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Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Sample And what about geography field work from the air? The journey from Adelaide to Sydney
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 The journey from Adelaide to Sydney (OR Sydney to Adelaide) There are numerous geogr aphic al featur es to see, study and analyze!
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 The jjyourney from Adelaide to Syyydney (OR Sydney to Adelaide)
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – aircraft usually fly in a north‐east or south‐west direction
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north‐west
Where is the Adelaide airport located? What was the biophysical environment in this location before the airport was built? What is the blue building in the distance? Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying south‐ west & llkiooking north over WtWest BBheach
Where is the marina located? How is the biophysical environment changing in this location? What aaere the white buildings closest to the shoreli ne? Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying south‐ west & looking north
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying south‐ west & looking south over Glenelg
How has the coastal environment changed in this location?
Where is the HoldfastMark Manuel AGTAmarina 2008 located? Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & lklooking north – Rankine Road, Thbhebarton
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & lklooking north – Thbhebarton OlOval
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & lklooking north‐west from Hidindmarsh
Where is the River Torrens? How is the biophysical environment changing along the river? Where is the Education Centre,Mark Milner Manuel St, AGTA Hindmarsh? 2008 The Hindmarsh Cemetery corner of Adam Street & South Road
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & lklooking north‐west from North Adel aid e
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north‐west from Municipal Golf Course (North) ‐ North Adelaide
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north from Adelaide Aquatic Centre ‐ North Adelaide
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & lkilooking north‐west from itintersec tion of MMiain NthNorth Rd. & Fitzroy Tce. (left of intersection) & Robe Tce. (i(rig ht of itintersec ti)tion)
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐ east & on the right‐hand side of the aircraft What do you see when you are looking south?
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking south over Adelaide’s west parklands
Where is West Terrace located? How has the biophysical environment of the west parklands changed over the Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 last few decades? Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking south over Adelaide CBD
Where is the Adelaide Festival Centre located? How has the built environment on the bank of the River Torrens changed over the last few decades? Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking south over Adelaide Oval
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Adelaide Oval – at ground level
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking south over Adelaide CBD
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐ east & on the left‐hand side of the aircraft What do you see when you are looking north or north‐ west?
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north‐west over Main North Road
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & lklooking north‐west over North Road Cemetery
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north‐west over Broadview Oval & Nailsworth
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & lklooking north‐west over Northfie ld
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north‐west over Hope Valley Note: O’Bahn Busway curving from left to right
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 In the Torrens Valley What does the O’Bah n Busway lklook lklike on the ground?
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north over MIMcIntyre RRdoad, MMdbodbury
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & lklooking north‐west over Tea Tree Plaza
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north‐west over Wynn VlVale & MdbModbury HihHeights
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north over Golden Grove & Little Para Reservoir
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & llkiooking north over SthSouth Para RiReservoir & Mount Crawford
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking north over Mount Lofty Ranges
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 After leaving Adelaide airport – aircraft usually fly in a north‐easterly & easterly direction over eastern South Australia, north‐ west Victoria, western & central New South Wales
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & llkiooking north over eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Leaving Adelaide airport – flying north‐east & looking nothorth oeover easte rn side of the Moun t Lofty Ranges –River Marne Gorge
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Marne Gorge
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Marne Gorge
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Marne Gorge
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Eastern South Australia & north‐west Victoria
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flying east & looking south over Murray Bridge, River Murray & Lower Murray Lakes
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flying east & looking north over River Murray (south of Swan Reach)
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flying east & looking north over Mallee Region (dunes & remnant vegetation) of South Australia
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flying east & looking over Barmera & the River Murray (Note: ttesehese iiagesmages were taken from a ggide)lider)
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 River Murray – South Australia Recreation & tourism
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flyin g east & looking nootrth ooever Mallee Region (dunes & remnant vegetation) of the South Australia‐Victoria border Murray‐Sunset National Park on right of image
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 South Australia‐Victoria border Murray‐Sunset National Park in the Mallee Region of Victoria
Go to: http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.auMark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flying east & looking north over Mallee Region (remnant vegetation) of Victoria Hattah‐Kulkyne National Park
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Hattah‐Kulkyne National Park in the Mallee Region of Victoria
Go to: http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.auMark Manuel AGTA 2008 The Murray‐Darling Basin
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flying east & looking over the River Murray
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Murray Valley salinity What does the salinity look like on the ground?
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flying east & looking north over Murray Valley of Victoria – RbiRobinval e iiirriga tion area
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 North‐west Victoria & western N.S.W.
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Confluence of the Rivers Murray & Murrumbidgee near Boundary Bend Victoria
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 The Murrumbidgee River part of the Murray‐DliDarling Basin
What does this irrigation landscape look like on the ground?
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 The Murrumbidgee River –the water source for all iiirrigati on on the Hay Plains ‐ central New South Wales
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 The Murrumbidgee River – the water source for all irrigation on the Hay Plains ‐ central New South Wales
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Flood irrigation on the Hay Plains ‐ central New South Wales
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 An open drain with high levels of evaporation taking water from the Murrumbidgee River ‐ Hay Plains ‐ central New South Wales
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Laser‐levelled land – flood irrigated with water from the MbidMurrumbidgee River – Hay Plains – central New South Wales
Rice production: Is this a sustainable use of water in arid & semi‐arid areas of inlandMark Australia? Manuel AGTA 2008 Laser‐levelled land – flood irrigated with water from the MbidMurrumbidgee River – Hay Plains – central New South Wales
Is this a sustainable use of water in arid & semi‐arid areas of inland Australia? What are the environmental costs of this type of grain production? What are the economic returns from the use of water in this way compared to its use on other agricultural products? Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Under‐tree irrigation of a fruit crop with water from the MbidMurrumbidgee River – Hay Plains – central New South Wales
What are the environmental costs of this type of horticultural production? What are the economic returns from the use of water in this way compared to its use on other agricultural products? Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 The Murrumbidgee River – SALINITY – a major environmental problem in the irrigation & dry‐farming areas of the Hay Plains ‐ central New South Wales
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 And what about the other river in the Murray‐Darling Basin?
The Darling River
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 And what about the Murray‐Darling Basin in 2003‐2004?
Go to: MurrayDarlingBasin_2003‐2004
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 And what about the Murray‐Darling Basin in 2006?
Go to: MurrayDarlingBasin_2006
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 And what about a case‐ study and activities on the Murray‐Darling Basin?
Go to: MurrayDarlingBasin_casestudy
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Western & central N.S.W.
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Western New South Wales
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Warragamba Dam (Lake Burragorang) – Blue Mountains National Park
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 Blue Mountains National Park New South Wales
Go to: http:// www.national par ks.nsw.gov.au/ park s
Mark Manuel AGTA 2008 And what about the flfinal destination?
The city of Sydney
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Mark Manuel AGTA 2008