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Past projects
Our completed research projects from members of the School of Natural Sciences.
Mine Water and Environmental Research Centre
- 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
Centre for Marine Ecosystem Research
- Algal-herbivore interactions in Ningaloo Reef
- Fish habitat linkages
- Habitat use, movement and trophic linkages within the shallow coastal waters of Western Australia
- Impact and recovery from light reduction in an Amphibolis seagrass ecosystem
- Invasion of Caulerpa species
- Marine to beach transfer
- Marine to island transfer
- Movement patterns and habitat use by dugongs in Shark Bay
- Ocean climate and resistance of kelp beds to disturbances
- Population biology and management of the sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus
- Population Management and Genetic Structure of the Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae in Western Australia (PhD)
- Posidonia sinuosa responses to light availability
- Seagrass and black swan grazing interactions
- Seagrass health monitoring
- The effects of western rock lobster on benthic, shallow water assemblages
- Wrack subsidising surf-zone regions