School of Earth and Environment

Current postgraduates

• Anil Biswas, Beena - Participatory Approaches to Improve Sustainable Agricultural Production: A Study on the Role of Grower Groups in Western Australia.
• Anwar McHenry, Julia - The Arts and Social Wellbeing in Australian Rural Communities
• Barroga, Roger - The Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Agricultural Development in the Philippines
• Bell, Benjamin - Quantifying the controls on value creation of Australia’s gold exploration companies
• Benigno, Stephen - Ecophysiological Adaptations of Keystone Banksia Woodland Species to Drought and Soil Compaction Stresses in Post-Minesite Restoration
• Carson, Jennifer - Interactions between microorganisms and rock mineral fertilisers in organic pastures.
• Chau, Pauline - The role of pesticide metabolites and preferential flow in understanding pesticide fate in the vadose zone.
• Collins, Jane - Geological History of the Flying Fox Nickel Deposit, Forrestania Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
• Dempster, Daniel - Biochar – A benefit to soil biological processes and nitrogen cycling?
• Dev Regmi, Basu - Dynamics of zinc accumulation in wheat grains grown in conventional and biological farming systems
• Dickins, Cathryn - The Late Archaean high-field-strength-element (HFSE) enriched plutonic-volcanic rock association of the Gindalbie Terrane, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia
• Du, Xin - Vertical distribution and geochemical behavior of rare earth elements in intensely weathered soil/regolith profiles.
• Gaede, Oliver - Fluid Control on High-Temperature Fracture Propagation in Crustal Rocks
• Gedaria, Alice - Microbial trophic interactions and controls on the bloom dynamics of Karlodinium veneficum (syn. Karlodinium micrum) in the Swan River Estuary
• Guppy, Lisa - Disaster Risk Reduction to Enhance Human Security in Developing Countries – an exploration of water scarcity in Cambodia and Viet Nam
• Gwenzi, Willis - Vegetation and Soil Controls on Water Redistribution on Store-release Cover Systems
• Hardiputra, Bingah - Phosphorus fractionation in biological and conventional farming system
• Hodge, Joanna - Structural Architecture, Hydrothermal Alteration and Fluid Characteristics in the Kalgoorlie-Kambalda Area, Western Australia
• Jayakannan, Maheswari - Role of salicylic acid in inducing salinity tolerance in plants
• Kariman, Khalil - Molecular analysis of tolerance to phosphate toxicity in jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) seedlings inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi
• Lan, Zhongwu - Ediacaran biota and paleoenvironments from the Kimberley region, northwestern Australia
• Laura Ruibal Conti, Ana - Shifts in natural nutrient flux pathways in a catchment-estuarine system and their implications for eutrophication of coastal waters
• Lazar, Shachar - Depositional, post-depositional and tectonic history of the Upper Carboniferous to Middle Permian Saraburi Group, Loei-Phetchabun Foldbelt, NE Thailand
• Leyland, Lucy - Hydrogeological assessment of the Leederville aquifer, Perth, WA
• Lin, Deborah Shuhui - Targeted adaptation of hydrocarbon degrading soil microbes to assist the aerobic remediation of petroleum hydrocarbon impacted Australian soils
• Lu, Yongjun - Tectonic Setting, Magmatic Evolution and Metallogenesis of Cenozoic Alkali Intrusions in the Eastern Indo-Asian Collision Zone, Yunnan, China
• MD Jaafar, Noraini - Biochar as a habitat for microorganisms in soil, especially arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• McCormack, Kenneth - Integrated geochemical characterisation, stratigraphic and seismic interpretation of Permo–Triassic igneous rocks of East Timor and the North West Shelf of Australia
• Mole, David - Quantifying melt-lithosphere interactions in space and time: nickel mineral systems in the Archaean Youanmi terrane of the Yilgarn craton
• Morgan, Bree - Monosulfidic Black Ooze in the Peel Harvey Estuary System – formation, oxidation and transformation to pyrite in a eutrophic estuary receiving acid sulfate soil drainage.
• Ooi Lean Sim, Jillian - The role of sedimentary environments in driving tropical seagrass landscape patterns
• Parra Garcia, Marien - Petroleum systems of the western Canning Basin WA, based on 2D structural interpretation and basin modelling.
• Rajabather, Priya - Modelling Phosphorus release from crop residues and fractionation in soil
• Rivers, Mark - Determination of in-farm water and nutrient use, incorporation and loss mechanisms on Western Australian grazing properties.
• Rizal Ariffin, Mohd - Assessing soil carbon sequestration under perrennial pastures
• Saenz Alarcon, Luis - Formation and Discovery of High Grade Zn-Pb Carbonate Replacement and Skarn Deposits: Iscaycruz Mines; Lima, Central Perú.
• Santini, Talitha - A pedogenic treatment for rehabilitation of bauxite residue mud
• Seyedmehdi, Zahra - Depositional history and petroleum prospectivity of the latest Devonian-Early Carboniferous Fairfield Group, northwestern Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia
• Taylor, Barry - Palaeoenvironmental analysis of the Lower Cretaceous Birdrong Sandstone and Muderong Shale of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
• Trueman, Mandy - Towards effective management of degraded ecosystems in the highlands of Galapagos
• Wellmann, Florian - Stability analysis of convective heat transport in hydrothermal and enhanced geothermal basin systems
• Yusiharni, Baiq - Understanding changes in the chemistry, mineralogy and morphology of soil due to fire.
• Zanella-Coletti, Janaine - The influence of hydro-climatological variability and flow manipulation on wetland water balance and carbon cycling pathways
• Zeng, Qingtao - Geology, Geochronology and Genesis of Gold deposits in the West Qinling Orogenic Belt, central China
• Zi, Jianwei - Triassic tectono-magmatism in northern Lanping-Simao Basin, SW China: implications to tectonic evolution of paleo-Tethys ocean

Graduated students

• Atahan, Pia - Holocene environmental change and human influence in the Yangtze River delta, China
• Baggott, Matthew - A Refined Model for the Geological, Tectonometamorphic, and Metallogenic Evolution of the Leonora District, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia
• Baxter, Katrina - Linking seafloor mapping and ecological models to improve classification of marine habitats: opportunities and lessons learnt in the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia
• Callow, Nikolaus - River response to land clearing and landscape salinisation in southwestern Australia
• Greentree, Matthew - Tectonostratigraphic Analysis of Proterozoic Rocks and Related Cu-Fe Mineralisation in South China
• Heydari, Mehrdad - Alteration History of the Kambalda Komatiite Formation, Kambalda Domain, Western Australia: Implications for fluid evolution and gold hydrothermal systems
• Jenkins, Sommer - Ecophysiological principles governing the zonation of puccinellia (Puccinellia ciliata) and tall wheatgrass (Thinopyrum ponticum) on saline waterlogged land in south-western Australia
• Learnihan, Vincent - The physical environment as an influence of walking in the neighbourhood: objective measurement and validation
• Ma, Yamin - Vegetation as a biotic driver for the formation of soil geochemical anomalies for mineral exploration of covered terranes
• McGrath, Gavan - An exploration of the rainfall controls on pesticide transport via fast flow pathways
• McMaster, Kellie - Ecophysiology of Australian cocooning and non-cocooning, burrowing, desert frogs
• Mengler, Faron - Gully erosion on rehabilitated bauxite mines
• Murphy, David - Hydrothermal alteration associated with gold mineralization in hypogene and supergene mafic/intermediate igneous rocks, Pajingo Epithermal System, Queensland, Australia; implications for exploration of weathered rocks
• Seat, Zoran - Geology, petrology, mineral and whole-rock chemistry, stable and radiogenic isotope systematics and Ni-Cu-PGE mineralisation of the Nebo-Babel intrusion, West Musgrave, Western Australia