Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
My research explores the spatial and temporal interactions between soils, sediments and water at a range of scales. I am interested in the role of soil-surface water-shallow groundwater processes ranging from the micron scale to the landscape scale in landscape function. I seek to understand how these biogeochemical processes occur in a range of environments. This has allowed me to work closely with industry, government organisations (local, state and federal) and catchment management authorities to develop and apply findings from my research to improve land and water management strategies.
Specific areas include:
- Assessing the effects of land degradation processes like increasing salinity, sodicity and acidity
- Remediation of degraded environments
- Soil organic carbon dynamics
- Assessing acid sulfate soil environments
- Understanding the interactions between the hydrology, geomorphology, and soil and water biogeochemistry
- Determining the effects of waste application on agricultural land
- Developing new techniques for rapidly mapping soil and shallow groundwater properties in coastal floodplain environments
- Examining how climate change and climate variability influences the above processes
Research area keywords
- Geochemistry
- Land management
- Land use
- Soil Sciences
- Soil Sciences, Conservation
- Water Quality
- Waterway management
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Projects
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Improving coastal erosion assessments for Victoria – Embayments and Living Shorelines
Wong, V., Reef, R., Rogers, K., Saintilan, N. & Kennedy, D.
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) (Victoria)
15/12/18 → 30/05/22
Project: Research
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The role of vegetated foreshores in stabilising Australia's shorelines
Reef, R., Kennedy, D., Wong, V., Spencer, T., Brooks, S. & Moller, I.
1/08/18 → 30/07/21
Project: Research
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Harnessing open source technology to measure soil health and manage ecosystems, from the ground up
3/08/20 → 28/05/21
Project: Research
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Soil fertility assessments to improve taro production
Wong, V. & Macdonald, B.
26/11/18 → 1/03/19
Project: Other
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Australia's Plutonium Source Term: Plutonium Speciation, Fate and Transport in the Australian Environment
Wong, V. & Cook, M. L.
20/11/18 → 26/11/18
Project: Research
Research output
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50 years and worlds apart: Rethinking the Holocene occupation of Cloggs Cave (East Gippsland, SE Australia) five decades after its initial archaeological excavation and in light of GunaiKurnai world views
David, B., Fresløv, J., Mullett, R., Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Delannoy, J-J., McDowell, M., Urwin, C., Mialanes, J., Petchey, F., Wood, R., Russell, L., Arnold, L. J., Stephenson, B., Fullagar, R., Crouch, J., Ash, J., Berthet, J., Wong, V. N. L. & Green, H., 2021, In: Australian Archaeology. 87, 1, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Late survival of megafauna refuted for Cloggs Cave, SE Australia: Implications for the Australian Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction debate
David, B., Arnold, L. J., Delannoy, J. J., Fresløv, J., Urwin, C., Petchey, F., McDowell, M. C., Mullett, R., Mialanes, J., Wood, R., Crouch, J., Berthet, J., Wong, V. N. L., Green, H., Hellstrom, J. & Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, 1 Feb 2021, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 253, 15 p., 106781.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Organic carbon fractions in temperate mangrove and saltmarsh soils
Wong, V. N. L., Reef, R. E., Chan, C. & Goldsmith, K. S., Jan 2021, In: Soil Research. 59, 1, p. 34-43 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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2000 Year-old Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) Aboriginal food remains, Australia
Stephenson, B., David, B., Fresløv, J., Arnold, L. J., Delannoy, J. J., Petchey, F., Urwin, C., Wong, V. N. L., Fullagar, R., Green, H., Mialanes, J., McDowell, M., Wood, R., Hellstrom, J. & Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Dec 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 10 p., 22151.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus) -
Boost diversity of prizewinners
Wong, V. N. L. & Shaw, J. D., 9 Apr 2020, In: Nature. 580, 7802, p. 185 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Federal President - Soil Science Australia
Vanessa Wong (Chair/ Co-Chair)
2021 → …Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Land Degradation and Development (Journal)
Vanessa Wong (Editor in chief)
2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Federal Vice President - Soil Science Australia
Vanessa Wong (Chair/ Co-Chair)
Jan 2019 → 2020Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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International Union of Soil Science: Acid Sulfate Soil Working Group
Vanessa Wong (Chair/ Co-Chair)
2018 → …Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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EMCR Forum Executive
Vanessa Wong (Chair/ Co-Chair)
2018 → 2020Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body