Speakers

Assoc Prof Lucy Burkitt

Associate Professor, Soil Science

Lucy is a soil scientist at Massey University, Palmerston North NZ whose research focusses on soil health and nutrient management in pastoral agriculture, with a specific focus on loss of phosphorus and nitrogen from agricultural soils, water quality, strategies to attenuate/mitigate nutrient loss and effects of diverse pasture and regenerative management on soil health and environmental loss. She is the Soil Research Lead for the Whenua Haumanu regenerative agriculture program and teaches Integrated Farm and Environmental Management, Intermediate and Advanced Freshwater Farm Planning and Intermediate and Advanced Sustainable Nutrient Management courses at Massey University.