Dr Megan Wong

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy - School of Biological Sciences, Monash University

• Bachelor of Science (Dean’s Honours) (Honours) - LaTrobe University

• Graduate Diploma of Education - LaTrobe University

• Journal papers

  Wong, M., Levett, K., Lee, A., Box, P., Simons, B., David, R., MacLeod, A., Taylor, N., Schneider, D., & Thompson, H. (2022). Development and Governance of FAIR Thresholds for a Data Federation. Data Science Journal, 21. doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2022-013

  Shackelford, N., Paterno, G.B., Winkler, D.E., Wong, M. et al. (2021). Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01510-3

  Robinson, N., Dahlhaus, P., Wong, M., MacLeod, A., Jones, D., & Nicholson, C. (2018). Testing the public‐private soil data and information sharing model for sustainable soil management outcomes. Soil Use and Management, 35(1), 94-104. doi: 10.1111/sum.12472

  Wong, S., Walker, J., Wheeler, L., & Wong, M. (2016). Decent training for decent work: Strengthening Employment Outcomes. Strategies to improve connections between Learn Local offerings and employment outcomes for learners. Pascal International Observatory. pascalobservatory.org/pascalnow/blogentry/strengthening-employment-outcomes-adult-and-community-education-rural-western-vi 

  Wong, S., Wong, I., Walker, J., Wheeler, L., & Wong, M. (2016). Learning locally: Better understanding the complexity and costs of service delivery in rural locations. Pascal International Observatory. pascalobservatory.org/pascalnow/blogentry/overcoming-challenges-delivering-adult-and-community-education-rural-south-west- 

  Wong, M., Morgan, J.M., Wong, N.K., & Cavagnaro, T.C. (2015). The incorporation of fungal to bacterial ratios and plant ecosystem effect traits into a state-and-transition model of land-use change in semi-arid grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 201, 11-19. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.10.012

• Conference papers, presentations and abstracts

  Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., Ollerenshaw, A., Robinson, N., Wong, M., Thompson, H., & Doyle, R. (2024). Creating a public-private soil data federation: the Visualising Australasia’s Soils project. Global Symposium on Soil Information and Data 2024, 25 -28 September 2024, Nanjing, China.

  Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., Ollerenshaw, A., Robinson, N., Wong, M., Thompson, H., & Doyle, R. (2024). Visualising Australasia’s Soil (VAS): a novel soil research data federation. Joint NZ Society of Soil Science and Soil Science Australia 2024 Conference, 2-5 December, 2024, Rotorua, NZ.

  Richie, A., Wilson, P., Gregory, L., Searle, R., Spenser, S., Grealish, G., Cox, S., & Wong, M. (2024). Information model-driven harmonisation of distributed soil observation data for the Australian National Soil Information System. Global Soil Partnership Symposium on Soil Information and Data. September 25 -28, Nanjing, China.

  Cox, S., Wong, M., Ritchie, A., Gregory, L., & Wilson, P. (2023). Australian National Soil Information System - Information models for data harmonisation and delivery. The Soil Science Australia Conference. Our Soil: Spirit of a Nation. Darwin 25-30 June 2023. conference.soilscienceaustralia.org.au/ 

  Cox, S., Wong. M. (presenter), Wilson, P., & Gregory, L. (2023). Controlled vocabularies for improving soil data utility in a web-enabled world. Program Theme: Soil Data and Dissemination Systems. Soil Science Australia Conference. Our Soil: Spirit of a Nation. Darwin 25-30 June 2023.  conference.soilscienceaustralia.org.au/ 

  Dahlhaus P., Macleod, A., Simons, B., Neyland, A., Wong, M., Milne, R., Gillett, H., & Robinson, N. (2023). The Visualising Australasia’s Soils project: towards a federation of public and private soil data. The Soil Science Australia Conference. Our Soil: Spirit of a Nation. Darwin 25-30 June 2023. conference.soilscienceaustralia.org.au/ 

  Dunnolly-Lee, Caitlin (Djaara Nation)., Wong, M., Price, C., Hudson, M., Russo Carroll, S., Fountain, N., Hamilton, S., Douglas, J., Mayle, D., Wong, N., & Thompson, H. (2023). Indigenous led Data Governance and Djandak Dja Kundjtia (Country Healing its Home) in Symposium: Building Cross-cultural Futures Through Healing Country. Ecological Society. Darwin 2023.

  Wong, M., Dharmawardena, K., Cox, S., McEachern, S., Wyborn, L., & Brownlee, R. (2023). Vocabularies Across Domains and Cross-Domain Vocabularies: what are the burning issues for interdisciplinarity? eResearch Australasia, Brisbane, Australia.

  Cox, S., McEachern, S., Gonzalez-Beltran, A., Magagna, B., Marinescu M-C., Dharmawardena, K., & Wong, M. (2022). Vocabulary governance - key concerns. In: Session Scientific Vocabularies: needs, status, validity, governance and sustainability. CODATA and World Data System SciDataCon-International Data Week, Seoul 2022

  McEachern, S., Cox, S., Brownlee, R., Wyborn, L., Wong, M., & Dharmawardena, K. (2022). Scientific Vocabularies: needs, status, validity, governance and sustainability. SciDataCon-IDW Seoul 2022. CODATA and World Data Systems.

  Wong, M., Cox, S. J., Gregory, L., Wilson, P.  (2022). Governance and Maintenance considerations for FAIR vocabularies - Australian Soil Domain use case. In: Scientific Vocabularies: needs, status, validity, governance and sustainability. CODATA and World Data System SciDataCon-International Data Week, Seoul

  McEachern, S., Cox, S., Brownlee, R., Wyborn, L., Burton, A., & Wong, M. (2021). Enabling FAIR Vocabularies for Interoperability in Cross Domain Research in Australia. eResearch Australasia.

  Wong, M., MacLeod, A., Simons, B., Robinson, N., Gillett, H., Neyland, A., Milne, R., Corbett, J., & Dahlhaus, P. (2021, July 5-6). Enabling soil data re-use for ecosystem management and decision making: A standards-based approach [Conference presentation]. TERN Science Symposium, Online.

  Wong, M., MacLeod, A., Simons, B., Robinson, N., Gillett, H., Sexton, A., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Thompson, H., Neyland, A., Milne, R., Corbett, J., & Dahlhaus, P. (2021, July 19-23). Maximising the value of soil data: Challenges and solutions we employed. Focus: User cases of farming grower groups and Catchment Management Authorities [Conference presentation]. ESIP Summer Meeting, Online.

  Box, P., Wong, M., Simons, B., Levett, K., Lee, A., Thompson, H., Epstein, J., & MacLeod, A. (2020). Building AgReFed: A reusable socio-technical design for community governance and data stewardship. Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science C3DIS 2020, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 16-20 March 2020. www.c3dis.com/3939

  Box, P.J., Levett, K; Simons, B., & Wong, M. (2019). A governance and data stewardship framework for FAIR agricultural data: The Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed) - an Australian research infrastructure case study. Conference proceedings CODATA: Towards Next-Generation Data-Driven Science. Bejing, 2019.

  Levett, K., Wong, M., Box, P., Simons, B., Thompson, H., Macleod, A., David, R., Schneider, D., Watkins, D., Hergenhan, R., Gregory, L., Wilson, P., Taylor, N., Limmer, S., Gillett, H., & Cox S. (2019). Implementing FAIR in the Agricultural Research Federation. eResearch Australasia Conference. Brisbane, Australia. 21-23 Oct 2019.

  Robinson, N., Dahlhaus, P., Wong, M., Corbett, J., Cann, M., Mitchell, R., Fear, D., & Orgill, S. (2019). Farmers, advisors and researcher’s perceptions to soil organic matter.  Soil Organic Matter in a stressed world. 7^th International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter, 6 – 11 October 2019, Adelaide. Symposium Poster Abstracts, p.95.

  Robinson, N., Thompson, H., Dahlhaus, P., Feely, P., MacLeod, A., Wong, M., & Walters J.  (2019). What’s FAIR about Digital Agriculture?  steeDA, Conference on science, technology, engineering and economics for Digital Agriculture, 3-5 December 2019, The University of Sydney, Australia.

  Wills, B., Parker, J., Robinson, N., & Wong, M. (2019). Improving the FAIRness of Australia’s grains research sector data. In: Cells to Satellites. J Pratley Ed. Proceedings of the 19th Australian Society of Agronomy Conference,25-29 August 2019, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia © 2019. (www.agronomyaustraliaproceedings.org/ )

  Dahlhaus, P., Simons, B., Wong, M., MacLeod, A., & Robinson, N. (2018). Making soils data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. SOIL: The key to the past, the present and the future. National Soils Conference, November 18th - 23rd, Canberra, Australia. Soil Science Australia.

  Schefe, C.R., Grant, C.D., Dahlhaus, P., Robinson, N., Wong, M., Walker, R., Janik, L., Jones, D., & Fleay, B. (2018). Capturing in-paddock variability and the quest for spatial PAW prediction: a team sport. SOIL: The key to the past, the present and the future. National Soils Conference, November 18th - 23rd, Canberra, Australia. Soil Science Australia.

  Wong, M., Gregory, L., Simons, B., Robinson,N., Cox, S. & Yu. J. (2018). Australian soil vocabularies: Availability and lessons learnt when using them to describe diverse soil data. Proceedings of the National Soil Science Conference, Canberra, ACT, 18 to 23 November 2018. Eds. Nilantha Hulugalle, Tapas Biswas, Richard Greene and Peter Bacon.

  Wong, M., Morgan, J.M., & Cavagnaro, T.C. (2011). Microbial community functional groups: Links to vegetation and ecosystem properties of semi-arid grasslands in south-eastern Australia. In Bornette, G. & Puijalon, S. (eds), 54th Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science: Abstracts. Université Lyon 1 Service Formation Continue et Alternance.

  Wong, M., Morgan, J.M., Wong, N.K., & Cavagnaro, T.C. (2012). If aboveground vegetation changes after abandonment, what happens belowground? A test of fungal to bacterial energy channel theory in native grasslands. Oral presentation, The Ecological Society of Australia, Hobart, Australia

  Wong, M., Morgan, J.M., Wong, N.K., & Cavagnaro, T.C. (2010). Vegetation and soil food web responses to resource availability in a perennial tussock grassland, south-eastern Australia. Poster presentation, The International Association for Vegetation Science: Abstracts, Baja California, México

  Wong, M., Morgan, J., & Cavagnaro, T.C. (2008). A comparison of arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum potential between two vegetation types of a Northern Plains Grassland of Victoria. Poster Presentation, The Ecological Society of Australia, Sydney, Australia

• Reports and other publications

  Dahlhaus, P., Macleod, A., Ollerenshaw, A., Gillett, H., Reynolds, A., Robinson, N., Wong, M., Thompson, H., MacEwan, R., Feely, P., Archer, R., Hartwig K., Senanayake, I., & Yeo, I-Y. (2024). Visualising Australasia’s Soils: extending the soil data federation. Phase 2 (2021 – 2024). Project 2.3.002 Final Report. Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils (Soil CRC). 126p.

  Cox, S., Wong, M., Wilson, P., Gregory, L., Grealish, G., & Ritchie, A. (2024). Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS). Information Model for ANSIS 1.0.0, Report Version 1.6. Report to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF).

  Wilson, P., Stower, L., Ritchie, A., Wong, M., Cox, S., Grealish, G., Roberton, S.,  Gregory, L., Lee, A., & Kostanski, L. (2024). Final report: Australian National Soil Information System Phase 1. CSIRO. Report to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF).

  Wong, M., Price, C., Russo-Carroll, S., & Hudson, M. (2024). Djandak Dja Kundjtia (Country Healing its Home) - Biocultural and Traditional Knowledge Labels (BC-TK label) evaluation. Report to Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation (DDWCAC).

  Wong, M., Price, C., Russo-Carroll, S., Hudson, M., Ollerenshaw, A., & Thompson, H. (2024). DJAARA (Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation), 2024, "Data governance with CARE: A case study of interests under the kangaroo grass project Djandak Dja Kunditja (Country Healing its Home)".

  Wong, M., Wyborn, L., & Holewa, H. (2024). Uplifting FAIR and CARE across Earth and Environmental Science (E&ES) Data. A Discussion Paper to inform the Data Targeted Discussion of the National Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy (3.0). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14241825 

  Wong, M., Cox, J.D., Wilson, P., & Grelish, G. (2024). Australian National Soil Information (ANSIS) Ontology. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. FAIRSharing record: fairsharing.org/5414 

  Wong, M., & Cox, S.J. (2024). A linked data (RDF) representation of Soil Chemical Methods, Australasia. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. FAIRSharing record: doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.2c9203 

  Wong, M., & Cox, S.J. (2024). A linked data (RDF) representation of the Soil Physical Measurements and Interpretation for Land Evaluation. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. FAIRSharing record: doi.org/10.25504/fairsharing.dbb813 

  Cox, S., Wong, M., Wilson, P., & Gregory, L. (2023). Information Model for ANSIS (Version 1.0). Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS). (DOI in submission)

  Wong, M., Brownlee, R., Wyborn, L., Barlow, M., Dharmawardena, K., Atkins, N., & Cox, S. (2023). Vocabulary Symposium and Workshop Report. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8057904 

  Brownlee, R., Cox, S.J.D., Dharmawardena, K., McEachern, S., Wong, M., & Wyborn, L. (2022). Vocabulary Symposium. DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7824029  (Output type: Symposium report and content. All content in process of being uploaded at 14-04-2023)

  Wong, M., & Cox, S.J.D. (2022). Soil Chemical Methods – Australasia (A machine readable RDF representation). Output type: Data model/vocabulary. Published 30 March 2022. Available at Research Vocabularies Australia: vocabs.ardc.edu.au/viewById/634

  Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Simons, B., Bahlo, C., Sexton, A., Thompson, H., Wong, M., Robinson, N., Milne, R., Neyland, A., Gillett, H., & Ollerenshaw, A. (2021). Visualising Australasia’s Soils: A Soil CRC Interoperable Spatial Knowledge System. Phase 1 (2019 – 2021). Project 2.3.001 Final Report. Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils (Soil CRC). 119p. soilcrc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/FINAL_REPORT_2_3_001_DAHLHAUS_FINAL.pdf 

  MacLeod, A., Wong, M., Gregory, L., Schneider, D., Williams, A., Castleden, I., Simons, B., Levett, K., & Box, P. (2020, May 13). The Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed) Technical and Information Policy Suite (Version 1.0). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3993784

  Wong, M., Box, P., Epstein, J., Lee, A., Thompson, H., Levett, K., Channon, J., Wilson, P., Taylor, N., Hergenhan, R., Berger, B., & Gilliham, M. (2020, March 10). Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed) Steering Policies, Roles and Responsibilities (Version 1). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3707046

  Box, P., Levett, K., Simons, B., & Wong, M. (2019). Guidelines for the development of a Data Stewardship and Governance Framework for the Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed). Sydney: CSIRO; 2019.doi.org/10.25919/5cf179ba35db9 

  Wong, M., Box, P., Epstein, J., Lee, A., Thompson, H., Levett, K., & Channon, J. (2019). Policy Suite for the enactment phase of the Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed). Policies endorsed by the AgReFed Council at 10.10.2019.

  Dahlhaus, P., Bennett, J.M., Corbett, J., Crawford, D., Grelet, G., Imhof, M., MacLeod, A., Mele, P.M., Stevenson, B., Wells, N., & Wong, M. (2018). A review of indicators of soil health and function: Farmers' needs and data management. Newcastle, Australia: Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils, June 2018, 200p.

  Wong, S., Wong, I., Walker, L., & Wong, M. (2014). Decent training for decent work: Strengthening employment outcomes (Strategies to improve connections between Learn Local offerings and employment outcomes for learners). Grampians ACFE Region Research Report 2014 . Ballarat, Australia: Pascal International Observatory.

  Wong, S., Wong, I., Walker, J., Wheeler, L., & Wong, M. (2014). Learning locally: Better understanding the complexity and costs of service delivery in rural locations. Barwon South-West Adult, Community and Further Education Region Research Report 2014 . Geelong, Australia: Pascal International Observatory.

  Wong, S., Wong, I., Bergin, C., Wong, M., & Lomnicki, I. (2014). Youth Now BiZE Centre Evaluation. Sunshine, Australia: Youth Now.

  Wong, S., & Wong, M. (2014). YouthNow BizE Centre Evaluation - Scan of the Literature. Sunshine, Australia: Youth Now.

  Wong, S., & Wong, M. (2014). Work's 4 Me Evaluation: Transitioning to training and employment program for people with disabilities in the City of Melton, Victoria. Sunshine, Australia: Youth Now.

  Wong, S., & Wong, M. (2014). Work's 4 Me Evaluation: Scan of the Literature. Sunshine, Australia: Youth Now.

  Wheeler, L., Wong, S., Wong, I., et al. (2013). Evaluation of the Transition Brokers Program. Hume Whittlesea Local Learning and Employment Network. Melbourne, Australia: Whittlesea Youth Commitment.