Griffith University

Bachelor of Science (Chemistry & Biochemistry), UQ  
PhD (Biochemistry), UQ

Contact details for Dr Ross Sadler

Teaching expertise

• Food & Drug Safety Management
• Climate Change & Public Health
• Environmental monitoring & assessment
• Air Quality
• Environmental Management Systems

Research expertise

• Behaviour and transport of pollutants in the environment
• Bioavailability of contaminants from soil and other environmental matrices
• Industrial waste production and treatment
• Eutrophication and growth of harmful algal blooms
• Effects of climate change on pollutant behaviour and consequences for public health.

Professional Associations

• Chairman of Environmental Technical Group, National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia.
• Project Director, Environmental Chemistry, Federation of Asian Chemical Societies
• Member, Australian Remediation Industry Cluster, CRC CARE
  

Publications

Books

• Kookana RS, Sadler R, Sethunathan N AND Naidu R eds. Environment protection and risk assessment of organic contaminants. Enfield: Science Publishers, 2002.
  

Book chapters

• Rayment GE, Sadler R, Craig A, Noller B and Chiswell B.  Analysis of Inorganic Parameters.  In: Chemical Analysis of Contaminated Land. (Thompson KC and Nathanail P eds). Oxford:Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 99-131.
  
• Sadler R. and Connell D. Analytical Methods for the Determination of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soil. Adelaide: National Environment Protection Council , 2003 (in the press).
• Sadler R. and Connell D.  Analytical Methods for the Determination of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Marine Water and Sediment.  In: Oil in the Marine Environment. (JR Oh ed).  Geoje: Korean Ocean research and Development Institute, 2003.
• Sadler R and Wruck D.  Chemical Analysis.  In: Organic Residuals, Soil Improvers and Growing Media (Thompson KC ed.).  Oxford:Blackwell Publishing,  2010, in the press.
  

Relevant publications in refereed journals

• Senogles P, Shaw G, Smith M, Norris R, Chiswell R, Mueller J, Sadler R and Eaglesham G.  Degradation of the cyanobacterial toxin cylindrospermopsin, from Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii by chlorination.  Toxicon 2000, 38:1203-1213.
• Sadler R, White P and Connell D.  Chromatographic behaviour of PAHs in a sandy soil.  Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, 2001;81:1-8
• Kookana, R, Sadler R, Connell D, Sethunathan N, Megharaj M, Juhasz A, Seth P and Naidu R.  Organic contaminants in the soil environment – environmental fate, impacts and remediation.  in: Environment protection and risk assessment of organic contaminants (Kookana RS, Sadler R, Sethunathan N and Naidu R eds). Enfield: Science Publishers, 2002: 3-25.
• Sadler R And Connell D.  PAHs in the soil environment and their bioavailability. In: Environment protection and risk assessment of organic contaminants (Kookana RS, Sadler R, Sethunathan N and Naidu R eds). Enfield: Science Publishers, 2002: 27-43.
• Shaw GR and Sadler R.  Risk assessment methods and approaches with particular reference to organic compounds at gasworks sites. In: Environment protection and risk assessment of organic contaminants (Kookana RS, Sadler R, Sethunathan N and Naidu R eds). Enfield: Science Publishers, 2002: 45-55.
• Boyd AM, Noller B, White P, Gilbert D, Smith D, Mortimer M, Langford P, Martinkovic J, Sadler R, Hodge M, Moore MR, Murray J, Cristaldi, C Zalucki MP, Francis I, Brown MD And Connell D.  A review of the environmental and health effects of termiticides under Australian conditions.  Environmental Health, 2003;3:29-58.
• Sadler R.  Pfiesteria – The Ambush Predator.  In: Regional Training Workshop on Marine Toxins (Wint SE ed.)  London:  Science and Technology Division, 2004: 53-65.
• Sadler R, Seawright A, Shaw G, Dennison N, Connell D, Barron W and White P.  Bioaccumulation of Organochlorine Pesticides from Contaminated Soil by Cattle.  Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, 2005;87:575-582.
• Cooper C,  Noller B,  Connell D  Yu J,  Sadler R,  Olszowy H,  Golding G,  Tinggi U,  Moore MR and Myers S.  Public Health Risks from Heavy Metals and Metalloids Present in Traditional Chinese Medicines.  Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2007;70:1694-1699.
• Stewart I, Carmichael WW, Sadler R, McGregor GB, Reardon K, Eaglesham GK, Wickramasinghe WA, Seawright AA and Shaw, GR. Occupational and environmental hazard assessments for the isolation, purification and toxicity testing of cyanobacterial toxins  Environmental Health, 2009: doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-52
• Stewart ID, Eaglesham GK, Poole C, Graham G, Paulo C, Wickramasinghe W, Sadler R and Shaw GR.  Establishing a public health analytical service based on chemical methods for detecting and quantifying Pacific ciguatoxin in fish samples. Toxicon, 2009: doi:10.1016
• Sadler R, Gabric A, Shaw G, Shaw E, and Connell D.  An opinion on the distribution and behaviour of chemicals in response to climate change, with particular reference to the Asia-Pacific Region. Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, 2010: In the press
• Diacomanolis V, Ng J, Sadler R, Nomura M, Noller B and Harris H.  Consistent chemical form of Cd in liver and kidney tissues in rats dosed with a range of Cd treatments: XAS of intact tissues. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2010: In the press