Associate Professor Heather Chapman
Associate Professor Heather Chapman (GU)
BSc (Hons), PhD
Program Leader Health and Environment
Smart Water Research Centre
Dr Heather Chapman is an Associate Professor and Program Leader for the Health and Environment Program within the Smart Water Research Facility at Griffith University.
Associate Professor Chapman was previously the Program Leader of the Sustainable Water sources program in CRC Water Quality and Treatment from 2003 until 2008. Her research expertise includes aquatic ecotoxicology, application of water quality guidelines and the development of techniques for the use of biomarkers for biologically active substances in water, quality and wastewater management, water recycling, quantitative risk assessment and sustainable urban water management.
Human and ecological risk assessment of chemicals in urban water, and in particular recycled water
The contribution of water science to policy
Regulation and water safety management plans
Future research interests
Risk communication
Science – policy interface
Regulation of recycled water
