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Associate Professor Rod Buckney
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Current Appointment: Associate Professor
Contact:
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
P.O. Box 123
BROADWAY NSW 2007
Australia
Office: Rm 2.02 (St Leonards Campus)
Phone: +61 2 9514 4092
Fax: +61 2 9514 4095
Office: Rm 4/308 (CityCampus)
Phone: +61 2 9514 1757
Fax: +61 2 9514 1656
E-mail: Rod.Buckney@uts.edu.au
Profile
Rod Buckney is a plant ecologist whose background includes a strong competence in environmental chemistry and aquatic ecology. He has worked in government and non-government situations in Tasmania and New South Wales. Since completing his PhD in 1975, most of his employment has been at UTS, where he has worked for 21 years.
His research activities have spanned terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (both freshwater and marine) and ecotoxicology. He was recently involved in studies on sediment-water-plant interactions in the Fly River floodplain (Papua New Guinea) and is currently engaged in an evaluation of ecological risks affecting Nong Han, a large freshwater lake in north-east Thailand. He has published more than thirty refereed research papers.
He is a former Head of the Department of Environmental Biology and Horticulture now substantially the Department of Environmental Sciences) and former Alternate Head of the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
He is an Associate Professor and as Associate Dean (Coursework Programs) in the Faculty of Science currently has responsibility for development, quality assurance and review of all matters to do with undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programs in the Faculty
Research Interests
- Plant Ecology
- Ecotoxicology
- Chemical Ecology
- Freshwater Ecology
Current projects include:
- Temporal trends in vegetation development on a mined sand dune
- Environmental factors affecting weed invasion in the Sydney area
- Environmental risk analysis of Nong Han (Closed Lake), Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand.
Recent Publications (1992-2000)
Mitrovic, S.M., Bowling, L.C., and Buckney, R.T. (2001): Vertical disentrainment of Anabaena circinalis in the turbid, freshwater Darling River, Australia: quantifying potential benefits from buoyancy. Journal of Plankton Research 23: 47-55
King, S.A. and Buckney, R.T. (2000): Urbanization and exotic plants in northern Sydney streams. Austral Ecology 25: 455-462.
Yaru, B.T. and Buckney, R.T (2000): Metal interactions in contaminated freshwater sediments from the Fly River floodplain, Papua New GuineaInternational journal of Environmental Studies 57: 305-331.
Yaru, B.T., Buckney, R.T. and Rau, M.T. (1999): Plant-metal interactions in contaminated sediments of the Fly River floodplain, Papua New Guinea: Copper Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management 4: 29-40.
Yaru, B.T. and Buckney, R.T. (1999):Effect of aquatic plant growth on the overbank deposition of mine-derived sediments in the Fly River floodplain, Papua New Guinea. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 25: 185-199.
Hayes, W.J. and Buckney, R.T. (1998): Chemical characteristics of sediments and interstitial waters in some small Hawkesbury Sandstone freshwater streams of the Sydney area. Lakes and Reservoirs Research and Management 165-178.
Buckney, R. T. and Higgs, J.R. (1998): Patterns of metal contamination and aquatic plant distribution in a stream polluted by acid mine drainage. Proceedings of the International Association for Limnology 26: 1201-1205
Pablo, F., Stauber, J.L. and Buckney, R.T. (1997): Toxicity of cyanide and cyanide complexes to the marine diatom, Nitzschia closterium. Water Research 31: 2435-2442.
Pablo, F., Buckney, R.T. and Lim, R.P. and Hamilton, I. (1997): Toxicity of cyanide and iron-cyanide complexes to the fish Australian bass, Macquaria novemaculata and Black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri. Australasion Journal of Ecotoxicology 2: 75-84.
Pablo, F., Buckney, R.T. and Lim, R.P. (1997): Toxicity of cyanide, iron-cyanide complexes and a blast furnace effluent to the Banana prawn, Penaeus monodon. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 58: 822-829.
Pablo, F., Buckney, R.T. and Lim, R.P. (1997): Toxicity of cyanide, iron-cyanide complexes and a blast furnace effluent to the larvae of the doughboy scallop, Chlamys asperrimus (Lamarck). Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 58 93-100.
Le Brocque, A.F. and Buckney R.T. (1997): Multivariate relationships between floristic composition and stand structure in vegetation of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Botany 45: 1033-44
Morrison, D.A., Buckney, R.T., Bewick, B.J. and Carey, G.J. (1996): Conservation conflicts over burning bush in south-eastern Australia. Biological Conservation 76: 167-75.
Hayes, W. J. and Buckney, R.T. (1995): Anthropogenic effcets on the chemical characteristics of freshwater streams near Sydney, Australia during low flows. Lakes and Reservoirs Research and Management 1: 39-48.
Le Brocque, A.F. and Buckney, R.T. (1995): Spatial floristic and environmental patterns in plant communities of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Ecology 20 229-38.
Buckney, R.T. (1995): Water pollution, biodiversity and the effectiveness of water quality criteria. In: Conserving Biodiversity: Threats and Solutions, Bradstock, R.A., Auld, T.D., Keith, D.A., Kingsford, R.T., Lunney, D. and Sivertsen, D.P. (eds). Surrey Beatty & Sons, Sydney.
Buckney, R.T. and D.A. Morrison (1993): The whole story of Bridge Hill is yet to be told. A reply to Lewis and Clements. Australian Journal of Ecology 18: 245-7
Buckney, R.T. and D.A. Morrison (1992): Temporal trends in plant species composition on mined sand dunes in Myall Lakes National Park, Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 17: 241-54.
Conference Presentations
Buckney, R.T. and Higgs, J.R: Patterns of metal contamination and aquatic plant distribution in a stream polluted by acid mine drainage. Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology. São Paulo, Brasil, July 1995.
Reports and Other Publications
Wright, H.J., Buckney, R.T. and Mitrovic, S.M. (1993): Survey of a rare plant's Environment. Environment Protection Authority, Sydney.
Teaching Duties
I have contributed to most subjects in the Environmental Biology program. My most recent teaching focus has been in Plant Physiology and Terrestrial Ecosystems.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons),
PhD University of Tasmania
Employment History
| 1998-Present |
Associate Dean (Coursework Programs) |
| 1995-1997 |
Head, Department of Environmental Biology and Horticulture |
| 1991-1994 |
Alternate Head, School or Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| 1988-1990 |
Head, Department of Applied Biology |
| 1990 |
Associate Professor |
| 1987 |
Senior Lecturer |
| 1980-1987 |
Lecturer, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, UTS. |
| 1979-1980 |
Scientific Officer, NSW State Pollution Control Commission (now EPA) |
| 1978-1979 |
Scientific Officer, Tasmanian Conservation Trust and National Parks and Wildlife Service |
| 1975-1978 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Adelaide |
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