Science Wednesday: soils information for “somewhere” as well as for “anywhere”

This week’s Science Wednesday talk by Kirsten Verburg continues the theme of estimating plant-available water content from last week’s post; but Kirsten’s  GRDC-funded project is focussed on helping farmers to predict PAWC for one specific paddock, by combining their own local observations with landscape-level information provided centrally.

9 minutes into this 10-minute talk, Kirsten has some insightful things to say about using an app to put locally-and globally-derived information together for landholders (I’m not going to provide spoilers):