Longbin Huang
Associate Professor Longbin Huang is leading the program of “Ecological Engineering of Soil-Plant systems in Mined Environment” within the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland. Longbin graduated with his PhD in Plant Environmental Physiology from Murdoch University in 1994 and joined University of Queensland in 2004.
Associate Professor Longbin Huang, focuses on the discovery of new knowledge about bioweathering and soil-formation in mine tailings and the development of new technologies to rehabilitate mine waste domains (or landforms) (e.g., tailings, red mud, and weathered waste rocks) at metal mines (such as magnetite mine and precious and base metal mines). By means of these technologies and methodologies, functional soil-plant systems can be engineered for desirable post-mining land use options with much improved confidence and success rate, thus contributing to the economic and environmental sustainability of mining and minerals industry in Australia. Two main research themes are biogeochemistry of tailing-soil formation and tailing-hardpan development.
Longbin’s research aims to significantly improve the economic and ecological sustainability of mining/minerals industry, through delivering transformative technologies to rehabilitate mine waste landforms at metal mines, with much reduced soil/covering materials required and improved confidence of successful rehabilitation and mine closure. The knowledge and technology on geo-mineral-transformation and polymerization mechanisms will be developed into new remediation technologies to improve heavily contaminated land at metal mines for economic land use options (such as food/fiber/biofuel production) in mined landscapes and mining regions.
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