Climatic Systems

Research topic "Climatic Systems" is further divided into following sections:

• rainfall monitoring
• climatic changes
• paleoclimates
• greenhouse gases assesment

Involved research staff

• Godwin Ayoko - Faculty of Science / Physical and Chemical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 1206 fax: 07 3138 1804 e-mail: g.ayoko@qut.edu.au
• Andrew Baker - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: +61 7 3138 4443 mobile: +61 4 2427 2051 fax: +61 7 3138 1535 e-mail: am.baker@qut.edu.au
• Richard Brown - Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Engineering Systems
  telephone: 07 3138 5157 fax: 07 3138 1516 e-mail: richard.brown@qut.edu.au
• Stuart Gage - Faculty of Entomology, Zoology (Adjunct) / Michigan State University
  telephone: 1-517-355-2135 fax: 1-517-432-9415 e-mail: gages@msu.edu
• Ashantha Goonetilleke - Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Urban Development
  telephone: 07 3138 1539 fax: 07 3138 1170 e-mail: a.goonetilleke@qut.edu.au
• Peter Grace - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2610 mobile: 0434 609 099 fax: 3138 2330 e-mail: pr.grace@qut.edu.au
• Andrew Hammond - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 4185 fax: 07 3138 1535 e-mail: ap.hammond@qut.edu.au
• Kerrie Mengersen - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2063 fax: 07 3138 2310 e-mail: k.mengersen@qut.edu.au
• Gregory Webb - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2804 fax: 07 3138 1535 e-mail: ge.webb@qut.edu.au
• Keith Weier - Faculty of Science / Institute for Sustainable Resources
  telephone: 07 5478 6336 mobile: 0428 193 256 e-mail: kg.weier@bigpond.com
• Habib Yezdani - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 4880 mobile: 0401 657 179 fax: 07 3138 4878 e-mail: h.yezdani@qut.edu.au

Related research projects

• The evolution of Australian rainforest faunas and the implications of continuing climate change
  - ARC Linkage Grant in collaboration with University of New South Wales, Queensland Museum, University of Queensland, Cement Australia and others.
  project budget: $900 000
  project participants: Gregory Webb (Principal Investigator), Andrew Baker (Associate Researcher)
   
• Environmental Impacts of Pollutant Mixing and Dispersion: Information Exchange and Collaboration for Laboratory and Field Investigation
  - Joint Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / Australian Academy of Science. Grant to support research associated with Fellowship
  project time frame: 2005
  project budget: $30 000
  project participants: Richard Brown
   
• Greenhouse gas emissions in south-east Qld
  - AGO/ARC
  project participants: Peter Grace
   
• Greenhouse gas emission offsets through N2O abatement
  - EPRI
  project participants: Peter Grace
   
• Rainfall simulation to evaluate pollutant build-up and wash-off from selected land uses in the Port of Brisbane
  - The primary objective of this project is to develop an understanding of the potential for the generation of pollutant loads within the existing land use system in the Port of Brisbane using rainfall simulation. This will lead to identification of relationships between land use and the various pollutants detected
  project participants: Ashantha Goonetilleke
   

Publications

• Gage, S.: Climate variability in the North Central Region: Characterizing drought severity patterns - [In] Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long Term Ecological Research Sites. (D. Greenland, D. Goodin. and R. Smith Eds.). Oxford Univ. Press. 457 pp, 2003
• Gramotnev, G; Brown, R.; Ristovski, Z; Hitchins, J; Morawska, L: Determination of average emission factors for vehicles on a busy road - Atmos. Environ. 37(4), 465-474, 2003
• Robertson, G.P.; Grace, P.: Greenhouse gas fluxes in tropical agriculture: The need for a full-cost accounting of global warming potentials - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 6, 51-63, 2004
• Hu, W.; Mengersen, K.; Oldenburg, B.; Tong, S.L.: Rainfall, Mosquito Density and the Transmission of Ross River Virus: A Time Series Forecasting Model - Ecological Modelling, in press, 2006
• Grace, P.; Colung-Garcia, M; Gage, S.; Safir, G.R.; Robertson, G.P.: The potential impact of climate change on North Central Region's soil organic carbon resources - Ecosystems. 9:1-13, 2006
• Egodawatta, P; Goonetilleke, A.; Ayoko, G.; Thomas, E: Understanding the interrelationships between stormwater quality and rainfall and runoff factors in residential catchments - Book of Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on urban drainage modelling and the 4th International Conference on water sensitive urban design, Vol 1, ppV1.43-V1.50, 2006
• Porter, J.R.; Jamieson, P.D.; Grace, P.: Wheat production systems and climate. - In: J. Canadell, D. Pataki, L. Pitelka (Eds). Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. The IGBP Book Series. Springer, Berlin (in press), 2006
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