Bryan E CHENHALL

Current Position:    Visiting Senior Fellow

Contact Details:  Email  bryanc@uow.edu.au  Mobile 0401977215

Major Research Interests

• The environmental impact of rural development, urbanisation and industrialisation on lagoons and estuaries.
• 210Pb chronology and sediment contamination in Dublin Bay, Ireland.
• Sediment and soil contamination in the Illawarra region.
• Sediment accretion and contamination in the Tamar Estuary, Tasmania.

Representative Publications

Carr, P. F., Perkins, M. G., Chenhall, B. E., Pemberton, J. W., and Middleton, R. G. (1996). Heulandite from the Illawarra district, NSW. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 2, 71-75.

Chenhall, B. E., Yassini, I., Depers, A. M., Caitcheon, G., Jones, B. G., Batley, G. E., & Ohmsen, G. S. 1995. Anthropogenic marker evidence for accelerated sedimentation in Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia. Environmental Geology , 26, 124-135.

Chenhall, B. E., Chiaradia, M., Gulson, B. L., Jones, B. G. & Depers, A. M. 2001. Stable Lead isotopes: Application to Sourcing of Lead in the Environment. In V. A. Gostin (ed.), Gondwana to Greenhouse: Environmental Geoscience- an Australian Persepective. Special Publication of the Geological Society of Australia, 21, 235-242.

Chenhall, B. E., Jones, B. G. & Depers, A. M. 2001. Trace metal pollution and sedimentation in coastal lagoons: an example from Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia. In V. A. Gostin (ed.), Gondwana to Greenhouse: Environmental Geoscience- an Australian Persepective. Special Publication of the Geological Society of Australia, 21, 227-233.

Chiaradia, M., Chenhall, B. E., Depers A.M., Gulson, B. L. & Jones, B. G. 1997. Identification of historic lead sources in roof dust and recent lake sediments from an industrialised area: indications from lead isotopes. Science of the Total Environment, 205, 107-128.

Garcia, A. Jones, B. G., Chenhall, B. E. & Murray-Wallace, C. V. 2002. The charophyte Lamprothamnium succintum as an environmental indicator:: a Holocene example from Tom Thumbs Lagoon, eastern Australia. Alcheringa, 26, 507-518.

Jones, B. G. , Chenhall, B. E., Debretsion. F & Hutton, A. C. 2003. Geochemical comparisons between estuaries with non-industrialised and industrialised catchments: the Huon and Derwent River estuaries, Tasmania. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (in press)

Jones, B. G., Killian, H., Chenhall, B. E. & Sloss, C. R. 2003. Anthropogenic effects in a coastal lagoon: Geochemical characterisation of Burrill Lake, NSW, Australia. Journal of Coastal Research (in press).

Ohmsen, G. S., Chenhall, B. E., & Jones, B. G. 1995. Trace metal distributions in two saltmarsh substrates, Illawarra region, New South Wales, Australia. Wetlands, 14, 19-31.

Payne, M., Chenhall, B. E., Murrie, M., & Jones, B. G. 1997. Spatial Variation of Sediment-Bound Zinc, Lead, Copper and Rubidium in Lake Illawarra, a Coastal Lagoon in Eastern Australia. Journal of Coastal Research ,13, 1181-1191.

Young, R. W., Cope, S., Price, D. M., Chivas, A. R., & Chenhall, B. E. 1996. Character and age of lateritic weathering at Jervis Bay, southern New South Wales, Australia. Australian Geographic Studies, 34 (2), 237-246.