Postgraduate Student Profile
Geoff Taylor: Nitrogen composition in urban runoff implications for design of constructed stormwater wetlands.
Supervisors
- Associate Professor Tony Wong, Ecological Engineering
/ Monash University
- Dr. Tim Fletcher, Monash University
- Dr. Peter Breen, Ecological Engineering
CRCCH project links
Personal background
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental) Honours 1st
class RMIT.
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental) with Distinction
RMIT.
- Part time demonstrator for 3rd year Environmental Science
students, RMIT.
- Research Scientist, soils and water division, Agriculture
Victoria, Ellinbank.
- Part time Research Assistant, CRCCH
- Tutor for Groundwater and Environmental Geoengineering
(Monash University).
- Ph.D. Student CRCCH, Department of Civil Engineering,
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.
Anticipated research outcomes/products
- To improve wetland treatment capabilities for the reduction
of nitrogen forms, to protect receiving waters.
- To identify the composition of nitrogen when it enters
constructed wetlands from urbanized catchments. Thereby
allowing wetland design to be modified to reduce the dominant
nitrogen forms.
- To identify the processes most effective in removing each
nitrogen form.
- To identify which factors can be influenced in a wetland
to promote nitrogen reduction processes.
- To develop enhanced design guidelines, which will improve
nitrogen removal efficiency of constructed stormwater wetlands.
"Management of urban stormwater to reduce impacts to
receiving waters is an issue of increasing concern and attention.
Whilst there have been some significant advances made in implementing
a range of “best management practices”, most of
these treatment measures are less effective in removing nitrogen
than other key parameters (suspended solids, and phosphorus).
By improving the efficiency of wetlands in nitrogen removal,
this project will help to reduce nitrogen-related impacts
to receiving waterways, such as the Yarra River & Brisbane
River, and ultimately to important bays, such as Port Phillip
Bay (Melbourne), and Moreton Bay (SE Queensland)."
Contact
geoff.d.taylor@eng.monash.edu.au |
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