Dr Haydon Jones

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Research capabilities

Soil Science / Pedology: impacts of land management and land-use change on soil carbon stocks; soil carbon inventory and sampling design, soil resource and land-use capability assessments, soil quality indicators, soil hydromorphology and drainage classification; soil-landscape modelling and spatial variability; land-use management and decision-making.

Career highlights

• Morice Fieldes Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis, New Zealand Society of Soil Science (2005)
• Sir Theodore Rigg Award for Best Masterate Thesis, New Zealand Society of Soil Science (1999)
• University of Waikato Postgraduate Scholarship (1998)

Selected papers

Jones, H.S. and Davis, M., 2009. New Zealand Soil Carbon Monitoring System – Methodological Framework. Scion Contract Report to the Ministry for the Environment. New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd, Rotorua.
Jones, H.S., Davis, M., and Wang, H., 2009. Effects of forest management practices on soil carbon. In Kirschbaum, M., Trotter, C., Wakelin, S., Baisden, T., Curtin, D., Dymond, J., Ghani, A., Jones, H.S., Deurer, M., Arnold, G., Beets, P.N., Davis, M.R., Hedley, C., Peltzer, D., Ross, C., Schipper, L., Sutherland, A., Wang, H., Beare, M., Clothier, B., Mason, N., and Ward, M. Carbon Stocks and Changes in New Zealand's Soils and Forests, and Implications of Post-2012 Accounting Options for Land-Based Emissions Offsets and Mitigation Opportunities. Landcare Research Contract Report to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry: LC0708/174, 1-457. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd, Lincoln.
Jones, H.S., Garrett, L.G., Beets, P.N., Kimberley, M.O., Oliver, G.R., 2008. Impacts of harvest residue management on soil carbon stocks in a plantation forest. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 72(6), 1621-1627.
Jones, H.S., Garrett, L.G., Beets, P.N., Kimberley, M.O., 2008. Effects of spot-mounding on the carbon and nitrogen stocks of a volcanic soil in New Zealand. Paper presented at the 11th North American Forest Soils Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 22-26 June 2008. p 111.
Jones, H.S., 2006. Impacts of harvest residue management on soil carbon stocks in Tarawera Forest. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science, Rotorua, 27-30 December 2006. p. 48.
Jones, H.S., Lowe, D.J., McLay, C., Payn, T., Kimberley, M., and Brabyn, L., 2004. Spatial prediction of soil properties in a radiata pine forest, northern New Zealand: how does forest harvesting affect the performance of prediction techniques? Paper presented at the 3rd Australian / New Zealand Soils Conference, University of Sydney, Australia, 5-9 December 2004.  p. 66.
Jones, H.S., Lowe, D.J., Payn, T., Kimberley, M., and Rijkse, W., 2004. Modifying soil drainage classes and redefining soilform criteria in New Zealand. Paper presented at the 3rd Australian / New Zealand Soils Conference, University of Sydney, Australia, 5-9 December 2004.  p. 50.