B Engineering (Hons), M Science (Biological Engineering)

Contact details for Ms Heidi Millington h.millington@griffith.edu.au

Thesis

Reducing Impacts of Storm Water on Urban Streams in South East Queensland – Large and Small Scale Catchment and Riparian Issues

Description

I am investigating spatial scale issues of instream and catchment impacts on urban stream health. Urban streams currently only constitute a small percentage of streams in South East Queensland, but this percentage is increasing as development and population growth continue. Urban streams have value due to their potential to provide ecological services, community awareness and recreational space enhancement. Further efforts are required to better understand the distinction between the impacts of local riparian vegetation on stream health from the larger scale impact increasing impervious surface has on the hydrologic signature, and the issues of storm water piping connectivity to streams. Spatial scale and network analysis using existing data and field work provide exciting new avenues to investigate ways to better understand the multitude of land use factors affecting urban streams. GIS based modelling research is a promising, relatively new approach to stream ecology research in urban, rural and natural landscapes.

Supervisor

Professor Stuart Bunn
Professor Angela Arthington
Professor Bofu Yu

Research expertise

• Hydrology
• Geomorphology
• GIS
• Urban stream health
• Fish passage

Teaching areas

• Mathematics and Report Writing

Publications

• Millington, H. (2005) Developing Engineering Design Criteria for Ecologically Sound Road Crossings For Endangered Fish in Georgia. 44th National Congress, Australian Society for Limnology, Hobart, Tasmania.
• Millington, H. (2004) Developing Engineering Design Criteria for Ecologically Sound Road Crossings For Endangered Fish in Georgia, M S. Thesis, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
• Millington, H. and Gattie, D. (2004) Developing Engineering Design Criteria for Ecologically Sound Road Crossings For Endangered Fish in Georgia - Poster. The American Ecological Engineering Society Fourth Annual Meeting, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
• Millington, H., Christopoulos, A., Mart, P. and Gage N. (2001) Modelling of Impressed Current versus Sacrificial Anode Cathodic Protection for Ships, Warship Cathodic Protection 2001, Royal Military College of Shrivenham, UK, 2001.
• Mart, P., Gage. N. and Millington, H. (2000) Cathodic Protection Studies of Naval Ships, Corrosion and Prevention-00, Australasian Corrosion Association.
  (This paper received the 2001 Marshall Fordham Best Research Paper and was published in the Journal ‘Corrosion and Materials,’ December 2001).
• Millington H. (1997) Hydraulics and Mixing in an Industrial Oxidation Pond, Honours Thesis, The University of Queensland.