Theme 2C: Effects of water-borne contaminants
Programme 2: Anthropogenic disturbances of coastal habitats
Theme 2C: Effects of water-borne contaminants
Anywhere that people live and work creates wastes, by-products and contamination. We dispose of sewage, industrial, agricultural and domestic chemicals, heat and freshwater in numerous outfalls. These operate continuously or sporadically (such as storm-water drains) to create a mosaic of short- and long-term, acute and chronic contamination of coastal waters.
The Centre is active in many research projects on the effects of different forms of contamination. These projects are experimental analyses of various types of contamination to determine their consequences, i.e. do they cause pollution (an ecological response to contamination) and, if so, how, why, what response? We also use various forms of planned contamination as experiments to investigate larger-scale processes of change.
Environmental impacts on fouling assemblages - Ph.D. Project
Relationships between macro-algal growth, algal blooms and nutrients in urbanized waterways
For further information, see the following publications
Aladaileh, S. (2003). Using Anadara trapezia as a bio-indicator of contaminants in Sydney Harbour by using Scope for Growth. M. Quant. Mar. Ecol. thesis, University of Sydney.
Archambault, P., K. Banwell & A.J. Underwood (2001). Temporal variation in the structure of intertidal assemblages following the removal of sewage. Marine Ecology Progress Series , Vol. 222, pp. 51-62.
Barnes, P.B. & M.G. Chapman (1998). Effects of the larvicide (Vectobac) on assemblages of benthic invertebrates in Bicentennial Park, Final report to Bicentennial Park.
Bayne, B.L. , A.J. Grant & D.A. Trautman (1999). Effects of added nutrients on the increase in biomass of benthic macroalgae in the Tuggerah Lakes, Final Report to Wyong Council.
Bayne, B.L., S.L. Long and W. Maher (1999). Trace metals in oysters (Crassostrea gigas ) in Cromarty's Bay, Port Stephens, Final report to Mr G.S. Diemar, Nelson Bay.
Bishop, M.J. (1999). Gastropod and green ephemeral algae at shoreline sewage outfalls. B.Sc. Honours thesis, University of Sydney.
Bishop, M.J., A.J. Underwood & P. Archambault (2002). Sewage and environmental impacts on rocky shores: necessity of identifying relevant spatial scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series , Vol. 236, pp. 121-128.
Bulleri, F. & M.G. Chapman (2004). Intertidal assemblages on artificial and natural habitats in marinas on the north-west coast of Italy. Marine Biology , Vol. 145, pp. 381-391.
Chapman, M.G. (2004). Macro-algal growth and nutrients in degraded wetlands in the Sydney Olympic Park, Report for the Sydney Olympic Park Authority.
Chapman, M.G. (2003). Paucity of mobile species on constructed seawalls: effects of urbanization on biodiversity. Marine Ecology Progress Series , Vol. 264, pp. 21-29.
Chapman, M.G. & P.B. Barnes (2001). Potential effects of construction of a channel through the wetlands at Hyles St on the benthos and seagrasses in Tuggerah Bay, Final report for Wyong Shire Council.
Chapman, M.G., P.B. Barnes & P.J.C. Honkoop (2001). Potential impacts of development in the Tuggerah Lakes on the green alga, Chaetomorpha linum and the mussel Xenostrobus securis , Final report to Wyong Council.
Chapman, M.G. & D. Blockley (1999). Intertidal assemblages on seawalls at Berry Island and Blues Point before and after the oil spill, August 1999, Uncommissioned Report for NSW Environment Protection Authority.
Chapman, M.G. & A.J. Underwood (2005). Biological monitoring of macrofauna in artificial units of habitat in Berowra Creek, Cowan Creek and Mooney Mooney Creek, Final Report for Hornsby Shire Council.
Chapman, M.G. & A.J. Underwood (2003). Variable growth of the green alga, Chaetomorpha linum in the Tuggerah Lakes, Final report to Wyong Shire Council.
Cook, H. (2004). Effects of run-off from coastal golf courses on the upper rocky intertidal shore. B.Sc. Honours thesis, University of Sydney.
Glasby, T.M. (1997). Analysing data from post-impact studies using asymmetrical analyses of variance: a case study of epibiota on marinas. Australian Journal of Ecology , Vol. 22, pp. 448-459.
Hinshaw, S. (2003). Variability at different temporal and spatial scales of macrofaunal assemblages exposed to stormwater discharge. Honours thesis, University of Sydney.
Honkoop, P.J.C., B.L. Bayne, A.J. Underwood & S. Svensson (2003). Appropriate experimental design for transplanting mussels (Mytilus sp. ) in analyses of environmental stress: an example in Sydney Harbour (Australia). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology , Vol. 297, pp. 253-268.
Hoskin, M.G., A.J. Underwood & P. Archambault (2001). Properties of naturally-degrading sorbents for potential use in the clean-up of oil-spills in sensitive and remote coastal habitats, Final report to the Australian Marine Safety Authority.
Lasiak, T.A., A.J. Underwood & P. Honkoop (2003). Effects of the new biological treatment process at the Caltex Refinery on subtidal fauna in the vicinity of Yena Gap, Final report for Caltex Refineries (NSW) Pty Ltd.
Lindegarth, M. & M.G. Hoskin (2001). Patterns of distribution of macro-fauna in different types of estuarine, soft-sediment habitats adjacent to urban and non-urban areas. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science , Vol. 52, pp. 237-247.
Lindegarth, M. & A.J. Underwood (2002). A manipulative experiment to evaluate predicted changes in intertidal, macro-faunal assemblages after contamination by heavy metals. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology , Vol. 274, pp. 41-64.
Lindegarth, M. & A.J. Underwood (1999). Technical note: using an experimental manipulation of contaminants in intertidal sediments. Ecotoxicology , Vol. 8, pp. 495-501.
Lindegarth, M., A.J. Underwood & K. Small (1999). Assemblages of animals in intertidal sediments before and after the oil spill in August 1999 in Gore Cove (Sydney Harbour) and nearby reference locations, Uncommissioned Report for NSW Environment Protection Authority.
Roberts, D.E. , A.R. Davis & S.P. Cummins (2006). Experimental manipulation of shade, silt, nutrients and salinity on the temperate reef sponge Cymbastela concentrica . Marine Ecology Progress Series , Vol. 307, pp. 143-154.
Scanes, P. (1997). Uptake and depuration of organochlorine compounds in Sydney rock oysters Saccostrea commercialis . Marine and Freshwater Research , Vol. 48, pp. 1-Jun.
Scanes, P.R. (1998). The use of bivalves to investigate trace metal and organo-chlorine contamination in the marine and estuarine waters of New South Wales, Australia. Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney.
Small, K.J. (1999). Assemblages of macrofauna in sediments around outfalls surrounded by industrial and residential land-use. B.Sc. Honours thesis, University of Sydney.
Stark, J.S. (1998). Effects of copper on macrobenthic assemblages in soft-sediments: a laboratory experimental study. Ecotoxicology , Vol. 7, pp. 161-173.
Stark, J.S. (1998). Heavy metal pollution and macrobenthic assemblages in soft-sediments in two Sydney estuaries, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research , Vol. 49, pp. 533-540.
Underwood, A.J. (1999). Pro-active ecological measurements for better environmental outcomes of management of stormwater: it's time to abandon non-productive monitoring and regulation. Proceedings IV Stormwater Conference 1999 , Vol. 1, pp. Jan-26.
Underwood, A.J. & M.J. Anderson (1999). Review of documentation: Coffs Harbour sewerage strategy EIS report, Report to Coffs Harbour City Council.
Underwood, A.J. & M.G. Chapman (2002). Biological monitoring in Berowra Creek Estuary, Final Report to Hornsby Council.
Underwood, A.J. & M.G. Chapman (1999). Alteration of outfall at Penguin Head: calculation of power to detect impacts as altered concentrations of nutrients or heavy metals, Final Report to The Ecology Lab, Sydney.
Underwood, A.J. & M.G. Chapman (1997). Subtidal assemblages on rocky reefs at a cliff-face sewage outfall (North Head, Sydney, Australia): what happened when the outfall was turned off? Marine Pollution Bulletin (1996) , Vol. 33, pp. 293-302.
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