A Townsville original, Stephen completed a BSc (Hons) and PhD in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at James Cook University in 2000 and 2005, respectively. Stephen is a geochemist that focuses primarily on water quality in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) catchment area and lagoon including evaluating the sources, transport and risks of various pollutants in freshwater, estuarine and marine ecosystems.

Research Disciplines

• Environmental management (4104)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Coastal and estuarine systems and management (1802)
• environmental management (1899)

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Journal Articles

• Ani C, Smithers S, Lewis S, Baird M and Robson B (2023) eReefs modelling suggests Trichodesmium may be a major nitrogen source in the Great Barrier Reef. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 285.
• Bainbridge Z, Olley J, Wilkinson S, Bartley R, Lewis S, Dougall C, Khan S, Kuhnert P and Burton J (2023) Refining fine sediment source identification through integration of spatial modelling, concentration monitoring and source tracing: A case study in the Great Barrier Reef catchments. Science of the Total Environment, 10.
• Li Y, Yu W, Tian L, Lewis S, Yoshimura K, Weng C, Cui J, Ma Y, Guo R, Zhang J, Jing Z, Shao L, Guo Z and Wang Y (2023) Diagnosis of atmospheric circulation shifts in the central Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from stable isotopes. Atmospheric Research, 282.
• Silburn D, Fillols E, Rojas-Ponce S, Lewis S and McHugh A (2023) Direct comparison of runoff of residual and knockdown herbicides in sugarcane using a rainfall simulator finds large difference in runoff losses and toxicity relative to diuron. Science of the Total Environment, 863.
• Zhang J, Yu W, Lewis S, Thompson L, Bowen G, Yoshimura K, Werner M, Chakraborty S, Jing Z, Ma Y, Guo X, Xu B, Wu G, Guo R, Qu D and Cauquoin A (2023) Controls on Stable Water Isotopes in Monsoonal Precipitation Across the Bay of Bengal: Atmosphere and Surface Analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (5). pp. 1-12
• Bahadori M, Wang J, Shen J, Lewis S, Rezaei Rashti M and Chen C (2022) Soil organic matter and geochemical characteristics shape microbial community composition and structure across different land uses in an Australian wet tropical catchment. Land Degradation and Development, 33 (6). pp. 817-831
• Jing Z, Yu W, Lewis S, Thompson L, Xu J, Zhang J, Xu B, Wu G, Ma Y, Wang Y and Guo R (2022) Inverse altitude effect disputes the theoretical foundation of stable isotope paleoaltimetry. Nature Communications, 13.
• Lloyd-Jones L, Kuhnert P, Lawrence E, Lewis S, Waterhouse J, Gruber R and Kroon F (2022) Sampling re-design increases power to detect change in the Great Barrier Reef’s inshore water quality. PLoS ONE, 17 (7).
• Bahadori M, Chen C, Lewis S, Boyd S, Rashti M, Esfandbod M, Van Zwieten L and Kuzyakov Y (2021) Soil organic matter formation is controlled by the chemistry and bioavailability of organic carbon inputs across different land uses. Science of the Total Environment, 770.
• Bainbridge Z, Lewis S, Stevens T, Petus C, Lazarus E, Gorman J and Smithers S (2021) Measuring sediment grain size across the catchment to reef continuum: improved methods and environmental insights. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 168.
• Canto M, Fabricius K, Logan M, Lewis S, McKinna L and Robson B (2021) A benthic light index of water quality in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 169.

Book Chapters

• Lewis S, McCloskey G, Bainbridge Z, Davis A, Bartley R and Turner R (in press) Sediment and nutrient flux from land. In: Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 117+ research outputs authored by Dr Stephen Lewis from 2006 onwards.

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Current

• SEDIMENT DYNAMICS OF A LARGE TROPICAL RIVER SYSTEM (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Cay geomorphology, dynamics and future prospects within the Great Barrier Reef (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Developmental diversity of proximal reefs on the Great Barrier Reef during the Holocene: Causes and implications for conservation (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Biogeochemical modelling of tropical marine ecosystems in the context of climate change (2023, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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• Lewis, S. (2012) Development of an inshore fringing coral reef using textural, compositional and stratigraphic data from Magnetic Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. James Cook University
• Brodie, J. (2011) Water quality research: baseline synthesis and year 1 summary. Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research
• Lewis, S. (2011) Herbicides: a new threat to the Great Barrier Reef. James Cook Univeristy

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