Laboratory Analysis
Laboratory analyses of soil will be conducted using recognised methodologies as detailed in the tables below.
Analysis in accordance with the following methodology:
a. the ‘‘Soil Chemical Methods – Australasia’, Rayment GE and Lyons DJ, 2011. CSIRO Publishing, Australia (available at: https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/csirobk/9780643101364/9780643101364.body.pdf; and
b. the ‘Soil Physical Measurement and Interpretation for Land Evaluation. McKenzie N, Couglan K, Cresswell H, 2002. CSIRO Publishing, Australia (available at: Soil Physical Measurement and Interpretation for Land Evaluation | CSIRO Publishing
From about 3,000 sites estimate analysis of 30,000 samples for chemistry and archiving, 6,000 for biology and 600 for physics.
This project has been supported by funding through the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) under the National Soil Monitoring Program in collaboration with CSIRO