Professor Richard Bell is a specialist in Soil Fertility and Land Management and has lecturing and research experience in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. His interests are in plant nutrition in problem soils, soil management, management of sandy soils, diagnosis and correction of mineral disorders of plants, plant adaption to mineral stress, nutrient cycling, rehabilitation of degraded land, conservation agriculture, dryland salinity, catchment hydrology and management, sustainable land use, and agricultural research for development. Professor Bell has authored 16 book chapters, 185 refereed journal papers, 77 refereed articles in books and proceedings, 260 conference and other non-refereed papers, 73 reports and he has edited 13 books.