Elizabeth Meier: Research Scientist

Elizabeth Meier is a research scientist with Meier IT and is based in Brisbane, Australia. Elizabeth specialises in simulating the productivity, environmental impact and profitability of agricultural practice. The aim of her work is to identify practices that improve the opportunities for, or resilience of, agricultural producers without adverse environmental impact. The modelling tools she use add value agricultural projects by:

• Capturing farm diversity by extending field results to new and future climates, years, locations and managements,
• Tracking environmental implications from off-site movement of nitrogen or generation of greenhouse gases,
• Providing greater insights by infilling missing or difficult-to-measure data,
• Focusing field experiment efforts through preliminary desk-top field experiments.

Elizabeth uses simulation approaches to research cropping systems in the Pacific and their potential for climate resilience.