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Environmental GeoscienceSubjectsCurrent and Past Third Year Research ProjectsPlease contact Dr John Webb for more information about any of the projects listed below. 
2008 Amanda Jowett - Evidence of landscape instability at the Last Glacial Maximum Ruby Geremian - Effect of bushfires on fungi Gaelle Ng Kam Chuen - Phytoremediation of contaminated soils 2007 Sharon Honicke - Hydrogeochemistry of Peninsula Hot Springs, Mornington Peninsula Andrew Nelson - Neutralisation of acid contaminated groundwater at a smelter site Fiona Glover - Identification of the organic content of a black stalactite from the Nullarbor Plain Hannah Dannatt - Analysis of sewerage sludge Jock Richardson - Salinity of farm dams during drought Upan Wong - Assessing the potential for rainwater collection from the roofs of buildings at La Trobe University Jo Waugh, Alice Craig - Making the Melbourne Writers' Festival carbon neutral Bridie Clarke - Land use change in the Lake Bolac area using Landsat imagery Michael Reynolds - Hydrology and hydrogeoogy of Long Swamp, far western Victoria 2006 Melissa North, Chris Payton - Measuring groundwater recharge through volcanic cones in central Victoria Catherine Hart - Effect of climate change and pine/blue gum plantations on spring discharge at Heatherleigh, western Victoria Matt Ryan - Hydrology and hydrogeology of wetlands at Balcombe Park, Melbourne Ka Wing Chen - Influence of dairy cow urine in increasing the soil salinity of paddocks Katherine Coady - Changes in stream water chemistry in a limestone cave, western Victoria Simon Wark, Georgie Coram - Effect of blue gum plantations on surface water flow in western Victoria Carina Polimeni, Katelin Hirth - Revegetation after the recent fires in Kinglake National Park , central Victoria 2005 Sarah Hagerty, Kate Bailue, Jo Silva - Surface water salinity in the Upper Glenelg River and Rocklands Reservoir, western Victoria Peter King, Graeme Stoneham - Groundwater salinity in upper Whiteheads Creek, Goulburn River catchment, central Victoria Dale McKenzie - Cause of salinity stratification in bores Steven Monohan - Relationship between river composition/flow and land use change in the Delatite River catchment Kate Martin and Adam Hayes - Groundwater salinity on Philip Island Alison Monsant - Chemical stability of crystalline and amorphous sludges formed by neutralisation of acid mine drainage 2004 Michelle Roberts - Metal contamination in mine adit waters in the central Victorian highlands Rod Baker - Surface water salinity and groundwater interactions in the basalt and deep lead aquifers in the Tullaroop Catchment, central Victoria 2003 Michael Ernest - Recognition of river seepage in flood plain groundwater, Ovens River Meredith Bormann, Ilija Juka - Effect of bushfires on surface water chemistry, Ovens and Kiewa Rivers Tim Robson - Groundwater chemistry in area of dryland salinity, Philip Island 2002 Joni Woollard - Dryland salinity around Willaura, western Victoria; geophysical tracing of groundwater flow paths Chihiro Tanaka, Tom O'Callaghan - Geochemical study of groundwater in the Campaspe valley, to determine changes in water quality due to aquifer leakage Jacinda Brennan - Dryland salinity around Pyalong, central Victoria; salt budget, particularly salt storage in soil and salt export in streams Alex Sneskov, Cassie Piper - Geochemical study of groundwater in the Upper Loddon valley, to determine connections between basalt and deep lead aquifers Janaya Wattie - Geochemical study of groundwater in the Tolmie Highlands, to determine controls on water chemistry 2001 Sarah Fuller, Stephen Little, Elizabeth Carey - Dryland salinity around Pyalong, central Victoria - soil permeability, water geochemistry, water budget respectively 2000 Daniel McDonald, Darren Bennetts, Seraphina Cutler - Dryland salinity around Willaura, western Victoria - water budget, water geochemistry, stable isotopic composition of water respectively 1999 Steven McGrath - Mineral water geochemistry around Kinglake, central Victoria Deborah Metcalfe, Sarah Kirkpatrick - Dryland salinity around Creswick, central Victoria - soil permeability and water geochemistry respectively Gemma Nichol - Hydraulic conductivity, porosity and particle-size distribution after treatment with gypsum and/or organic matter, on a sodic soil irrigated with waste water Silvana Santomartino -X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Analysis of Kaolinite and Na-montmorillonite Content Approved by: Head of Environmental Geoscience
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