Dr Hairsine’s primary research areas include sediment transport in agricultural and forested landscapes and mitigation strategies for improving water quality.
Current activities
Dr Peter Hairsine currently manages the Catchment and Aquatic Systems program. He oversees the research skills and quality of the program.
Dr Hairsine also is the leader of CSIRO Land and Water’s science development and leads a series of workshops on research skills, including journal paper writing.
Background
Dr Hairsine is an engineer by trade. He attended school in the city, but lived and worked in rural Queensland, Australia, doing a range of jobs as an agricultural contractor and employee of rural enterprises.
Dr Hairsine leads a series of workshops on research skills, including journal paper writing.
He was drawn to research on the basis of his time spent on farms and now has over 25 years of research experience.
Dr Hairsine is motivated by research that is useful in a problem solving sense. He enjoys teaching, and gets great pleasure in leading the journal paper writing workshops.
Academic qualifications
Dr Hairsine has been awarded a:
- Bachelor of Engineering (Distinction) Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (now the University of Southern Queensland), Australia, in 1983
- Doctor of Philosophy from the Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, in 1988.
Achievements
Dr Hairsine is the author of:
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57 journal articles
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41 reports
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eight book chapters
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63 conference papers.
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