Staff Profile

Professor of Soil Science, Head of Centre for Soil and Environmental Research

Keith Cameron

ONZM, BSc(Hons) (Aberd) PhD (R'dg) FNZSSS FNZIAS MRSNZ

Keith Cameron

Contact Details

Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Location B124
Phone 64 3 423 0774
Extension
Email Keith.Cameron@lincoln.ac.nz
 

Currently Teaching

Soil fertility. Soil management. Soil physical conditions. Sustainable production and Environmental protection.
 

Academic and Professional Background

Queen's Birthday Honours

  • Appointed by the Queen as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to agricultural research.

Head of Centre for Soil and Environmental Research Lincoln University.

Past President, New Zealand Society of Soil Science.

Fellow of:

  • New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science
  • New Zealand Society of Soil Science.

Member of:

  • International Society of Soil Science
  • Soil Science Society of America
  • Royal Society of New Zealand
  • British Society of Soil Science
 

Current Research and Publications / Selected Publications

  • Soil and Environmental Quality, Soil fertility, Soil nitrogen, Nitrification inhibitors
  • Soil physics, Solute transport, Phospate and nitrate leaching (get more detail on Nitrate Busting research http://www.hotscience.co.nz/video_detail.php?videoid=128), Lysimetry
  • Dairy farming and the environment; ensuring sustainability of high production systems
  • Land application of wastes
  • Surface and subsoil cultivation


Cameron, K.C., Hedley, M., Clark, H. and Di, H.J. (2007). Impact of pasture and supplement feeding on the environment In: 'Pasture and Supplements for Grazing Animals' New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Occasional Publication No. 14, 287-309.

Cameron, K.C. and Di, H.J. (2004). Nitrogen leaching losses from different forms and rates of farm effluent applied to a Templeton soil in Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 47: 429-437.

Di, H.J., Cameron, K.C., Shen, J.P., Winefield, C.S., O’Callaghan, M., Bowatte, S. and He, J.Z. (2009). Nitrification driven by bacteria and not archaea in nitrogen rich grassland soils. Nature Geoscience. In press. Published on-line 30 Aug 2009.

Di, H.J., Cameron, K.C. and Sherlock, R.R. (2007). Comparison of the effectiveness of a nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide, in reducing nitrous oxide emissions in four different soils under different climatic and management conditions. Soil Use and Management 23: 1-9.

Di, H.J. and Cameron, K.C. (2008). Sources of nitrous oxide from 15N-labelled animal urine and urea fertiliser with and without a nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide (DCD). Australian Journal of Soil Research 46: 76-82.

Moir, J.L., Cameron, K.C. and Di, H.J. (2007). Effects of the nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide on soil mineral N, pasture yield, nutrient uptake and pasture quality in a grazed pasture system. Soil Use and Management 23: 111-120.

McLaren, R.G.; Cameron, K.C. (2005). Soil Science: Sustainable Production and Environmental Protection. Oxford University Press, Auckland, 304p.

 

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