Research Themes
Themes are high-level groupings of multi-disciplinary research
topics that may have wide applications, but are unified by a common
strategic direction within the overall objectives of LEME. Themes
ensured the best integration of research capabilities and resources
across all nodes of LEME. All themes provided a direct focus on stakeholder
interests, and many of them bound the two principle applications
of NRM and MINEX. They therefore focused the individual research projects,
and enhanced the cohesion of LEME. Individual projects adopted by
LEME must have addressed at least one of the nine themes.
The themes remained broadly similar to those adopted in the first
year of LEME. However, in some areas they were re-scoped to
reflect new opportunities, changing stakeholder focus and scientific
advancements in the first three years.
Theme 1. Understanding regolith processes
Theme 2. Models of regolith-landscape Evolution
Theme 3. Acid and alkaline soils
Theme 4. Regional mineral exploration studies
Theme 5. Making geochemistry more effective
Theme 6. Geophysical mapping and modelling
Theme 7. Salinity systems in regolith and
groundwater
Theme 8. Regolith geoscience and urban
Australia
Theme 9. Environmental geochemistry and
the regolith
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