Biodiversity and conservation management

• How can marine conservation recover from the economic recession and decline in ecotourism? - Dr Chris Brown and Dr Christina Buelow.
• Conservation and restoration of coastal habitats - Dr Chris Brown, Dr Christina Buelow and Dr Mischa Turschwell.
• Managing environmental risk in Australia's blue economy - Dr Chris Brown and Dr Mischa Turschwell.
• Hydro-ecological determinants of fish health and condition in the Murray-Darling Basin - Associate Professor Mark Kennard
• Mapping the health of coastal wetlands globally to inform conservation actions - Dr Chris Brown
• Resilience in coastal ecosystems - Professor Rod Connolly
• Cost-effective restoration of wetlands: how to maximise ecosystem services with limited funds - Dr Fernanda Adame
• Understanding Australia's oyster biodiversity - Dr Carmel McDougall
• Evidence-based governance for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity - Dr Fran Humphries
• Linking global patterns in freshwater biodiversity to environmental drivers - Dr Simon Linke
• Estimating freshwater biodiversity loss via remotely sensed pressures - Dr Simon Linke
• Large-scale estimation and accounting of freshwater ecosystem services - Dr Simon Linke
• Comparing novel methods of aquatic ecosystem monitoring (eDNA, acoustics, video monitoring) - Dr Simon Linke
• Monitoring aquatic ecosystem process (flow, sediment transport, respiration) with ecoacoustic methods - Dr Simon Linke
• Monitoring environmental water delivery in the Goulburn-Broken using terrestrial and underwater ecoacoustics - Dr Simon Linke
• Discovering macroalgal diversity in the Great Barrier Reef - Dr Guillermo Diaz-Pulido

Reducing risks to water security

• Blue-green algae – the supreme survivors. What strategies allow them to control so many freshwater lakes and rivers? - Professor Michele Burford , Professor David Hamilton and Dr Man Xiao.

• Strategies for minimisation of toxic disinfection by-products in drinking water - Professor Fred Leusch
• Fate and significance of antibiotic resistance genes during wastewater and advanced water treatment - Professor Fred Leusch
• Development of novel multiplex bioanalytical tools to detect toxic chemicals in water - Professor Fred Leusch and  Dr Jason van de Merwe
• Improving in vitro to in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) to develop more robust bioanalytical trigger values for environmental monitoring Professor Fred Leusch and Dr Liesbeth Weijs
• Assessing the impacts of chemical pollutants on marine wildlife using novel and ethical techniques  - Dr Jason van de Merwe and Professor Fred Leusch
• Blue-green algae and their toxins - can we manage them? - Professor Michele Burford
• The role of catchment dissolved organic matter in affecting aquatic health and drinking water quality - Professor Michele Burford

Sustainable fisheries and coastal ecosystems

• Marine wildlife toxicology - Dr Jason van de Merwe, Dr Kimberly Finlayson and Professor Frederic Leusch.
• Ethical alternatives to animal toxicity testing - Professor Frederic Leusch, Dr Kimberly Finlayson and Dr Jason van de Merwe.
• Automated monitoring of restored marine environments - Professor Rod Connolly, Dr Michael Sievers, Dr Ryan Pearson  and Dr Chris Brown.
• Ecological connectivity through fish movement measured using artificial intelligence - Professor Rod Connolly, Dr Christina Buelow and Dr Chris Brown.
• Oyster diversity and shellfish reef restoration -  Dr Carmel McDougall and Professor Rod Connolly
• Understanding QX disease in Sydney rock oysters -  Dr Carmel McDougall.
• Carbon in coastal wetlands - Professor Rod Connolly
• Resilience in coastal ecosystems - Professor Rod Connolly
• The impact of poor water quality on coastal fisheries - Dr Chris Brown
• Social and economic sustainability of coastal fisheries - Dr Chris Brown
• Jellyfish dynamics in the Anthropocene - Professor Kylie Pitt
• Molecular aquaculture (molluscs) - Dr Carmel McDougall
• How do molluscs build their shells? - Dr Carmel McDougall
• Ecology of coral reef ecosystems - Associate Professor Guillermo Diaz-Pulido
• The role of freshwater flows in promoting coastal productivity - Professor Michele Burford
• Improving evidence-based governance for ecologically sustainable aquaculture development - Dr Fran Humphries

Aquatic ecosystems in a changing climate

• Coral reef emissions of biogenic aerosols under warming - Associate Professor Albert Gabric
• Impacts of ocean acidification and warming on coral reefs - Associate Professor Guillermo Diaz-Pulido
• Carbon in coastal wetlands - Professor Rod Connolly
• Emissions of CO₂ and CH₄ as a result of wetland disturbance - Dr Fernanda Adame

Water and Society

• Socio-economic tradeoffs around water resource management in Australia’s north - Associate Professor Jim Smart
• Catchment-based environmental credit markets - Associate Professor Jim Smart

Predicting water futures

• Call identification and automated processing in freshwater bioacoustics - Dr Simon Linke
• Water quality status of lakes at global scale - Professor David Hamilton
• Water quality predictions of lakes under the influence of land use and climate change - Professor David Hamilton
• Hindcasting evolution of lakes using sediment core validation - Professor David Hamilton

Ecology of groundwater-surface water interactions

• The ecological importance of groundwater-surface interactions across Earth's terrestrial biomes: a critical review of the literature (Honours) - Associate Professor Mark Kennard
• Identifying the controls of carbon and nutrient processing in the hyporheic zone of upland rivers (Honours/PhD) – Associate Professor Mark Kennard
• Developing innovative approaches for detecting and monitoring ecological responses to groundwater drawdown (Honours/PhD) – Associate Professor Mark Kennard
• Quantifying and mapping the spatial and temporal variation in groundwater influence of Brisbane urban waterways using radon tracer measurements (Honours/PhD) – Associate Professor Mark Kennard