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2009 WRC Annual Report CONTENTS

Vision Statement ........................................4

1) Directors Report ....................................5

2) Industry Advisory Committee ..................6

3) About Water Research Centre .................9

3.1 Our Structure .........................................9

3.2 Program Areas.......................................10

4) Year in Review .......................................11

4.1 Awards & Honours ................................11

4.2 Staff Focus ............................................13

4.3 New Research initiatives ........................16

Forecasting wave breaking in directional seas ..................................... 17

Predicting Hazardous Conditions for Rock Fishing .......................................... 18

Odour measurement and assessment, evaluation of odour treatment technologies .......................................... 19

Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure ........................................ 20

Upgrade of Water Quality and Analysis Laboratories .......................................... 21

5) Research Grants for 2009 ........................22

6) Our People ...........................................27

6.1 WRC Staff .............................................27

6.2 Visitors ..................................................28

6.3 PhD Graduates ......................................28

7) 2009 Publications ...................................31

8) Financial Report .....................................38

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V is ion StatementAustralia’s water future will require synthetic understanding coupled with innovative approaches to all aspects of the water cycle; water use and reuse; aquatic environments; flooding; estuaries and the coast.

Our vision for the UNSW Water Research Centre is to continue UNSW’s 60 year history of leading water research within a holistic perspective of water from catchment to ocean.

Our vision for the UNSW Water Research Centre (WRC) is to secure Australia’s water future by undertaking leading water engineering research and developing better holistic understanding of all important aspects of water. It is very satisfying for the co-Directors to see the enthusiasm with which centre staff have grasped the new opportunities provided by the centre initiation in 2008.

Already we have seen two major spin-offs of the WRC:

1. Commissioned in 2008, 2009 saw the development of the Australian Climate Change Adaptation Network for Settlements and Infrastructure (ACCARNSI) led by Assoc Prof. Ron Cox established as a separate university initiative with our full support and $1M p.a. turnover. The network node 4 (Infrastructure) was established within the WRC and is led by Dr. Bill Peirson and Prof. Richard Stuetz. Node 4 addresses the important infrastructure issues related to energy, water security, stormwater and flooding and broader engineering construction. Activities during 2009 focussed on key industry advice, participation in stakeholder meetings and preparation of the national adaptation research plan.

2. The largest single research initiative in the history of water engineering at UNSW was commissioned under the auspices of the Connected Waters Initiative led by Professor Ian Acworth. Water Research Laboratory (WRL) at Manly vale now accommodates a major node of the new National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training: a five-year national initiative commissioned by the Australian Research Council and the National Water Commission. This initiative will attract approximately $30M in research infrastructure and project funding to UNSW over the next five years. This includes the development of a new major surface-groundwater hydrology research facility at Wellington, NSW. During this process, the CWI has been spun off as a separate UNSW cross-faculty centre for groundwater research.

This year was a great year of celebration and reflection on the achievements of the past as WRL celebrated its 50th anniversary with a visit honoured by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Hilmer and the Governor of New South Wales, Professor Marie Bashir with many water industry leaders and stakeholder representatives. Our School, also, celebrated its 60th anniversary which will be documented in a history to be published during 2010.

2009 was another highly successful year in its own right: almost $2.2M of new ARC-funded Discovery and Linkage grants were commissioned whilst completing over $3.2M of directly commissioned research for industry and government.

We warmly welcomed new staff into the WRC this year: Dr Eric Sivret, Dr Mark Bligh, Dr Aurelie Godrant, Adele Jones, Dr Seth Westra, Dr Ninh Pham, Gavin Parcsi, Eytan Rocheta, Dr Ben Van Den Akker, Trish Karwan, Grantley Smith, Sara Merhabi, Tom Shand, Dr Mitch Harley and Dr. Xavier Barthélémy.

The year ahead will be exciting and challenging for WRC as our infrastructure is placed under increasing pressure by the high level of research activity underway. In 2010, we look forward to hosting the 5th IWA International Young Water Professionals Conference in July.

1) Directors Report

Bill Peirson

Co-Director, WRC

Richard Stuetz

Co-Director, WRC


Angus GordonChair

Completing a Civil Engineering degree in 1969 Angus commenced work on water and coastal projects in 1970 at WRL. In 1973 he obtained a Master of Engineering Science and in 1973 took up positions at MHL and then in Coastal Branch

of Public Works NSW. For 40 years he has been involved in coastal engineering, coastal zone management and planning projects in all states of Australia and in Brunei, Dubai, Kuwait, Indonesia and Hong Kong. He has also been engaged by the UN as an international expert.

In 1976 he established the NSW Governments Beach Improvement Program and led the team that, in 1978 produced NSW’s first comprehensive costal investigation and management study the “Byron Bay – Hastings Point Erosion Study. As a direct result of that study Angus then became involved in the drafting and implementation of the 1979 NSW Coastal Protection Act. Angus has 45 technical papers published nationally and internationally on coastal engineering and coastal zone management.

First becoming involved in the issue of climate change in 1976, he was seconded to the Antarctic Division of the Department of Science for a 12 month period. In 1987 he published a paper as a chapter in the CSIRO’s book “Greenhouse 87”; the paper linked sea level rise to coastal erosion at 32 locations in NSW where his team had undertaken studies over the preceding decade. He has published a number of papers on climate change and was the lead author of the Engineers Australia 1991 guidelines for adaptation to climate change in the coastal zone.

For 9 years prior to his retirement he was General Manager of Pittwater Council. He is now free to indulge his passion for coastal zone issues such as adaptive coastal engineering solutions for an uncertain climatic future and is currently Chairman of the Industry Advisory Board to the University of NSW’s Water Research Centre.

Douglas RhodesB.Rur.Sc. Office of Hawkesbury-Nepean, Manager Community Relations

Doug’s career has included semi-arid land management, erosion and mining rehabilitation in Western NSW and Northern Tablelands of NSW, catchment management and a

long-term involvement in water resource planning within the Sydney Basin.

The importance of interaction with the communities and the natural resource managers is a critical component in delivering a sustainable outcome within all these areas.

Colin NicholsonSydney Water

Colin has a BSc and honours degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney plus post-graduate qualifications in public health engineering from UNSW.

He is currently the General Manager of Operations Division for Sydney Water Corporation. He manages the operation of Sydney ’Water’s systems and processes including treatment plants, networks, telemetry and control systems and monitoring services. He also has teams providing specialist technical advice and managing energy supply, emergency management, security and the operational interface with regulators.

2) Industry Advisory CommitteeThe UNSW Water Research Centre is a large multidisciplinary water research group and plays a major role in the training of Australia’s future water engineers and scientists. The water industry in Australia underpins the entire Australian economy. WRC derives approximately 60% of its total research funding directly from industry and 20% of its revenues from industry partnership revenues.

Consequently, the UNSW WRC is advised by senior water industry leaders who advise the co-Directors regarding strategies to ensure the ongoing relevance of the centre and its ability to address and anticipate contemporary Australian water issues. Our present industry advisory committee members are as follows:

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Bruce Coates Principle Data Specialist (Coastal) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.

Bruce has over 25 years experience in coastal and estuarine processes, coastal policy development, and coastal zone management. He has worked in a range of scientific and management roles in

various NSW government agencies and held an adjunct position at the University of Sydney. He has a degree in marine science from the University of Sydney.

Bruce has previously been on the advisory board for the Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities and is currently on the NSW Council of the Australian Marine Science Association.

Will StrachanBE (Hons), F.I.E. Aust., CPEng Dept of Commerce

Will Strachan is a civil engineering graduate from the University of NSW (1972). Will leads NSW Water Solutions, a government business, which delivers expert services and solutions to the water, environmental

and infrastructure sectors. NSW Water Solutions is a multi-disciplinary team of around 250 personnel of engineers, scientists, economists, technical and administrative personnel. This team of people undertakes in the order of 1000 projects during any one year; projects which involve: the investigation and design of dams, water supply and wastewater schemes and natural resources infrastructure. Manly Hydraulics Laboratory is also part of NSW Water Solutions.

Ian TannerGeneral Manager, Water Supply DivisionSydney Catchment AuthorityGraduated from UNSW in 1980 with a B.Sc (Eng.)

An outcome focused management professional combining technical, business, financial and interpersonal skills with 37 years of experience and achievements in the Water Industry. An experienced

practitioner in the fields of: water and waste water systems investigations and design; construction management (including Project, Program and Contract management); operational management of catchments, dams, water supply systems, water filtration plants and sewage treatment plants; management of Engineering Services consultancy business; a Leader and Change agent.

Professor Graham DaviesBSc, PhD, DSc, CEng, FIET, FInstP, FIOM3, FREng

Graham Davies is the Dean of Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has held senior posts in academia at the University of

Birmingham and corporately as director in charge of British Telecom’s Corporate Research.

3) About Water Research Centre

3.1 Our Structure

The UNSW School of Civil and Environmental engineering has a 60 year history of leading development of water technology in Australia. Apart from maintaining the largest postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programmes in water engineering in Australia, the School remains active in Australian fundamental water research:

Surface and groundwater hydrology - ongoing Australian leadership of the quantifying of rainfall, runoff and groundwater flows at catchment scales

Public health and water treatment - fundamental investigations of the chemistry and microbiology of water for urban use. We provide multidisciplinary research in water & wastewater engineering and the development of tools for environmental management & sustainability for improving the aquatic and atmospheric environments.

Civil and environmental hydraulics - practical project-based and theoretical hydraulics research. This research is undertaken using the unique large-scale facilities of the Water Research Laboratory at Manly Vale.


Executive Committee The following Executive Committee undertakes management of the Water Research Centre (WRC):

� Professor Richard Stuetz Co-Director, WRC

� Dr Bill Peirson Co-Director, WRC

� Prof David Waite Head, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering

� Dr Ian Turner Deputy-Director (Research), Water Research Laboratory

� Assoc Prof Ashish Sharma School of Civil & Environmental Engineering

� Mr Brett Miller Business Manager

� Mr Robert Steel Business Manager

This committee meets on a quarterly basis to discuss strategy, performance and research opportunities within WRC.

Centre Management CommitteeAs required for all UNSW Centres, a Management Committee for WRC, was established by the Vice-Chancellor, on advice from the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) and the Dean of Engineering. This Management Committee is responsible to the Vice-Chancellor for ensuring the objectives of the Centre are pursued and the terms of reference of the Centre are implemented. During 2008, the Management Committee for WRC was made up of the following members:

� Prof Graham Davies Dean, Faculty of Engineering (Chair)

� Prof David Waite Head, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering

� Prof Richard Stuetz Co-Director, WRC

� Dr Bill Peirson Co-Director, WRC

� Prof Jason Middleton Department of Aviation, Faculty of Science

� Prof Staffan Kjelleberg School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science

� Associate Prof Laura Poole-Warren Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Engineering

3.2 Program AreasThe Water Research Centre is operated out of two locations – one at Kensington and the other, the Water Research Laboratory, at Manly Vale. Prof Richard Stuetz and Dr Bill Peirson jointly manage these nodes.

The centres activities are grouped into three dominant research themes:• Water Supply

Australia is a continent of low rainfall and its development and economic robustness is constrained by presently available and potential water supplies.

• The Coast Over 86% of the Australian communities live in the coastal zone with consequent environmental impact and climate vulnerabilities.

• Sustainability To maintain Australia’s current level of population and economic growth, water and contamination management need innovative solutions in terms of environmental, energy and social considerations.

The centre research themes are operated within 14 program areas of research and applied research activities, which are supported by academic and researchers from the centre and PhD students from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering: The 14 core areas area: • Biogeochemical Processes• Waste Management• Hydroclimatology• Risk Assessment• Sustainability Assessment• Trace Organics• Water and Wastewater Treatment• Atmospheric Emissions and Odours• Coastal Engineering• Environmental Engineering including

Environmental Modeling and Environmental Data

• Civil Engineering Hydraulics• Groundwater• Hydrology & Water Resources• Estuarine Engineering

4.1 Awards & Honours

Each year many of our staff and our centre get recognised for achievements within our field. Following we profile a few of those achievements.

Dr Rita Henderson received an ARC Post-doctoral

Fellowship Industry as part of her linkage grant to investigate the removal of algae during water treatment using dissolved air flotation (DAF)

Dr Matthew McCabe was a 2009 recipient of an Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) NSW/ACT Tall Poppy Award, for his research on using measurements from space based satellites, observations from ground-

based instrumentation and modelling techniques to describe Earths hydrological cycle.

The Tall Poppy Awards recognise young scientists who excel at research, leadership, and communication. The program aims to inspire young people and the broader community about the possibilities of science and to encourage a culture of innovation alongside the promotion of scientific literacy. As a Tall Poppy, Dr McCabe is able to promote science education through outreach activities in schools and the wider community and to educate young people about the possibilities of science. He has been involved in a number of activities, including a live-feed video conference with secondary schools across NSW as part of a Department of Education and Training science in schools initiative (seehttp://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/science/downloads/tall_poppy/matthew_mccabe.htm).

4) Year in Review

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Adam Hambly received the award for “Best Paper Presentation by a Young Water Professional” at the International Water Association Water Reuse conference on “Fluorescence Monitoring for Cross-Connection Detection in Water Reuse System”.

WRL celebrated 50 years

On 2 June 2009, Water Research Laboratory (WRL) celebrated its 50th year as a leading international research laboratory in hydraulics, groundwater, and coastal engineering. Established in 1959 as a means of enhancing collaboration between government and water research investigators, WRL marked its half-century with a function attended by the Governor of New South Wales, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, the Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, Professor Frederick Hilmer AO and industry leaders.

The Governor paid tribute to the contributions that WRL has made to major infrastructure projects, saying “I look forward to the Laboratory continuing its long standing tradition of innovative research & training of the next generations of coastal engineers and scientists”.

Associate Professor Ron Cox said the lab was well placed to face a new set of challenges emerging because of climate change and other factors placing pressure on water resources.

As part of the celebrations, WRL hosted an open day, inviting the public to come and see the wide range of facilities and resources available at WRL, and observe a range of physical models in action.

WRL Director Dr Bill Peirson, the Governor of NSW Professor

Marie Bashir and UNSW Vice-Chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer

Dr Wendy Timms showing visitors a groundwater

display at the WRL Open Day, following the 50th

Anniversary

4.2 Staff Focus

During the year, we have welcomed many new staff to our team. Here we profile a just few of those staff.

Dr Seth Westra

Seth joined the Water Research Centre in 2009 as a senior research associate, after having spent several years working in industry as a hydrologist at Sinclair Knight Merz. He obtained his PhD also from UNSW,

focusing on identifying the major drivers of climate variability and their impacts on water resources, and then using this information for assessing water security in major urban centres such as Sydney.

Current research areas include examining how the extremes of precipitation are likely to change under a future climate, developing techniques for generating synthetic rainfall data which can be used as an input to continuous hydrological models, and investigating the interaction between precipitation and storm surge in the coastal zone, with much of

this research expected to inform the revision of the Australian Rainfall and Runoff flood guidelines.

In addition to UNSW, Seth has spent time studying at McGill University (Canada), Columbia University (USA) as well as Wuhan University (China), and is currently engaging in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute in Germany. Seth is also an active committee member of both the Sydney Water Panel and the NSW Chapter of Engineers Without Borders.”

Grantley Smith

Twenty years ago, Grantley started working life with an Engineering degree from the University of Queensland and a Master’s degree from UNSW. He initially pursued a career as a consulting

coastal engineer. However, a downturn in coastal engineering projects at the time opened up an opportunity for him to work in numerical modelling, which while not an entirely new discipline, had recently become far more accessible to the wider engineering community with the advent of the PC!

WRL 50th Anniversary celebrationsAssociate Professor Ron Cox, Dr Bill Peirson,

Professor Marie Bashir and Professor Fred Hilmer

WRL Labs - photo by Mike Gal

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Working as numerical modeller, Grantley has been fortunate to contribute to a wide range of projects over the years gaining a broad experience of the water industry on projects varying from large dam hydrology, sewer hydraulics including two-phase flow, outfall design, dam spillway operation, estuarine process studies, floodplain management including environmental flow requirements and flood warning systems.

Prior to joining the UNSW Water Research Laboratory (WRL) in 2009, Grantley was NSW State Manager for DHI Water and Environment (formerly the Danish Hydraulics Institute) where he helped pioneer the use of 2D hydrodynamic models for floodplain inundation. Grantley’s contribution to the engineering community is continuing through his role as a Senior Engineer on the WRL Projects Team, where he is balancing researching detailed floodplain hydraulics for the revision of Australian Rainfall and Runoff with his consulting commitments.

Dr Tom Shand

After completing a degree in Civil Engineering at Canterbury University, Tom began work for Tonkin & Taylor Ltd. consulting engineers in Auckland, New Zealand, first as a graduate water resources engineer

and later as a specialist coastal engineer. While working for Tonkin & Taylor, Tom commenced PhD studies through UNSW investigating ocean wave grouping and its influence on the breaking process and structural design in the surf zone. This work was undertaken in physical laboratory facilities at the Water Research Laboratory in Manly Vale and, using new optical techniques for data abstraction, highlighted inadequacies in current engineering design processes and proposed improved methods for incorporation of group effects.

Following the completion of his PhD in 2009, Tom began work for the Water Research Laboratory, UNSW as a coastal project engineer and researcher. Tom is currently involved in a range of commercial

and research projects including physical laboratory studies of wave-structure interactions, assessments of storm climatology and extreme wave statistics and human safety under wave overtopping and flood flows. Tom has been involved in the recent update of the Australian Rainfall and Runoff Guidelines for Engineers Australia, co-authoring chapters on Human and Vehicle Stability under Flood Flow. Tom’s research interests remain focused on wave breaking and surf zone dynamics, wave-structure interactions and the use of video imagery in hydraulic studies.

Dr Ben Van Den Akker

Dr van den Akker received his Environmental Health and PhD degrees from Flinders University of South Australia. He started in the WRC in September 2008 as a Research Associate, where he works

primarily within the Environmental Microbiology and Pathogen Risk Assessment group. Ben’s role involves both teaching and applying Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment techniques for the management of water quality and public health.

Prior to his appointment at UNSW he was a Research Associate at Flinders University, where he worked closely with the water industry on designing and evaluating low cost biofiltration systems for the removal of nitrogen from recycled municipal wastewater and polluted potable water supplies. Ben’s current research interests lie in applied microbiology and environmental science relating to aspects of wastewater treatment, specifically nutrient and pathogen removal.

Dr Mark Bligh

Mark commenced as a Research Associate with the Water Research Centre in 2009 following the completion of a PhD from UNSW focusing on aquatic iron transformations in an estuarine environment. His research interests remain in physical and chemical processes in the aquatic environment, particularly nano-particulate

reactions, with an extension into the biological realm of micro-algae physiology. He is currently focusing on the physio-chemical controls on the growth and toxicity of freshwater cyanobacteria.

Following the completion of a BSc and MSc, centering on soil chemistry, from the University of Queensland, Mark worked with the CSIRO Division of Forestry in Mount Gambier, South Australia. With the need to be city based, he embarked on a change of professional focus to water by completing a MEngSc at UNSW while working part-time at the then Centre for Water and Waste Technology. A period of consulting within the water and waste industry then ensued, located in Kuala Lumpar and Brisbane. However, a need to operate at deeper level and an opportunity in personal circumstances led to the commencement of a PhD at UNSW.

Xavier Barthélémy

Xavier graduated in 2000 with an MsC equivalent in Fluids Mechanics from the Université Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France and did his PhD in Fluids Mechanics and Energetics at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse

in 2004. The main themes of his PhD were Inverse methods, data reconstruction and data completion. In 2005 he stayed as a Lectured at the University Paul Sabatier. He moved to México in 2006 to undertake some post doctorate projects on ocean circulation in the Gulf of México inside the Instituto Méxicano del Petroleo.

He then returned to France in 2007 to do another post-doctorate at the École Nationale Supérieure de Cachan and the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique. Xavier worked on the numerical simulation of the Compressible Miscible Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

In December 2009, Xavier joined the UNSW Water Research Laboratory as a post doctorate research associate. Currently, he is involved with numerical developments and simulating the onset of the wave breaking inside the ARC project: forecasting wave breaking in directional seas.

Eytan Rocheta

Eytan obtained a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering with first class honours from UNSW in 2008 where he specialised in water and climate change. He has since become a research engineer with

the Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure (ACCARNSI), one of eight networks within NCCARF (the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility), where he focuses on identifying research needs related to adaptation options for Australia’s urban water infrastructure. He is also responsible for maintaining online aspects of the Network including a library database which he developed. The database contains over 500 climate change adaptation research papers relevant to Network members.

He is also an associate with the Sustainability Assessment Program in the UNSW Water Research Centre where he contributes to the range of activities related to life cycle assessments (LCA), carbon footprinting and triple bottom line reporting. To date he has been involved with one large LCA project involving the steel industry. In this capacity he has become proficient with the use of GaBi 4 software and has been involved with training two interested groups in the use of Gabi.

Eytan has written several discussion papers which he has presented at numerous conferences around Australia and New Zealand in the fields of climate change adaptation and life cycle assessment and has been involved in several early career researchers workshops and forums. When he is away from his desk he likes to build bikes, sail historic 10 foot skiffs and is an active member of the SES.


4.3 New Research initiatives

2009 was another outstanding year for WRC in terms of significant research initiatives. In this section, we highlight some of these research projects.

Ian Coghlan & Alessio Mariani in WRL’s

Wave Basin

A handsome large-scale breaking wave in an actively wind-forced open ocean

(Photo courtesy: Dr. Russel Morison, UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics)

Forecasting wave breaking in directional seas

Ocean wave breaking is a major research frontier in air-sea interaction, driven by the need for accurate parameterisation of the strong influence of wave breaking on air-sea fluxes that underpin climate change assessment, and the prediction of sea state and weather, particularly for severe marine events.

Despite the widespread occurrence of breaking waves and their central importance in air-sea coupling, the onset and strength of wave breaking has eluded physical understanding and predictive capability.

A framework for characterising uni-directional breaking waves was recently developed by Banner and Peirson (2007) and provides the stimulus for this recently funded Australian Research Council investigation of more realistic breaking waves, which are characteristically three-dimensional in nature.

This project is led by E/Professor Michael Banner from the UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics in collaboration with Professor Frédéric Dias (ENS Cachan, FRANCE) with the objectives of quantifying breaking strength for directional sea states.

This new information will be used to underpin more accurate forecast models of sea state, weather and climate.

This project is being undertaken at WRL by Dr. Xavier Barthélémy (three-dimensional computations of freely-propagating wave groups) and Ph.D. student Michael Allis (undertaking complementary large-scale laboratory measurements of three-dimensional wave groups).

The study team based in the wave basin at WRL and in front of

the new suite of snake paddles constructed with funding from

this project (From left: Michael Allis, Michael Banner, Xavier

Barthélémy, Bill Peirson)


Gavin Parcsi performing combined gas chromatography and

olfactory analysis of an odour sample.

Odour measurement and assessment, evaluation of odour treatment technologies

Complaints due to sewage odour are a major issue for sewer system operators since the repeated release of unpleasant odours from a sewer network constitutes both a public nuisance and possible regulatory violation. Many existing odour abatement systems such as activated carbon and gas biofiltration do not deliver the expected reduction in odour emissions and often do not meet their original design specifications in terms of life expectancy. The cause of these process failures are often related to inadequate characterisation of the odour (in terms of odour composition and mass loading) during the design phase and in the subsequent selection of the appropriate abatement system.

The inability to characterise odour is due to the lack of standardised methodology as well as the costs involved, which has a secondary limitation of preventing effective evaluation of the performance of odour control systems prior to failure, i.e. the first indication of failure is often customer complaints.

The project has potential benefits throughout Australia, and internationally, due to the widespread impact of odours from wastewater collection on surrounding communities. This research aims to improve understanding of the factors that limit the performance of odour abatement processes in treating sewer emissions.

Primary goals of the project are to:

• improve our ability to characterise the mixture of gases associated with different types of odours generated both from typical domestic and industrial wastewater carrying sewers;

• significantly enhance the design and selection of odour treatment systems through a better understanding of the composition of sewer gas emissions and performance of odour abatement technologies; and

• reduce the number of odour complaints from the local population, improve customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance, and reduce operational costs by improving the selection, design, and operation of odour abatement systems.

This project commenced in 2009 and is expected to take five years to complete. The project team includes Professor Richard Stuetz, Dr. Eric Sivret, Gavin Parcsi, and Dr. Xinguang Wang, all of the UNSW Water Research Centre. The ARC has awarded a linkage grant for this project, which has industry support from Barwon Regional Water Corporation, Gold Coast Water, Hunter Water Corporation, Melbourne Water Corporation, South Australian Water Corporation, South East Water Limited, Sydney Water Corporation, United Water International, Water Quality Research Australia, and Water Corporation Western Australia.

Predicting Hazardous Conditions for Rock Fishing

Testing in the 0.6 m wave flume

On average, eight people per year lose their lives during rock fishing incidents on the New South Wales Coast. The NSW coroner has identified rock fishing as having one of the highest fatality rates of any sport in the state. There is a pressing need to understand the critical factors governing overtopping of rock shelves and characterise the risks to people exposed to such conditions; and, to relate these risks to prevailing water level and offshore wave conditions so that appropriate warnings can be incorporated within daily weather forecasts.

While a high proportion of fatalities occur during larger than average wave conditions, fatalities have also occurred during smaller wave conditions indicating that even during relatively benign conditions, some hazard may exist. Other studies have shown that proportionally higher fatalities also occur during long wave period conditions and during incoming tides, with wave groupiness also found to contribute to dangerous overtopping events.

Based on field characterisations of the platforms at a number of popular or high-risk rock fishing locations along the Greater Sydney coastline, a physical study has been undertaken to characterise the behaviour of wave groups impacting coastal rock platforms. The study was commissioned by NSW Department of Primary Industries during 2008 -2009. The specific objective of the study has been to increase understanding of the resultant overtopping processes and to enable the prediction of potentially hazardous conditions. Hazard has been defined based on the anticipated maximum overtopping flow depth and velocity, compared to existing guidelines for people exposed to flood flows.

This investigation has allowed evaluation of the critical wave and water level conditions that lead to significant and potentially hazardous overtopping of rock platforms and the development of hazard prediction schemes. This prediction scheme is presently being incorporated into site specific assessments and forecasts at specific sites

using local platform geometry and defined environmental conditions.

Water level has been found to play a key role, with small increases in level resulting in large increases in potential hazard. The study findings have significant implications for the increased overtopping anticipated as a result of climate change and predicted sea-level rise.


Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure

Attendees at the second early career researchers workshop held at UNSW from 9 to 11 November 2009.

(Photo courtesy of Dr. Mary O’Connell).

Upgrade of Water Quality and Analysis Laboratories

The Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure (ACCARNSI) is one of eight Adaptation Research Networks hosted by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF), Griffith University.

The aim of ACCARNSI is to initiate and develop effective strategies to respond to climate change through mitigation, adaptation and implementation for coastal settlements, public and private infrastructure, the built environment and urban regional planning.

The UNSW Water Research Centre leads the 4th Node of ACCARNSI which focuses on public and private infrastructure. Professor Richard Stuetz and Dr. Bill Peirson and the co-convenors of this node.

Issues of specific focus for node 4 include climate change adaptation issues associated with energy, water security, stormwater and flooding, communications and broader engineering infrastructure.

2009 saw the establishment of ACCARNSI, two workshops for early career researchers, liaison with industry via a number of public conferences and meeting and the preparation of two research discussion papers relating to the water industry and climate change adaptation issues.

In January 2009, upgrades to the Water Quality and Analysis Laboratories , which commended in 2008 were completed. The transformation of the analytical chemistry laboratory was into four purpose-built temperature controlled laboratories for organic, inorganic and wet chemistry analysis has brought the previous 1960’s laboratory infrastructure into the next century.

The new laboratory now houses new state-of-the-art instrumentation funded by an ARC Large Equipment and Infrastructure Grant (LIEF). The grant enabled the school to purchase three new analytical instruments:

• a high pressure liquid chromatography with mass spectrograph –mass spectrograph (HPLC-MS-MS)

• a gas chromatograph-mass spectroscopy-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS-MS)

• a high resolution high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC)

These instruments will support the centre capacity to develop new analytical methods for the analysis of micropollutants in different water systems and assist research students and staff at WRC, to understand the fate and transformation of chemical contaminants such as hormones, pharmaceuticals and toxins inwater and wastewater treatment systems, as well as in adavnaced water treatment processes for water recycling and reuse.


5) Research Grants for 2009

Researcher(s) Research Topic Granting Organisation

D, Roser, N. Ashbolt, C. Davies, C. K aucner

Riparian and water quality protection by influencing livestock movements.

Sydney Catchment Authority

D. Roser, N. Ashbolt, , C. Davies, S. Petterson

Estimating the Relative Risk from Sewage Treatment Plant Effluent

Sydney Catchment Authority

N. Ashbolt, G. Peters, D.Roser,

S. Khan, C. Davies, R. Stuetz

Managing the contaminants in feedlot waste products (Flot 333)

Meat and Livestock Australia Ltd

M. Banner (UNSW Mathematics), B. Peirson, F. Dias (ENS Cachan, France)

Forecasting wave breaking in directional seas

ARC Discovery


J. Carley, R. Cox, I. Turner, D. Anderson, T. Shand, M. Blacka, B. Peirson

Coastal engineering and management

Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water; Byron Shire Council; Ove Arup Dan Rakan – Rakan; NSW Department of Lands; Department of Sustainability and Environment Victoria; Warringah Council; Clarence City Council; Coasts and Ports Conference 2009; The Center for Transportation & Logistics Studies, Gadjah Mada University Indonesia; Gold Coast City Council; Parsons Brinckerhoff

J. Carley, R. Cox, M. Blacka, A. Mariani, B. Miller

Coastal structures and wave protection

Aurecon Hatch; ASR Marine Consulting and Research; Ove Arup Dan Rakan – Rakan; Kellog Joint Venture; Clarence City Council; Soil Filters Australia; Tonkin and Taylor Ltd

R. Collins Chemical form(s) of foliar Mn in native Australian and N ew Caledonian woody plants that hyperaccumulate Mn

Australian Synchrotron

R. Collins XANES Spectroscopic determination of the amorphous Al mineral phases controlling Al solubility and transport in Australian acid sulfate soils and drainwaters


R. Collins Uranium transformations during the Fe(II)-catalytic crystallisation of morphous Fe(II) minerals


R. Cox NCCARF Node 4 Funding NCCARF

W. Glamore, B. Miller, B. Peirson

Environmental restoration studies NSW Department of PrimaryIndustries (Fisheries), AustralianFederal Department of Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts, NSW Dept Of Environment, Climate Change & Water, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service

W. Glamore, B. Miller, S. Wyllie, B. Peirson

Water resources, sedimentation & environmental flows

Cardno Young, State Water Corporation, TW and A Hollingshed, Murray Darling Basin Authority, Mallowa Creek Water Users Association

R. Henderson, R. Stuetz, V. Bulmus, W. Peirson, G. Newcombe (SA water), B Jefferson (Cranfield University, UK)

Optimising dissolved air flotation (DAF) for algae removal by bubble modification in drinking water and advanced wastewater systems

Arc Linkage Project Grant 2009



R. Henderson FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering

S. Khan, J. McDonald Absorption and removal of pharmaceutically active compounds by membrane processes used in water treatment and wastewater recycling

ARC Discovery Project

S. Khan The use of chiral pharmaceutical compounds to characterise sewage treatment processes and sewage contamination of surface waters


S.Khan National Water Commission Fellowship: Quantitative Contaminant Assessment for Water Recycling Schemes

NWC

S. Khan WERF Research Subcontract - Evaluation of QSPR techniques for wastewater treatment processes

WERF, Colorado School ofMines

S.Khan Special Funding DVC Research UNSW

S. Khan, R.Stuetz, A. Baker, M.Storey

Fluorescence as a tool for sensitive detection of failures in recycled water treatment and distribution systems

ARC Linkage Project

M. McCabe Characterizing the hydrological cycle using water isotopes, land+surface models and satelite observation


M. McCabe Using satellite observation to investigate land surface - atmosphere interaction

CSIRO Flagship Postgraduate Scholarships

M. McCabe A new paradigm for improved water resource management using innovative water modelling techniques

ARC Linkage project Shared Grant / Subcontract - through Melbourne University

R. Mehrotra FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering

B. Miller, R. Cox, J. Carley, T. Shand, M. Blacka

Harbours and sheltered waterways Penrith Lakes Development Corp., Australian National Maritime Museum

B. Miller, G. Smith, L. Tarrade, D. Rayner, M. Blacka, B. Peirson

Desalination intakes and outfall design for minimising environmental impacts

Veolia Water Australia; Parsons Brinckerhoff BECA Joint Venture; SKM; John Holland; Water Technology Pty Ltd; Bluewater JV

B. Miller, W. Glamore, B. Cathers

Sewage disposal in coastal waters & environmental impacts

Gunns Ltd, NSW Department of Commerce (Clarence Valley Council), Hunter Water Corporation, PDNA/SRK Joint Venture


B. Miller, W. Glamore, B. Peirson, B. Cathers, C. Wasko, D. Rayner

Estuarine water quality and environmental flows

NT Department of Planning and Infrastructure, NSW Department of Water & Energy, Corangamite Catchment Management Authority, NSW Department of Water & Energy

B. Miller, J. Carley, I. Coghlan, B. Peirson, B. Cathers

Hydraulics of power generation Oceanlinx Australia, Elemental Energy Technologies, B A Packer,Outotec (Australia) Pty Ltd

B. Miller, L. Tarrade, S. Wyllie, B. Peirson, B. Cathers

Stormwater and pollution control Atlantis, Stramit Building Products

G. Peters Creating an environmental sustainability assessment tool (ESAT)

Smart Water Fund

S. Pells, W. Timms Groundwater studies related to effluent disposal

Tweed Shire Council

G. Peters H. Rowley University of Sydney Subcontract- Water Services Association of Australia Limited (WSAA) Subcontract Software Development for Chemical Fate Modelling in Ecological Footprint Analysis

University of Sydney

A. Sharma Integrated assessment of climate change, climate input errors and land-use change on soil-moisture and carbon-balance in a catchment simulation framework

ARC Linkage Partner

A. Sharma Climate change and its impacts on water supply & demand in Sydney

The Cabinet Office (NSW)

A. Sharma Project 4. Continuous Rainfall sequences at point locations

Engineers Australia

A. Sharma Australia-India Strategic Research Fund - Managing change in Soil Moisture & Agricultural Productivity under a Global Warming scenario using aCatchment Scale Climate Change Change Assessment Framework

DIISR

G. Smith, B. Miller, R. Cox, B. Peirson, M. Blacka

Flood modeling and floodplain management

Molino Stewart, Newcastle City Council, Ove Arup Dan Rakan-Rakan, Penrith Lakes Development Corporation, Engineers Australia, SMEC Australia



G. Smith, B. Miller, J. Carley, R. Cox, B. Cathers, B. Peirson

Water/ wastewater hydraulics and turbomachinery performance

Murray Darling Basin Authority, BECA, Outotec (Australasia) Pty Ltd

R. Stuetz PCRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Australian Poultry CRC

R. Stuetz Optimal management of corrosion and odour problems in sewer systems

ARC Linkage Project through U.Q

R. Stuetz Quantification and evaluation of odorants from Poultry Sheds Australian Poultry

Australian Poultry CRC

R.Stuetz MREII Funding UNSW

R. Stuetz PhD scholarships Australian Poultry CRC

R. Stuetz, H. Coleman, S. Khan, P. LeClech, J. Drewes (Colorado School of Mines, USA), K. Power (NSW Health)

Optimising decentralised membrane reactors for water reuse

ARC Linkage Project

W. Timms, S. Pells, B. Miller, W. Glamore, I. Acworth, I. Turner

Groundwater studies, supply, monitoring, salinity and pollutant transport

St Vincents Foundation Pty Ltd, WMA Water, Vos Group, RP Environmental Consultants Pty Ltd, Queensland Dept. Natural Resources and Water, United Group Infrastructure, EWL Sciences Pty Ltd, Cardno Young

I. Turner, G. Masselink (UK), P.R. Russell (UK)

Wave-by-wave bed level changes at the beach face of sand and gravel beaches

ARC Discovery

D.Waite Resolving Critical Knowledge Gaps relating to Light and Free Radical Mediated Transformation of Iron and Copper in Oxic Natural Waters


D. Waite, S. Khan Physico-Chemical controls on Growth, Toxicity and Succession of microcystis and Anabaena Species in Sydney Water Supply Reservoirs

ARC Linkage Project

T.D. Waite, R. Collins Element uptake by rice – root iron plaque formaqtion and implication to nutrient and toxicant uptake

DEST International Science Linkages

D.Waite Impact of Metal-Reactive Species: Interactions on Growth & Toxicity of Ichthyotoxic Algae in Australian Coastal Waters

ARC

6) Our People

6.1 WRC Staff

Co-DirectorsDr Bill PeirsonProfessor Richard Stuetz

Deputy Director (Manly Vale)Dr Ian Turner

Business Manager Brett MillerRobert Steel

Academics Professor David WaiteAssociate Professor Ron CoxAssociate Professor Ashish SharmaDr Bruce CathersDr Matthew McCabe

Senior Research StaffDr Stuart KhanDr Greg PetersDr David RoserDr Eric SivretAssociate Professor Sven Lundie

Senior Project Engineers James CarleyDr William Glamore Dr Wendy TimmsSteven PellsGrantley Smith

Research Staff Mark BighLeearna BrownDr Heather ColemanDr Richard CollinsDr Aurelie GodrantDr Rita Henderson Christine KaucnerDr Andrew KinselaDr Marcus Klein Dr James McDonaldDr Rajeshwar Mehrotra

Dr Kate MurphyGavin ParcsiDr An Ninh PhamEytan RochetaDr Andrew RoseMatthias SchulzDr Michael ShortTrang TrinhDr Ben Van den AkkerDr Xianguang WangDr Xiaomao WangDr Seth WestraDr Xavier BarthelemyDr Chris BlenkinsoppDr Mitchell HarleyDr Beatrice GiambastianiAndrew McCallumGabriel RauDr Shikha Garg

Project Engineers Alexandra BadenhopMatt BlackaIan CoghlanAlessio MarianiSara MehrabiDuncan RaynerTom ShandDr Laurent TarradeConrad Wasko

Technical and Administrat ion Anna BlackaKirra-Lee Dean John HartPatricia KarwamRoss Mathews Hamish Studholme Joan TerleckyWendy Thomason-Harper Robert Thompson

Consult ing Specia l ists Professor Ian KingDr Rein NittimDavid TolmieSteve Wyllie


Library Caroline HedgesJane Fortt

Volunteer Lance Bowen

6.2 Visitors

Visit ing AcademicsProfessor Nicholas Ashbolt, University of Cincinnati, USA

Associate Professor Ian Cordery, University of New South Wales

Associate Professor Jorg Drewes, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA

Dr Manabu Fujii, University of Tohoku University, Japan

Dr Marion Minouflet, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Gareth Swarbrick, Pells Sullivan & Meynink, Sydney Australia

Visit ing StudentsSebastien Moirat – ENSA Toulouse, France

Cedric Phocas – EC Nantes, France

Stephanie Harguindeguy – Universite de Poitiers, France

Lucie Grandjacques – Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, France

Mudit Srivastava – Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India

Abhinav Gupta – Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India

6.3 PhD Graduates

Barnes, Rebecca Ruth.Development of a water management framework for developing countries.Supervisors: R Stuetz, D Roser; Co-supervisor: P Brown

Charles, K atrina Jane.Risk assessment at onsite sewage treatment systems in Sydney’s drinking water catchments.Supervisor: N Ashbolt; Co-supervisor: D Roser

Dever, Stuart Anthony.Passive drainage and biofiltration of landfill gas.Supervisor: R Stuetz; Co-supervisor: G Swarbrick

Godrant, Aurelie.Role of superoxide in iron acquisition by marine phytoplankton.Supervisors: D Waite, P Treguer; Co-supervisors: A Rose, G Sarthou

Han, Hyung Jin.Senolytic degradation of contaminants.Supervisor: D Waite; Co-supervisor: O Devos

Harley, Mitchell Dean.Regional scale climate of coastal erosion and shoreline changes based on long-term survey dataset and coastal imaging technology.Supervisor: I Turner; Co-supervisor: A Short

Sivret, Eric Claude.Nitrification process control using gas phase nitrous oxide monitoring.Supervisor: R Stuetz; Co-supervisor: W Peirson

Sun, Quan.Contaminant degradation using nanosized zero valent iron particle.Supervisor: D Waite; Co-supervisor: A Feitz

Walker, James William.The exchange of oxygen at the surface of open waters under wind forcing.Supervisor: W Peirson; Co-supervisor: M Banner

Zardari, N oor-ul-Hassan.An improved multicriterion analysis approach to avoid subjectivity in irrigation water allocation decisions.Supervisor: I Cordery; Co-supervisor: A Sharma

ME Graduates

Howard, Elizabeth Helen.Coastal imaging analysis of near shore and coastal processes.Supervisor: I Turner; Co-supervisor: R Cox

Continuing Research Students & Topics

Allis, Michael James.Deep water wave breaking in directional seas and post breaking energy lossesSupervisor: Peirson; Co-supervisor: Banner

Altavilla, Nanda.Fate and transport of cryptosporidium in the terrestrial environment.Supervisors: D Roser, R Stuetz; Co-supervisors: N Ashbolt, D Deere

Asghar, Kamran.Water pricing in First and Third World (Sydney and Quetta).Supervisors: I Cordery, A Sharma

Beavis, Paul Charles Christopher.Intermodal production systems.Supervisor: S Moore; Co-supervisor: I MacGill

Bernardi, Antonio.Surface water groundwater interconnectivity at a dryland salinity site.Supervisor: I Acworth; Co-supervisor: M Littleboy

Beya, Jose Francisco.Ocean wave dynamics on the interaction of ocean waves and turbulenceSupervisor: Peirson; Co-supervisor: Banner

Bligh, Mark William.Iron and phosphorus interactions in coastal waters.Supervisor: D Waite

Boland, Daniel.Fate of metal contaminants during iron oxide crystallisation.Supervisor: D Waite; Co-supervisor: Collins

Braga, Olga.Analysis of endocrine disrupters and pharmaceuticals.Supervisor: G Smythe; Co-supervisor: D WaiteHuyn

Cai, Yingzhe Mick.Isotope hydrology, water resources.Supervisor: McCabe; Co-supervisor: Anderson

Cheah, Chin Hong.Kinematic wave modelling of surface runoff quantity & quality for small urban catchments in Sydney.Supervisors: R Cox, J Ball; Co-supervisor: W Peirson

Chung, Jin.Development and application of cryptosporidium surrogates to evaluate water treatment.Supervisor: N Ashbolt; Co-supervisor: G Vesey

Coad, Peter William.Estuarine algal bloom prediction.Supervisors: B Cathers, D Van Senden; Co-supervisor: J Ball

Dang, The Cuong.Waste water.Supervisor: Waite

Dasey, Gregory Reginald.Electrical tomography in coastal groundwater monitoring.Supervisor: I Acworth; Co-supervisor: I Turner

Hambly, Adam Christopher.Fluorescence as a tool for adtection of failures in recycled water treatment.Supervisors: R Stuetz, S K han; Co-supervisor: R Henderson

Hashim, N or Haslina.Use of chiral pharmaceutical compounds to characterise sewage and sewage treatment.Supervisors: R Stuetz, S Khan

Hung, Ju-Pin.Application of info systems to environmental material accounting tools.Supervisor: S Moore; Co-supervisor: G Low

Jakrawatana, Napat.Decision support tool for planning and design of sustainable regional biomass waste management and bioenergy production.Supervisor: S Moore; Co-supervisor: I MacGill

Jeremiah, Erwin Joachim.Hydrology.Supervisor: A Sharma; Co-supervisors: L Marshall, S Sisson, D Nott

Johnson, Fiona Michelle.Hydro Climatology.Supervisor: A Sharma; Co-supervisor: I Cordery

Jones, Adele Manda.Transformation and transport of contaminants and iron from acid sulfate soils.Supervisor: D Waite; Co-supervisor: R Collins

Jury, K aren Lilian.Investigation of the role of antibacterial drugs in municipal wastewater as a selective influence on the spread of bacterial resistance.Supervisor: R Stuetz; Co-supervisor: N Ashbolt

Khan, Urooj.Semi-distributed modelling.Supervisor: A Sharma; Co-supervisor: M McCabe

Kwok, Sei Lung.Computational hydraulics.Supervisor: B Cathers

Lai, Elizabeth.Urban water sustainability framework.Supervisor: S Lundie; Co-supervisor: N Ashbolt

Le, Minh Nhat.Wastewater Treatment.Supervisor: R Stuetz; Co-supervisor: S Khan


Liu, Yi.Hydrology, remote sensing, climate variability.Supervisors: M McCabe, A Sharma; Co-supervisor: J EvansMaruthai Pillai, Sashikala.Headspace analysis of chemical odorants.Supervisor: R Stuetz; Co-supervisor: S Moore

Ma, Tian.Physico-chemical controls on growth, toxicity and succession of cyanobacteria.Supervisor: D Waite

McCallum, Andrew Murray.Deep drainage studies.Supervisors: M Andersen, I Acworth

Miller, Christopher James.The transformation and implication of reactive oxygen species in natural aquatic systems.Supervisor: D Waite; Co-supervisor: A Rose

Morris, Bradley David.Infilling and sedimentation mechanisms at intermittently open-closed coastal lagoons.Supervisor: I Turner; Co-supervisor: R Cox

Parcsi, Gavin Peter.Chemical analysis of odorants from poultry facilities.Supervisor: R Stuetz; Co-supervisor: S Khan

Pui, Alexander Charles.Stochasitc hydrology.Supervisor: A Sharma; Co-supervisor: R Mehrotra

Rancic, Aleksandra Sanja.Groundwater levels in fractured rocks - climate and land use impacts.Supervisor: I Acworth; Co-supervisor: W Johnston

Rau, Gabriel Christopher.Using heat as a tracer to study surface water groundwater and interactions.Supervisor: Anderson; Co-supervisor: Acworth

Rowley, Hazel Victoria.Decision making for sustainibility.Supervisor: G Peters; Co-supervisor: S Lundie

Shand, Thomas D.On wave group dynamics in shallow water.Supervisor: R Cox; Co-supervisor: W Peirson

Singh, Sachin.Water and wastewater treatment and analysis.Supervisor: S Khan; Co-supervisor: R Stuetz

Thomas, Jacqueline Marie.Pathogen ecology within drinking water biofilms.Supervisors: R Stuetz, S K jelleberg; Co-supervisors: M Storey, N Ashbolt

Torbaty, Mohammadali.Computational hydraulics and computational fluid mechanics.Supervisor: B Cathers; Co-supervisor: W Peirson

Tran, Thao Minh.Fouling of anaerobic membrane bioreactors.Supervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: LeClech

Widagdo, Aloysius Bagyo.Cohesive sediment transport under surface wave action.Supervisors: B Cathers, W Peirson

Xin, Yongija.Membrane fouling control.Supervisor: Waite

Yan, Xia.Environmental Engineering.Supervisor: W Peirson; Co-supervisor: I Turner

Yilmaz,Abdullah Gokhan.Climate change hydrology.Supervisors: M McCabe, A Sharma; Co-supervisor: J Evans

UNSW Summer scholarship students

Paul Ly (WQRA Summer Scholarship student)

Eroni Verevukivuki (Taste of Research student)

7) 2009 Publ icat ions

Book Chapter - Scholarly ResearchBeavis, P, Black JA, Lennox J, Turner G, Moore S, 2009, ‘Industrial Ecology Futures Scenarios: The Design Approach in Transportation’. In Dynamics of Industrial Eco-Systems of Regions and Networks. Ruth and Davidsdottir (eds.) Edward Elgar.

Glamore, W, Incorporating Innovative Engineering Solutions into Tidal Restoration Studies, Restoring Tidal Flow to Salt Marshes: A Synthesis of Science and Management, Island Press.

Khan, SJ, 2009, Recycled Water and Desalinated Seawater Replenish and Replace Drinking Water in Australia, Techneau: Safe Drinking Water from Source to Tap (60, pp. 445 - 455), IWA Publishing, London.

Marselina, Y, Le-Clech, P, Stuetz, RM, and Chen, V, 2009, Towards fouling monitoring and Visualisation. In: Monitoring and Visualizing Membrane Processes (C. Guell, M. Ferrando and F. Lopez, eds.), pp. 305-325, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Germany

Journal - Refereed and Scholarly ArticleAnderson, DJ, Timms, WA, and Glamore, W, 2009, ‘Optimising Subsurface Well Design for Coastal Desalination Water Harvesting’, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 56, pp. 53 - 60.

Arumugam, S, Lall, U, Filho, D, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Improved Water Allocation utilizing Probabilistic Climate Forecasts: Short Term Water Contracts in a Risk Management Framework’, Water Resources Research, 45, pp.272 - 280.

Avoscan, L, Milgram, S, Untereiner, G, Collins, R, Khodja H, Coves Jacques, J Hazemann J, CarriÃ¨re M, Gouget B, 2009, ‘Assessment of Uranium and Selenium Speciation in Human and Bacterial Biological Models to Probe Changes in their Structural Environment’, Radiochimica ACTA , 97, pp. 375 - 383.

Castelle, B, Turner, IL, Bertin, X, and Tomlinson, R, 2009, ‘Beach Nourishments at Coolangatta Bay Over the period 1987-2005: Impacts and lessons’, International Journal of Coastal Engineering, SI56, pp. 940 - 950.

Chowdhury, SH, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Long-Range Nino-3.4 Predictions Using Pairwise Dynamic Combinations of Multiple Models’, Journal of Climate , 22, pp. 793 - 805.

Chowdhury, SH, and Sharma, A 2009, ‘Multisite Seasonal Forecast Of Arid River Flows Using A Dynamic Model Combination Approach’, Water Resources Research, 45, pp. W10428, pp.1-16.

Coleman, H, Troester, M, Khan, SJ, McDonald, J, Watkins G, Stuetz R, 2009, ‘Assessment of Trace Organic Chemical Removal by a Membrane Bioreactor Using GC-MS and a Yeast Screen Bioassay’, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry , 28, pp. 2537 - 2545.

Collins, RN, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Isotopically Exchangeable Concentrations of Elements having Multiple Oxidation States: The case of Fe(II)/Fe(III) isotope self-exchange in coastal lowland acid sulfate soils’, Environmental Science and Technology , 43, pp. 5365 - 5370.

Collins, RN, Jones, AM, and Waite, TD, ‘Schwertmannite Stability in Acidified Coastal Environments’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 74, pp. 482 - 496.

Davidson, M, and Turner, IL, 2009, ‘A Behavioral Template Beach Profile Model for Predicting Seasonal to Interannual Shoreline Evolution’, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, pp. 217 - 256.


Davidson, M, Morris, BD, and Turner, IL, 2009, ‘A Simple Numerical Model for Inlet Sedimentation at Intermittently Open-Closed Coastal Lagoons’, Continental Shelf Research, 29, pp. 1975 - 1982.

Davies, CM, Roser, D, Feitz, AJ, and Ashbolt, NJ, 2009, ‘Solar Radiation Disinfection of Drinking Water at Temperate Latitudes: Inactivation Rates for an Optimised Reactor Configuration’, Water Research, 43, pp. 643 - 652.

Fairall, C, Banner, ML, Peirson, WL, Asher, W, and Morison, RP, 2009, ‘Investigation of the Physical Scaling of Sea Spray Spume Droplet Production’, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 114, pp. C10001.

Ferguson, C, Charles, KJ, and Deere, D, 2009, ‘Quantification of Microbial Sources in Drinking-Water Catchments’, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 39, pp. 1 - 40.

Frost, A, Mehrotra, R, Sharma, A, and Srikanthan, R, 2009, ‘Comparison of Statistical Downscaling Techniques for Multisite Daily Rainfall Conditioned on Atmospheric Variables for the Sydney Region’, Australian Journal of Water Resources , 13, pp. 1 - 15.

Glamore, W, and Indraratna, B, 2009, ‘Tidal-forcing Groundwater Dynamics in a Restored Coastal Wetland: Implications of Saline Intrusion’, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 56, pp. 31 - 40.

Godrant, A, Rose, AL, Sarthou, G, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘New Method for the Determination of Extracellular Production of Superoxide by Marine Phytoplankton Using the Chemiluminescence Probes MCLA and red-CLA’, Limology and Oceanography-methods, 7, pp. 682 - 692.

Guariso, G, Michetti, F, Porta, F, and Moore, SJ, 2009, ‘Modelling the Upgrade of an Urban Waste Disposal System’, Environmental Modelling and Software, 24, pp. 1314 - 1322.

Hambly, A, Henderson, RK, Baker, Stuetz R and Khan S, 2009, ‘Fluorescence monitoring for cross-connection detection in water reuse systems: Australian case studies’, Water Science and Technology, 61, pp. 155 - 162.

Henderson, RK, Baker, A, Murphy, KR, Hambly, A, Stuetz R and Khan S, 2009, ‘Fluorescence as a Potential Monitoring Tool for Recycled Water Systems: A Review’, Water Research , 43, pp. 863 - 881.

Jakrawatana, N, Moore, S, and MacGill, IF, 2009, ‘Economic Assessment of Regional Bioenergy Systems in Australia: A Flow Analysis Application’, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 39, pp. 61 - 73.

Jakrawatana, N, Lim, S, MacGill, I, Moore, S, ‘Spatial-Temporal Enhancements of Material Flux Analysis Methods, with Application to Cadmium Management in an Agricultural Region in Australia’; Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, Volume: 12 Issue: 4 Pages: 389-400 Published: AUG 2010

Johnson, FM, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Measurement of GCM Skill in Predicting Variables Relevant for Hydroclimatological Assessments’, Journal of Climate, 22, pp. 4373 - 4382.

Jones, AM, Pham, AN, Collins, RN, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Dissociation Kinetics of Fe(III)- and Al(III)-natural Organic Matter Complexes at pH 6.0 and 8.0 and 25 degrees C’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica ACTA , 73, pp. 2875 - 2887.

Jones, AM, Collins, RN, Rose, J and Waite TD, 2009, ‘The Effect of Silica And Natural Organic Matter on the Fe(II)-cataly Sedtransformation and Reactivity of Fe(III) Minerals’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica ACTA , 73, pp. 4409 - 4422.

Khan, SJ, Murchland, D, Rhodes, M, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Management of Concentrated Waste Streams from High-Pressure Membrane Water Treatment Systems’, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology , 39, pp. 367 - 415.

Kovalsky, P, Bushell, GC, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Prediction of Transmembrane Pressure Build-Up in Constant Flux Microfiltration of Compressible Materials In the Absence And Presence of Shear’, Journal of Membrane Science , 344, pp. 204 - 210.

Macdonald, BC, Reynolds, JK, Kinsela, AS, Reilly, R, Van Oploo, P, Waite, TD, and White, I, 2009, ‘Critical Coagulation In Sulfidic Sediments from an East-coast Australian Acid Sulfate Landscape’, Applied Clay Science , 46, pp. 166 - 175.

Mapiam, P, Sriwongsitanon, N, Chumchean, S, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Effects of Rain Gauge Temporal Resolution on the Specification of a Z-R Relationship’, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 26, pp. 1302 - 1314.

Mariani, A, Blacka, MJ, Cox, RJ, Coghlan, IR, and Carley J, 2009, ‘Wave Overtopping of Coastal Structures. Physical Model Versus Desktop Predictions’, Journal of Coastal Research, SI 56, pp. 534 - 538.

Marias, A, Vila-Concejo, A, Ferreira, O, Morris, BD, and Dias, J, 2009, ‘Sediment Dynamics of Barriers with Frequent Overwash’, Journal of Coastal Research, 25, pp. 768 - 780.

Marselina, Y, Lifia, J, Le-Clech, P, Stuetz, RM, and Chen, V, 2009, ‘Characterisation of Membrane Fouling Deposition and Removal by Direct Observation Technique’, Journal of Membrane Science, 341, pp. 163 - 171.

Masselink, G, Turner, IL, and Williams, J, 2009, ‘Large-scale Laboratory Investigation into the Effect of the Beach Groundwater table on Gravel Beach Morphology ‘, Journal of Coastal Research, 43, pp. 93 - 97.

Masselink, G, Russell, PE, and Turner, IL and Blenkinsopp CE, 2009, ‘Net Sediment Transport and Morphological Change in the Swash Zone of a High-Energy Sandy Beach over Tidal Cycle and Swash Event Time Scales’, Marine Geology, 26, pp. 18 - 35.

Mehrotra, R, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Evaluating Spatio-Temporal Representations in Daily Rainfall Sequences from three Stochastic Multi-Site Weather Generation Approaches’, Advances in Water Resources , 32, pp. 948 - 962.

Mehrotra, R, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Evaluating Spatio-Temporal Representations in Daily Rainfall Sequences from three Stochastic Multi-Site Weather Generation Approaches ‘, Advances in Water Resources , 32, pp. 948 - 962 .

Miller, C, Rose, AL, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Impact of Natural Organic Matter On H2O2-Mediated Oxidation of Fe(II) In A Simulated Freshwater System’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica ACTA , 73, pp. 2758 - 2768.

Murphy, KR, Boehme, J, Noble, M, Smith, G, and Ruiz, G, 2009, ‘Deducing Ballast Water Sources in Ships Arriving in New Zealand from Southeastern Australia’, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 390, pp. 39 - 53.

Peters, G, Rowley, HV, and Lundie, S, 2009, ‘A Hybrid LCA Model for Comparison with Conventional Methodologies in Australia’, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 14, pp. 508 – 516. 10.1007/s11367-009-0093-5.

Peters, G, Wiedemann, SG, Rowley, HV, and Tucker, RW, ‘Accounting for Water use in Australia Red Meat Production’, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 10.1007/s11367-010-0161.

Peters, G, and Rowley, HV, 2009, ‘Environmental Comparison of Biosolids Management Systems using Life Cycle Assessment’, Environmental Science and Technology, 43, pp. 2674 - 2679.

Peters, G, and Lenzen, M, ‘How City Dwellers Affect their Resource Hinterland a Spatial Impact Study’, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 14, pp. 73 - 90.

Peters, G, and Blackburn, NJ, 2009, ‘LCA Comparison of an ‘Atmospheric Water Generator’ with a Bottled Water Cooler’, Proceeding of Sixth Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment, 35, pp. 1 - 10.

Peters, G, 2009, ‘Popularize or Publish? Growth in Australia’, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 14, pp. 503 - 507.

Peters, G, Rowley, H, Wiedemann, S, Tucker, R, Short M, and Schulz M, ‘Red Meat Production in Australia: Life Cycle Assessment and Comparison with Overseas Studies’, Environmental Science and Technology, 44, pp. 1327 -1332.

Petterson, SR, Dumoutier, N, Loret, J, and Ashbolt, NJ, 2009, ‘Quantitative Bayesian Predictions of Source Water Concentration for QMRA from Presence/Absence Data for E. coli O157:H7’, Water Science and Technology , 59, pp. 2245 - 2252.

Rowley, HV, Lundie, S, and Peters, G, 2009, ‘A Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment Model for Comparison with Conventional Methodologies in Australia’, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 14, pp. 508 - 516.

Russell, P.E., Blenkinsopp, C.E., Masselink, G. and Turner, I.L. (2009) “A comparison of berm accretion in the swash zone on sand and gravel beaches at the timescale of individual waves.” Journal of Coastal Research, SI 56, pp. 1791-1795.

Russell, P.E., Masselink, G., Blenkinsopp, C.E. and Turner, I.L. (,2009). A comparison of berm accretion in the swash zone on sand and gravel beaches at the timescale of individual waves. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 56, 1791-1795.

Ruessink, BG, Pape, L, and Turner, IL, 2009, ‘Daily to Interannual Cross-Shore Sandbar Migration: Observations from a Multiple Sandbar System’, Continental Shelf Research, 29, pp. 1663 - 1677.

Sheffield, J, Ferguson, C, Troy, T, Wood, EF, and McCabe, M, 2009, ‘Closing the Terrestrial Water Budget from Satellite Remote Sensing’, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, pp. 131 - 158.

Simon, A, Nghiem, LD, Le-Clech, P, Khan, SJ, and Drewes, J, 2009, ‘Effects of Membrane Degradation on the Removal of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds (PhACs) by NF/RO filtration processes’, Journal of Membrane Science, 340, pp. 16 - 25.

Singh, S, Henderson, RK, Baker, A, Stuetz, RM, and Khan, S, 2009, ‘Distinguishing Stage 1 and 2 Reverse Osmosis Permeates using Fluorescence Spectroscopy’, Water Science and Technology, 60, pp. 2017 - 2023.

Sohn, J, Pioggia, G, Craig, I, Stuetz, RM, and Atzeni M, 2009, ‘Identifying Major Contributing Sources to Odour Annoyance using a Non-Specific Gas Sensor Array’, Biosystems Engineering , 102, pp. 305 - 312.

Swarbrick, GE, Dever, SA, Roberts, AJ, and Welsh, M 2009, ‘Minimising the Climate Impacts of Landfilling using Alternative Techniques including Biofilters’, Journal of the Society for Sustainability and Environmental Engineering ,10, pp. 30 - 36.

Tadkaew, N, Khan, SJ, McDonald, J, and Nghiem, LD, ‘Effect of Mixed Liquor pH on the Removal of Trace Organic Contaminants in a Membrane Bioreactor’, Bioresource Technology , 101, pp. 1494 - 1500.

Timms, WA, Hendry, MJ, Muise, J, and Kerrich, R, 2009, ‘Coupling Centrifuge Modeling and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry to determine Contaminant Retardation in Clays’, Environmental Science and Technology, 43, pp. 1153 - 1159.

Turner, IL, Russell, P, Butt, T, Blenkinsopp, CE, and Masselink, G, 2009, ‘In-situ estimates of net sediment flux per swash: Reply to discussion by TE Baldock of `Measurement of Wave-by-Wave Bed-levels in the Swash Zone’, International Journal of Coastal Engineering, SI56, pp. 1009 - 1012.

Wasko, C., and Sharma A. (2009), Effect of solar variability on atmospheric moisture storage, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume: 36,

Williams, JL, Masselink, G, Buscombe, D, Matias, A, Turner, IL, Ferreira, O, Bradbury, A, Metje, N, Coates, L, Chapman, DR, Thompson, C, Albers, T, and Pan, SW, 2009, ‘BARDEX (Barrier Dynamics Experiment) – Taking the Beach in to the Laboratory’, Journal of Coastal Research, 114, pp. 158 - 162.

Xeusen, L, Bende, W, Mehrotra, R, Sharma, A, and Guoli, W, 2009, ‘Consideration of Trends in Evaluating Inter-basin Water Transfer Alternatives within a fuzzy Decision Making Framework ‘, Water Resources Management, 23, pp.3207 - 3220.

Xiao, K, Wang, X, Huang, X, Waite, TD, and Wen, X, 2009, ‘Analysis of Polysaccharide, Protein and Humic Acid Retention by Microfiltration Membranes using Thomas` Dynamic Adsorption Model’, Journal of Membrane Science , 342, pp. 22 - 34.

Yamamoto, A, van den Akker, Cromar, NJ, and Fallowfield, HJ, ‘Nitrification Potential In Waste Stabilisation Ponds: Comparison of a Secondary and Tertiary Pond System’, Water Science and Technology, 61, pp. 781 - 788.

Youn, J-H, Bae S-J, Kim Y-J, Moore S, and Lee D-H, 2009, A Study on the effect of moisture content variation of landfill cover soil on the methane oxidation rate(Korean), J. of Korea Solid Waste Management Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 329 - 335.

Van den Akker, Beard, H, Kaeding, U, Giglio, S, and Short, M, ‘Exploring the Relationship between Viscous Bulking and Ammonia-Oxidiser Abundance in Activated Sludge: A Comparison of Conventional and IFAS Systems ‘, Science Direct. 10.1016/j.watres.2010.02.016.

Zardari, N, and Cordery, I, 2009, ‘Water productivity in a Rigid Irrigation Delivery System’, Water ResourcesManagement, 23, pp. 1025 - 1040.

Journal - Non Refereed ArticleSingh, S, Hambly, A, Henderson, RK, and Khan, SJ, 2009, ‘Analysis of Recycled Drinking Water Samples from REUSE09-technical note’, Water, 36, pp. 71 - 74.

Conference - Full Paper RefereedAcworth, R I, Timms, W A and Bernadi, T (2009). Groundwater and salt fluxes through sediments, weathered and fractured granite at the Baldry site, NSW, Australia. International Association of Hydrogeologists 37th Congress, Hyderabad India, 6-12 September 2009.

Alessio Mariani, Matthew Blacka and James Carley (2009), Extreme Wave Overtopping of a Vertical Breakwater. A Physical Model and Desktop Investigation. 19th Australasian Conference on Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Engineers Australia, Wellington NZ 16 – 18 September 2009.

Austin, M, Masselink, G, Turner, IL, and Buscombe, D, 2009, ‘Groundwater Seepage between a Gravel Barrier Beach and a Freshwater Lagoon’, 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Hamburg, Germany, 1-5 September 2008.

Badenhop, AM, and Timms, WA, 2009, ‘Managed Aquifer Recharge in Sydney Coastal Sand Aquifers’, Groundwater in the Sydney Basin Symposium, Sydney, 4-5 August 2009.

Beavis, P, MacGill, I, Hassall, K, Black, J, Moore, S, ‘Precision Interface Flows with Intermodal Dry Ports: Hydro-thermal Coordination and Dynamic Programming’; The 18th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT18); July 16-18, 2009, Hong Kong http://www.isttt18.org/>www.isttt18.org

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Blacka, MJ, Carley, JT, Corbett, B, and Jackson, LA, 2009, ‘Wave Transmission over Low Crested Geotextile Breakwater Structures’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

Blenkinsopp, CE, Turner, IL, Masselink, G, and Russell, P, 2009, ‘Field Measurements of Net Sediment Flux from Individual Swashes on a Sandy Beach’, 6th Coastal Dynamics, Tokyo, 7-11 September.

Blenkinsopp, CE, Turner, IL, Masselink, G, and Russell, P, 2009, ‘Measurements of Net Cross-Shore Sediment Flux at the Timescale of Individual Swashes’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

Carley, JT, Blacka, MJ, Mariani, A, Cox, RJ, Attwater, C, and Watson, P, 2009, ‘Integrated Assessment of Coastal Hazards and Climate Change for Clarence City, Tasmania’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand,16-18 September 2009.

Coghlan, IR, Carley, JT, Cox, RJ, Blacka, MJ, Mariani, A, Restall, S, Hornsey, W, and Sheldrick, S, 2009, ‘Two-Dimensional Physical Modelling of Sand Filled Geocontainers for Coastal Protection’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand,16-18 September 2009.

Coleman, H, Le-minh, N, Khan, SJ, Short, M, Chernicharo, CA, and Stuetz, RM, ‘Fate and Levels of Steroid Oestrogens and Androgens in Waste Stabilisation Ponds: Quatification by Liquid Chromatograhy - Tandem Mass Spectrometry’, 8th International Water Association Specialist Group Conference on Waste Stabilization Ponds, Brazil, 26-30 April.

Coleman, H, Le, MN, Khan, SJ, Short, M, Chernicharo, CA. Stuetz, RM, 2009, ‘Fate and Levels of Steroid Oestrogens and Androgens In Waste Stabilisation Ponds: Quantification By Liquid Chromatography - Tandem Mass Spectrometry’, 8th International Water Association Specialist Group Conference on Waste Stabilization Ponds, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 29-30 April 2009.

Cromar, NJ, and Fallowfield, HJ, 2009, ‘Importance of Hydraulic Characterisations in Waste Stabilisation Pond Research: Results from Pilot-Scale Algal, Duckweed, Rock Filter and Attached-Growth Media Reactors’, 8th International Water Association Specialist Group Conference on Waste Stabilization Ponds, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 26th - 30th April.

Dever, SA, Swarbrick, GE, and Stuetz, RM, 2009, ‘A Simple Carbon Mass Balance for Evaluating the Field Performance of a Passive Landfill Gas Biofilter’, Sardinia 2009, Twelfth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Sardinia, 5 - 9 October.

Giambastiani B.M.S., Kelly B.F.J., The C., Andersen M.S., McCallum A.M. and Acworth R.I. (2009): 3D time and space analysis of groundwater head change for mapping river and aquifer interactions. In Andressen, R.S., Braddock R.D. and Newhaw, L.T.H. (Eds.) 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 3067-3073.

Glamore, W, Rayner, D, and Miller, BM, ‘Design of an Ebb Tide Release’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

Glamore, W, ‘Restoring Coastal Wetlands: Engineering Nature and Managing Expectations’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

Hambly, A, Henderson, RK, Baker, A, Stuetz, RM, and Khan S, 2009, ‘Probabilistic Analysis of Fluorescence Signals for Monitoring Dual Reticulation Water Recycling Schemes’, 7th IWA World Congress on Water Reclamation and Reuse (REUSE09), Brisbane, 20-25th September.

Harley, MD, Turner, IL, Short, AD, and Ranasisnghe, R, 2009, ‘An Empirical Model of Beach Response to Storms – SE Australia’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

Harley, MD, Turner, IL, Short, A, and Ranasinghe, R, 2009, ‘Rotation and Oscillation of an Embayed Beach’, 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Hamburg, Germany, 1-5 September 2008.

Henderson, RK, Stuetz, RM, and Khan, SJ, 2009, ‘Demonstration Ultra-Filtration and Reverse Osmosis Performance using Size Exclusion Chromatography’, 7th IWA World Congress on Water Reclamation and Reuse (REUSE09), Brisbane, 20-25 September.

Horne, S.C and Peirson, W.L (2010), Interactions Between Straight Channels and Their Floodplains, 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: Adapting to Change, pages 194-205, Newcastle NSW, Engineers Australia.

Jakrawatana, N, Moore, S, Lim, S, MacGill, ‘Spatial Cd stock and flow analysis on Australian regional agricultural land’; Asian Simulation and Modelling Conference proceedings, Bangkok, 2009

Johnson, F, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘An Assessment of Future Water Availability Across the World Using Nested Bias Corrected GCM Precipitation Outputs’, 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium , Newcastle, November 2009.

Johnson, F, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Assessing Future Droughts In Australia - A Nesting Model to Correct for Long-Term Persistence in General Circulation Model Precipitation Simulations’, The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009.

Johnson, F, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘GCM Simulations of a Future Climate: How Does the Skill of GCM Precipitation simulations compare to Temperature Simulations’, the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, July 13-17, 2009.

Johnson, F, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Worldwide Assessment of the Agreement of GCMs in the Prediction of Hydroclimatic Variables for the Future’, 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Newcastle, November 2009.

Kelly B and Giabastiani B.M.S, (2009) Functional Programming Algorithms for Constructing 3D Geological Model. In Lees, B.G and Laffan, S.W. (eds), 10th International Conference on GeoComputation 2009, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 30th November – 2nd December 2009.

Khan, U, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘A New Approach for Desalination of Hydrologic Response Units in Large Catchments’, The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009.

Khan, U, Sharma, A, and Tuteja, NK, 2009, ‘Landform Desalination Methodology for Large Topologically Connected Hydrological Systems’, 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Newcastle, November 2009.

Liu, Y, McCabe, MF, Evans, J.P, Van Dijk, AIJM, De Jeu, RAM, Su, H, 2009, ‘Comparison of Soil Moisture in GLDAS Model Simulations and Satellite Observations over the Murray Darling Basin’, 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009.

Mariani, A, Blacka, MJ, and Carley, JT, 2009, ‘Extreme Wave Overtopping of a Vertical Breakwater. A Physical Model and Desktop Investigation’, CoastsandPorts, Wellington New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

McCabe, MF, Liu, Y, Vinukollu, R, Su, Z, Evans, JP, and Wood, EF, 2009, ‘Comparison of Latent Heat Flux Estimates over Australia’,18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009.

Mehrotra, R, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Assessing rainfall availability over the Sydney region in a future climate using stochastic downscaling’, The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009.

Mehrotra, R, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Catchment specification using mixture of models’, 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Newcastle, November 2009.

Morris, BD, and Turner, IL, 2009, ‘Intermittently Open-closed Lagoon Entrance Morphodynamics: Infilling, Stability And Climate Change Impacts’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18, September 2009.

Morris, BD, Turner, IL, and Davidson, M, 2009, ‘Monitoring and Modelling of Entrance Sedimentation at an Intermittently Open-Closed Lagoon’, 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Hamburg, Germany, 1-5, September 2008.

Peters, G, and Blackburn, NJ, 2009, ‘LCA Comparison of an Atmospheric Water Generator with a Bottled Water Cooler’, Sixth Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment, Melbourne, 17-19 February.

Peters, G, and Rowley, HV, 2009, ‘Multi-criteria methods for the aggregation of life cycle impacts’, Sixth Australian Conference on Life Cycle, Melbourne, 17-19 February.

Peters, G, and Rowley, H, 2009, ‘Tool for Rapid Cost and Environmental Assessment of Water Servicing Strategies’, Australian Life Cycle Assessment Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 16-19 February.

Peters, G, Schulz, M, and Rowley, HV, 2009, ‘Tool for Rapid Cost And Environmental Assessment of Water Servicing Strategies’, Sixth Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment, Melbourne, 16-19 February.

Peters, G, Schulz, M, and Rowley, HV, 2009, ‘Tool for rapid cost and environmental assessment of water servicing strategies’, Sixth Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment, Melbourne, 17-18 February.

Pui, A, Sharma, A, and Mehrotra, R, 2009, ‘A Comparison of Alternatives for Daily to Sub-Daily Rainfall Disaggregation’, The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009.

Pui, A, Westra, SP, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘How does the El Nino Southern Oscillation and Other Large Scale Forcings Impact daily - Sub Daily Rainfall in Eastern Australia?’, 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium ,Newcastle, November 2009.

Pui, A, Lall, A, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘How does the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation affect Design Floods in Eastern Australia?’ 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Newcastle, November 2009.

Rayner, D, and Glamore, W, ‘Understanding the Transport and Buffering Dynamics of Acid Plumes in Estuaries’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

Shand, TD, Peirson, WL, and Cox, RJ, 2009, ‘On the Influence of Wave Groups on Shoaling and Breaking Waves’, 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Hamburg, Germany, 1-5 September 2008.

Shand, TD, Cox, RJ, Peirson, WL, and Banner, M, 2009, ‘Predicting Hazardous Conditions on Coastal Rock Platforms’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

Singh, S, Henderson, RK, Baker, A, Stuetz, RM, and Khan, S, 2009, ‘Towards the Development of a Fluorescence-Based Membrane Integrity Monitoring Protocal’, 7th IWA World Congress on Water Reclamation and Reuse (REUSE09), Brisbane, 20-25th September.

Sivakumar, B, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources Planning and Management: Scientific Challenges and Beyond’, The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009.

Timms, WA, and Acworth, RI, 2009, ‘Quantifying the Potential Impact of Leaky Boreholes’, Groundwater in the Sydney Basin Symposium, Sydney, 4-5th August 2009.

Turner, IL, Masselink, G, Russell, PE, and Blenkinsopp, CE, 2009, ‘Beach Level Change Over Individual Swash Cycles On Snad And Gravel Beaches’, 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Hamburg, Germany, 1-5, September 2008.

Turner, IL, Masselink, G, and Williams, J, 2009, ‘Proto-type Scale Laboratory Study Of Groundwater Manipulation Within A Gravel Barrier’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18, September 2009.

Wasko, C, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Assessing the Impact of the 11-year Solar Cycle on Drought in Australia’, The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia,13-17 July 2009.

Webb, AT, and Glamore, W, ‘Sediment Fallout from Dense Outfall Plumes’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 September 2009.

Westra, SP, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘An Upper Limit to Seasonal Rainfall Predictability?’ 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium , Newcastle, November 2009.

Westra, SP, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Continuous Rainfall Simulation: Estimation at Ungauged Locations’, 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Newcastle, November 2009.

Westra, SP, and Sharma, A, 2009, ‘Estimating the Seasonal Predictability of Global Precipitation - An Empirical Approach’, The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13-17 July 2009.

Conference - Full Paper, Not RefereedCoad, P., Kadluczka, R., Cathers, B. Van Senden, Ball, J (2009). A telemetric monitoring system for estuarine algal bloom management. 18th NSW Coastal Conference, Ballina NSW. Available on web http://www.coastalconference.com/2009/default.asp

Glamore, W. (2009) Ecological Restoration of Coastal Wetlands: Global Lessons Implemented Locally. In Proceedings of 2009 World Conference on Ecological Restoration, Perth, Australia 24 – 27 August 2009.

Hornsey W, Sheldrick S and Carley J T (2009), “Geotextile Sand Containers: Innovative Shoreline Protection Systems”, Proceedings GeoAfrica The First African Geosynthetics Conference and Exhibition.

Kelly, B.F.J, Giambastiani B., and A.M. McCallum and W.Timms (2009), Aquifer connectivity in the Namoi. Cotton CRC Science Forum. August, 2009.

Thomas J, Storey, MV, Stuetz, RM, Kjelleberg, S, and Ashbolt, NJ, 2009, ‘Diversity of Free-Living Amoebae in a Dual Distribution (Potable and Recycled) Water System’, 15th Health Related Water Microbiology Synposium, Greece, 31st May - 5th June.

Timms, WA, Acworth, RI, and Bernadi, T, 2009, ‘Groundwater and Salt Fluxes Through Sediments, Weathered And Fractured Granite at the Baldry Site, NSW, Australia’, Water: A Vital Resource Under Stress, How Science Can Help, Hyderabad, India, 6-12 September 2009.

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Conference - Abstract OnlyBoland, DD, Collins, RN, Jones, AM, Payne, TE, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Investigating the Fate of U(VI) during the Fe(II)-catalysed Transformation of Fe(III) Minerals With X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy’, 16th AINSE Conference on Nuclear and Complementary Techniques of Analysis, , Lucas Heights, Australia, November.

Carley, JT, Blacka, MJ, Cox, RJ, and Attwater, C, 2009, ‘Social and Economic Considerations for Coastal Adaptation to Extreme Events and Climate Change’, NSW Coastal Conference, Ballina NSW, 3-6 November 2009.

Collins, RN, Payne, TE, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Anomalous Sorption Behavior of Uranium to Ferrihydrite In The Presence of Citrate’, 12th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere, Kennewick, Washington, USA, September.

Collins, RN, Fink, D, Mifsud, C, Payne, TE, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘The Use Of 26Al Accelerator Mass Spectrometry To Investigate Aluminium Chemistry In Coastal Lowland Acid Sulfate Soils’, 16th AINSE Conference on Nuclear and Complementary Techniques of Analysis, Lucas Heights, Australia, November.

Cordery, I, and Asghar, 2009, ‘Reasons for Low Access to Water In Expanding Urban Centres - the Example of Quetta’, 2009 AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference, Washington US, November 9-12, 2009.

Fernando, DR, Mizuno, T, Woodrow, IE, Baker, A, and Collins, R, 2009, ‘The Apeciation of foliar Mn in Mn hyperaccumulating plants’, 50th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plant Physiology, Nagoya, Japan, March, 2009.

Henderson, RK, Singh, S, Baker, Stuetz, RM, and Stuart, S, 2009, ‘Fluorescence Analysis as a Surrogate Measure for Organics Removal In Reclamation Treatment Processes’, Micropol and Ecohazard 09, San Francisco, USA, 8-10th June.

Hughes, C, Cendon, DI, Collins, RN, Hankin, S, Harrison, JJ, Johansen, MP, Payne, TE, Twining, JR, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Utilisation of Tritium Data to Assess Hydrology at an Australian Radionuclide Waste Site’, 3rd International Contaminated Site Remediation Conference, Adelaide, Australia, September.

Kinsela, AS, Tjitradjaja, A, Collins, RN, Macdonald, BC, Payne, T, White, I, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Physico-chemical impacts of Cementitiously-derived Calcium and Silica on Sodium Montmorillonite’, NEA Workshop on Cementitious Materials in Safety Cases for Geological Repositories, Brussels, Belgium, October.

Payne, TE, Cendon, DI, Collins, RN, Hankin, S, Harrison, JJ, Hughes, C, Johansen, MP, Twining, JR, and Waite, TD, 2009, ‘Assessment of Radionuclide Movement at an Australian Legacy Radioactive Waste Site’, 12th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere, Kennewick, Washington, USA, September.

Waite, TD, Godrant, A, Fujii, M, and Rose, AL, 2009, ‘Superoxide-mediated Transformations of Iron by Cyanobacterial Prokaryotes’, Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Technical ReportD J Anderson,W A Timms and C D Wasko, Conjola Regional Sewerage Scheme - Groundwater Monitoring and Response Plan

D J Anderson, C D Wasko, W A Timms and S E Pells, Numerical Model Testing of Groundwater Flow Concepts for Ranger Mine Pit No. 1

M J Blacka, L Mallen Lopez, A Mariani and J T Carley, 3D Wave Penetration Modelling (in Wave Basin) – Full Material Offload Facility, Gorgon Project, Barrow Island LNG Plant, Western Australia

M J Blacka and A M Badenhop, Foreshore Protection Review – Penrith Lakes Wildlife Lake

M J Blacka, L Mallen Lopez and J T Carley, Two Dimensional Physical Modelling of Geocontainer Breakwaters, Sir Bani Yas Island, Abu Dhabi

M J Blacka, L Mallen Lopez and J T Carley, Three Dimensional Physical Modelling of Geocontainer Breakwaters, Sir Bani Yas Island, Abu Dhabi

M Bonis and W L Peirson, A Three-Dimensional Numerical Investigation of the Inception of Deep Water Wave Breaking

J T Carley, I R Coghlan, M J Blacka and R J Cox, Development of a Proposal and Environmental Assessment of Beach Scraping - New Brighton and South Golden Beach

J T Carley, M J Blacka, W A Timms, M S Andersen, A Mariani, D S Rayner, J McArthur and R J Cox, Coastal Processes, Coastal Hazards, Climate Change and Adaptive Responses for Preparation of a Coastal Management

J T Carley and D S Rayner, Modification of Byron Shire Coastal Hazard Lines

J T Carley, Proof of Evidence of James Carley to Resource Planning and Development Commission (Tasmania) regarding Lauderdale Quay Proposal, Ralphs Bay, Tasmania

I R Coghlan, J T Carley and W L Peirson, Two-Dimensional Physical Modelling of Oceanlinx Wave Energy System

I R Coghlan, A Mariani, M J Blacka and J T Carley, Two-Dimensional and Quasi Three Dimensional Modelling of Armour Stability and Overtopping - Full Material Offload Facility, Gorgon Project, Barrow Island LNG Plant, Western Australia

Collins, RN, Jones, AM, Melville, MD, and Waite, TD, 2009, Suggested remedial works for the Blacks Drain Catchment of the Tweed River floodplain. Findings from the ARC Linkage Project LP0455697 (2005 to 2008).

Dever S, Swarbrick G, Stuetz R, Passive drainage and biofiltration of landfill gas using recycled material. Report on project extension

Glamore, W, and Timms, WA, 2009, Yarrahapinni Wetlands National Park Restoration Plan.

Henderson R, Fluorescence EEM analysis of drinking water samples

Jones, AM, Collins, RN, and Waite, TD, 2009, Preliminary Report for Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA) Project 1019 Investigating Scale Formation and Prevention in Small Water Supplies Reliant on Groundwater.

Jones A, Collins R , Waite D, Preliminary report for Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA) Project 1019 Investigating scale formation and prevention in small water supplies reliant on groundwater

Kaucner C, et al, Final cow movement project report

Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, and Waite, TD, 2009, Sources, Concentrations and Bioavailability of Arsenic in Sediments: Christies Creek, North East NSW.

Kinsela AS, Collins RN , Waite TD, Sources concentrations and polo availability of arsenic in sediments: Christies Creek, North East NSW final report

Kinsela A, Waite D, Interaction between engineered clay barriers and cement leachates Part 1 Physico-Chemical measurement

Klein M, Brown L, Roser D, Trang T, Wang X, Coleman H, Peters G, Tucker, Stuetz R,FLOT 333 Contaminants in feedlot waste - analytical methods and preliminary analysis

Klein M, Brown L, Roser D, Trang T, Wang X, Coleman H, Peters G, Tucker, Stuetz R, FLOT 333 Managing contaminants in feedlot waste. Interim results report

L Mallen-Lopez and B M Miller, Ma’aden Seawater Pump Intake Physical Model Testing

A Mariani, I R Coghlan, M J Blacka, J T Carley, Two-Dimensional and Quasi Three-dimensional Physical Modelling for Gorgon Project, Barrow Island LNG Plant, Pioneer Material Offload Facility, Western Australia

B M Miller, G P Smith and L Tarrade, Physical Modelling of Sydney Desalination Outfall at 500 ML/Day Operation with Two Risers

B M Miller, G P Smith and L Tarrade, Physical Modelling of Sydney Desalination Outfall at 250 ML/Day Operation with Two Risers

S E Pells and M J Blacka, Proof of Concept – Testing of Elemental Energy Technologies Limited SeaUrchin Turbine in Low Velocity Water Flows

S E Pells and S Mehrabi, Specifications for a Baseline Groundwater Characterisation Study, Rainbow Beach Estate, Bonnie Hills

S E Pells, Review of Proposed Geothermal Heat Pump Applications Energy Australia Building, Holker Street, Silverwater

Peters, G, 2009, Frictional headloss in the Civic Centre rainwater tank system.

Peters, G, and Schulz, M, 2009, Quantification of Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Chemicals to be used in the proposed Adelaide Desalination Plant.

Peters, G, and Short, M, 2009, Sustainability Decision-Making Frameworks: A Literature Review.

Peters, G, and Schulz, M, 2009, Audit of Capacity to support the Development and Application of Life Cycle Approaches and Sustainability Decision Support Tools In EPA and External Organizations.

Schulz M, Short M, Peters G,(2009) Milestone 9 Report: Priorities for Life Cycle Science for 2009 – 2010. Report for EPA Victoria as part of the Life Cycle Science Partnership with UNSW. 9 November 2009.

Schulz M, Peters G, Short M, Milestone 10 Report: Sustainability decision-making frameworks Final Report sent 15/01/2010

T D Shand and M J Blacka, Foreshore Protection Review – Penrith Lakes Main Lake

Short M, Peters G, Hot water services - life cycle assessment and review of specifications

Short M, Challenges of adapting water resources and infrastructure to climate change - a review

Steel R, Khan S, Short M, Roser D, Van den Akker B, Review of tender document, Chatswood Civic place stormwater re-use scheme. List of questions to assist the tender evaluation and commentary

G P Smith, D S Rayner and B M Miller, Hydraulic Testing of Sydney Desalination Riser Cap, 5-Port Riser Cap

Roser D, Khan S and Stuetz R, Kahramaa, HSE Dept. Desalinated water quality management, UNSW supplementary analytical technology and science support needs report prepared for GHD

Roser D, Van Den Akker B, Ashbolt N, Stuetz R, Estimating the Relative Risk from Sewage Treatment Plant Effluent Stage 2 Report

Roser, D, Klein, M., Brown L, Trang T, Wang X, Coleman H, Peters G, Tucker, Stuetz R 2009, FLOT333 Contaminants in Feedlot Waste - Analytical Methods and Preliminary Analysis.

Timms, WA, Badenhop, AM, and Rayner, D, 2009, Namoi Groundwater Monitoring and Evaluation. Report No. 1 Review of Groundwater Information and Monitoring Framework.

Timms, WA, Badenhop, AM, and Rayner, D, 2009, Namoi Groundwater Monitoring and Evaluation. Report No. 2 Review of Groundwater Information and Monitoring Framework.

W A Timms, A M Badenhop and D S Rayner, Groundwater Monitoring, Evaluation and Grower Survey, Namoi Catchment, Report No. 1 – Review of Groundwater Information and Monitoring Framework

W A Timms, M Schwarz and C Wasko, Hydrogeological Investigation of the Fate of Salt Mobilised Under Dryland Cropping on the Cryon Plain, North Western NSW

L Tarrade and B M Miller, Physical Modelling of Bluescope Steel’s Steelworks Cogeneration Plant Saltwater Cooling System, Port Kembla

L Tarrade, D S Rayner and B M Miller, Physical Modelling of Basswater Brine Diffusers

Van den Akker B, D. Roser, Burwood beach WWTP health risk assessment: briefing paper for the community reference group

Van den Akker B, Short M, Review of dune infiltration system, Hasings Point for TSC and WRL

Wang X, Odour and VOC test for Hostmann-Steinberg

Wang, X, Guan, J, and Stuetz, RM, 2009, Catalytic Ozonation for Odour Removal of Alumina Refinery Condensate Stage 4.

S J Wyllie, Koniambo Nickel Smelter Baghouse Physical Model Testing

S J Wyllie, Mallowa Creek Surface Flow: Preliminary Investigations

S J Wyllie and B M Miller, Suma Park Dam - Physical Model InvestigationStrategy for Clarence City, Tasmania


In 2009 the Connected Waters Initiative was spun off from the group as a new Centre at the University and now reports separately.

2008 equipment expenditure included two triple quadruple Mass Spectrometry for a total of $939,707.67 that was funded from a Federal Government LIEF Grant. There were no LIEF grants at the Centre for 2009.

2009 accumulated funds include $132,528.00 – the CWWT Staff termination Preservation Account – where funds had been specifically set aside to fund termination payments. These funds were removed by the University on the 18th January 2010. We are working to have these restored to the Centre.

8) Financia l Report

2009 Financial Report

UNSW Water Research Centre

Full Year Full Year

2009 2008

$ $

Income

External Funds * 6,920,558.33 6,080,230.22

UNSW Contribution 192,915.62 250,000.00

Internal Revenue 39,312.57 89,785.01

Total Income 7,152,786.52 6,420,015.23

Expenses

Payroll 3,844,211.55 3,413,289.51

Equipment 549,447.61 1,248,299.04

Materials 1,297,039.31 837,734.37

Scholarship Stipends 228,885.43 317,434.51

Travel 314,340.26 306,729.81

Total Expenses 6,233,924.16 6,123,487.24

Operating result 918,862.36 296,527.99

Surplus(Deficit) Bfwd from Prior Year 1,488,540.23 1,116,761.18

Accumulated Funds Surplus(Deficit) 2,244,584.50 1,413,289.17

Water Research CentreThe University of New South WalesSydney NSW 2052AustraliaT: +61 (2) 9385 5017 F: +61 (2) 9313 8624E: [email protected]

Water Research Laboratory110 King StManly Vale NSW 2093AustraliaT: +61 (2) 8071 9800F: +61 (2) 9949 4188E: [email protected]

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