Adjunct Associate Professor Graham Jones B Tech(Hons)(Bradford) MSc(Oceanography)(Bangor) PhD(James Cook) Graham started his career as a chemist, then moved into oceanography and now specialises in climate science. He is the Director of the Centre for Regional Climate Change Studies at Southern Cross University, in the School of Environmental Science and Management. The mission of the centre is to support and educate regional communities and industry about climate change adaptation and mitigation; to seek solutions and opportunities in a changing climate; and to train the next generation of environmental scientists in areas which are relevant to tomorrow’s society. Research and teaching programmes include: - Effect of plant produced aerosols on climate - Protecting coasts and cities - Developing industries for a low carbon economy - Planning for sustainable settlements - Professional development courses in climate science - Community education & outreach - Consultancies Research on plant produced aerosols has been carried out in Antarctica and the Great Barrier Reef. Graham’s research group were the first to discover that Antarctic sea ice algae and coral algae produce abundant amounts of a trace aerosol gas that can affect cloud cover, and have recently suggested that large scale emissions of these substances could affect the radiative climate over coral reefs and sea ice. Graham is a member of the Academy of Sciences National Committee for Antarctic Research (NCAR), a member of Australia’s International Polar Year (IPY) committee, and the Environmental Sciences representative on the Australia-India Science & Technology funding panel. He is on the Editorial Board of the Open Oceanography Journal and Open Oceanography Reviews. Graham has supervised 67 undergraduate and postgraduate research students and produced over 95 publications, conference papers and reports in human impact and climate change research, including four book chapters and seven papers in special issue international journals. Graham teaches Global Climate and Ocean Systems at the National Marine Science Centre in Coffs Harbour, and Environmental Chemistry and Coastal Geomorphology & Sedimentology at Southern Cross University, Lismore.
Journal articles
Dimethylsulphide and dimethylsulphoniopropionate in the South-West Indian Ocean sector of East Antarctica from 30° to 80°E during BROKE-West (with Darren Fortescue, Stacey King, Guy Williams, and Simon W. Wright), Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography (2010)
We investigated the spatial and vertical variations of dimethylsulphide (DMS), dissolved, particulate, and total dimethylsulphoniopropionate...
Reef emissions affect climate (with Zoran Ristovski), Australasian Science (2010)
Coral reefs produce a natural aerosol that creates clouds over the ocean and keeps sea...
Factors affecting the cycling of dimethylsulfide and dimethylsulfoniopropionate in coral reef waters of the Great Barrier Reef (with Mark Curran, Andrew D. Broadbent, Stacey King, Esther Fischer, and Rosemary J. Jones), Environmental Chemistry (2007)
A study of dissolved dimethylsulfide (DMSw), dissolved and particulate dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSPd, DMSPp), and atmospheric dimethylsulfide...
Carbon capture and the aluminium industry: preliminary studies (with Gargi Joshi, Malcolm Clark, and David McConchie), Environmental Chemistry (2006)
Carbonation of raw red mud produced by aluminium refineries and a chemically and physically neutralized...
Phosphate removal from aqueous solutions using neutralised bauxite refinery residues (Bauxsol™) (with Darren J. Akhurst, Malcolm Clark, and David McConchie), Environmental Chemistry (2006)
Environmental Context: Eutrophication of freshwater and marine ecosystems is a global problem, which is frequently...
Book chapters
Water quality: compliance assessment, The John Brewer Reef floating hotel : a case study in marine environmental monitoring : proceedings of a GBRMPA workshop reviewing the environmental monitoring program, held in Townsville, Australia in December 1989 (1995)
Dimethylsulphide in the South Pacific (with M AJ Curran and A D. Broadbent,), Recent advances in marine science and technology '94 (1994)