Initially upon being appointed as a member of teaching staff my research at the University of Sydney was focused on Pedometrics and Landscape-scale experimentation, the topics areas for my PhD and postdoc in the UK. While I still work in these areas my interests have broadened to include: - the monitoring of soil and water; - examining the way the links between the carbon and water cycle in terrestrial ecosystems change in space and time, and with scale. In recent times I have become more interested in simultaneously predicting variation in space and time which I believe requires a combination of statistical and mechanistic modeling. I am currently exploring the use of data assimilation approaches to achieve this. My principal research sites are the Muttama catchment in the Murrumbidgee, CoxÕs Creek catchment in the Namoi and a forested catchment on ÒArthursleighÓ a university-owned farm on the Southern Highlands.
