PhD students - Griffith University

Site Degrees

Mrs Rawaa Abdul Jabbar - Using DGT technique to investigate phosphorous concentration in sewage sludge amended soils and in groundwater
Mr Kadam Abdullah - The contribution of biological nitrogen fixation to plant nutrition in mixed species ecosystems.
Mrs Nor Ashikin Ahmed - Dynamic interations of P and C in soils amended with recycled organics
Mr Sina Akram - Evaluation of the effect of vegetated buffer strips on the fate of sediment and phodphorus with physical and mathematical models
M Dhyaa Albayati - To sustain building and environment, we should find ways of solving the urban problem
Ms Sveda Amini - Carbon dynamics in sodic soils
Mr Michael Ansong - Illicit and unregulated activities in protected areas and their potential impact on conservation
Mr Robert Appleby - The behavioural ecology of the Fraser Island dingo, canis lupus dingo: Measuring behaviours and modelling Ding Human interactions
Mr Jeff Argo - Viral influence on the Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa
Mr James Arthur - Model of gene flow with regards to dendritic systems
Louise Ashton - Latitude, Altitude and moth diversity: investigating possible indicators of climate change
Helene Aubault - Quantative discrimination of land use impacts upon wind erosion in Australia
Zsuzsa Banhalmi-Zakar - Investigating environment management practices in financial institutions
Mr Mark Ballantyne - Sustainable Orchid and Botanical Tourism
Mr Christopher Banks - At what level does place matter? Threshold effects in Australian neighbourhoods
Ms Agustina Barros - Tourism in High Mountain Protected Areas: Use and environmental impacts of tourism in Aconcagua Provincial Park
Mr Eric Bauer - Ecological literacy as the keystone for environmental education
Mr Chris Beattie - Patterns of movement by mud crabs in marine reserves
Mr William Bennett - Development and evaluation of a novel diffusive gradient in a thin film technique to measure arsenic and selenium speciation and bioavailability in natural waters.
Mr Andrew Bentley - Speciation and habitat differentiation among populations of two freshwater fishes in northern Australia
Ms Sofie Bernays -
Ms Amy Bond - The impact of roads on two common wallaby species in a coastal urban context
Ms Meghan Bond - Community-led sustainability actions and transformative sustainability.
Mr James Bone - Novel indicators of thermal stress in decapod crustaceans.
Ms Sarah Brikke - Young People and the Environment: An Exploratory Study
Mr Andre Brits - An Urban sustainability assessment framework: supporting public deliberation around sustainability
Mr Paul Brookfield - the provision of public open space for urban residents: A case study of the exploration and application of community environmental values to planning processes in local government.
Mr Matthew Brown - Cognitive abilities of the Torresian crow.
Ms Joanna Browne - Gelatinous plankton and their symbionts in Eastern Australia
Mr Peter-Rene Brunner - Process variations in dryland fluvial geomorphology and aeolian interactions(Diamantina River, Central Queensland)
Ms Ariella Chelsky Budarf - Ecological and biogeochemical consequences of decomposing jellyfish blooms.
Ms Hanh T.H. Bui - Trophic significance of bacteria in the diet of Parasesarma erythodactyla (Grapsidae), a keystone species in sub-tropical mangrove forests.
Donovan Burton - development of a public awareness tool to assist property owners and investor in assessing vulnerablity of as particular location to climate change
Mr Adam Butcher - Factors that influence meso-scale movement of native fish in the Murray - Darling Basin
Ms Arlene Butwell - Phylogenetic and Phylogeographic analysis of Australian waterpennies, sclercyphon
Mr Geoffrey Carlin - An agent based modelling approach to optimising human landscape interactions in catchment
Yu-Hsin Chang - Food and Identity: A socio-historical Perspective on the evolution of Taiwanese Cuisine
Ms Renee Chapman - The ecological and social implications of anthropogenic feeding in urban areas.
Ms Christina Chau - Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with Western medicine (WM) in promoting women's health to prevent menopausal and postmenopausal health issues
Mr Alan Chenoweth - The ethics of environmental practice
Mr Christopher Chetland - The classic example of convergence.
Mr Nicolas Clark - The role of avian malaria in driving host species diversification in southwest Pacific island bird
Ms Rachael Cole-Hawthorne -
Ms Ceaira Cottle - Phylogeography of aquatic species on Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands
Mr Derrick O Cruz - The role of ephemeral floodplain habitats in the recruitment and survival of juvenile and small bodied arid-zone fish
Mr Andrew Cuttriss - Marine Turtle Ecology within Southern Moreton Bay (Gold Coast region)
Mr Chris Dahl - Impact of climate change and chytrid pathogens on altitudinal distribution of amphibians.
Ms Jean Davis - Tropic connectivity among tropical coastal habitats and implications for MPA design
Ms Katherine Dawkins - Conservation genetics of the tiny freshwater crayfish tenuibranchiurus
Mr Carlos Del monaco Briceno - Assessment of the effects of reef algae on corals and climate change and ocean acidification
Mr Ricardo Safra de Campos - Climate variability and forced migration in Northeast Brazil.
Mr Raymonde de Lathouder - The effects of management practices on vertebrate fauna in urban lakes.
Ms Francesca Dem - Community parameters of Auchenorrhyncha along altitudinal gradients
Mr Dale Dickson - An optimal model of SEQ governance in 2015
Arie Djoekardi - Impacts of Water Front Development and Climate change in Jakarta
Ms Ana Dobson - The genetic basis of plumage variation in the Australian magpie
Duong Nguyen -
Ms Melissa Duggan - Effects of seasonal river flow on estuarine productivity in tropical rivers.
Mr Tri Phung Dung - Health risk Assessment of Organophosphate Insecticide among Rice Farmers in vietnam
Febi Dwirahmadi - Linking disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Indonesia
Mr Jason Edgar - Movement dynamics of Fraser Island dingo (Canis Lupus dingo): a methodological examination
Mr Simon Eldridge - An improved technique for estimating the nitrogen availability of recycled organic wastes applied to agricultural land
Ms Maryam Esfandbod - Impacts of various biochar applications on soil greenhouse gas production
Ms Leila Eslami Endargoli - Mangrove encroachment into salt marshes
Ms Laura Faggion - The contribution of Italian communities to housing in South East Queensland
Ms Mariel Familiar Lopez - Ecology and epidemiology of chytrid along altitudinal gradients
Ms Tintin Farahitini - Environmental Impact on Human Health and Sustainable Development in Indonesia : an analysis of the association between drinking water quality and dental caries in school children as a potential biological indicator for environmental problem.
Ms Laurisse Frampton - Ecology of refugial waterholes in sub-tropical rivers
Ms Tania Fuessel - The impact of solenopsis invicta and its chemical treatment program on soil invertebrates and nutrient cycling.
Mr Raffaello Furlan - Socio-cultural influences on the spatial form of houses self-built by first-generation Italian migration
Ms Tania Fuessel - The impact of solenopsis invicta and its chemical treatment program on soil invertebrates and nutrient cycling.
Ms Sarah Gall - Life in the city: formal and informal social and economic practices
Ms Estelle Gaillard - Climate change education
Ms Lisa Galbraith - Relationships between viruses and the toxic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) Cylindrospermoposis raciborskii in South East Queensland drinking supplies
Ms Alexandra Garson - Determination and understanding of main variables influencing river restoration performance in diffuse pollutant removal at the basin level
Patrick G Gartrell - Drivers of algal abundance on high latitude reefs.
Ms Alexandra Garzon - Implications of gully development and rehabilitation on nitrogen fluxes from headwater catchments in Southeast Queensland
Mr Paul Godfrey - the influence of flow seasonality on the recruitment ecology of fishes in lowland Wet Tropics rivers
Mr Johnvie Goloran - Ecosystem Restoration of Bauxite-processing residue (sand) Disposal Areas in Western Australia: Important Biogeochemical Processes and Effective Fertilization Strategies
Mr Lachlan Griffin - Mosquitoes and mangrove ecosystems
Mr Johan Gustafson - Small Scale Hydrodynamics in Seagrass Habitats: Implications for Juvenile Nekton
Mr Arman Haddadchi -
Mr David Haig - Multi-Disciplinary project Encompassing Economics, Ecological studies, Environmental Studies and Sociology
Ms Jodie Haig - Connectivity and movement of small nekton among seagrass habitats (Supervisor Professor Rod Connolly)
Rachael Cole-Hawthorne -
Ms Vivian Hauser - Negotiating the cultural interface of indigenous environmental studies: identifying processes of reflexivity for no-indigenous participants
Ms Sally Healy - Values, motivations and attitudes of the general public towards RSPCA Australia.
Ms Phillipa Henrick -
Mr Tim Heupink - Ancient genomics and Moa
Ms Shahla Hosseini-Bai - The impact of site management practices on the revegetation of highly disturbed sites in sub-tropical and tropical Queensland.
Mr Xiaohui (Sean) Hou - Climate Change and public Health adaption in Guangxi
Mr Michael Hughes - Modelling Salinity and cl upwelling in southern ocean
Mr Robert Huston - Chemical contaminants in urban rainwater tanks
Ms Karen Hytten - Climate change discourses in the media
Ms Paula Ibell - Links between carbon and nitrogen cycling processes in forest soils: an innovative approach with both NMR and stable isotope techniques.
Ms Sri Irianti - Policy framework for the improvement of healthcare waste management in Indonesia
Ms Leila Irajrfan -
Ms Barbara Johnson - Modelling chemicals in the Southern Ocean
Mr Paul Johnston - Bushfire Risk Management in Queensland: Issues and Strategies
Mr Mark Jordan - Development of redox-mediated microbial bioassays for the rapid characterisation and assessment of wastewater toxicity and oxygen demand.
Chutchamas Kanchana-Udomkan - The Development of molecular markers for indentifying breeding traits in Papaya
Ms Vicki Keliher - Science education discourses and environmental education.
Mr Paul King - Sustainability and Indonesian fisher
Ms Bambang Kusmanadhi - Agricultural systems in Malaysia
Ms Nunik Kusumawardani - School based Health Promotion for adolescents in Indonesia: Achievement, achallenges and future direction
Mr Patrick Laceby - Determining stream water quality outcomes from riparian management in pastoral landscapes
Ms Bonnie Chia-Chi Lee - The development of Health Promoting
Ms Karen Ka-Man Lee - Impacts of urbanisation on sandflat ecology
Ms Lydia Lihong Li - TiO2 Photoelectrocatalysis Based Sensing System for Determination of Chemical Oxygen Demand and Universal Detector
Ms Sumei Li - Risk communication and decision making in controlling of iodine deficiency disorders in Western areas of China
Mr Yibing Li - Nanostructured metal oxide-graphene (NMO/GRAP) composite materials for environmental remediation and solar energy conversion applications.
Ms Cindy Xian Liu - Microbial mechanisms of soil phosphorous transformation in a natural forest ecosystem under different prescribed burning regimes.
Ms Charlotte Xiaolu Liu - Nanostructured titanium dioxide photocatalysts for disinfection and decomposition of biohazards.
Ms Katrin Lowe - Landscape ecology and bioclimatic conditions of the Wallem sedge frog (Litoria alongburensis) in coastal Wallum wetlands of eastern Australia.
Elsje Pauline Manginsela (Paula) - Gender and forest: local knowledge management in Apmpreng Village, north Sulawesi, Indonesia
Ms Kate Masci - Phylogeography and evolution of the Australian archerfish
Ms Katya May - Evaluation of HIV AIDs prevention program for Gays and Lesbian populations
Mr Tony Matthews - Delivering Climate Change Adaptation through Urban and Regional Planning
Ms Sarah Maunsell - Climatic associations of insect-plant foods in Australia subtropical rainforest.
Mr Paul Maxwell - Modelling the influence of Marine Protected Areas on ecosystem resilience
Ms Mel McGregor -
Mr Stephen McKenna - Fragmentation effects on the vegetation of tropical and subtropical rainforests.
Ms Alison McLean - Molecular analysis of the variegated wren complex
Ms Heidi Millington - Reducing Impacts of Storm Water on Urban Streams in South East Queensland – Large and Small Scale Catchment and Riparian Issues
Ms Courtenay Mills - The role of river structure in determining connectivity among populations of two freshwater fishes in northern Australia
Ms Shimony Mohanty - Phytochemical characterization of bioactive compounds of selected tropical plants for therapeutic and commercial use.
Ms Razean Mohd Razali - Isolation and transformation of PRSV-P resistance gene in Carica papaya.
Mr Edward Morgan - Climate science and water resource management
Rashedui Mondol -
Mr Jonas B. Mortensen - Individual-based modelling of short-term movement of juvenile bull sharks
Ms Zoe Murray - An analysis of the nature of community participation in municipal public health planning in Queensland
Ms Johanna Mustelin - Coastal societies and climate change: the role of perceptions and values in community adaptation.
Ms Priyanesh Muhid - The fate of catchment nutrients with respect to freshwater algal blooms in a South-east Queensland reservoir.
Ms Patricia Natin - The Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Mangrove
Tia Nhaim - Community Engagement, Sustainability, and Environmental Management: Building Local Adaptive Capacity for Effective Climate Change Adaptation in Indonesia.
Mr Putranto Nugroho - Soil atmosphere under agroforestry practice: the CO2 dynamic and impact on tree growth and physiology.
Mr Michael Newham - Nitrogen retention capacity of riparian revegetation
Mr Andrew Olds - Ecological and connectivity and MPA function
Mr Gary Palmer -
Mr Colin Pattison - Impact of linear clearings on fauna in Canada
Mr Sukri Palutturi - Healthy City implementation in Indonesia: challenges, determinants and needs in partnership development at local government level
Mr Chris Pardoe-Matthews - Biodiversity of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in invasive and indigenous legumes in South East Queensland.
Tri Dung Phung - Health risk assessment of Organophosphate Insecticide among rice farmers in Vietnam
Mr Victor Pires - Urban Agriculture Policy Development and Implementation
Ms Lavinia Poruschi - Regional energy and material flow analysis techniques
Ms Ruth Potts - Evaluating natural resource management institutions to improve implementation of adaptive management.
Mr Matthew Prentice - Phosphorus sources fuelling cyanobacterial blooms in subtropical reservoirs
Ray Rayhau - Developing Policy for Adaptation to Climate Change at the Indonesian Local Government Levels.
Ms Ginger Jingxia Qiu - Synthesis, characterisation and application of graphene-Tio2 nanostructure films.
Mr Mehram Rezaei Rashti - Nitrogen transformation in croplands
Ms Kimberley Reis - Sustainable urban food.
Rajbir Reza - Modelling of water pricing in Bangladesh
Mr Reza Rezaei - Removal of residual hydrogen peroxide from AOP-treated waters.
Ms Julie Riordan -
Ms Billie Roberts - Large-scale movements and habitat use of flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus and P. alecto) in eastern Australia.
Mr David Roberts - Trophic implications of changes to the primary energy sources of a sub-tropical food web in Lake Samsonvale (North Pine Dam)
Mr Sebastian Rossi - Change in Status in Protected Areas: perceptions of visitors and catchment communities to the transition from State Forests to National Parks in south-eastern Queensland, Australia
Mr Sudipto Roy - Assessing the potential of urban greenspace for climate change adaptation.
Ms Lisa Ryan - International implementation of Eco-Schools.
Mr Christoph Rupprecht - Biodiversity and planning of informal urban greenspace in the face of climate change
Mr Yichao Rui - Impact of Global Warming and Grazing on Nitrogen Cycling in Qinghai-Tibetan Alpine Meadow Ecosystem
Ms Emily Saeck - The response of phytoplankton communities in Moreton Bay to increased anthropogenic pressure & climate change.
Mr Legi Sam -
Mr Rukuh Setiadi - The diffusion and transfer of cities' climate change adaptation policy in decentralized environmental governance system.
Mr Hamid Shoberi Nejad - Modelling of tourism demands in south east QLD
Mr Jeff Shellberg - Alluvial Gully Erosion Rates and Controlling Factors Along the Mitchell River Fluvial Megafan, Northern Queensland, Australia
Mr Amir Houshang Shiva - Ecotoxicological studies of the impacts of trace metals on aquatic animals using different biomarkers
Ms Maggie Sikula - Age grading tools for Anopheles gambiae s.l and Anopheles stephensi and a field validation to assess wild mosquito age population structure and efficacy of control interventions.
Ms Ilva Sporne - Biodiversity and legislation planning
Ms Jill Stanley - The effect of pre-harvest fruit properties of apricot on fruit maturity, quality and storage potential.
Mr Danial Stratford - Predicting and measuring the impact of climate change on frogs in SE Queensland
Mr David Sternberg - This thesis will use ecological traits to understand the variation freshwater fish species traits; the distribution of traits throughout the landscape; and the environmental factors influencing this distribution.
Miss Alisha Steward - When the river runs dry: the ecology of dry stream ecosystems
Mr Ben Stewart-Koster - Fish, flows and hierarchies: modelling hierarchical relationships in riverine ecosystems to aid management decision making
Ms Xiang Tan - The roles of benthic algae as bioindicator to ecohealth in river ecosystems.
Mr Pete Tangney - Multi-level governance and climate change adaptation
Mr Haile Tariku - Habitat fragmentation in northern Ethiopia: Effects on connectivity among populations
Mr Dien V. Tran - The Impact of Aeolian Dust Deposition on Queensland Continental Shelf Ecosystems
Mrs Binh Trinh - Integrated water resources management through policy and institutional measures in Red River Delta related to climate change.
Ms Iris Tsoi - The structure and functions of benthic algae in subtropical Australian riverine systems
Mr Vaeno Vigulu - Intra-specific interactions in tropical agroforestry systems
Svetlanta Vlady - modelling of oil and gas pricing - effect of climate change variable
Ms Yan Wang - the challenges and facilitating factors for international co-operation on HIV/AIDS prevention and control in China
Ms Kala Wati -
Tim Weaver - Movement of salt, nutrients and pesticides in vertisols
Mr James West - Socio-metabolic transitions in the Asia-Pacific
Mr Sean Wild -
Mr Victor Wong - Modelling of SRI and portfolio Analysis
Mr Ben Woodward - Organic carbon dynamics in wetted terrestrial environments, transformations and delivery to the Gwydir and Namoi lowland rivers and implications of microbial communities.
Ms Janine Woods - A temporal study of benthic macroinvertebrate and diatom assemblage composition response to the varying flow regime of an ephemeral system.
Ms Liana Wortley - Climate change and Lamington National Park
Ms Cathy Chao-Yuan Wu - the use of hormone replacement in Taiwan
Bixia Xu - Sustainable water management in theme park tourism: A comparison of Australian and Chinese policy and practice
Ms Ning Ye - to establish effective risk management system in health care organisations of developing country
Ms Belinda Young - Selective harvesting in headwater streams: Investigating the effects of habitat fragmentation on macroinvertibrate communities
Mr Yusri Yusuf - Coral reef fish populations of peninsular Malaysia and its habitat connectivity
Jianhong (Nancy) XIA -
Mr Brian Zancola - Competitive inhibition of an exotic weed by native fauna and flora.
Mr Bing Zhu - The role of risk communication to improve immunisation coverage of transitory children in Hangzhiou, China

Recently Completed

Mr Olivier Baggiano - A comparison of dispersal patterns among three freshwater turtle species in eastern Australia
Mr Darren Bito - Altitudinal gradients in insect herbivores