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Research Groups


There are eight research groups within the School.


Aquatic Ecology and Ecosystem Studies

A/Professor Anas Ghadouani

  • Limnology and ecosystem studies
  • Ecology of toxic algal blooms
  • Plankton ecophysiology
  • Zooplankton ecology and evolution
  • Limnology and emerging technologies
  • Aquatic habitat rehabilitation
  • Ocean reef interaction at Ningaloo
    more..

Biological Oceanography

Professor Anya Waite

  • Eddy dynamics, production, and fisheries
  • Southern ocean carbon fluxes
  • Nitrogen Fixation in the Indian Ocean
  • Particle dynamics, aggregation and sedimentation
  • Ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemistry
  • Algal blooms in freshwater
    more...

Coastal Oceanography

Winthrop Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi

  • Circulation and mixing on the Continental Shelf
  • Nearshore processes and sediment transport
  • Island wakes and headland eddies
  • Estuarine dynamics
  • Formation and maintenance of linear sandbanks
  • Sediment transport processes on continental shelves and submarine canyons
    more..

Contaminant Dynamics

Professor Carolyn Oldham

  • Catchments
  • Estuaries and coastal seas
  • Lakes and wetlands
  • Mine lakes
    more..

Ecohydrology

Winthrop Professor Keith Smettem

  • Hydrologic applications of Infiltration theory
  • Spatial techniques for catchment appraisal
  • Hillslope scale preferential water and chemical flow processes
  • Agricultural hydrology
    more..

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Winthrop Professor Greg Ivey

  • Ocean transport
  • Ocean mixing
    more..

Hydrogeology

Vacant
  • Fractured rock hydrogeology
  • Ground water/surface water interactions
  • Modelling of multiphase flow
    more..

Surface Hydrology

Vacant

  • Hydro-geomorphologic interaction
  • River network organization
    Prediction of extreme hydrologic events
  • more..


 
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