil Security Lab in the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment at the University of Sydney recently hosted a training program for nine delegates from the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research & Development (IAARD), Ministry of Agriculture on Digital Soil Mapping (7 - 15 March 2013).
The Faculty of Agriculture and Environment recently hosted the first Stable Isotopes in Biosphere Systems (SIBS) workshop, which took place February 3-10 at the new Centre for Carbon Water and Food at the Cobbitty campus of the University of Sydney and was co-sponsored by the Australian National University
This year's lecture was held as part of the launch of the new Centre and was delivered by the Chief Scientist of Landcare Research in New Zealand, Dr David Whitehead.
Australia's first multidisciplinary research centre dedicated to tackling the nation's and region's biggest food security and environmental challenges, through the integrated study of carbon, food and water, has been launched today by Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Alumni and friends are encouraged to submit nominations for the 2013 Faculty Alumni Awards. The awards will recognise the extraordinary difference our alumni make in Australia and around the world.
University of Sydney academics are working with partners from Cambodia Vietnam and Laos to improve the way agriculture is taught at universities in Indochina.
Open to 2013 Year 4 students in the Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience and Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, valued at $3,000. Applications close Monday 18 March.
University of Sydney's Faculty of Agriculture and Environment and PMA Australia-New Zealand establish website, dedicated to all aspects of food safety for the fresh produce industries of Australia and New Zealand.