Action on the Ground Round 2 | Information for Clients of Bootstrap Environmental Services

Action on the Ground

Carbon Farming Futures

For Information of Clients of Bootstrap Environmental Services | Providing Project Soil Services

Applications for round two close 5:00pm (AEST) 23 May 2013.

Action on the Ground is a component of the Carbon Farming Futures Program and will invest up to $99 million of grant funding over six years to June 2017.

Action on the Ground assists farmers and land managers to undertake on-farm trials of abatement technologies, practices and management strategies to measure and demonstrate how these can reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions of methane and nitrous oxide or increase the sequestration of carbon in soil while maintaining farm productivity.

Under round two, individual grants up to $775 000 (GST Exclusive) are available for farmers, land managers, farming groups, researchers, industry sectors and non-government organisations to undertake projects that address at least one of the program’s three key priorities:

reduced methane emissions from livestock production systems
reduced nitrous oxide emissions
increased carbon sequestration in soils

How to apply in round two

Applicants seeking to apply for funding under round two of Action on the Ground are encouraged to read the program guidelines and Frequently Asked Questions in conjunction with the terms and conditions in the DAFF standard funding deed.
Program Guidelines 
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)DAFF funding deed
 
Once an application form has been downloaded, it can be saved to your computer and completed off-line. If you are submitting more than one application, you must download a separate application form for each proposal.

Application support notes are provided to guide you through the application form.

Application formApplication support notes  PDF [2.8 MB]
Application support notes  Word [1.6 MB]

On-line applications are preferred, but hard copies will be accepted. If you do not have access to the internet, you may request a hard copy application pack by calling the Action on the Ground hotline on 1800 025 005 or via email aotg.

Applicants should familiarise themselves with projects funded under the Climate Change Research Program and round one of the Filling the Research Gap and round one of Action on the Ground programs. This will ensure that new applications are underpinned by published research and will avoid direct duplication of existing projects in a region.

All projects funded under round two of Action on the Ground are required to carefully measure emissions abatement and/or soil carbon, using standard procedures.

We strongly recommend applicants review the Action on the Ground ‘Guidance for on-farm measurement of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon’.

‘Guidance for on-farm measurement of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon’  PDF [1.8 MB]
‘Guidance for on-farm measurement of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon’  Word [1.6 MB]


Applications for round two close 5:00pm (AEST) 23 May 2013.

Sunday Soil Scientist

Sunday Soil Scientist appears on the fantastic Soilduck Blog - here is my contribution and a bit About Me.  

Why soils? Well, this is a constant invigorated by my passion and wonder for a dynamic, complex habitat that is as resilient as it is fragile, especially in human hands.

How I came to be a soil scientist shares a path with the unconventional and is far more irregular than the unrelenting passion driving my love of regolith. My soils background is as much scientific as creative, as much practical as philosophical and as much fun as serious. Soils allow me a window to contemplate the vast and endless bigger picture of landscape complexity and soil science lets me organise my knowledge around this complexity.

Field soil sampling with the 'Chapple' hydraulic corer

Soil Services

Bootstrap Environmental Services seeks to improve natural environments and human communities with

the understanding that the two are interconnected and underpinned by soil health.

Adrianna Marchand of Bootstrap Environmental Services provides ecological & environmental services to fellow professionals, private and public clients including local & state government specialising in soil projects and technical services throughout NSW and Victoria.

Certified Professional Soil Scientist Competencies for Australian Soil Surveyors

Adrianna Marchand is Compliant with

Australian Society of Soil Science Inc (ASSSI)

Certified Professional Soil Scientist - Stage 1 (CPSS1)

Recommended Competencies for AUSTRALIAN SOIL SURVEYORS

Code of Ethics and Rules of Conduct

The Challenge

In talking about soil, we are involved in seeing how we can know and interact with soil better: to represent the interconnections which result in vital and alive soil and food and communities, to be able to observe changes on our farms & with a primary aim of being able to pass on this knowledge and act upon it, to attempt to provide legitimacy to soil assessment and provide direction for future research, to learn from each other and allow soil and our environment to be our teacher. We want to build a strong network of people interested in soil from ecological perspectives, we want to see farmers talking to farmers about their dirt. In a way, we know you are already out there; whether you have seen, felt, tasted, smelt or heard soil or are just curious about those millions of organisms in a teaspoon of soil.