Deputy Head of School and Senior Lecturer in Soil Science
PhD, MSc, BSc(Hons)
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Life Sciences Building |
| Room Reference | 406 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2621 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7444 |
| Mobile | 0419 992 264 |
| Richard.Doyle@utas.edu.au |
Deputy Head of School
I lecture in topics including soil survey, soil formation, soil erosion, land evaluation, soil physics, soil mineralogy and soil chemistry. I am Unit Coordinator and Lecturer for the following units:
KLA213 - Soil formation, function and fertility
KLA381 - Agricultural Landscape Systems
KLA397 - Soil Science
I also supervise honours and postgraduate students in a range of topics.
A full list of publications are available from Dr Doyle's WARP resesarch report.
Hardie, MA and Doyle, RB and Cotching, WE and Lisson, S, ‘Subsurface Lateral Flow in Texture-Contrast (Duplex) Soils and Catchments with Shallow Bedrock’, Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2012 (2012)
Hardie, MA and Cotching, WE and Doyle, RB and Lisson, S, ‘Influence of climate, saturation and leaching on seasonal variations in potential water repellence’, Hydrological Processes: An International Journal pp. Published online in Wiley Online Library. ISSN 0885-6087 (2011)
Ives, SW and Cotching, WE and Sparrow, LA and Lisson, S and Doyle, RB, ‘Plant growth and soil responses to soil applied organic materials in Tasmania, Australia’, Waste Management: Industrial - Radioactive - Hazardous, 49 pp. 572-581. (2011)
Hardie, MA and Cotching, WE and Doyle, RB and Holz, GK and Lisson, S and Mattern, K, ‘Effect of antecedent soil moisture on preferential flow in a texture-contrast soil’, Journal of Hydrology, 398 (3-4) pp. 191-201. (2010)
Kirkham, JM and Rowe, BA and Doyle, RB, ‘Persistent improvements in the structure and hydraulic conductivity of a Ferrosol due to liming’, Australian Journal of Soil Research, 45 (3) pp. 218-233. (2007)
Sparrow, LA and Belbin, KC and Doyle, RB, ‘Organic carbon in the silt + clay fraction of Tasmanian soils’, Soil Use and Management, 22 pp. 219-220. (2006)
Osok, RM and Doyle, RB, ‘Soil development on dolerite and its implications for landscape history in southeastern Tasmania’, Geoderma, 121 (3-4) pp. 169-186. (2004)
Cumming, JP and Doyle, RB and Brown, PH, ‘Clomazone dissipation in four Tasmanian topsoils’, Weed Science, 50 (3) pp. 405-409. (2002)
Sir Theodore Rigg Award (1990), Teaching Merit Certificates (1997, 2006, 2009), Rotary University Teaching Schoalrship (2004), Past President of Tasmanian Branch of Soil Science Australia (2008-10), Vice-President of Soil Science Australia (2010-12), Convenor Joint ASSSI-NZSSS Soil Science Conference 2012
Dr. Richard Doyle has over 20 years research and teaching experience in Universities and private organizations in New Zealand, Africa and Australia. Richard is a Senior Lecturer in Soil Science specializing in soil formation, land evaluation, pesticides in soil and soil carbon dynamics. Within the School of Agricultural Science he coordinates and teaches three units. He has supervised/co-supervised 20 honours, 12 PhD and two Master’s research project completions. In 2004 he won a Rotary International University Teacher Scholarship to teach soil science at the University of Namibia for one semester. Richard has been involved in research into the fate of pesticides in soils, soil carbon balances, rural tree decline, soil salinity (NHT), soil formation processes and various geo-archaeology projects. He completed both his Masters and PhD on geo-archeological projects in northern Greece.