Projects
Our current research projects in the School of Natural Sciences.
School based
- Designing multimedia chemistry teaching resources, novel chemistry experiments and chemical demonstrations
- Development of capillary electrophoresis, a separation technique, as a tool for the analysis of phytochemicals in Brassica vegetables
- Development of voltammetric methods for low level detection of heavy metals in groundwater
- Investigation of the factors that affect deposition of arsenic on the surface of solid gold electrode
- The Western Australian Black truffle
- Voltammetric detection of barium in gunshot residues
Centre for Ecosystem Management
- Bridging the gap between cultural practices and mainstream visitor management approaches to develop an integrated monitoring framework for Australia's northwest
- Children's dietary exposure to metals
- Children's exposure to dust (PM10) and metals in Perth
- Ecohydrological equilibrium theory and Banksia woodland vegetation
- Ecosystem services and productive base in the Murray Darling Basin
- Maternal exposure to Bisphenol A
- Metals exposure, bone density and kidney health
- Particulates, metals and human exposure in Port Hedland
- Point Fraser monitoring and evaluation program
- Usability index for the Swan Canning Riverpark
Mine Water and Environmental Research Group
- Assessment of the affects of pit lakes on human health
- Conceptual modelling of pit lake processes and ecological risk
- Development of an inventory of pit lakes data and preliminary assessment of end-use options for Collie pit lakes
- Ecology of black-stripe minnow (Galaxiella nirostriata, Pisces: Galaxiidae) in remnant populations on the Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia
- Geochemical modelling of pit lake water chemistry to support management decisions
- Monitoring strategies for Australian pit lakes and connected waters
- Temporal variability and ecosystem function of the aquatic macroinvertebrate communities of seasonal south-western Australian wetlands
Centre for Marine Ecosystem Research
- Algal-herbivore interactions in Ningaloo Reef
- Beach wrack dynamics
- Fish biology and ecology in area closure planning
- Impact and recovery from light reduction in an Amphibolis seagrass ecosystem
- Kelp wrack subsidising seagrass ecosystems
- Movement patterns and habitat use by dugongs in Shark Bay
- Seagrass and black swan grazing interactions
- Seagrass health monitoring
- Species diversity in the seagrass genus Posidonia
- The effects of western rock lobster on benthic, shallow water assemblages
- Trophodynamics in coastal marine systems