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
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
Blue Carbon Opportunities for the Lower Shoalhaven River, Ryan Cope
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
FLUX AND FLOW: VARIATION AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL DRIVERS OF GHG FLUXES ACROSS THE INTERTIDAL WETLAND GRADIENT, Stephen Douglas Rigney
Causes of Colour Variation in Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia, Tara Weall
Theses from 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
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
Investigating osmolality-induced plasticity in sperm motility activation in the common eastern froglet, Crinia signifera., Zara Anastas
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
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
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
Theses from 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
Estuarine Vegetation Assessment and Analysis of Trends for the Minnamurra and Crooked Rivers, Serena Cortijo
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
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
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
Crossing Three Deep Valleys: The Sedimentology, Geomorphology and Palaeo-environments of Thirlmere Lakes, N.S.W, E J. Barber
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
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
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
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
Theses from 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