BSc (Hons)
PhD Candidate, Griffith School of Environment
Student Member, Environmental Futures Centre
Email: m.jordan@griffith.edu.au
Project Title
Project Description
My PhD focuses on the development and optimisation of rapid mediated toxicity and BOD bioassays, known as FM-Tox and FM-BOD respectively. The principle objective is to incorporate activated sludge microorganisms as the biocatalyst component with a view towards its application for routine monitoring of wastewater influent and effluent.
Supervisors
- Dr Dave Welsh (Principal)
- Associate Professor Peter Teasdale (Associate)
- Associate Professor Richard John (Associate)
Research Expertise
- Sediment biogeochemistry
- Water and wastewater chemistry
- Inorganic trace metals and nutrients
- Microbial bioassays
- Analytical chemistry
- Environmental chemistry
- Diffusive Gradients in thin films (DGT)
Teaching Areas
- Environmental chemistry
- Pollution Chemistry
- Environmental Monitoring Techniques
- Earth Science
Publications
- Jordan M.A, Welsh D.T., Teasdale P.R., Caterall K., John R. 2010. A ferricyanide-mediated activated sludge bioassay for fast determination of the biochemical oxygen demand of wasterwaters. Water Research (in press doi:10.1016/j.watres.2010.07.042).
- Jordan M.A., Teasdale P.R., Dunn R.J.K., Lee S.Y. In Press. Modelling copper uptake by Saccostrea glomerata with diffusive gradient in thin film measurements. Environmental Chemistry.
- Jordan M.A., Welsh D.T., Dunn R.J.K., Teasdale P.R. Under Review. Impact of Trypaea australiensis community density on benthic metabolism, nutrient fluxes, denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA). Journal of Sea Research.
- Dunn R.J.K., Teasdale P.R., Warnken J., Jordan M.A., Arthur J.M. 2007. Evaluation of the in situ, time-integrated DGT technique by monitoring changes in heavy metal concentrations in estuarine waters. Environmental Pollution 148: 213-220.
- Pickering C.M., Jordan M., Hill W. 2004. Sexual dimorphism and sex ratios of two Australian dioecious species of alpine pineapple grass, Astelia alpina var. novae-hollandiae and Astelia psychrocharis (Asteliaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 23(2): 225-236.