Dr. Sharon O. Rourke

International Outgoing Fellowship
The University of Sydney, Australia

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Queen`s University of Belfast, UK

My URL
https://livedna.org/353.19192

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Area of Interest:

Plant and Soil Sciences
Environment Science
Agricultural Policy
Soil Management
Soil Properties

Selected Publications

  1. Minasny, B., B.P. Malone, A.B. McBratney, D.A. Angers and D. Arrouays et al., 2017. Soil carbon 4 per mille. Geoderma, 292: 59-86.
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  2. O'Rourke, S.M., U.L. Stockmann, N.M. Holden, A.B. McBratney and B. Minasny, 2016. An assessment of model averaging to improve predictive power of portable vis-NIR and XRF for the determination of agronomic soil properties. Geoderma, 279: 31-44.
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  3. O'Rourke, S.M., B. Minasny, N.M. Holden and A.B. McBratney, 2016. The synergistic use of visible-near infrared, mid infrared and x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy for the determination of soil geochemistry. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 80: 888-899.

  4. Flood, R.P., M.R. Bloemsma, G.J. Weltje, I.D. Barr, S.M. O'Rourke, J.N. Turner and J.D. Orford, 2016. Compositional data analysis of Holocene sediments from the West Bengal Sundarbans, India: Geochemical proxies for grain-size variability in a delta environment. Applied Geochem., 75: 222-235.
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  5. O'Rourke, S.M., D.A. Angers, N.M. Holden and A.B. McBratney, 2015. Soil organic carbon across scales. Global Change Biol., 10: 3561-3574.
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  6. Askari, M.S., S.M. O'Rourke and N.M. Holden, 2015. Evaluation of soil quality for agricultural production using visible-near-infrared spectroscopy. Geoderma, 243-244: 80-91.
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  7. Askari, M.S., J. Cui, S.M. O'Rourke and N.M. Holden, 2014. Evaluation of soil structural quality using VIS-NIR spectra. Soil Tillage Res., 146: 108-117.
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  8. O'rourke, S.M. and N.M. Holden, 2012. Determination of soil organic matter and carbon fractions in forest top soils using spectral data acquired from visible-near infrared hyperspectral images. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 76: 586-596.
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  9. O'Rourke, S.M., R.H. Foy, C.J. Watson, A. Gordon and D. Doody, 2011. Assessment of co-blending water treatment residual with dairy manure to reduce phosphorus concentrations in runoff in Northern Ireland. Soil Use Manage., 28: 157-166.
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  10. O'Rourke, S.M., I. Argentati and N.M. Holden, 2011. The effect of region of interest size on model calibration for soil organic carbon prediction from hyperspectral images of prepared soils. J. Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 19: 161-170.

  11. O'Rourke, S.M. and N.M. Holden, 2011. Optical sensing and chemometric analysis of soil organic carbon-a cost effective alternative to conventional laboratory methods? Soil Use Manage., 27: 143-155.
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  12. O'Rourke, S.M., R.H. Foy, C.J. Watson, C.P. Ferris and A. Gordon, 2010. Effect of varying the phosphorus content of dairy cow diets on losses of phosphorus in overland flow following surface applications of manure. J. Environ. Quality, 39: 2138-2146.
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