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Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses

This page contains links to Honours research theses for the area of Science, Medicine & Health. All University of Wollongong masters by research and PhD theses are posted online here.

Theses from 2023 2023

Does infection with chytrid fungus influence male advertisement behaviour and colour expression in Brown toadlets?, Ewan Scott Auld

Geographic Variation in the Presence of Polymorphisms in Painted Dragons, Dallys Baker

Shorebird Populations on the Wollongong Open Coastline: An Evaluation of Occurrence Records, Species Richness and Key Threats, Emily Baonza

Shape up and Ship out: Do Bt-Resistant Corn Earworm Moths, Helicoverpa zea, Have Wing Shapes Better Suited to Long Distance Flight? arworm M oths, Helicoverpa zea , H ave W ing S hapes B etter S uited to L ong D istance F light?, Sarah Barclay

Blue Carbon Opportunities for the Lower Shoalhaven River, Ryan Cope

Re-establishment of pollen-mediated connectivity is key to successful restoration of fragmented populations of Eucalyptus albens, Ella R. Dunn

Prescribed Fire Regimes: The Immediate and Short-term Impacts Upon Susceptible Invertebrates, Liam Falls

Lasting Impact: Fire-Affected Mangrove Regeneration in the Clyde River Estuary, Batemans Marine Park, Miranda James

Re-Evaluating Human Dispersal Patterns Over Central & Eastern Asia, Andrew Jenkins

Connecting the Docks: Investigating the Effects of Overwater Structures Across Multiple Life History Stages of Estuarine Fish, Mitchell Karhapaa

Geochemical Analysis of Cored Rock Samples Along the Proposed Milton Ulladulla Bypass, Jacob Lau

Seabirds and Stomach Bugs: The Diversity, Coexistence and Persistence of Klebsiella in Silver Gulls, Kira Lowe

Friend or Foe? Investigating Long-Spined Urchins (Centrostephanus rodgersii) as a biogenic ecosystem engineer and potential symbiotic relationships with other invertebrates and fishes., Ebene Montgomery

FLUX AND FLOW: VARIATION AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL DRIVERS OF GHG FLUXES ACROSS THE INTERTIDAL WETLAND GRADIENT, Stephen Douglas Rigney

The age, duration, and provenance of the Broughton Formation (Southern Sydney Basin, Australia), and its temporal relationship to the Permian Climate Change, Andre Sarkis

A 3D Ground Surface Model of Mount Ousley Road: Modelling the Interface of Quaternary and Bedrock Material Underneath a Major Highway Mountain Pass, Ethan Tsingos

Causes of Colour Variation in Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia, Tara Weall

Theses from 2022 2022

Rock art at Murujuga: Testing the feasibility of the luminescence-surface-exposure-dating method, Danielle Lindsey Bainbridge

Structural Analysis of the Lengguru Fold and Thrust Belt, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, Taylor A. Baker

Musselling Up: Assessing the large-scale effects of introduced source populations of Mytilus galloprovincialis, Oscar Borschmann

The Song Culture of the Endangered Eastern Bristlebird, Dasyornis brachypterus, Emily Bradstock

Investigating the effect of reproductive seasonality and geographic location on diversity of Symbiodiniaceae in Western Australia in Acropora corals., Sanna Eriksson

Monitoring the Post-Fire Recovery and Regeneration of Mangrove Communities in Batemans Marine Park, Annabel Green

Persistent LiDAR-based post-fire changes in vegetation structure over a large range of Australian forests, William Harris

Examining the Effects of Hammer Striking Angle on Levallois Flake Formation, Amy innes

Survival and Recolonisation of Australian Mistletoes after High Severity Fire: Implications for the Warrumbungle National Park, Cameron William Kirk

Monitoring Intertidal Wetland Vegetation Using a Range of Remote Sensing Datasets, Louisa Lovasz

The Tectonic Memory of the Mantle, Robert James Marks

Viability of an Endangered Population of Greater Gliders, Brooke Phillipa Mulley

Investigating arid Australia’s sedimentary history using deep floodplain cores from the Lake Eyre Basin, Caitlyn Scobie

Theses from 2021 2021

Investigating osmolality-induced plasticity in sperm motility activation in the common eastern froglet, Crinia signifera., Zara Anastas

Social recognition and shoaling decisions of the male and female native freshwater fish, Psuedomugil signifer in the presence of an invasive fish, Gambusia holbrooki, Charlotte Brown

3D GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF FRACTURE NETWORKS IN THE HAWKESBURY SANDSTONE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS TO GROUNDWATER FLOW, Rebecca Chapple

An Investigation into the Behaviour of the Magnetic Field from 1 Ga to Present Day, Annalise Cucchiaro

The short term effect of fire severity on arboreal mammals, jJrrah May-Stubbles

Multitasking UV-absorbing compounds of Chorisodontium aciphyllum, Alannah McPherson

Reconstructing northern Australian rainfall and the Central Indo-Pacific InterTropical Convergence Zone, Josh Melleuish

Why the insensitivity? Plant species across New South Wales tolerating short fire intervals, Milo Morrison-Jones

The relationship between fire severity and eucalypt health: implications for forest structure and carbon balance, Declan Moylan

Post-fire Vegetation Recovery at Monga National Park: vegetative composition, fire response traits and eucalypt response to fire, Madeline Surya Newbery

Utilising radon measurements at Macquarie Island to estimate CO2 and CH4 transport across the Southern Ocean from Australia and New Zealand, James Portwin

Geographic variation in thermal physiological traits: the role of thermal stress on telomere length in a polymorphic ectotherm, Daniel Ritchie

Characterising recent terrestial influence on coastal Antarctic air masses using radon-222 and physiochemical properties, Daniel Saeed

THE CHARACTERIZATION OF FRACTURE AND FLUID FLOW PROPERTIES OF THE HAWKESBURY FORMATION IN THE TAHMOOR REGION, NSW, amy soper

Monitoring of CO2 Fluxes from Differing Vegetation Communities using the Eddy Covariance Approach, Matthew Spann

An experimental study assessing the utility of heat treating silcrete for the purposes of working wood and animal hide, Carly Toddhunter

Metagenomic analysis facilitates ontogenetic investigations of microbiota composition and antimicrobial resistance in silver gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) chicks, Maddison Yerbury

Theses from 2020 2020

The potential of carbon sequestration in trees on the University of Wollongong campus as a means of offsetting emissions, Nicholas James Agostino

Examining storms, sediment supply, and coastal change within the historical record, Travis Adam Anderson

Middle to Late Pleistocene palaeoecological change at the Azraq Wetlands, Jordan, and the implications for early human dispersal., Kelsey Boyd

Estuarine Vegetation Assessment and Analysis of Trends for the Minnamurra and Crooked Rivers, Serena Cortijo

Urchin predation and marine park residency in the Eastern Rock Lobster (Sagmariasus verreauxi): an initial assessment of its potential to control urchin populations, Jeremy Day

Global diamond prospectivity from reconstructions of mantle flow over the past billion years, Anton E. Grabreck

The Provenance of Pumice: Tsunami or Storm? Omaha, New Zealand, Jackson Green

Geomorphic evolution and the role of organic matter in a temperate supratidal Melaleuca wetland: Corner Inlet, VIC, Zachary Nagel-Tynan

In situ micro-analytical characterisation of zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic standards, Ryan North

Southern Ocean Aerosol Optical Depth - instrument comparison and Maine Aerosol Network Validation, Samantha Orum

Mid-to Late-Holocene coastal evolution and multi-hazard analysis of Papamoa Beach, New Zealand, Reilly Pearce

Boron Isotopes and FTIR Analysis to Determine Past Fire Occurrence in the Upper Nepean Catchment, Rebecca Ryan

The influence of cone age and urbanisation on the diversity and community composition of seed fungal endophytes within native Australian Banksia ericifolia L.f. subsp. ericifolia, Merize Van Der Merwe

Driving factors of slab geometry between depths of 400-1000 km, Joshua Weber

Theses from 2019 2019

The Early Permian Snapper Point Formation, Southeastern Australia - Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Inferred Palaeoenvironments, Cody Carman

Development of an optimal model for ungauged catchments and its application to a water balance model for closed estuarine lakes – A case study Durras Lake, New South Wales Australia, Sara Carroll

Modelling erosional sensitivities of archaeological sites using DEM’s from low altitude UAV imagery, S J. Chambers

Geoarchaeological and chronological investigations of combustion features at Lake Mungo, NSW, Megan Ruth Ensor

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles to assess the spatial and temporal dynamics of seals at Martin Islet (NSW), L Esteban

Remotely Sensing the impact of Storms on the NSW Coast, Hayden Golding

Soil moisture influences on radon fluxes in the Sydney Basin, Nicholas L. Keatley

Erosion trends in the Minnamurra River catchment: An application of the RUSLE model, Kyle Mercer

Fire, Drought and Floods: An investigation into the evolution and palaeo-environments of Thirlmere Lakes, NSW, B Sherborne-Higgins

A Mentum In Time: Chironomids as Palaeotemperature Indicators at Thirlmere Lakes, NSW, Australia, E Swallow

Investigation of the links between El Nino-Southern ˜ Oscillation and the ‘4.2ka event’ megadrought, Patrick Philip Wilcox

Theses from 2018 2018

Thirlmere Lakes; A degraded environment or an environment sensitive to natural hydroclimate variability?, J Allenby

Crossing Three Deep Valleys: The Sedimentology, Geomorphology and Palaeo-environments of Thirlmere Lakes, N.S.W, E J. Barber

A comparative study of raster and vector based approaches in vegetation mapping on Five Islands off the coast of Port Kembla., P B. Barlow

An investigation of Onychophora (velvet worms) of the Illawarra region, C Chapman

Storm chasing in the Australian Tropics: Is there a record of past tropical cyclones in Lake Eacham?, C Henderson-Matuschka

Scoping for potential wildlife crossings for koalas and marsupial gliders in the Sutherland Shire and Campbelltown regions of New South Wales, Australia, D Karas

Spot the difference: Using camera-traps to analyse the Spotted-tailed Quoll population in the Illawarra Highlands, NSW Australia, J Nicholson

N2O emissions from southeast Australia, S K. Nolan

Investigating Optimal Environmental Flow Standards for Streams in the Lake Illawarra Catchment, C J. Wright

Theses from 2017 2017

Exploring the Transition of Registered Nurses from Acute Care to Primary Health Care Settings, Christine Ashley

Landscape response to Quaternary climate change, Sally Anne Carney

Mangrove Establishment and its Effect on the Natural Processes of Southern Lake Illawarra, Robert Dixon

Surface water and alluvial groundwater connectivity at Mulloon Creek and the implications for Natural Sequence Farming, Oliver Hickson

Effects of an alien vertebrate herbivore on the regeneration of endangered vegetation communities: Example of feral rusa deer impacts on the restoration of subtropical rainforest on an abandoned mine site in the Illawarra region., M H M Nilar

Development and evaluation of a model to correct tapered element oscillating microbalance (TEOM) readings of PM2.5 in Chullora, Sydney., Alexandra E. Northam

Spatial Mapping of Vegetation Change on Big Island, Five Islands Nature Reserve, Port Kembla, Nial J. Roder

Signals of human impacts in “pristine” environments: A case study from the South Island, New Zealand., Hayley K. Scapin

The distribution of copper, zinc and iron in the brain and the implications for Alzheimer’s disease, Kaila Tonge

Heavy metal concentration and transport from existing copper slag emplacements along the Windang Peninsula, through the unconfined sandy aquifer to Lake Illawarra, Michael Trajcevski

Identifying the impacts of climate change and human activity in Kosciuszko National Park, Jorja Vernon

Demographic shifts in Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala) populations following removal, Jacob A T Vickers

Foredune Response to Storm Erosion and the Role of Vegetation in Recovery, Christopher J. Virtue

UNDERSTANDING THE DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT REQUIREMENTS OF EUCALYPTUS AQUATICA A highly restricted, threatened, swamp dependent eucalypt, found in Penrose State Forest, NSW, Australia, Jessie E. Whieldon

Formation processes and context of complex stratigraphic features at the MSA archaeological sites of Pinnacle Point Site 5-6 and Mertenhof during MIS 3 in southern Africa, M P. Williams

Theses from 2016 2016

Zircon geochronology and geochemistry of xenoliths in a Jurassic dyke at Bombo, NSW, Australia: Evidence of deep crustal structure under the Sydney Basin, Courtney J. Alcorn

Assessing the Predictions of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Multiple Chemical Transport Models Within the Greater Metropolitan Region NSW, Jordan N.R. Capnerhurst

A micropalaeontological and stratigraphic study of Benandarah and Cumbralaway Creeks, Durras Lake, Southeast Australia, Davy R. Conacher

The use of Landsat derived vegetation metrics in Generalised Linear Mixed Modelling of River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) canopy condition dynamics in Murray Valley National Park, NSW, between 2008 and 2016, Evan Curtis

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