Past projects
The Centre for Ecosystem Management has successfully completed several research projects across our specialised research groups.
Mine Water and Environmental Research Group
- Aquatic macroinvertebrate communities of the seasonal Kemerton wetlands, south-western Australia
- Biological remediation of acid mine waters in a sewage evaporation pond
- Development of an innovative treatment system for acidity problems in an urban lake (Spoonbill Lakes) resulting from acid sulphate soils
- Development of pit lake beneficial end uses
- Ecotoxicity limitations following liming and nutrient enrichment to remediate acid mine lakes
- Environmental remediation of low-sulphate pit lakes
- Importance of quality and quantity of organic carbon for bioremediation of acid mine drainage (ph ~ 2.2) lake water
- Microcosm and field experiments for remediation of acid pit lakes with bulk organic materials
- Mine pit lakes in Australia; a regional perspective
- Opportunities for sustainable mining by beneficial pit lake end uses
- Oxic liming and nutrient enrichment to remediate acid mine lakes through phytoremediation
- Remediation of a south-western Australian acid pit lake waters with oxic liming and an aerobic wetland
- The physical structure and chemical properties of detrital floc and their role in wetland nutrient dynamics
- Use and water quality remediation of acidic coal pit lakes by adjacent aquaculture
- Wetland riparian vegetation structure of natural wetlands as guidelines to dredge pond rehabilitation, south-western Australia