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Professor Steven Raine

Name :	Professor Steven Raine
Position :	Head of Discipline (Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Professor (Irrigation and
Section :	Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Agriculture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office :	Z441
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	61 7 4631 1691
Extension :	1691
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BAgSc(Hons), MAgSt, PhD Qld

Home Page : http://www.usq.edu.au/users/raine
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Professional Memberships

Member of the Australian Society of Soil Science Inc
Member of the British Society of Soil Science
Member of the Soil Science Society of America
Member of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists

Professional Affiliations

Member of Irrigation Australia Limited

Research Interests

- Design and management practices for irrigation systems
- Decision support systems for irrigation management
- Factors influencing soil slaking and dispersion
- Soil aggregate hierarchy and structural stability
- Salinity, sodicity, soil-water and solute movement
- Natural resource management

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Langat, P.K., Smith, R.J. and RAINE, S.R (2008). Estimating the furrow infiltration characteristic from a single advance point. Irrigation Science 26:367–374

McCarthy, C., Hancock, N. and RAINE, S. (2008). On-the-go machine vision sensing of cotton plant geometric parameters: first results. In Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (J. Billingsley and R Bradbeer eds), Springer, New York. p305-12.

RAINE, SR, Meyer, WS, Rassam, DW, Hutson, JL and Cook, FJ (2007) Soil-water and solute movement under precision irrigation - knowledge gaps for managing sustainable root zones. Irrigation Science 26:91-100.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

AGR3304 Soil Science

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 15 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Head - Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Science Leader (Irrigation, Soils and Natural Resources), National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture