Phone: 02 6799 2446

Dr Paula Jones
Catchment and Communities Program Leader 

Background: Before joining the Cotton CRC in October 2006, Paula was employed with NSW DPI as an Environmental Extension Officer. Prior to that she was working as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter, England. In this role Paula was working with other colleagues to develop sediment budgets for catchments in the lowlands of Dorset, Berkshire and Shropshire.

Organisation: Cotton CRC

Current Activities: Programme Leader for the Cotton CRC’s Catchment and Community Programes.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree majoring in geography / earth sciences at The University of Newcastle, Australia. After this Paula completed a PhD at the same university investigating the use of caesium-137 to measure soil erosion and sedimentation in two small arid catchments west of Broken Hill. Caesium-137 is an artificial fallout radionuclide produced as a result of the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons which occurred in the late 50s to 60s. Following fallout, this isotope adsorbs to fine soil particles making it an ideal means of tracing soil redistribution and dating sediments.