Dr Vanessa Wong
Lecturer
Teaching
ATS1310: Natural Hazards and Human Vulnerability
ATS1301: Australian Physical Environments
ATS2774: Understanding Australian Landscapes: Soil-Vegetation Dynamics
ATS3788: Soils, Landscapes and their Management
Research
My research explores the interactions between soils, sediments and water, particularly in floodplain environments. I am interested in the temporal and spatial interactions in the biogeochemistry of both coastal and inland floodplain environments.
Specific areas include:
- Understanding the interactions between the hydrology, geomorphology and soil and water biogeochemistry during estuarine post-flood hypoxic events
- Developing new techniques for rapidly mapping soil and shallow groundwater properties in coastal floodplain environments
- Understanding the processes involved in the formation and mobilization of sulfidic sediments in inland waterways
- Assessing the effects of land degradation processes like salinisation, sodication and acidification and their remediation on soil processes, particularly carbon dynamics
- Examining how climate change and climate variability influences the above processes
Publications
Pain CF, Clarke JDA, Wong VNL (in press) Applied geomorphic mapping for land management in the River Murray corridor, SE Australia. In: MJ Smith, P Paron, JS Griffiths (Eds) “Geomorphological Mapping: a professional handbook of techniques and applications.” Developments in Earth Surface Processes 15, Elsevier, London
Wong VNL, Johnston SG, Bush RT, Sullivan LA, Burton ED, Slavich PG (in press) Anthropogenic forcing of estuarine hypoxic events in sub-tropical catchments: landscape drivers and biogeochemical processes. Science of the Total Environment. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.065
Johnston SG, Keene AF, Bush RT, Sullivan LA, Wong VNL (in press) Tidally driven water column hydro-geochemistry in a remediating acidic wetland. Journal of Hydrology
Wong VNL, Johnston SG, Bush RT, Sullivan LA, Burton ED, Slavich PG (2010) Seawater causes rapid trace metal mobilisation in coastal lowland acid sulfate soils: implications of sea level rise for water quality. Geoderma.160, 252-263.doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.10.002
Wong VNL, Johnston SG, Bush RT, Sullivan LA, Clay C, Burton ED, Slavich PG (2010) Spatial and temporal changes in estuarine water quality during a post-flood hypoxic event. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 87, 73-82. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.12.015
Wong VNL, Greene RSB, Dalal RC, Murphy BW (2010) Soil carbon dynamics in saline and sodic soils: a review. Soil Use and Management. 26, 2-11. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2009.00251.x
Wong, VNL, Dalal RC and Greene RSB (2009) Decomposition of added organic material in salt-scalded soils: a laboratory incubation. Applied Soil Ecology, 41, 29-40
Wong VNL, Dalal RC and Greene RSB (2008) Salinity and sodicity affects soil organic carbon flux. Biology and Fertility of Soils 44, 943-953
Wong VNL, Murphy BW, Greene RSB, Dalal RC (2008) Soil organic carbon stocks in saline and sodic landscapes. Australian Journal of Soil Research 46, 378-389
Eldridge DJ, Wong VNL (2005) Clumped and isolated trees influence soil nutrient levels in an Australian temperate box woodland. Plant and Soil 270, 331-342.
Wynn JG, Bird MI, Wong VNL (2005) Raleigh distillation and the depth profile of 13C/12C ratios of soil organic carbon from soils of disparate texture in Iron Range National Park, Far North Queensland, Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, 1961-1973.
Contact
Ph: +61 3 9905 2930
Fx: +61 3 9905 2948
vanessa.wong@monash.edu
Room No: Room W510,
Menzies building
(Building 11)
School of Geography and Environmental Science,
Monash University
Wellington Road Clayton
Victoria