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Dr Mike Grace

Dr Mike Grace Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry,
Water Studies Centre, Monash University

Phone: +61 3 9905 4078
Fax: +61 3 9905 4196
Email: mike.grace@sci.monash.edu.au
Snail-Mail: Dr Mike Grace
Water Studies Centre, School of Chemistry
Monash University, Clayton Campus
Wellington Rd, Clayton, Victoria, 3800
Australia

Research Interests

Measuring and Interpreting Aquatic Ecosystem Functions
Ecology of Urban Streams
Nutrient Cycling & Spiralling - Phosphorus, Nitrogen and Carbon
Sediment - Water Column Interactions & Flux Measurements
Biogeochemistry and Blue-Green Algal Blooms
Pore Water Chemistry & Development of New Methods of Analyte Determination
Measurements of Primary & Secondary Production in Australian Lowland Rivers & Streams
Ecological Risk Assessment
Restoration of Degraded Streams inc. restoration ecology

Recent Research Projects

2002-06	"Instream and riparian zone nitrogen dynamics ". Land & Water Australia Project GRU28. with Dr Christy Fellows, Griffith University.
2005-06	"Development of a technical manual for performing and interpreting stream metabolism measurements ". Project for the Murray-DarlingBasin Commission .
2003-06	"Development of risk-based approaches for managing contaminants in catchments ". Land & Water Australia Project UM045.
2003-05	"Delivering sustainability through risk management ". Land & Water Australia/Murray-Darling Basin Commission - National Program for Sustainable Irrigation. Project UM043 .
2003-05	"Rivers in landscapes: heuristic models linking ecosystem response to catchment, reach and local-scale drivers". CRC for Freshwater Ecology, Project B260.
2002-03	"Assessment of Ecological Risk Associated with Irrigation SYstems in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Phase 2 ". LWRRDC National Program for Irrigation Research and Development (NPIRD). Project GMW11
2001-2003	"Urbanisation and the Ecological Function of Streams". Funded by the CRC for Freshwater Ecology, Project D210.
2001-06	Ecological Risk Assessment (several projects) inc project D220, funded by the CRC for Freshwater Ecology.