There are professionals from many disciplines who can assist land managers in the management of dryland salinity. 

These disciplines fall broadly into the following areas: Extent and Monitoring, Processes, Management and Communication and Social Processes.  Within the broad areas there are a number of more specific disciplines. 

The quick-links below will take you to the contact details of a number of expert practitioners.

Please note that  these details were current at the end of the National Dryland Salinity Program.

Extent and Monitoring

Airborne geophysics

Ground geophysics

Satellite remote sensing

Land resource assessment & aerial photo interpretation

Groundwater monitoring

Economic methods

Processes

Regional hydrology/ hydrogeology

Groundwater modelling

Water balance modelling

Water quality processes

Recharge / discharge estimation

Management

Vegetation management and revegetation

Agroforestry for salinity control

Saltland systems

Crop growth and water use modelling

Tree growth and water use modelling

Drainage and pumping

Economic assessment and modelling

Communication and Social Processes

Extension and adoption

Community decision processes

Integrated catchment management / strategic planning

Support group networks

Databases and Web sites

Skills training

Information systems

Policy development

Infrastructure protection