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)
• Physical geography and environmental geoscience (3709)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Coastal and estuarine systems and management (1802)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• 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
• 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.
• Comeros-Raynal M, Brodie J, Bainbridge Z, Choat J, Curtis M, Lewis S, Stevens T, Shuler C, Sudek M and Hoey A (2021) Catchment to sea connection: impacts of terrestrial run-off on benthic ecosystems in American Samoa. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 169.
• Garzon-Garcia A, Burton J, Lewis S, Bainbridge Z, De Hayr R, Moody P and Brodie J (2021) The bioavailability of nitrogen associated with sediment in riverine plumes of the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 173.
• Jing Z, Yu W, Schneider A, Borsdorff T, Landgraf J, Lewis S, Zhang J, Tang W, Ma Y, Xu B and Qu D (2021) Interannual variation in stable isotopes in water vapor over the Northern Tibetan Plateau Linked to ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (8).
• Lambert V, Bainbridge Z, Collier C, Lewis S, Adams M, Carter A, Saunders M, Brodie J, Turner R, Rasheed M and O'Brien K (2021) Connecting targets for catchment sediment loads to ecological outcomes for seagrass using multiple lines of evidence. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 169.
• Lewis S, Bartley R, Wilkinson S, Bainbridge Z, Kinsey-henderson A, James C, Irvine S and Brodie J (2021) Land use change in the river basins of the Great Barrier Reef, 1860 to 2019: a foundation for understanding environmental history across the catchment to reef continuum. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 166. pp. 112193-112193
• Saha N, Webb G, Zhao J, Lewis S, Nguyen A and Feng Y (2021) Spatiotemporal variation of rare earth elements from river to reef continuum aids monitoring of terrigenous sources in the Great Barrier Reef. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 299. pp. 85-112
• Zhang J, Yu W, Jing Z, Lewis S, Xu B, Ma Y, Wei F, Luo L and Qu D (2021) Coupled effects of moisture transport pathway and convection on stable isotopes in precipitation across the East Asian Monsoon Region: implications for paleoclimate reconstruction. Journal of Climate, 34 (24). pp. 9811-9822
• Bahadori M, Chen C, Lewis S, Rashti M, Cook F, Parnell A, Esfandbod M and Stevens T (2020) Tracing the sources of sediment and associated particulate nitrogen from different land uses in the Johnstone River catchment, Wet Tropics, northeastern Australia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 157.

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 102+ 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)
• Biogeochemical modelling of tropical marine ecosystemns in the context of climate change (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• High Island Lifeboats - future ecosystem and cultural services provision by high island beaches on the GBR. (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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