Research Staff

Baillie, Caroline

Engineering Education: Enhances the learning experience of engineering students across the Faculty and supports the staff in their teaching, the students in their learning and facilitates a more scholarly approach to engineering education. Caroline draws on all areas of Higher Education research, Education Development, Science Education and Critical Pedagogy to support her research and development work.
Engineering and Social Justice: Caroline works at the interface of many disciplines in her theoretical and practical studies which critique engineering practice from a critical theory perspective and create alternatives to practice and pedagogy.  Within this area Caroline continues her practical work building on her materials engineeering background in the global not-for-profit organisation "Waste for Life' which develops environmental solutions to social problems.

Ghadouani, Anas

Ecological engineering of aquatic systems; limnology and ecosystem studies; ecology of toxic algal blooms; zooplankton ecology and evolution; emerging technologies for the study of aquatic systems; rehabilitation and remediation of aquatic systems; ecology, sustainability and society.

Ghisalberti, Marco

Environmental fluid mechanics; experimental studies of small-scale mixing processes in environmental flows; canopy flows; turbulence at the sediment-water interface; nutrient uptake and particle capture in macrophyte beds.

Haigh, Ivan

Sea level variations from time scales of hours (e.g. tides) through to long term changes as a result of climate change, particularly extreme sea levels and coastal flooding. The development, calibration and application of process based (bottom-up) and regime and equilibrium (top-down) numerical models in marine research. Understanding the processes that drive both short term and long-term coastal and estuary morphology.

Ivey, Greg

Geophysical fluid dynamics; internal wave generation; propagation and dissipation; coastal upwelling; cyclones and turbulent mixing in coastal ocean; turbulence and phytoplankton patchiness; turbulent gravity currents.

Jones, Nicole

Environmental fluid mechanics, in particular the interaction between the physics and biogeochemistry in natural aquatic environments; internal waves; whitecapping surface waves; benthic-pelagic coupling; plume dispersion and oceanographic measurement methods.

Meuleners, Michael

Computational Fluid Dynamics; numerical methods and model development; modelling internal wave and cyclone induced dynamics; modelling large scale ocean dynamics; modelling small scale coastal processes.

Nath, Bibhash

Contaminants in the Environment; biogeochemistry of arsenic in the sub-surface environment; ground water/surface water interactions; prediction of water quality in mine voids.

Oldham, Carolyn

Contaminant Dynamics; contaminant fluxes into shallow waterbodies; the distribution of contaminants through the water column and sediments; the impact of contaminants on ecosystem health.

Patten, Nicole

Marine microbiology; marine virology and coral reef ecology.

Pattiaratchi, Charitha

Coastal physical oceanography; circulation and mixing on the continental shelf; nearshore processes; remote sensing applications; island wakes and headland eddies; estuarine dynamics.

Coastal sediment transport; formation and maintenance of linear sandbanks; formation and maintenance of beach cusps; dynamics of seasonally open tidal inlets; swash sediment transport processes including beach groundwater interaction.

Reichwaldt, Elke

Limnology and food web related topics; the impact of toxic cyanobacterial blooms on freshwater organisms; the fate of toxins in freshwater food webs; behavioural adaptations of zooplankton (Daphnia) in the presence of different food sources (e.g. in terms of food quality); the effect of zooplankton behaviour (e.g. diel vertical migration) on phytoplankton diversity; stable isotopes as a tool for studying food webs.

Smettem, Keith

Ecohydrology; the use of field and laboratory experimentation to quantify water and chemical transport across a range of space and timescales; quantify ecohydrological response of catchments to land use change.

Waite, Anya

Biological Oceanography; phytoplankton ecology, biogeochemistry, salt lakes, mesoscale eddies, coral reefs, microbial ecology and algal blooms.

Woo, Mun

Coastal oceanography; the physics and geography of the ocean currents and water properties of the West Australian shelf waters and southeast Indian Ocean.