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Simon Benger
Lecturer
GIS; Remote Sensing of Wetlands and Floodplains; Water Resources and Geohealth
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Contact Details
- Office: Room 319 Social Sciences North
- Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management,
Flinders University, GPO Box 2100,
Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
- Email: simon.benger@flinders.edu.au
- Phone: (08) 8201 5994 (in Australia);
(618) 8201 5994 (outside Australia)
- Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia);
(618) 8201 3521 (outside Australia)
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Qualifications
BSc (UNSW), BSc Hons (Newcastle), MSc (Toronto), PhD (ANU).
Positions Held
Lecturer in Spatial Information Systems.
Director of Studies, Bachelor of Applied GIS
Honours Convenor
Current Teaching
Current and Recent Scholarly Activities
- Relationships between Cancer and Geological Setting in NSW
- Ecological changes in the Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert, SA
- Ecological changes in the Macquarie Marshes, NSW
- Environmental change around the Tongle Sap, Cambodia
- Remote Sensing of Vegetation/Regolith Relationships
Research Areas
- GIS and Remote Sensing of Environment, Water Resources, Rivers and Wetlands
- GeoHealth
Selected Publications
- Benger, S.N. (2007) Remote sensing of ecological responses to changes in
the hydrological cycles of the tonie sap, Cambodia, Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007, IEEE international, 23-28 July 2007,
pp. 5028-31.
- Vo Van, P., Pearce, M. and Benger, S.N. (2007) "Community Participation
as a Driver for Sustainable Environmental Management in Vietnam", The
International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability,
Vol. 2.
- Benger, S.N. (2006) Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing for natural resource
management on the Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Proc. ISPRS Commission IV Int. Symposium
on Geospatial Databases for Sustainable Development, Sept 25-29, 2006. Goa,
India.
- Benger, S.N. (2006) Groundwater interactions with the wetlands of the Tonle
Sap, Cambodia, Proc. HydroEco 2006, Sept 10-15, 2006, Karlovy Vary, Czech
Republic.
- Benger, S.N. (2006) Relationships between Cancer and Geological Setting,
NSW, Australia, Proc. GeoHealth 2006, Nov 27-30, Nelson, NZ.
- Benger, S.N. (2003) Remote Sensing of Vegetation Surrogates for Regolith
Landform Mapping, Proc. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
(IGARRS '03), July 2003, Toulouse, France.
- Benger, S.N. (2003) Remotely Sensed Determination of Flood Surface Gradients
for Hydrological Modelling of Semi-Arid Floodplains, Proc. International Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARRS '03), July 2003, Toulouse, France.
- Benger, S.N. (2003) Remotely Sensed Indicators of Wetland Decline, Macquarie
Marshes, NSW, Journal and Proc. Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. 136,
Pts. 1-4, Royal Society of NSW, Sydney.
- Benger, S.N. (1997) Remote sensing of the effects of irrigation activities
in ephemeral wetlands of semi-arid Australia, Proc. International Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARRS '97), August 1997, Singapore.
- Benger, S.N. (1996) Detection and mapping of the effects of irrigation
activities on ephemeral wetlands in semi-arid Australia, Proc. International
Wetlands Ecology Conference (INTECOL V), September 1996, Perth, Western Australia.
- Benger, S.N. (1994) The difficult road forward, in Setting and Managing
Standards for Air Quality in the UK, White Horse Press, Cambridge, pp.17-27
- Benger, S.N. (1994) University of Cambridge Register of Environmental Research,
White Horse Press, Cambridge, 156p.
- Colhoun, E.A., Benger, S.N., Fitzsimons, S.E., Van der Geer, G. and Hill,
D. (1994) Quaternary Organic Deposits at Newton Creek, Western Tasmania in
Australian Geographical Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, pp.26-38
Last updated 22/1/07
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