OUR TEAM
SOIL SCIENTISTS
Ed Barrett-Lennard
Senior Principal Research Scientist
+61 418 133 611
My role
I currently work as a researcher in the Soil Water and Nutrition (SWAN) collaboration between the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), with a focus on the management of sodic soils.
My background
I am a Senior Principal Soil Scientist with DPIRD and a Professorial Fellow at Murdoch University. For more than 40 years I have been a passionate researcher and advocate of the need to develop farming systems in response to landscape salinisation, waterlogging, sodicity and climate change.
My international work has been supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). I have worked in Australia (since 1982), Pakistan in a range of projects between 1986 and 2024, Iraq (2011-13), Bangladesh and India (2016-present), and Vietnam (2016-present).
I have published about 90 papers in international scientific journals, written four books, edited two conference proceedings and have about 5000 citations in Google Scholar.
Projects
My work in Australia has focused primarily on the sustainable use of saline land through revegetation with halophytes (1982-2016) and more recently (2016-present) on the management and use of soils affected by sodicity. My research has been supported in numerous projects by GRDC, Meat & Livestock Australia, AWIL, AgriFutures Australia (formerly RIRDC), Royalties for Regions, Council of Grain Growers Organisation and ACIAR.
Key expertise
My research interests lie in practical agriculture at the field scale at the intersection between agronomy, soil science and ecophysiology.
Qualifications
BSc (Agric) Hons; PhD