Griffith University

BSc (Hons), PhD

Program leader ? Health and Environment
Smart Water Research Facility

Contact details for Associate Professor Heather Chapman

Research expertise

• Water quality and wastewater management
  
• Application of water quality guidelines
  
• Risk assessment of water recycling
  
• Ecological risk assessment

Publications

• EPHC/NRW/NWC (2008) ? Recycled water quality ? A guide to determining, monitoring and achieving safe concentrations of chemicals in recycled water?  Report commissioned by the Environment Heritage Protection Agency and Natural Resources and Natural Resources and Water, QLD and the National Water Commission.   http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/811-recycled-water-quality.asp
• Chapman, HF; Cartwright, T. and Tripodi, N. (2008) Guideance Manual for the Design and Installation of Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Urban Australia.  CRC Report No 39. CRC Water Quality and Treatment, Adelaide.   http://www.waterquality.crc.org.au/Publication_OccPpr_ResRpts.htm
  
• Dale Pat E R, Jon Knight, Brian H Kay, Heather F Chapman, Scott A Ritchie, Michael D Brown. (2008) Habitat characteristics and eggshell distribution of the salt marsh mosquito Aedes vigilax in marshes in subtropical eastern Australia. J Insect Science. 8(25):1-8 
  
• Tan, B.L.L., Hawker, D.W., Muller, J.F., L.A., Chapman, H.F., (2008). Stir bar sorptive extraction and trace analysis of selected endocrine disruptors in water, biosolids and sludge samples by thermal desorption with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Water Research. 42:404-412 
  
• Chapman HF, Leusch FDL and BLL Tan (2007) Chapter 5. Health and chemicals of concern in recycled water.  Purified Recycled Water for Drinking - The Technical Issues. Edited by Ted Gardner, Christine Yeates and Roger Shaw. Queensland Water Commission, May 2007.  http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/Technical+issues+paper
  
• Cumming, J; Hawker, D.; Nugent, K and H F Chapman (2007) Ecotoxicities of Polyquaterniums and their associated polyelectrolyte surfactant aggregates (PSA) to Gambusia holbrooki. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A  Volume 43 Issue 2, 113  
  
• Chapman, HF; Leusch, FDL and BLL Tan (2007) Endocrine disruptors. Chapter 1 in Occasional Paper No 8: Chemicals of Concern in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent: State of the Science in Australia. CRC Water Quality and Treatment.   http://www.waterquality.crc.org.au/Publication_OccPpr_ResRpts.htm
  
• GWRC (2007) Tools to detect estrogenicity in Environmental Water. Final Report from the Global Water Research Coalition (GWRC) project ?Tools for analysing estrogenicity in environmental waters? WERF contract number #03-HHE-4T CRCWQT    http://www.waterquality.crc.org.au/Publication_OccPpr_ResRpts.htm
  
• Dale, Pat E.R. Margaret Greenway, Heather Chapman, Mark J Breitfuss (2007) Constructed wetlands for sewage effluent treatment and mosquito larvae at two sites in subtropical Australia. J Amer Mosq Cont Assoc. 23(2):109-116   
  
• Tan, B.L.L., Hawker, D.W., Muller, J.F., Leusch, F.D.L., Tremblay, L.A., Chapman, H.F. (2007) Comprehensive study of endocrine disrupting compounds using grab and passive sampling at selected wastewater treatment plants in South East Queensland, Australia. Environ. International  33, 654 ? 669. 
  
• Tan, B.L.L., Hawker, D.W., Muller, J.F., Leusch, F.D.L., Tremblay, L.A., Chapman, H.F. (2007) Modelling of the fate of selected endocrine disruptors in a municipal wastewater treatment plant in South East Queensland, Australia. Chemosphere 69:644-654  
  
• Chapman, HF and Leusch FLR (2006) Water Recycling: Endocrine Disruptors. WATER 33(6): 39-41.  September 2006
  
• Leusch FDL, Chapman HF, van den Heuvel MR, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2006). Estrogenic and androgenic activity of sewage from 15 municipal sewage treatment plants in Australia and New Zealand.  Ecotox. Environ. Safety 65, 403 ? 411   
  
• Leusch FDL, Eriksson AME, van den Heuvel MR, Chapman HF, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2006). Comparison of bioassays and solid-phase extraction cartridges for quantification of estrogenic and androgenic activity of wastewater samples.  Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part C, 143:117-126  
  
• Falconer, Ian R, Chapman, Heather F, Moore, Michael R and Geetha Ranmuthugala (2006) Endocrine Disrupting Compounds: A review of their challenge to sustainable and safe water supply and water re-use. Journal of Environmental Toxicology. 21:181-191   
  
• Leusch FDL, Chapman HF, Kay GW, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2006). Anal fin morphology and gonodal histopathology in mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki exposed to treated municipal sewage effluent. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 10(6):429-438.  
  
• Sinclair, Martha, Leder, Karin and Chapman, Heather (2005) Public Health Aspects of Rainwater Tanks in Urban Australia. in CRC Water Quality and Treatment Occasional Paper No 10, p.1-88, CRC Water Quality and Treatment, Adelaide, Australia.  
  
• Chapman, H.F. and Simpson, S. (2005) Direct Toxicity Assessment of acid-mine water from the Mt Morgan mine site, Central Queensland, Australia.  Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology 11.93-99   
  
• Leusch FDL, van den Heuvel MR, Laurie AD, Chapman HF, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2005). Quantification of vitellogenin mRNA induction in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) by reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Biomarkers 10(6):429-438.   
  
• Leusch FDL, Chapman HF, Koerner W, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2005) Efficacy of an advanced biological nutrient removal plant in Queensland (Australia) to remove estrogenic chemicals. Environ. Sci. Technology. 39(15):5781-5786   
  
• Chapman, H.F., Breitfuss, M.J., Dale, P.E.R. and Thomas, P. (2004) Salt-marsh habitat modification for mosquito control and the impacts on grapsid crab populations. Wetlands Australia 22(1):1-10.   
  
• Chapman, Heather F. (2003) Removal of endocrine disruptors by tertiary treatment processes in subtropical Queensland. Water Science and Technology 47(9):151-156   
  
• Falconer, I.R., Moore, M.R., Chapman, H.F. and G.R. Ranmuthugala (2003) Review of endocrine disruptors in the context of Australian drinking water. CRC Water Quality and Treatment.  Occasional paper no 7. pp 1-40. ISBN 1876616229  
  
• Chapman, H.F. and Dale, P.E.R. (2003) Rainwater tanks: Alternate water source or health risk. Bulletin of the Mosquito Control Association of Australia Inc.  15(2):34-41.   
  
• Chapman, H.F and Moore, M.R. (2003) Are Endocrine active substances endocrine disruptors?  Proceedings of `Chemicals of Concern in Water?. AWA/IWA Conference, Sydney, Australia.  June 4-5th 2003.   
  
• Greenway, Margaret; Pat Dale and Heather Chapman (2003) An assessment of mosquito breeding and control in 4 surface flow wetlands in tropical-subtropical Australia. Water Science and Technology. 48(5): 249-256