AQUEST Aquatic Environmental Stress Research Group

AQUEST The Aquatic Environmental Stress Research Group at RMIT is a leading research agency in aquatic pollution management.

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Our research informs water management policies and practices to achieve improved waterway health, greater biodiversity, and environmental and industrial sustainability.

Services AQUEST offers:

  • Environmental Assessment, including ecological impact
  • Identification of priority water pollution issues
  • Sourcing of priority pollutants 
  • Development of cost-effective monitoring systems
  • Development of management strategy and programs to improve aquatic environmental outcomes

AQUEST has a proven track record of working with government agencies to improve policy. In recent years, our research has contributed to improvements in the EPA State Environment Protection Policy, the Yarra River Action Plan, the Port Phillip Bay Environmental Management Plan, the Victorian Water Sensitive Urban Design guidelines and filling knowledge gaps in the Healthy Waterways Strategy.

We respect client confidentiality and encourage the private sector and government agency customers to enquire.

Contact AQUEST@rmit.edu.au for further information.


Partnerships

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Melbourne Water Waterways Research Forums "2023 and" 2021 | Healthy Waterways Strategy

See the latest waterway research from Melbourne Water research partners, featuring A3P. Information is also available in the individual project pages here.

 

Find out more about the 2023 research forum

Joint TWRA-RMIT Webinar Series 2023

Check out our TWRA RMIT Webinar Series - YouTube on Microplastics and Biodiversity Assessment, with more topics to come. Hosted by TWRA online, with the purpose of increasing our combined research impact by facilitating opportunities to collaborate and share knowledge.

The partnership is between the Tropical Water Research Alliance (TWRA) and two RMIT research groups- Aquatic Environmental Stress Research Group (AQUEST) and Water: Effective Tools and Technology (WETT)

The TWRA is a research alliance between Brazil and Australia searching for solutions to water problems in tropical ecosystems.

At RMIT University, AQUEST aims to identify and address the ecological impacts of pollution in aquatic environments and WETT brings together multidisciplinary researchers to develop technologies and methodologies for managing societal water needs. 

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AQUEST-A3P YouTube channel

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Meet our research team as they star in videos about topics close to our heart, share Webinars we've delivered including the wrap-up of our Pesticide Detectives project, Conference presentations and some “how-to” videos for pollution sampling.

Into the future, we’ll add videos from our recent Waterways Annual Forum with our A3P partnership which presents how our research supports the Healthy Waterways Strategy in our region.


Interested in collaborating with us?

Get in touch:

AQUEST Aquatic Environmental Stress Research Group

Emailaquest@rmit.edu.au

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Follow us on Twitter @RMIT_aquest


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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.