How do soils grow? Modelling soil development in the landscape

该项目涉及澳大利亚土地退化的基本环境问题。环境既敏感又多样，从集约农业，放牧到大规模工业。该项目将建立一个模型，使我们能够了解土壤形态和景观如何随时间演变，重建土壤的历史。该模型将使我们能够使澳大利亚人口意识到土壤形成的脆弱性。这将使社会更加意识到我们在澳大利亚景观中的不稳定地位。

This project addresses the fundamental environmental issue of land degradation in Australia. The environment is both sensitive and diverse with uses from intensive agriculture, grazing, to large scale industrial. This project will build a model that will enable us to understand how soil forms and landscape evolves with time, to reconstruct the history of soil. The model will allow us to make the Australian populous aware of the fragility of soil formation. This will lead to greater social awareness of our precarious position on the Australian landscape.