David Stanton

David Stanton is a soil conservationist. He has worked in soil conservation for over forty years, and while the methods of soil conservation have changed over that time - in part due to David's research - the need for dedicated soil conservation has not.

David's career at the Department of Agriculture began in the Soil Conservation branch, and he has worked in various district offices in agricultural areas.

He is now a key part of the Centre for Ecohydrology. Based at UWA in the School of Earth and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) David has a research site in Eneabba, is involved in DAFWA's Rural Towns project and acts as a mentor to younger scientists.

At Eneabba David has an applied research project developing different structures for water harvesting. His publication "Using Broad-based Banks" is a result of work at Eneabba in developing structures which will fit in with today's wide bodied farm equipment. A broad-based bank has a wide, flat-bottomed channel, a low spoil bank and gentle batters. This gives the structure a smooth cross-section with a low profile and a large capacity channel. The low profile allows for stock, farm machinery and vehicle passage across the bank and tillage along the length of the bank batters and channel.

With the Rural Towns project David is working to harvest runoff from towns to use on municipal grassed areas such as lawns, parks and recreation grounds.