Many research projects offered in the School of Applied Sciences reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the school, and higher degree students will have the support of a small group of advisors with relevant areas of expertise, chosen from within or outside the school as appropriate.
Research may be undertaken in any of the following applied science areas: air quality and atmospheric sciences (including regional and trans- boundary haze, air quality issues in South East Asia, the indoor environment, urban air pollution); analytical spectroscopy (brown coal fly ash, transport fuels and oils, low cost instrumentation); biocontrol (of mosquitoes using Culicinomyces); biodiversity (in production and constructed environments, use of revegetation by fauna, wetlands); environmental management (systems development and application in industry and commerce, environmental communication and reporting); food microbiology (aerobic spore-forming thermophilic bacteria in foods); mathematics and applied statistics (mathematical and statistical modelling including environmental applications, discrete mathematics and computer science applications, and experimental design); mathematics and science learning (applications of new technology to distance education, interactive multi-media learning materials), plant gene expression (changes in gene expression patterns associated with environmental factors), soil science (biosolids as fertilisers, soil microbiology, iron reducing bacteria in corrosion, thermophilic bacteria in oil basins and in pine bark composting); sports physiology; and wastewater (from brown coal).
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