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Environmental Hydrology

Research topic "Environmental Hydrology" is further divided into following sections:

Involved research staff

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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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