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 2016
LAND USE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RIPARIAN ZONE ORGANIC CARBON STORAGE ON THE UPPER HUNTER RIVER, Christopher Doran
The effect of time on soil development: study of a soil chronosequence from Reunion Island, Indian Ocean, Alex Hannan-Joyner
El Niño-Southern Oscillation Variability in the 14th Century, Jasmine AR Hunter
Understanding Intra-source and Inter-source Variation on the Success of Silcrete Heat Treatment, Lachlan S. Kenna
Regional Scale Assessment of the Sensitivity of Illawarra Indigenous Heritage Sites to Sea Level Rise and Associated Hazards, Samuel M. Knott
Shore platform classification of central-southern NSW in relation to morphological variability and risk of drowning, Callum H. Laker
Monitoring Feral Deer in the Illawarra Escarpment State Conservation Area, Joshua Lester
Digital facies mapping of the Hawkesbury Sandstone through laterally extensive close-range photogrammetry: Royal National Park, Sydney, Timothy C. McMillan
Modelling the effect of sea level on SE Australian coastal wetlands: a multistage model validation and comparison study, Laura Mogensen
The role of fire in the population dynamics of the threatened plant species Pomaderris walshii and Pomaderris adnata, Sophie Natale
Influence of entrance regime on vegetation profiles and carbon storage in south-eastern New South Wales ICOLLs, Kieren J. Northam
Optical dating of Upper Palaeolithic deposits in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, K O’Gorman
Establishing Traces for the Working of Nautilus Shell in Prehistory, Gavin Parkinson
Quantifying the Physical and Biological Changes to Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Due to Entrance Training, Caitlain Regena
The impacts of vehicle disturbance on NSW saltmarsh: implications for rehabilitation, Shannon E. Schofield
Historical Riparian Vegetation Changes in Eastern NSW, Angus Skorulis
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
Environmental change at the end of the Snowball Earth and implications for the emergence of the first animals, H L. Taylor
The influence of salinity on metal toxicity to the marine microalga, Phaeocystis antarctica, Nicholas Whitelaw
Vegetation community and sediment dynamics at Ukerebagh Island, Tweed Heads, Campbell Young
Theses from 2015
Quantifying sediment transport from eroding gullies using LiDAR, Sarah Benn
Mangrove and saltmarsh dynamics in Homebush Bay: implications for management at Sydney Olympic Park, Catherine Bowie
Sydney's Mosquitoes: Their role as disease vectors, William Anthony Crocker
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
Establishing carbon retention and sequestration in a submerged mangove using isotope analysis, Jane Curran
El Niño Southern Oscillation During The 15th Century: A Reconstruction From The Equatorial Central Pacific, Robert Faddy-Vrouwe
Examining changes in seafloor communities at the landscape scale around the Capricorn Bunker Group, Southern GBR, James W. Holland
Impacts of habitat fragmentation on microbats across an urban-rural landscape, Gemma L. Hopkins
PATTERNS OF SEA SPURGE (EUPHORBIA PARALIAS) INVASION IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, Liam J M Kelly
Systematics and Distribution of Abraliopsis (Cephalopoda : Enoploteuthidae) in Australian Waters, Kwan Wah Li
Groundwater monitoring and water quality in Lake Illawarra: contaminiation and migration from night soil deposits in the Port Kembla sand dunes, Simon Longhurst
The age and provenance of Cambro-Ordovician sedimentary rocks of the Murrawong Creek Formation, southern New England Orogen, Australia, Carly S. Roder
Zircon Geochronology and Tectonic Evolution of Eclogites from the Beishan and Qinling Orogens, China, Wanchese M. Saktura
Phosphorus Dynamics in Alluvial Landscapes: Implications for Achieving Sustainable Agriculture, Nicholas R. Van Lijf
Mineral Deposits and Tectonic Evolution of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, Central China, Jessica MJ Walsh
Theses from 2014
The age and provenance of Carboniferous accretionary complex at Crescent Head and Point Plomer, southern New England Orogen, NSW., Alexandra Becker
TOXICITY OF ALUMINIUM IN SEAWATER: DIATOM SENSITIVITY, Megan Gillmore
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
The shifting sands of Stockyard Creek: the g eomorphic response to large wood reintroduction in a sand-bed stream, Rhiannon Hughes
Long term dune morphological and shoreline change for beaches in Wollongong, Letara Judd
Hydrogeological role of Narrabeen Group fractures following coal seam gas extraction in the Southern Coalfields of NSW., Kieran Jay Lowe
Ethnic diversity in picture books through the eyes of librarians and parents, Lorelle Metusela
SOIL SEED BANKS OF ESTUARINE VEGETATION COMMUNITIES ON THE NSW COAST, AUSTRALIA, Bess E A Murphy
The influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on the entrance regime of ICOLLs, Sarah Perry
Sulfide inclusions in zircon and their significance to understanding the evolution of copper porphyries in the Macquarie Arc, New South Wales, Ruslan Simpson
The geomorphic impacts of two weirs on their fluvial systems in the Illawarra Region of New South Wales, Australia, Adam P. Skorulis
Baseline studies of plutonium and caesium deposition in the Sydney Region, Brodie S. Smith
From past to present: hydrological and morphological characteristics of Wangi Creek, Northern Territory, Aidan B. Soper
Soil Phosphorus-Proton Coadsorption Studies And The Implications For Fertiliser Recommendations, Paul Taglieri
The age and tectonometallogenic setting of the Fifield “Alaskan-type” intrusive suite, Lachlan Orogen, NSW., Keira Webb
Theses from 2013
Tectono-metallogenic evolution of Silurian to Devonian felsic volcanics of the Lachlan Orogen, Orange Region, Harrison Atton
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
“The Effects of Catchment Land Cover Change on Sedimentation in Back Lake, Merimbula, NSW.”, Alison Borrell
A sociocultural and biogeographic assessment of weed management at Bundanon Trust, Linden M. Brown
Femininities, ruralities and alcohol geographies: Women’s life narratives of ‘going out’ and ‘staying in’ in an Australian country town, Susannah Clement
No Longer the Fantasy of an Endless Supply: Water Value, Water Practice, and Changing Water Availability in Illawarra Households, Jonathon Cook
Coastal erosion… A “Shore” Thing? A study into the Erosion, Coastal Processes and Management occurring at Kiama’s beach-dune systems., Thomas B. Doyle
Calibration of Water Vapour Isotope Ratios for High Precision Measurements in the Tropics, Graham Edwards
“It's the need that brings me back": Ageing Bodies and Volunteer Tourism, Ryan Frazer
Significance of radiolarian biostratigraphy of the southern New England Orogen, New South Wales, Sarah Kachovich
Ultra-trace determination of aluminium and gallium in marine waters, Joshua J. King
Mineralisation of Pipeline Ridge, Cobar, NSW - Style and genesis, Angus J. McGregor
Understanding Phosphorus Mobilisation in Surface Run-off from Soils, Bradley J. Mecozzi
Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Igneous Rocks within the Lorne Basin, NSW., Joshua Richardson
The role of vegetation in catastrophic floods: A spatial analysis, Bronte Smith
“Using Landsat 5 TM imagery to analyse the relationship between live fuel moisture content and fire severity in eucalypt dry sclerophyll forest”, Michael Storey
Testing methods for the estimation of carbon sequestration in wetlands, Kai Whitaker
Understanding the embodied geographic knowledge of people who watch birds: an exploration of encounter, performance and “becoming”, Carrie Wilkinson
Holocene Dust Transport to the Sub-Antarctic – Implications for the mid-latitude westerlies, Crystal Wood
Theses from 2012
Mapping Changes of Saltmarsh and Mangrove Vegetation Communities in Wagonga Inlet, NSW South Coast, Arden Burrell
Assessing the capabilities of Landsat imagery for measuring fuel properties in Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forest, Angela Cash
The Environmental history and tidal regime of Pattimore’s Lagoon, a modified coastal, Ashlee R. Clarke
Geographies of football: why do men play football in the Bega Valley, NSW, David Clifton
Taming the Hungry Beast: the effectiveness of engineered log jams in an incising gravel-bed river, James S. Daley
Soil Geochemistry and Pathfinder Element Distribution Associated with the Hillgrove Antimony-Gold-Tungsten Deposit, New England Orogen, New South Wales, Robert Ellsmore
Concentrations of Enterococci in Relation to Rainfall in Sutherland Shire Catchments, Caroline E. French
El Niño-Southern Oscillation during the past 50 years:, Jessica Jean Gaudry
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
Conservation of Forest Habitats: Examining tree species preferences and habitat quality of a low-density koala population, South East NSW, Heather Gow-Carey
Geodiversity of the South Coast Region, New South Wales, Michelle Grierson
Wetland Inventory and Management for the Myimbarr and Shell Cove Wetlands, Shellharbour, Madeleine Harper
Geochemistry & Mineralogy of Fluvial Sediments in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Emma Marie Kiekebosch‐Fitt
Flat-Packing the Suburbs, IKEA, Tempe, and a Sense of Place, Beth Laurenson
Forms of C, N and P accumulation under different pasture soil carbon sequestration scenarios, Richard Lawless
Stratigraphic Evolution of the Shoalhaven-Illawarra Group Boundary, Southern Sydney Basin, Daniel Scott Lawrence
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
An Investigation about Neutralisation Rates of Acid Sulfate Soils Extracted as Sediment from Flood Mitigation Channels on the Shoalhaven Flood Mitigation System, Ronni Maciejowski