Past Research Projects

Below is a selection of projects that have been conducted at SASE over recent years.

Master of Science (MSc)

• Acclimation of Anaerobic Granular Sludge to Feed Composition Changes in Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Reactors co-digesting Industrial and Agricultural Effluents
• Potential of the Mosquito Killing Fungus Culicinomyces clavisporus to Control the Malaria Vector Anopheles flavirostris in the Philippines
• A Study of Microbial Population Dynamics in the Anaerobic Treatment of Industrial Waste Waters

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

• A Study of Wet and Dry Deposition Processes for Regional Air Pollution and Atmospheric Deposition Modelling
• Bangkok Air Quality – Environmental Impacts
• Biogenic Sources of Oxygenated Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere
• Distribution and Bioavailability of Heavy Metals and Nutrients in Sediments from Gippsland Lakes
• Fabrication of Novel DNA Biosensors
• Fire as a Management Tool – Risk Assessment of Its Impacts Based on Case Studies from Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia
• How do Spatial Patterns and Landscape Context affect Fauna in Planted and Remnant Forest in a Fragmented Landscape?
• Role of type 1 interferon in LPS-mediated inflammation
• Spatial and Temporal Changes in Birds in West Gippsland
• Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Polymers and Copolymers of Pyrrole and Substituted Pyrroles for the Fabrication of Environmental Biosensors
• The Fabrication of a Potentiometric Penicillin Biosensor for the Detection Of Beta-Lactam Antibiotics in Pharmaceutical Preparations and in Milk
• Utilisation of Product Water from Coal Dewatering
• Wood to Water: Habitat Creation within Restored and Replanted Riparian Land