Drainage

Studies that consider surface flow, catchment processes, catchment morphology and geosciences, catchment hydrology, precipation and modifications to surface flow.

Research topic "Drainage" is further divided into following sections:

• Catchment-Based Systems
• Urban-Based Systems
• Environmental Hydrology

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
• Malcolm Cox - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 1649 fax: 07 3138 1535 e-mail: m.cox@qut.edu.au
• Les Dawes - Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Urban Development
  telephone: 07 3138 2776 fax: 07 3138 1170 e-mail: l.dawes@qut.edu.au
• Fiona Fielding - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 8314 e-mail: f.fielding@qut.edu.au
• 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
• David Gust - Faculty of Science / School of Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2217 e-mail: d.gust@qut.edu.au
• Grant Hamilton - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: +61 7 313 88313 fax: +61 7 313 82310 e-mail: g.hamilton@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
• Megan Hargreaves - Faculty of Science / Life Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2244 mobile: 0409 069 963 fax: 07 3138 8388 e-mail: m.hargreaves@qut.edu.au
• Peter Mather - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 1737 fax: 07 3138 2330 e-mail: p.mather@qut.edu.au
• James J Smith - Faculty of Science / School of Life Sciences
  telephone: 61 7 3138 4238 fax: 61 7 3138 1534 e-mail: jj.smith@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
• Robert Webb - Faculty of Built Environment an Engineering / Urban Development
  telephone: 07 3138 2434 fax: 07 3138 1170 e-mail: r.webb@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
• Ian Williamson - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2779 fax: 07 3138 1535 e-mail: i.williamson@qut.edu.au
• Clevo Wilson - Faculty of Business / Economics and Finance
  telephone: 07 3138 4228 e-mail: clevo.wilson@qut.edu.au
• 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

• Managing fragmentation and connectivity in riverine landscapes
  - Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology Research Grant.
  project time frame: 2003 - 2005
  project budget: $480,000
  project participants: Andrew Baker (Secondary Investigator)
   
• Queensland DPI Forestry, Fraser Coast Estate-Morphology Assessment Program
  - Developing GIS-bsed methods for landform assessment to support planation management. Establishment of organised data layers for numerous parameters, and use of MCE (multiple criteria evaluation) methods.
  project time frame: 2005-2007
  project budget: $135, 240
  project participants: Malcolm Cox, Andrew Hammond, Nate Peterson
   
• Water quality profile of an urbanising catchment - Ningi Creek Catchment
  - QUT Industry Link Grant with Caboolture Shire Council
  project time frame: 2005-2006
  project participants: Les Dawes, Ashantha Goonetilleke
   
• Environmental Controls over Fe availability and transport in a forested coastal catchment
  - ARC Linkage (Granted June 2006), Forestry Plantations Queensland and University of Otago
  project time frame: 2006
  project participants: Andrew Hammond
   
• Trace element geochemistry of microbialites: towards an independent record of biogenicity, microbial communities, and seawater chemistry
  - ARC Discovery Grant in collaboration with Geological Survey of Western Australia and University of Canterbury, NZ
  project budget: $157 000
  project participants: Gregory Webb
   
• Diagenesis and lithification rates of Holocene coral reefs, Heron Reef, GBR
  - ATN Small Grant
  project budget: $10 000
  project participants: Gregory Webb
   
• Training for Hydrographic Surveying
  project participants: Robert Webb
   
• Differential GPS Survey of Bore Holes: Toorbul; Ningi; Meldale and Blackswamp region
  project participants: Robert Webb
   
• Bayesian Relief Network Model for Lyngbya In Deception Bay
  - Used to represent the interaction of the environmental factors of this nuisance alga, Lyngbya. The BBN has brought together the opinions and knowledge of the many specialists involved in the project. Concurrently, another model is being constructed detailing the sources of nutrients, their contribution to the system and how the nutrients are delivered to the bloom site. The BBN is being extended in the temporal and spatial scales and both models integrated to assist in forming policies.
  project participants: Fiona Fielding
   
• Managing the social, environmental & economic impacts of high density living within inner urban sub tropical environments
  - Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage, Project Grant (joint Chief Investigator with Professor Buys and others).
  project participants: Clevo Wilson (Joint Chief Investigator)
   
• Environmental controls over Fe availability and transport in a forested coastal catchment
  - ARC Linkage project with Forest Plantations Queensland
  project time frame: 2006-2008
  project budget: $253,000 (ARC) $114,294 (FPQ)
  project participants: Malcolm Cox, Peter Grace, Andrew Hammond, James J Smith
   
• Molecular Diversity in a biological control agent of the weed Lantana camara and an assessment of the utility of genetic screening as a tool for its management
  - Queensland University of Technology Early Career Research Grant. Principal Investigator (with Day,M.)
  project time frame: 2004-2005
  project budget: $12 719
  project participants: Andrew Baker (Principal Investigator)
   

Publications

• Brown, R.; Chanson, H; Ferris, J; Warburton, K.: A hydrodynamic and ecological study of an Australian semi-tropical small river system - In Press. Journal La Houille Blanch, 2006
• Wilson, C.: A WTP model showing the relationships between three approaches for pollution control - Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 24, pp. 97-101, 2003
• McNeil V; Cox, M.; Preda, M: Assessment of chemical water types and their spatial variation using multi-stage cluster analysis, Queensland, Australia - Journal of Hydrology, 310, 181-200, 2005
• Webb, G.; Kamber, B.S.: Biogenicity inferred from microbialite geochemistry - Microbiology Australia, v. 24, p. 36-37, 2004
• Nothdurft, L.D.; Webb, G.; Buster, N.A.; Holmes, C.W.; Sorauf, J.E.; Kloprogge, J.T.: Brucite microbialites in living coral skeletons: Indicators of extreme microenvironments in shallow-marine settings - Geology, v. 33, p. 169-172, 2005
• Cabioch, G; Camoin, G; Webb, G.; Le Cornec, F; Molina, M.G.; Pierre, C; Joachimski, M.M.: Contribution of microbialites to the development of coral reefs during the last deglacial period: Case study from Vanuatu (South-West Pacific) - Sedimentary Geology, v. 185, p. 297-318, 2006
• Liaghati T.; Cox, M.; Preda, M.: Distribution of Fe in waters and bottom sediments of a small estuarine catchment, Pumicestone Region, southeast Queensland, Australia - Science of the Total Environment, 336, 243-254, 2004
• Tisdell, C; Wilson, C.: Do open-cycle hatcheries relying on tourism conserve sea turtles? Sri Lankan developments and economic-ecological considerations - Environmental Management, Vol. 35, pp. 1-12, 2005
• Carroll, S; Goonetilleke, A.; Hargreaves, M.; Thomas, E: Environmental and anthropogenic factors affecting fecal coliforms and E. coli in ground and surface waters in a coastal environment - Currently being revised for resubmission
• Shield, G.A.; Webb, G.: Has the REE composition of seawater changed over geological time? - Chemical Geology, v. 204, p. 103-107, 2004
• Liaghati T.; Preda, M.; Cox, M.: Heavy metal distribution and controlling factors within coastal plain sediments, Bells Creek catchment, southeast Queensland, Australia - Environment International, 29, 935-948, 2003
• Chanson, H; Brown, R.; Ferris, J: Hydrodynamic and Ecological Study of a Sub-tropical Estuary in Queensland - Fluvial, Environmental & Coastal Developments in Hydraulic Engineering", Balkema, Leiden, The Netherlands, Proc. Intl Workshop on State-of-the-Art Hydraulic Engineering, 16-19 Feb. 2004, Bari, Italy, M. MOSSA, Y. YASUDA and H. CHANSON Ed., pp. 133-149 (ISBN 04 1535 899 X), 2004
• Harbison J; Cox, M.: Hydrological characteristics of groundwater in a subtropical coastal plain with large variations in salinity: Pimpama, Queensland, Australia - Hydrological Sciences Journal, 47, 4, 651-665, 2002
• Walter, M.R.; McLoughlin, S.; Drinnan, A.N.; Farmer, J.D.: Palaeontology of Devonian thermal spring deposits, Drummond Basin, Australia - Alcheringa, 22: 285-314, 1998
• Wilson, C.; Tisdell, C: Perceived impacts of ecotourism on environmental learning and its contribution to sustaining conservation: turtle watching at an Australian site - Environment, Development and Sustainability, Vol. 7, pp. 291-302, 2005
• Chanson, H; Brown, R.; Ferris, J; Ramsay, I; Warburton, K: Preliminary Measurements of Turbulence and Environmental Parameters in a Sub-Tropical Estuary of Eastern Australia - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 553-575 (ISSN 1567-7419), 2005
• Webb, G.: Quantitative analysis and paleoecology of earliest Mississippian microbial reefs, lowermost Gudman formation, Queensland, Australia: Not just post-disaster phenomena - Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 875-894, 2005
• de Bruyn, M; Wilson, J.C.; Mather, P.: Reconciling geography and genealogy: phylogeography of giant freshwater from the Lake Carpenteria region - Molecular Ecology 13: 3515 - 26, 2004
• Forsyth A.; Bubb K.; Cox, M.: Runoff, sediment loss and water quality from forest roads in a southeast Queensland coastal plain Pinus plantation - Forest Ecology and Management, 2006, 221, 194-206
• Meager, J.J.; Vance, D.J.; Loneragan, N.R.; Williamson, I.: Seasonal variation, and environmental influences on juvenile banana prawn (Penaeus merguiensis) abundance in a subtropical estuary (Logan River) of eastern Australia - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 57, 569-576, 2003
• Webb, R.; Cox, M.; Hammond, A.: Spatial measurements to support groundwater monitoring in coastal settings, Southeast Queensland - Combined 5th Trans Tasman Survey Conference & 2nd Queensland Spatial Industry Conference 2006 - Cairns, 18-23 September 2006. Land and Sea Spatially Connected - In A Tropical Hub, 2006, paper 036, 9pp.
• Preda, M.; Cox, M.: Temporal variations of mineral character of acid-producing pyritic coastal sediments, Southeast Queensland - Science of the Total Environment, 326, 257-269, 2004
• Liaghati Tania; Preda, M.; Cox, M.: The influence of mineralogy and geological setting on trace metal concentration within subtropical weathered profiles, Bells Creek catchment, Queensland, Australia - Journal of Pacific Science, 59, 3, 421-438, 2005
• Hodgkinson, J.H.; McLoughlin, S.; Cox, M.: The influence of structural grain on drainage in a metamorphic sub-catchment: Laceys Creek, southeast Queensland, Australia - Geomorphology, 00: 000-000. (currently available online from Elsevier Geomorphology as an electronic preprint). In press
• Cox, M.; Preda, M.: Trace metal distribution within marine and estuarine sediments of western Moreton Bay - Geographical Research: Journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers, 43, 2, 173-193, 2005
• Preda, M.; Cox, M.: Trace metal occurrence and distribution in sediments and mangroves, Pumicestone region, southeast Queensland, Australia - Environment International, 28, 433-449, 2002
• Preda, M.; Cox, M.: Trace metals in acid sediments and waters, Pimpama River, southeast Queensland - Environmental Geology, 40, 6, 755-768, 2001
• 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
• Goonetilleke, A.; Thomas, E; Ginn, S; Gilbert, D: Understanding the role of land use in urban stormwater quality management - Journal of Environmental Management. 74: 31-42, 2005
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