Robert Armstrong

Dr Robert Armstrong has 14 years' experience among the fields of ecohydrological and agriculture systems research. He joined the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) in 2015 as a postdoctoral research fellow. He currently works with an esteemed team of UQ researchers on a major national initiative; Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI). The AAGI project includes three strategic partners: Curtin University, University of Queensland, and University of Adelaide along with the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). AAGI aims to harness quantitative analytics to drive the Australian agricultural sector’s profitability and global competitiveness.

Dr Armstrong's prior researach, involved leading an esteemed team of QAAFI researchers (2015-2023) and nationally based agronomic managers (2020-2023) in the development of a predictive modelling simulation framework for evaluating phenological and environmental conditions that can result in late-maturity alpha-amylase incidence that affects susceptible wheat genotypes.

Dr Armstrong's research interests include: quantitative geospatial and statistical analysis of climate and land surface data using geographical information systems (GIS), quantitative analysis of remotely sensed imagery; statistical and graphical programming, climate impacts and risks related to agricultural production, hydrological and flood hazard analysis of complex Canadian Prairie environments, and scaling impacts on terrain analysis for hydrological applications.

Dr Armstrong received his Doctoral Degree in 2011 from the University of Saskatchewan (B Sc, M Sc, Ph D), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. This research specialised in land surface and hydrological parameterisation and spatial variability in land surface evaporation modelling. From 2011-2014 he was awarded an NSERC Visiting Fellowship with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan).