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Career Update

  • On 04/03/2024, Patrick started his new job as a Cropping Engagement and Adoption Officer at Katherine, Northern Territory.

  • On 28/03/2022, the research paper had been officially published, click here to read about impact of roadside burning on genetic diversity in a high-biomass invasive grass.

    • Experience

    For a complete Curriculum Vitae, please select Generic version or Academic version.

  • 2024-Current, Cropping Engagement and Adoption Officer at Plant Industries, Northern Territory Government.

  • 2023-2024, Biosecurity Industry Liaison Officer at the Northern Territory Farmers Association Inc.

  • 2021-2022, Precision & Guidance Agriculture Specialist at Rocky River Ag Services.

  • 2020-2021, Casual Research Assistant at Prof Scott Chapman's lab.

  • 2017-2020, Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Honours) at the University of Queensland Gatton Campus.

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    Recent Projects

    Patrick is no longer taking any research projects in a full-time basis at the moment. While he was at the University, he involved in several projects as an undergraduate/honours student, research scholar and research associate. Following projects were listed chronologically:

    2020-2021 Casual Research Assistant

  • 1) INVITA: A technology and analytics platform for improving variety selection (Project ID: UOQ2003-011RTX)
  • 2) CropPhen: Remote mapping of grain crop type and phenology, Enabling analytics for grain crop monitoring applications - Crop classification and mapping of phenological characteristics(Project ID: UOQ2002-010RTX)
  • 3) High throughput feature extraction from imagery to map spatial variability (Project ID: UOQ2003-008RTX)
  • 4) Subsoil constraint: Improving wheat yields on sodic soils (Project ID: GRDC UA00159)
    • Patrick with a smiling face is working in a sorghum field.

    📷 Credit: Alex Chamanmáh

    2020 Winter Research Scholar

  • Do invasive plants change fire regimes in Australia? The genomic responses of buffel grass Cenchrus ciliaris L. to fire regimes in central Australia?

    • 2020 Honours Student

  • Early-stage yield prediction in lettuce using analysis of images from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

    • 2019 Undergraduate Student

  • Seed Germination Ecology of African Lovegrass [Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees]

    • Research

    He is interested in a few topics related to remote sensing, precision agriculture, ecology.

    Research Papers

    1. The impact of roadside burning on genetic diversity in a high-biomass invasive grass
      Di, Binyin; Firn, Jennifer; Buckley, Yvonne M; Lomas, Kate; Pausas, Juli G; Smith, Annabel L
      Evolutionary Applications , vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 790-803, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13369

    Honours Thesis

    1. Early stage yield prediction in lettuce using analysis of images from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
      Di, Binyin
      Bachelor Honours Theisis, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland 2020, PDF

    Memberships

  • UQ Global Chinese Alumni Association (UQ GCAA) 2023-

  • Soil Science Australia (SSA) 2023-

  • Australasia-Pacific Extension Network (APEN) 2023-

  • Society of Precision Agriculture Australia (SPAA) 2022-

  • Australia-China Young Professionals Initiative (ACYPI) 2022-

  • UQ Future Leader Class of 2020

  • RAID Network Researchers in Agriculture for International Development 2019-

    • Services

  • Current Vice-Chair of QLD & NT Division Committee of AG Institute Australia (AIA), the trading name of The Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (AIAST).

  • Current RAID Representative - Northern Territory.

  • Working Group Member of Innovation Generation 2024 Conference by GrainGrowers.

  • Committee Member at School of Agriculture and Food Sciences (SAFS) and Faculty of Science between 2020 and 2021.

  • Treasurer of UQ Agricultural Science Society (UQ Plant Science Society) in 2020, and Vice President of Gatton International Students Association (UQGISA) in 2019-2020.

    • Awards

  • 2024, Delegate to the 14th Australia-China Youth Dialogue in Adelaide from Friday, 22nd November to Monday, 25th November 2024.

  • 2024, Finalist of Northern Territory Young Achiever Awards (Colemans Contracting & Earthmoving Agriculture Award and Glencore McArthur River Mining Regional and Rural Initiative Award)

  • 2023, Crawford Fund Conference Scholarship

  • 2020, UQ Employability Award

  • 2020, UQ Science Leaders Award (UQ Science Leaders Academy)

  • 2020, Winter Research Scholarship

  • 2019, Leadership and Mentoring Program in Science

  • 2019, Short Term Experience Travel Grant

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    Patrick acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. He pays his respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
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