Soilsurvey

john has also played an important role in developing national standards for intensive surveys for agricultural management, and contributed to the latest australian publication for soil surveyors in australia (guidelines for surveying soil and land resources: australian soil and land survey handbook series, volume 2), published by australia’s csiro. being on the boundary between soil surveying, soil amelioration and civil engineering, john offers a unique and very valuable set of skills to clients, but also appreciates genuine expertise in others and teams up with them where appropriate. he combined his considerable field experience with a sound knowledge of european, australian, usda and fao norms and standards to develop a methodology to identify the key data sets that must be collected to satisfy the objectives of a particular project and land user.