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.

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Theses from 2016

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LAND USE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RIPARIAN ZONE ORGANIC CARBON STORAGE ON THE UPPER HUNTER RIVER, Christopher Doran

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The effect of time on soil development: study of a soil chronosequence from Reunion Island, Indian Ocean, Alex Hannan-Joyner

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El Niño-Southern Oscillation Variability in the 14th Century, Jasmine AR Hunter

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Air quality patterns in Sydney: a characterisation of intra-urban spatial and temporal variability. Including a case study investigation of a potential air pollution ‘hotspot’ in an urban area of Western Sydney, Tom Keatley

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Understanding Intra-source and Inter-source Variation on the Success of Silcrete Heat Treatment, Lachlan S. Kenna

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Regional Scale Assessment of the Sensitivity of Illawarra Indigenous Heritage Sites to Sea Level Rise and Associated Hazards, Samuel M. Knott

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Shore platform classification of central-southern NSW in relation to morphological variability and risk of drowning, Callum H. Laker

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Monitoring Feral Deer in the Illawarra Escarpment State Conservation Area, Joshua Lester

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Digital facies mapping of the Hawkesbury Sandstone through laterally extensive close-range photogrammetry: Royal National Park, Sydney, Timothy C. McMillan

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Modelling the effect of sea level on SE Australian coastal wetlands: a multistage model validation and comparison study, Laura Mogensen

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The role of fire in the population dynamics of the threatened plant species Pomaderris walshii and Pomaderris adnata, Sophie Natale

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Extracting Complex Structural Geological Data from Outcrops Using Photogrammetry : Case Studies from Ladakh, Himalaya and the South Coast, NSW, Jacob Noblett

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Influence of entrance regime on vegetation profiles and carbon storage in south-eastern New South Wales ICOLLs, Kieren J. Northam

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Optical dating of Upper Palaeolithic deposits in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, K O’Gorman

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Water quality in Lake Illawarra, New South Wales: Groundwater contamination and migration from septic and nightsoil waste deposits in the coastal Windang unconfined sandy aquifer, Jack Palma

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Establishing Traces for the Working of Nautilus Shell in Prehistory, Gavin Parkinson

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Quantifying the Physical and Biological Changes to Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Due to Entrance Training, Caitlain Regena

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The impacts of vehicle disturbance on NSW saltmarsh: implications for rehabilitation, Shannon E. Schofield

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Historical Riparian Vegetation Changes in Eastern NSW, Angus Skorulis

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Mineralogy and geochronology of high-pressure, low-temperature metamorphic rocks using a combination of field studies, petrography and zircon U-Pb dating, Ruby R. Stovin-Bradford

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Environmental change at the end of the Snowball Earth and implications for the emergence of the first animals, H L. Taylor

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The influence of salinity on metal toxicity to the marine microalga, Phaeocystis antarctica, Nicholas Whitelaw

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Vegetation community and sediment dynamics at Ukerebagh Island, Tweed Heads, Campbell Young

Theses from 2015

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Quantifying sediment transport from eroding gullies using LiDAR, Sarah Benn

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Mangrove and saltmarsh dynamics in Homebush Bay: implications for management at Sydney Olympic Park, Catherine Bowie

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Sydney's Mosquitoes: Their role as disease vectors, William Anthony Crocker

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The Effect of Natural and Anthropogenic Barriers on the Dispersal and Re-establishment Potential of Gambusia holbrooki in Freshwater Systems in the Sutherland Shire, Alicia Mary Cronly

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Establishing carbon retention and sequestration in a submerged mangove using isotope analysis, Jane Curran

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Vapour intrusions from ground water contamination in the Sutherland Shire, New South Wales: The relationship between subsurface sediment composition and risk to human health, Bethany L. Davies

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The influence of dietary carotenoid supplementation on the cutaneous bacterial communities of the critically endangered Southern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne corroboree), Casey Edwards

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El Niño Southern Oscillation During The 15th Century: A Reconstruction From The Equatorial Central Pacific, Robert Faddy-Vrouwe

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Examining changes in seafloor communities at the landscape scale around the Capricorn Bunker Group, Southern GBR, James W. Holland

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The response of riparian and aquatic vegetation to environmental water allocations to the Snowy River: A spatial analysis of the Dalgety Uplands, 2007-2013., Joel Honeysett

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Impacts of habitat fragmentation on microbats across an urban-rural landscape, Gemma L. Hopkins

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PATTERNS OF SEA SPURGE (EUPHORBIA PARALIAS) INVASION IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, Liam J M Kelly

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Systematics and Distribution of Abraliopsis (Cephalopoda : Enoploteuthidae) in Australian Waters, Kwan Wah Li

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Groundwater monitoring and water quality in Lake Illawarra: contaminiation and migration from night soil deposits in the Port Kembla sand dunes, Simon Longhurst

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A model for measuring the inter-annual and seasonal variability in pasture cover in Sydney’s Drinking Water Catchment using MODIS 16 day composites from 2000-2014, Jack Murphy

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The age and provenance of Cambro-Ordovician sedimentary rocks of the Murrawong Creek Formation, southern New England Orogen, Australia, Carly S. Roder

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Zircon Geochronology and Tectonic Evolution of Eclogites from the Beishan and Qinling Orogens, China, Wanchese M. Saktura

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What role do plant-fungal mutualisms play in restoration ecology? Assessing the impacts of coastal dune modification on mycorrhizae, and whether reconnecting mycorrhizal networks can facilitate restoration of dune vegetation., Eilysh R. Thompson

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Phosphorus Dynamics in Alluvial Landscapes: Implications for Achieving Sustainable Agriculture, Nicholas R. Van Lijf

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Mineral Deposits and Tectonic Evolution of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, Central China, Jessica MJ Walsh

Theses from 2014

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Analysis of water level and water quality trends within shallow groundwater systems of monitoring sites within the Southern Sydney Basin’s Camden Gas Project., Erik Bartrop

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The age and provenance of Carboniferous accretionary complex at Crescent Head and Point Plomer, southern New England Orogen, NSW., Alexandra Becker

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TOXICITY OF ALUMINIUM IN SEAWATER: DIATOM SENSITIVITY, Megan Gillmore

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Analysis of the weathering profile associated with the near surface 2 Lens & B Lode of the Giant Broken Hill PB-ZN-AG Orebody, Perilya Limited's Southern Operation, Broken Hill NSW, Luke Michael Graham

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The shifting sands of Stockyard Creek: the g eomorphic response to large wood reintroduction in a sand-bed stream, Rhiannon Hughes

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Long term dune morphological and shoreline change for beaches in Wollongong, Letara Judd

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The Geochemistry, Distribution and Mobility of Metals About an Abandoned Cu-Pb-Zn Mine at Mount Bulga, Orange, NSW: Implications for Acid Rock Drainage, Daniel Knight

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Hydrogeological role of Narrabeen Group fractures following coal seam gas extraction in the Southern Coalfields of NSW., Kieran Jay Lowe

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Ethnic diversity in picture books through the eyes of librarians and parents, Lorelle Metusela

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SOIL SEED BANKS OF ESTUARINE VEGETATION COMMUNITIES ON THE NSW COAST, AUSTRALIA, Bess E A Murphy

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The influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on the entrance regime of ICOLLs, Sarah Perry

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Sulfide inclusions in zircon and their significance to understanding the evolution of copper porphyries in the Macquarie Arc, New South Wales, Ruslan Simpson

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The geomorphic impacts of two weirs on their fluvial systems in the Illawarra Region of New South Wales, Australia, Adam P. Skorulis

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Baseline studies of plutonium and caesium deposition in the Sydney Region, Brodie S. Smith

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From past to present: hydrological and morphological characteristics of Wangi Creek, Northern Territory, Aidan B. Soper

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Soil Phosphorus-Proton Coadsorption Studies And The Implications For Fertiliser Recommendations, Paul Taglieri

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The age and tectonometallogenic setting of the Fifield “Alaskan-type” intrusive suite, Lachlan Orogen, NSW., Keira Webb

Theses from 2013

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Tectono-metallogenic evolution of Silurian to Devonian felsic volcanics of the Lachlan Orogen, Orange Region, Harrison Atton

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Hitting rock bottom: Morphological response of upland bedrock-confined streams to catastrophic flooding, Markus Baggs Sargood

Out of the freezer: The response of Continental Antarctic vegetation communities to climate change, Taylor Benny

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“The Effects of Catchment Land Cover Change on Sedimentation in Back Lake, Merimbula, NSW.”, Alison Borrell

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A sociocultural and biogeographic assessment of weed management at Bundanon Trust, Linden M. Brown

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Femininities, ruralities and alcohol geographies: Women’s life narratives of ‘going out’ and ‘staying in’ in an Australian country town, Susannah Clement

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No Longer the Fantasy of an Endless Supply: Water Value, Water Practice, and Changing Water Availability in Illawarra Households, Jonathon Cook

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Coastal erosion… A “Shore” Thing? A study into the Erosion, Coastal Processes and Management occurring at Kiama’s beach-dune systems., Thomas B. Doyle

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Calibration of Water Vapour Isotope Ratios for High Precision Measurements in the Tropics, Graham Edwards

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“It's the need that brings me back": Ageing Bodies and Volunteer Tourism, Ryan Frazer

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Significance of radiolarian biostratigraphy of the southern New England Orogen, New South Wales, Sarah Kachovich

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Ultra-trace determination of aluminium and gallium in marine waters, Joshua J. King

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Mineralisation of Pipeline Ridge, Cobar, NSW - Style and genesis, Angus J. McGregor

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Understanding Phosphorus Mobilisation in Surface Run-off from Soils, Bradley J. Mecozzi

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The People Driving Biodiversity. An investigation of the effectiveness of a community-based bushcare program using the community capacity framework, Caitlyn Rankin

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Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Igneous Rocks within the Lorne Basin, NSW., Joshua Richardson

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The role of vegetation in catastrophic floods: A spatial analysis, Bronte Smith

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Relationships of mafic volcanic rocks and surrounding rocks in the inferred subduction complex, Batemans Bay District, Southeastern New South Wales, Australia, Natalie Stokes

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“Using Landsat 5 TM imagery to analyse the relationship between live fuel moisture content and fire severity in eucalypt dry sclerophyll forest”, Michael Storey

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Testing methods for the estimation of carbon sequestration in wetlands, Kai Whitaker

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Understanding the embodied geographic knowledge of people who watch birds: an exploration of encounter, performance and “becoming”, Carrie Wilkinson

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Holocene Dust Transport to the Sub-Antarctic – Implications for the mid-latitude westerlies, Crystal Wood

Theses from 2012

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Mapping Changes of Saltmarsh and Mangrove Vegetation Communities in Wagonga Inlet, NSW South Coast, Arden Burrell

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Assessing the capabilities of Landsat imagery for measuring fuel properties in Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forest, Angela Cash

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The Environmental history and tidal regime of Pattimore’s Lagoon, a modified coastal, Ashlee R. Clarke

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Geographies of football: why do men play football in the Bega Valley, NSW, David Clifton

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Taming the Hungry Beast: the effectiveness of engineered log jams in an incising gravel-bed river, James S. Daley

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Soil Geochemistry and Pathfinder Element Distribution Associated with the Hillgrove Antimony-Gold-Tungsten Deposit, New England Orogen, New South Wales, Robert Ellsmore

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Concentrations of Enterococci in Relation to Rainfall in Sutherland Shire Catchments, Caroline E. French

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El Niño-Southern Oscillation during the past 50 years:, Jessica Jean Gaudry

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A new way of living with nature? Zones of friction and traction in Nangarin Vineyard Estate, a rural residential estate in Sydney’s South-West, Charles Gillon

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Conservation of Forest Habitats: Examining tree species preferences and habitat quality of a low-density koala population, South East NSW, Heather Gow-Carey

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Geodiversity of the South Coast Region, New South Wales, Michelle Grierson

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Wetland Inventory and Management for the Myimbarr and Shell Cove Wetlands, Shellharbour, Madeleine Harper

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Geochemistry & Mineralogy of Fluvial Sediments in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Emma Marie Kiekebosch‐Fitt

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Flat-Packing the Suburbs, IKEA, Tempe, and a Sense of Place, Beth Laurenson

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Forms of C, N and P accumulation under different pasture soil carbon sequestration scenarios, Richard Lawless

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Stratigraphic Evolution of the Shoalhaven-Illawarra Group Boundary, Southern Sydney Basin, Daniel Scott Lawrence

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Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene human occupation sites in the Dhofar region of Oman, Lauren Patricia Linnenlucke

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An Investigation about Neutralisation Rates of Acid Sulfate Soils Extracted as Sediment from Flood Mitigation Channels on the Shoalhaven Flood Mitigation System, Ronni Maciejowski