Professor Peter Erskine
Professor

Peter Erskine

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Availability

Professor Peter Erskine is:
Not available for supervision

Fields of research

Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences Environmental Sciences Forestry sciences

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Rehabilitation of degraded land

    Leading multi-disciplinary teams designing monitoring programs, mine rehabilitation strategies, and landscape restoration in Australia, south-east Asia, and Africa.

  • Spatial ecology

  • Rainforest restoration

  • Metallophyte discovery and utilisation

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267 works between 1995 and 2025
All (267) Journal Article (145) Book Chapter (16) Conference Publication (43) Book (11) Other Outputs (52)

61 - 80 of 267 works

2021

Journal Article

Contrasting phosphorus (P) accumulation in response to soil P availability in ‘metal crops’ from P‑impoverished soils

Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D., Chaney, Rufus L., Sumail, Sukaibin and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Contrasting phosphorus (P) accumulation in response to soil P availability in ‘metal crops’ from P‑impoverished soils. Plant and Soil, 467 (1-2), 155-164. doi: 10.1007/s11104-021-05075-9

Contrasting phosphorus (P) accumulation in response to soil P availability in ‘metal crops’ from P‑impoverished soils

2021

Journal Article

Variation in the ionome of tropical 'metal crops' in response to soil potassium availability

Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D., Chaney, Rufus L., Sumail, Sukaibin and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Variation in the ionome of tropical 'metal crops' in response to soil potassium availability. Plant and Soil, 465 (1-2), 185-195. doi: 10.1007/s11104-021-04995-w

Variation in the ionome of tropical 'metal crops' in response to soil potassium availability

2021

Conference Publication

A review of remote sensing of post-mine rehabilitation for ecological outcomes

McKenna, Phillip, Lechner, Alex, Phinn, Stuart and Erskine, Peter (2021). A review of remote sensing of post-mine rehabilitation for ecological outcomes. SERA 2021 Restoration - Connecting Land, Water, Culture And Environment, Darwin, NT, Australia, 10-13 May 2021.

A review of remote sensing of post-mine rehabilitation for ecological outcomes

2021

Conference Publication

Recovery trends following fires in rehabilitation in central and southern Queensland

McKenna, Phillip, Erskine, Peter, Phinn, Stuart, Glenn, Vanessa and Ufer, Natasha (2021). Recovery trends following fires in rehabilitation in central and southern Queensland. Life of Mine 2021, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 28-30 April 2021.

Recovery trends following fires in rehabilitation in central and southern Queensland

2021

Journal Article

Rare earth elements (REE) in soils and plants of a uranium-REE mine site and exploration target in Central Queensland, Australia

Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Erskine, Peter D. , Erskine, Joseph D. and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Rare earth elements (REE) in soils and plants of a uranium-REE mine site and exploration target in Central Queensland, Australia. Plant and Soil, 464 (1-2), 375-389. doi: 10.1007/s11104-021-04956-3

Rare earth elements (REE) in soils and plants of a uranium-REE mine site and exploration target in Central Queensland, Australia

2021

Journal Article

Incidence of hyperaccumulation and tissue-level distribution of manganese, cobalt and zinc in the genus Gossia (Myrtaceae)

Abubakari, Farida, Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Fernando, Denise R., Brown, Gillian K., Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Incidence of hyperaccumulation and tissue-level distribution of manganese, cobalt and zinc in the genus Gossia (Myrtaceae). Metallomics, 13 (4) mfab008. doi: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfab008

Incidence of hyperaccumulation and tissue-level distribution of manganese, cobalt and zinc in the genus Gossia (Myrtaceae)

2021

Other Outputs

Testing the resilience of mine site rehabilitation

McKenna, Phillip, Ufer, Natasha , Erskine, Peter, Glenn, Vanessa, Doley, David and Nath, Vinod (2021). Testing the resilience of mine site rehabilitation. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

Testing the resilience of mine site rehabilitation

2021

Journal Article

Modelling the diameter distribution of savanna trees with drone-based LiDAR

Rudge, Mitchel L. M., Levick, Shaun R., Bartolo, Renee E. and Erskine, Peter D. (2021). Modelling the diameter distribution of savanna trees with drone-based LiDAR. Remote Sensing, 13 (7) 1266, 1266. doi: 10.3390/rs13071266

Modelling the diameter distribution of savanna trees with drone-based LiDAR

2021

Other Outputs

Plot size does matter in vegetation assessments of savanna ecosystems

Hernandez-Santin, Lorna and Erskine, Peter D. (2021). Plot size does matter in vegetation assessments of savanna ecosystems. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

Plot size does matter in vegetation assessments of savanna ecosystems

2021

Journal Article

Manganese (hyper)accumulation within Australian Denhamia (Celastraceae): an assessment of the trait and manganese accumulation under controlled conditions

Abubakari, Farida, Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Erskine, Peter D., Brown, Gillian K., Fernando, Denise R., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Manganese (hyper)accumulation within Australian Denhamia (Celastraceae): an assessment of the trait and manganese accumulation under controlled conditions. Plant and Soil, 463 (1-2), 205-223. doi: 10.1007/s11104-021-04833-z

Manganese (hyper)accumulation within Australian Denhamia (Celastraceae): an assessment of the trait and manganese accumulation under controlled conditions

2021

Journal Article

Understanding the impacts of mining on ecosystem services through a systematic review

Boldy, Robyn, Santini, Talitha, Annandale, Mark, Erskine, Peter D. and Sonter, Laura J. (2021). Understanding the impacts of mining on ecosystem services through a systematic review. Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal, 8 (1), 457-466. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2020.12.005

Understanding the impacts of mining on ecosystem services through a systematic review

2021

Conference Publication

Measuring rehabilitation success using remote sensing

McKenna, Phillip, Lechner, Alex, Phinn, Stuart and Erskine, Peter (2021, 02 21). Measuring rehabilitation success using remote sensing AusIMM Bulletin

Measuring rehabilitation success using remote sensing

2021

Journal Article

Root foraging and selenium uptake in the Australian hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis and non‐accumulator Neptunia gracilis

Pinto Irish, Katherine, Harvey, Maggie-Anne, Erskine, Peter D. and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Root foraging and selenium uptake in the Australian hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis and non‐accumulator Neptunia gracilis. Plant and Soil, 462 (1-2), 219-233. doi: 10.1007/s11104-021-04843-x

Root foraging and selenium uptake in the Australian hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis and non‐accumulator Neptunia gracilis

2021

Conference Publication

Establishing framework species in bauxite mine rehabilitation in northern Australia

Ufer, Natasha, Meadows, John, Annandale, Mark, Erskine, Peter, Conroy, Gabriel and Boldy, Robyn (2021). Establishing framework species in bauxite mine rehabilitation in northern Australia. SERA 2021 Restoration - Connecting Land, Water, Culture And Environment, Darwin, NT Australia, 10-13 May 2021.

Establishing framework species in bauxite mine rehabilitation in northern Australia

2021

Journal Article

Reference site selection protocols for mine site ecosystem restoration

Hernandez‐Santin, Lorna, Rudge, Mitchel L., Bartolo, Renee E., Whiteside, Timothy G. and Erskine, Peter D. (2021). Reference site selection protocols for mine site ecosystem restoration. Restoration Ecology, 29 (1) rec.13278. doi: 10.1111/rec.13278

Reference site selection protocols for mine site ecosystem restoration

2020

Other Outputs

Detection of weed species using high-resolution drone imagery and object based image analysis

Erskine, Peter, Mckenna, Phillip and Hernandez-Santin, Lorna (2020). Detection of weed species using high-resolution drone imagery and object based image analysis. Brisbane: The University of Queensland.

Detection of weed species using high-resolution drone imagery and object based image analysis

2020

Other Outputs

Testing the resilience of mine site rehabilitation: final project report for Newlands Coal

McKenna, Phillip,, Ufer, Natasha, Erskine, Peter and Glenn, Vanessa (2020). Testing the resilience of mine site rehabilitation: final project report for Newlands Coal. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

Testing the resilience of mine site rehabilitation: final project report for Newlands Coal

2020

Other Outputs

Moranbah post-mining land use collaborative project - Baseline Works

Côte, Claire Madeleine, Everingham, Jo-Anne, Svobodova, Kamila, Worden, Sandy, Asmussen, Pascal, Shaygan, Mandana, Paz, Anat, Pagliero, Liliana, Edraki, Mansour and Erskine, Peter (2020). Moranbah post-mining land use collaborative project - Baseline Works. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Sustainable Minerals Institute.

Moranbah post-mining land use collaborative project - Baseline Works

2020

Journal Article

Toward Closing a Loophole: Recovering Rare Earth Elements from Uranium Metallurgical Process Tailings

Vaughan, James , Tungpalan, Kate , Parbhakar-Fox, Anita , Fu, Weng, Gagen, Emma , Nti Nkrumah, Philip , Southam, Gordon, van der Ent, Antony, Erskine, Peter, Gow, Paul and Valenta, Rick (2020). Toward Closing a Loophole: Recovering Rare Earth Elements from Uranium Metallurgical Process Tailings. JOM, 73 (1), 39-53. doi: 10.1007/s11837-020-04451-7

Toward Closing a Loophole: Recovering Rare Earth Elements from Uranium Metallurgical Process Tailings

2020

Journal Article

Treasure from trash: Mining critical metals from waste and unconventional sources

van der Ent, Antony, Parbhakar-Fox, Anita and Erskine, Peter D. (2020). Treasure from trash: Mining critical metals from waste and unconventional sources. Science of The Total Environment, 758 143673, 143673. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143673

Treasure from trash: Mining critical metals from waste and unconventional sources

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    Optimising future copper production in the NW Mineral Province -Stage 1 scoping
    Queensland Department of Resources
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2027
    Quantitative Geophysics for Monitoring and Assessment of Mining Residue Structure
    Technological Resources Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2028
    CoastRI - Coastal Monitoring Network
    AuScope Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2025
    EarthDrone National Drone Infrastructure for the Earth with Cross-Platform Interoperability
    AuScope Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2025
    High-resolution monitoring of Newlands and Collinsville mine rehabilitation
    NC Coal Company Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2025
    Fingerprinting environmentally sustainable ores using neodymium isotopes
    Queensland Department of Resources
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2022 - 2024
    Expanding Queensland's Rare Earth Element opportunities - defining and extracting new REE resources
    Queensland Department of Resources
    Open grant
  • 2022
    Drones4waste - A multi-scale, ground-to-air characterisation of waste and rehabilitation, Hercules mine site, Tasmania (304MMGHDRONE)
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2024
    Carbon sequestration of forests in Vietnam and Uganda
    SK forest
    Open grant
  • 2021
    Selenium distribution and chemistry in the hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis
    Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
    Open grant
  • 2021
    Knowledge gaps and opportunities for earth observation tools in mine-rehabilitation at the property scale
    SmartSat CRC
    Open grant
  • 2021
    A Complex Orebodies Review of the Izok Lake Corridor Project (304MMGIZOK)
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Mine rehabilitation and closure collaboration project: Baseline Works
    Queensland Resources Council Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Transforming disparate approaches to remote sensing and monitoring to industry best practice (CRC TiME project administered by Dept Agriculture Water and the Environment)
    CRC TIME Limited
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2023
    Project ARK: Generating critical knowledge to support resilience-based management of Lady Elliot Island (Great Barrier Reef Foundation project administered by The University of the Sunshine Coast)
    University of the Sunshine Coast
    Open grant
  • 2020
    Baseline works for Moranbah post-mining land use collaborative project
    Anglo American Metallurgical Coal Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2024
    Extracting Queensland's Rare Earth Elements Sustainably
    Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Distribution and translocation of foliar applied nickel in soybean
    Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Hail Creek rehabilitation report card implementation
    Glencore Coal Assets Australia
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2023
    Provision of services and advice for ecosystem establishment and landform studies
    Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Energy
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2021
    Testing of the resilience of mine site rehabilitation
    NC Coal Company Pty Limited, New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2019
    Metallophyte plant species and ecotypes at Dugald River - A forgotten resource
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2019
    Advanced micro-X-ray Fluorescence facility for biological, medical, materials science and geochemistry
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2017
    An assessment and review of work relating to closure criteria and rehabilitation standards and related support for RPAS activities
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Building the framework for meeting closure criteria in waste rock dump design and performance
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2016
    Elucidating the Ni and Zn biopathways during seed germination in differential ecotypes of Noccaea caerulescens
    Australian Synchrotron Access Program (ANSTO)
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2018
    Applying converged monitoring to inform closure management against agreed criteria
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2017
    Cost efficient landscape rehabilitation assessment Phase 1
    Glencore Coal (NSW) Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2017
    Cost efficient empirically based framework using integrated datasets to demonstrate rehabilitation quality
    Australian Coal Association Research Program
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2018
    Measuring rehabilitation response to fire: Implications for long term resilience and mine closure
    Wesfarmers Curragh Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    The potential of Zambian copper-cobalt hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation of polluted (mining/smelter) soils
    University of Western Australia
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Flora and Fauna Monitoring
    Centennial Airly Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Establishment of step change flora monitoring and investigation of YS2-6 seepage points associated with Narrow and Kangaroo Creek Shrub Swamps
    Centennial Angus Place Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Swamp Ecosystem Health Impacts
    Springvale Coal Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013
    Landform and Rehabilitation Assessment for Charbon Coal Mine
    Charbon Coal Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Persoonia Hindii: Management and Research Program - species, distribution and security on the Newnes Plateau Angus Place
    Centennial Angus Place Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Persoonia Hindii: Management and Research Program - species, distribution and security on the Newnes Plateau Springvale
    Springvale Coal Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Development of a Long-term Ecological Research Monitoring Program for Significant Flora & Fauna Species at Airly Mine and Mugii Murum-ban SCA
    Centennial Airly Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    Analysing rehabilitation success at the McFarlane Project
    QER Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2015
    Environmental and Ecological Assessment Methodologies for Centennial Coal Operations
    Springvale Coal Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2016
    Measuring the success of the rehabilitation strategies at the Curragh Mine 2012-2016 Assessment
    Wesfarmers Curragh Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2015
    XCQ Rehabilitation Management Protocol Implementation Project: Understanding the Business Exposure and Raising the Bar on Land Stewardship
    Xstrata Coal Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Monitoring surface condition of landscape features subject to mining subsidence with very high resolution imagery
    Australian Coal Association Research Program
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2011
    Development and monitoring of vegetation trails on spent shale from Paraho process
    QER Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2013
    Risk assessment tools to support end use decisions for mined land of the Bowen Basin
    Australian Coal Association Research Program
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Soil organic matter and green carbon in rehabilitation: their role in the carbon balance
    Australian Coal Association Research Program
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    Revegetation assessment program for the D-tree tenement and historic paradise workings in NW Queensland
    Legend International Holdings, Inc.
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2013
    Identifying cost-effective reforestation approaches for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in the Australian wet tropics
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2009
    Change detection in rehabilitation monitoring of degraded mined land
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2011
    Long term rehabilitation monitoring at Meandu Mine
    Tarong Energy Corporation Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2008
    Development of monitoring parameters for rehabilitation progress at RTA Weipa
    Technological Resources Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2002 - 2011
    Rehabilitation monitoring at Curragh Coal Mine
    Curragh Queensland Mining Limited
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Peter Erskine is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Testing the resilience of mine site rehabilitation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Stuart Phinn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Assessing the ecological trajectory of mine rehabilitation - Focusing on the Nabarlek Uranium Project

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Holcombe

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Acid Mine Drainage Passive Treatment Method Using Hyperaccumulator Plants for Post Mining Rehabilitation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Gordon Southam, Dr Denys Villa Gomez

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fire Resilience of Mine Site Rehabilitation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Stuart Phinn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fire Resilience of Mine Site Rehabilitation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Stuart Phinn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Assessing the ecological trajectory of mine rehabilitation - Focusing on the Nabarlek Uranium Project

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Holcombe

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Ecophysiology and molecular genetics of selenium tolerance and accumulation in the selenium hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Cheong Xin Chan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Ecophysiology and molecular genetics of selenium tolerance and accumulation in the selenium hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Cheong Xin Chan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Ecophysiology and molecular genetics of selenium tolerance and accumulation in the selenium hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Cheong Xin Chan

Completed supervision

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