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isr affiliated students and their studies

List of QUT postgraduate students affiliated with the Institute for Sustainable Resources.

Domains

Greenhouse Gas Management
Long-term Ecological Research
Water Resources and Geosystems
Energy Systems
Sustainable Communities and Infrastructure
Food Security

Research Applications

Scholarships and Employment Opportunities

Greenhouse Gas Management

Student Name	Thesis Title	Faculty
Sholam Blustein	Towards low emissions in the energy generation sector: Creating a coherent legal model for developed nations	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Law
Lin, Chaofeng	Iron (Fe) biogeochemistry and greenhouse gas evolution in a forested coastal catchment of Poona Creek, Fraser Coast, Southeast Queensland	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Felicity J Deane	A world view on emission reducation	Faculty of Law
Xiaodong, Huang	Spatiotemporal analysis of environmental factors and nitrous emission from agriculture soils	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Carly M Roberts	Climate change from within the legal and institutional framework around emission reductions from reduced deforestation and degradation, afforestation, reforestation, land use and land use change	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Law
David W Rowlings	Reducing Uncertainties in processes influencing greenhouse gas emissions from subtropical landscapes.	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Jeremy C Webb	Automotive carbon lock-in, greenhouse gasses and public attitudes to alternative transport modes in developing countries an Indonesian case study	Institute for Sustainable Resources/QUT Business School

Long-term Ecological Research

Student Name	Thesis Title	Faculty
Eleanor Adamson	Patterns of genetic diversity in snakehead gudgeons (Channa spp.) in Southeast Asia.	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Justine A Bell	An integrated approach to natural resource management: how can the land title register be used to facilitate environmental sustainability?	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Law
Daniel M Brough	Investigation of spatial disaggregation techniques for land systems mapping in the Burnett catchment	Faculty of Science and Technology
Matthew G Falk	Measuring and Presenting Uncertainty in Complex Natural Resources Monitoring Programs	Faculty of Science and Technology
Michelle A Gane	An investigation of a Process for Environmental Banking appropriate to Queensland	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Janaka M A Gunawardena	Relating Vehicle Generated Pollutants to Urban Stormwater Quality	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Sandra Johnson	Integrated Bayesian Network frameworks for modelling complex ecological issues	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Matthew N Krosch	Phylogeography of the Gondwanan Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae)	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Martin Labadz	A catchment modelling approach integrating surface and groundwater processes, land use and distribution of nutriehnts: Elimbah Creek, Southeast Queensland.	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Genevieve R Larsen	Understanding coastal groundwater processes by modelling hydrology, hydrochemistry and stable isotopes, Fraser Coast, southeast Queensland	Faculty of Science and Technology
Rowena G Maguire	Towards an integrated legal regime for sustainable forest management.	Faculty of Law
Parvez Mahbub	Impact of Urban Traffic and Climate Change on Water Quality from Road Runoff	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Isri R Mangangka	Role of Water Sensitive Urban Design for safeguarding urban water quality	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Patrick T O'Flaherty	Comparison of computational models for estimating leachate generation rates at a subtropical coastal landfill in Queensland	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Gavin W Scott	The Impact of Climate Change on the Management of Mineral Resources in Australia	Faculty of Law
Maxim Sheludchenko	Development and validation of the microbial source tracking method based on E.coli as a standard indicator of water quality	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Vlatka Varagic	Spatial Representation of Protected Areas	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Jason D Wimmer	Acoustic Sensing: Towards a Framework for Assessing Ecological Health	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology

Water Resources and Geosystems

Student Name	Thesis Title	Faculty
James H Butler	Variations in Rangal Formation coal deposition (age: upper Late Permian) at Comet Ridge, Southern Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia, as a function of depositional environment	Faculty of Science and Technology
Benjamin D Cumming	Efficient large-scale computational modelling of Groundwater flow on complex domains, with application to the Coastal Burnett region in North Queensland, Australia	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Pavel Dvoracek	Integrated groundwater flow model: Laidley Creek catchment, Lockyer Valley, southeast Queensland	Faculty of Science and Technology
Wangegedara C Gunawardana	Influence of physical and chemical properties of suspended solids in urban water quality	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Ashleigh T Hackles	The Influence of Urban Form on Stormwater Runoff Quality	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Rantih Isyrini	Comparison of Heavy Metal Geochemistry of Estuarine Sediments in Two Coastal Catchments of Different Land-use, Southeast Queensland, Australia.	Faculty of Science and Technology
Raghbir Kalsi	The Influence of Antecedent Dry Period on Urban Stormwater Runoff Quality	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Colette A King	The effect of recycled water in cooling towers with respect to the diversity and activity of the bacterial population in the surrounding environment.	Faculty of Science and Technology
Liu, An	Influence of catchment and storm characteristics on urban water quality	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Stefan C Loehr	Environmental Geochemistry of Iron in the Forested Poona Creek catchment, Fraser Coast, Queensland	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Jehangir Madhani	Evaluating the design of a stormwater quality improvement device with CFD	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Phan, Thi T	Integrated Hydrogeological and Visualisation Models of Groundwater Systems in the Pumicestone Region. Southeast Queensland.	Faculty of Science and Technology
Tien, Anh T	The influence of climate variability on hydrological processes and surface and groundwater hydrochemistry: the tropical Upper Roper River catchment, Northern Territory, Australia.	Faculty of Science and Technology
Ryan D Turner	Greywater - Characterisation, the Utilisation and Impacts in Brisbane	Faculty of Science and Technology

Energy Systems

Student Name	Thesis Title	Faculty
Mark A Broadmeadow	A low-cost, high-efficiency PWM inverter with megahertz switching frequency	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Kameron G Dunn	Conversion of lignin to industrial fuels and chemicals	Faculty of Science and Technology
Negareh Ghasemi	High voltage and high frequency sinusoidal wave by using a flexible high voltage power supply	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Richard C Medland	Energy Thrift: Strategies to Connect People trhough Real-time Visulisations of Electricity Consumption in Social Networks.	Faculty of Creative Industries
Paul C Moonie	New catalysts and conductive substrates for highly efficient dye-sensitised solar cells	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Ian M O'Hara	Pretreatment of sugar cane bagasse for enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation	Faculty of Science and Technology
Andrew J Rowlings	Sustainable Energy Use for Airport Metropolis	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering

Sustainable Communities and Infrastructure

Student Name	Thesis Title	Faculty
Nor A Zainal Abidin	A comparison analysis on preferences study towards scenic quality of urban stream corridors between environmental designers and public users.	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Peter-Daniel Ansell	Semantic integration of user feedback into smart Faculty of Science and Technologyentific workflow managment systems.	Faculty of Science and Technology
Andrea Capasso	Controlled growth of carbon nanotubes on nanostructured substrates for electronic and photovoltaic applications.	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Raul A D D Carvalho	Urban Design directions: The Brisbane case	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Fiona Cheung	Relationship Management -The Route To A Sustainable Construction Industry	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Robert D Crook	Impact of Concepts of Risk & Uncertainty in Climate Change on QUT Business Schooliness Decision -making in the Australian Electricity Industry	QUT Business School
Didem Dizdaroglu	A Methodology for Ecological Sustainable Urban Development: An Eco-Planning Model for Gold Coast, Australia	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Margaret R Donald	Using Bayesian methods for the estimation of uncertainty in complex statistical models	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Ori Gudes	A web-based decision support framework for the Planning of Healthy Cities: the Case of Logan, Australia	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Huang, Chih-Hsuan	A study of behavioural responses to climate change: motives and barriers to mitigating behaviours	QUT Business School
Lee, Shinyi	Delivering sustainable stormwater outcomes: issues, perceptions and criteria in water sensitive urban design	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Leong, Siew N	Sustanability in enhancing green infrastsructure development	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Erandika O Manawadu	Growing sustainable regions: developing a rural statistical sustainability framework	Faculty of Science and Technology
Galyna Mclellan	Methods of developing green infrastructure network in a subtropical urbanised area. Case study in Brisbane.	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Robin L Modini	Investigation of the effect of Organic Aerosols (OA) on the water uptake of Atmospheric Particles	Faculty of Science and Technology
Roy C Monaghan	Strengthening and sustaining the governance processes in a remote indigenous community - A constructivist grounded theory approach	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Education
Irani U Rathnayake	Molecular characterisation of environmental enterococci derived from water samples and assessment of associated public health risks.	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Julienne Senyard	Venture creation and resource processes: Using bricolage in sustainability ventures	QUT Business School
Madeleine D Sternberg	The life and work of Dr Elizabeth Marks: a biography of a Faculty of Science and Technologyentist, an historian and a collector	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Humanities
Nicholas J Stevens	Land Use at the Airport Metropolis	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Elisabeth Zeitler	Sustainable and liveable communities: Impact of renting on older people's community engagement	Institute for Sustainable Resources
Abdul M M Ziyath	Zeolite as a Chemical Medium in the Removal of Heavy Metals in Urban Stormwater.	Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering

Food Security

Student Name	Thesis Title	Faculty
Ppa W Athukorala	Agricultural Water Management, Externalities and Farmers' Welfare: Theory and Empirical Evidence	QUT Business School
Daniel L Burrell	Statistical Methods for Assessing Reliability and Uncertainty in Rare Event Scenarios in Biosecurity	Institute for Sustainable Resources/Faculty of Science and Technology
Kolombugamage M Karunarathna	Estimating the Conservation Cost of Environmental Goods: A Case Study of Agricultural Bio-Diversity	Institute for Sustainable Resources/QUT Business School
Margaret I Rolfe	Bayesian Models for Longitudinal Data	Faculty of Science and Technology