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Research Projects

Some examples of theses and research topics

Anomalous background water compositions

• Coromandel Cu, Pb, Zn, Cd
• Reefton arsenic
• Marlborough antimony
• Sutton Salt Lake

Water quality

• Lower Waitaki aquifer
• Wangaloa coal mine acid rock drainage
• Prediction of water quality at coal mine
• Treatment of acid mine drainage
• Blue Lake, St Bathans, water composition
• Potential Research Projects

Rebabilitation of disturbed land

• Gold mine tailings revegetation
• Reafforestation of coal mine waste rock

Nutrients and toxins in plants and substrates

• Boron at a coal mine
• Arsenic at abandoned industrial sites

Physical controls on biodiversity

• Geological separatation of freshwater fish populations

Catastrophic events

• Mine tailings disposal in a river

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