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About

Research Disciplines: Environmental management (4104)

Honours

Awards

2016 - University Medal - Excellence for a doctoral research thesis
2016 - Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) Women in Research Citation Awards (Environmental science & management category)

Fellowships

2016 to 2019 - Advance Queensland (QLD Government) Research Fellowship

Publications

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Journal Articles

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, Article: 112339, DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112339.
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, Article: 112494, DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112494.
Bainbridge Z, Lewis S, Bartley R, Fabricius K, Collier C, Waterhouse J, Garzon-Garcia A, Robson B, Burton J, Wenger A and Brodie J (2018) Fine sediment and particulate organic matter: a review and case study on ridge-to-reef transport, transformations, fates, and impacts on marine ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 135, pp. 1205-1220, DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.08.002.
Kuhnert P, Pagendam D, Bartley R, Gladish D, Lewis S and Bainbridge Z (2018) Making management decisions in the face of uncertainty: a case study using the Burdekin catchment in the Great Barrier Reef. Marine and Freshwater Research, 69 (8), pp. 1187-1200, DOI:10.1071/MF17237.
Lewis S, Lough J, Cantin N, Matson E, Kinsley L, Bainbridge Z and Brodie J (2018) A critical evaluation of coral Ba/Ca, Mn/Ca and Y/Ca ratios as indicators of terrestrial input: new data from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 237, pp. 131-154, DOI:10.1016/j.gca.2018.06.017.
Petus C, Devlin M, da Silva E, Lewis S, Waterhouse J, Wenger A, Bainbridge Z and Tracey D (2018) Defining wet season water quality target concentrations for ecosystem conservation using empirical light attenuation models: a case study in the Great Barrier Reef (Australia). Journal of Environmental Management, 213, pp. 1-16, DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.02.028.
Brodie J, Lewis S, Collier C, Wooldridge S, Bainbridge Z, Waterhouse J, Rasheed M, Honchin C, Holmes G and Fabricius K (2017) Setting ecologically relevant targets for river pollutant loads to meet marine water quality requirements for the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: a preliminary methodology and analysis. Ocean & Coastal Management, 143, pp. 136-147, DOI:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.09.028.
Bainbridge Z, Lewis S, Smithers S, Wilkinson S, Douglas G, Hillier S and Brodie J (2016) Clay mineral source tracing and characterisation of Burdekin River (NE Australia) and flood plume fine sediment. Journal of Soils Sediments, 16 (2), pp. 687-706, DOI:10.1007/s11368-015-1282-4.
Furuichi T, Olley J, Wilkinson S, Lewis S, Bainbridge Z and Burton J (2016) Paired geochemical tracing and load monitoring analysis for identifying sediment sources in a large catchment draining into the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. Geomorphology, 266, pp. 41-52, DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.05.008.
Gladish D, Kuhnert P, Pagendam D, Wikle C, Bartley R, Searle R, Ellis R, Dougall C, Turner R, Lewis S, Bainbridge Z and Brodie J (2016) Spatio-temporal assimilation of modelled catchment loads with monitoring data in the Great Barrier Reef. Annals of Applied Statistics, 10 (3), pp. 1590-1618, DOI:10.1214/16-AOAS950.
Bartley R, Croke J, Bainbridge Z, Austin J and Kuhnert P (2015) Combining contemporary and long-term erosion rates to target erosion hot-spots in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Anthropocene, 10, pp. 1-12, DOI:10.1016/j.ancene.2015.08.002.

Book Chapters

Brodie J, Lewis S, Davis A, Bainbridge Z, O'Brien D, Waterhouse J, Devlin M and Thomas C (2015) Management of agriculture to preserve environmental values of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. In: Ecosystems Services and River Basin Ecohydrology. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 275-292

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 43+ research outputs authored by Dr Zoe Bainbridge from 2007 onwards.

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

CSIRO - Contract Research

CSIRO - JCU Partnership - Catchment Water Quality Science (2019030726)

Indicative Funding: $300,000 over 3 years
Summary: The CSIRO Land and Water Business Unit is seeking to engage several JCU staff to support research undertaken within the Catchment Processes Research Group. These collaborative positions will synthesise and build on the Group's scientific output within the Great Barrier Reef land management and water quality research domain. It will also strengthen out collective ability to connect land management changes (CSIRO focus) with marine impact (JCU focus).
Investigators: Zoe Bainbridge and Stephen Lewis (TropWATER)
Keywords: Sediment Tracing; Great Barrier Reef; Burdekin; Marine ecological impacts; Catchment sediment processes; Sediment runoff

NQ Dry Tropics - Contract Research

LDC Community Water Quality Monitoring Program (LME#17-004).

Indicative Funding: $73,143 over 3 years
Summary: The objective of the Burdekin MIP is to work closely with groups in one or two focus areas, with the Bowen-Broken-Bogie(BBB) catchments, to trial a range of regionally tailored coordinated actions that reduce sediment and nutrient loads. Throughout this Major Integrated Project, progress in achieving land management practice changes, economic benefits for landholders and pollutant load reductions will be closely monitored an results will inform adaptive management. This project is to develop a community water quality monitoring program for the BBB catchments.
Investigators: Zoe Bainbridge in collaboration with Stephen Lewis (TropWATER)
Keywords: Monitoring; Great Barrier Reef; Burdekin; Water Quality; Suspended Sediment; Landholders Driving Change

QLD Department of Environment and Science - Advance Queensland Research Fellowship

Identifying sources of fine sediments to protect the Great Barrier Reef

Indicative Funding: $180,000 over 5 years
Summary: This fellowship builds on Bainbridge's PhD thesis which identified the sediment fractions preferentially transported from rivers via flood flumes to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, and which have the greatest influence on photic depth/water clarity. The research will identify both the key properties and the primary sources of this material, enabling more effective prioritisation and direct targeting of control works to improve the quality of water discharged to the Great Barrier Reef. This research is cutting edge in the field of sediment tracing and will contribute locally by identifying specific catchment sources of ecologically-damaging fine sediment, and to the broader international field of sediment tracing.
Investigators: Zoe Bainbridge, Stephen Lewis, Scott Smithers, Jon Olley, Joanne Burton, Scott Wilkinson and Stephen Hillier (TropWATER, College of Science & Engineering, Australian Rivers Institute, QLD Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation and James Hutton Institute)
Keywords: Fine Sediment; Great Barrier Reef; Clay minineralogy; Sediment Tracing; Geochemistry; Catchment Management

Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment - National Environment Science Program (NESP) - Total Water Quality (TWQ)

Reducing End-of-Catchment Fine Sediment Loads and Ecosystem Impacts

Indicative Funding: $23,910 over 1 year
Summary: A wide range of NESP TWQ Hub projects have focused on the source, transport, fate and impact of sediments on estuarine, coastal and reef ecosystems. These projects have responded to the Reef 2050 Plan water quality targets and Water Quality Improvement Plan aiming to reduce the loss of sediments from catchments to the marine environment. To better manage sediment losses and prioritise remedial actions, it is important to be able to understand and contextualise all of the issues that are involved in this sediment story, from managing catchment sources to defining which types of sediment cause the most harm in the marine environment. The synthesis report will include a list of gully prioritisation tools and sampling methods for detecting sediment and bioavailable nutrients. This project will provide a narrative and synthesis to bring all these threads together. Synthesis of this new knowledge will provide advice on practical on-ground actions for land and sea managers, policy implications and identify remaining gaps for future research and management investments.
Investigators: Johanna Johnson, Stephen Lewis, Zoe Bainbridge, Catherine Collier, Rebecca Bartley, Andrew Brooks, Barbara Robson and Katharina Fabricius in collaboration with Rachael Smith, Alexandra Garzon-Garcia, Joanne Burton and Jane Waterhouse (Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, TropWATER, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, Griffith University, Australian Institute of Marine Science, QLD Department of Environment and Science and C2O Consulting)
Keywords: Sediment; Catchment; Great Barrier Reef; Ecosystem; gully

Department of the Environment and Energy - National Environmental Science Program (NESP) - Tropical Water Quality Hub (TWQ Hub)

What's really damaging the Reef? Tracing the origin and fate of the environmentally detrimental sediment and associated bioavailable nutrients

Indicative Funding: $598,596 over 2 years, in partnership with Queensland Department of Environment and Science ($155,870)
Summary: Recent research has shown that only a portion of the fine sediment fraction delivered from rivers draining into the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon (GBRL) reaches coral reefs and seagrass meadows. The specific sources of this sediment, which affects the health of corals and seagrasses, are as yet unresolved. This project will, for the first time characterise and trace the origin(s), fate and nutrient bioavailability of this environmentally detrimental sediment using samples collected in flood plumes and during resuspension events. This will enable direct spatial targeting of the sources of this material to achieve maximum benefits to GBR health from catchment management actions.
Investigators: Stephen Lewis, Zoe Bainbridge, Thomas Stevens and Scott Smithers in collaboration with Joanne Burton, Alexandra Garzon-Garcia, Phil Moody, Chengrong Chen, Jon Olley and Mehran Rezaei Rashti (TropWATER, College of Science & Engineering, QLD Department of Environment and Science and Griffith University)
Keywords: sediment flocs; sediment resuspension; Sediment Tracing; sediment transport and fate; Turbidity; Great Barrier Reef

QLD Department of Environment and Science - Advance Queensland Women's Academic Fund

Bainbridge Maternity Funding for Lab Assistant

Indicative Funding: $13,000
Summary: Maternity funding to employ a research/laboratory assistant to assist primary researcher whilst on maternity leave to maintain research progress.
Investigators: Zoe Bainbridge and Jessica Gorman (TropWATER)
Keywords: Great Barrier Reef; Fine sediment; Catchment management; Sediment tracing; Catchment sources; Geochemistry

Data

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Bainbridge, Z. (2012) Water quality characteristics of water draining different land uses in the Tully/Murray Rivers region. 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

Collaboration

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