STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Graeme Allinson
Over the past 30 years, Dr Allinson has worked in universities, the chemical industry and national/state government research organisations, and in doing so has developed wide ranging expertise in environmental chemistry, water quality, ecotoxicology, and constructed wetlands for waste and storm water management. He is involved in water quality projects ranging from site-specific investigations of specific pollutants to large catchment scale assessments, including assessments in surface and groundwater environment
Current Research Interests
Trace Organic Chemicals (TROCs) in the environment
- Development and application of multi-residue methods for the measurement of TROCs in natural and waste waters, soils and sediments
- Measurement of TROCs on microplastics and passive samplers
Ecotoxicology
- Screening waters for chemicals of similar mode off action using recombinant receptor-reporter gene assays
- Effects of environmental contaminants on aquatic organisms
Constructed wetlands for pollution control
- Exploring the performance of constructed wetlands for dairy parlour and dairy processing water quality improvement
- Use of the giant reed (Arundo donax) in constructed wetlands for industrial and landfill leachate water quality improvement
- Exploring the performance of constructed storm water wetlands
Biomass Bioenergy
- Use of the giant reed (Arundo donax) as a biomass bioenergy source
- Doctor of Philosophy (Chemistry), The University of Leeds, UK (1992)
- Bachelor of Chemical Sciences (Honours), The University of Leeds, UK (1984)
Career summary
- 2014 – present: Associate Professor in Environmental Chemistry, RMIT University
- 2013 – 2014: Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
- 2005 – 2013: Principal Research Scientist, Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Queenscliff
- 1996 – 2005: Senior Lecturer, School of Ecology and Environment, Deakin University (Warrnambool)
- 2004- 2005: Royal Society Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- 2002 – 2004: Japan Science & Technology Agency Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
- 1984 – 1988: R&D Chemist, Hickson & Welch Ltd, Castleford, UK
Research Fellowships
- 2013: Use of novel rapid assessment tools for efficient monitoring of chemicals. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Short-term Invitation Fellowship (Host Institution: University of Kitkakyushu, Wakamatsu, Japan)
- 2004: Measurement of chemical contamination of North-South migratory sea birds. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Short-term Invitation Fellowship (Host institution: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan)
- 2002: Effect of clay amelioration on heavy metal contamination in non-wetting soil. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Short-term Invitation Fellowship (Host institution: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan)
- 2001: Monitoring and modeling the transport of chemicals in soils: Effect of water repellency. Australian Academy of Science Visiting Fellowship Europe (Host Institutions: University of Wales Swansea, UK; Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
- 1999: Transport of heavy metals in soil. Japanese Government Research Award for Foreign Specialist (Host institution: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan)
- 1999: Monitoring the transport of chemicals in soils: effect of water repellency. Australian Academy of Science Visiting Fellowship Europe (Host Institutions: University of Wales Swansea, UK; Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
- 1997: Application of Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry to Uranium Series Disequilibrium Dating of Quaternary Marine Sediments in Southern Australia. Japanese Science and Technology Agency Short-Term Visiting Fellowship (Host institution: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan)
- 1994-95: New methods for the determination of tear gases. Royal Society Visiting Research Fellow (Host Institution: Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
- 1992-94: Ecotoxicology of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds. Japanese Science and Technology Agency Visiting Research Fellow (Host institution: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan)
- McCarthy, J.,Wallace, S.,Brown, K.,King, C.,Nielsen, U.,Allinson, G.,Reichman, S. (2022). Preliminary investigation of effects of copper on a terrestrial population of the antarctic rotifer Philodina sp. In: Chemosphere, 300, 1 - 6
- Zhang, X.,Gong, Z.,Allinson, G.,Li, X.,Jia, C. (2022). Joint effects of bacterium and biochar in remediation of antibiotic-heavy metal contaminated soil and responses of resistance gene and microbial community In: Chemosphere, 299, 1 - 10
- Zhang, X.,Gong, Z.,Allinson, G.,Xiao, M.,Li, X.,Jia, C.,Ni, Z. (2022). Environmental risks caused by livestock and poultry farms to the soils: Comparison of swine, chicken, and cattle farms In: Journal of Environmental Management, 317, 1 - 13
- Lewis, P.,Lashko, A.,Chiaradia, A.,Allinson, G.,Shimeta, J.,Emmerson, L. (2022). New and legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in breeding seabirds from the East Antarctic In: Environmental Pollution, 309, 1 - 12
- Papadimitriu, M.,Allinson, G. (2022). Microplastics in the Mediterranean marine environment: a combined bibliometric and systematic analysis to identify current trends and challenges In: Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 2, 1 - 25
- Jia, C.,Allinson, G.,Dai, S.,Tai, P. (2022). Formation process and thermodynamic mechanism of the crust in magnesite mining areas In: Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 15, 1 - 11
- Al Nabhani, K.,Salzman, S.,Shimeta, J.,Dansie, A.,Allinson, G. (2022). A temporal assessment of microplastics distribution on the beaches of three remote islands of the Yasawa archipelago, Fiji In: Marine Pollution Bulletin, 185, 1 - 8
- Mitchell, M.,Nugegoda, D.,Allinson, G.,Shimeta, J. (2021). A systematic review and ecological risk assessment for organic ultraviolet filters in aquatic environments In: Environmental Pollution, 268, 1 - 16
- Carve Luzardo, M.,Allinson, G.,Nugegoda, D.,Shimeta, J. (2021). Trends in environmental and toxicity research on organic ultraviolet filters: A scientometric review In: Science of the Total Environment, 773, 1 - 16
- Lewis, P.,McGrath, T.,Chiaradia, A.,McMahon, C.,Emmerson, L.,Allinson, G.,Shimeta, J. (2020). A baseline for POPs contamination in Australian seabirds: little penguins vs. short-tailed shearwaters In: Marine Pollution Bulletin, 159, 1 - 10
2 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions5 PhD Completions
- Evaluation of permeable polymer (LDPE) Flexcubes for maturation of whisky. Funded by: DIIS - Innovations Connections - Competitive from (2021 to 2023)
- The Plastics Lab: Establishing a free plastics identification facility for Port Phillip Bay community groups. Funded by: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning-Port Phillip Bay Fund from (2018 to 2021)
- Using indigenous terrestrial micro-invertebrates to assess environmental impacts of soil pollution in Antarctica.. Funded by: Australian Antarctic Division Grants 2016 from (2017 to 2021)