Dr Scott Wilson
Dr Scott Wilson (CQU)
Deputy Program Leader
Water Quality & Diagnostics
Smart Water Research Centre
Dr Scott Wilson is Deputy Program Leader of Water Quality & Diagnostics at the Smart Water Research Centre and is a Research Fellow at CQ Univeristy’s Centre for Environmental Management. Dr Wilson has over 15 years research experience in ecotoxicology and water quality monitoring. He has been prominent in the development and use of bioindicators and sensors for assessment of tropical and temperate waters. Over the last three years at CQ University Dr Wilson has been a key part of one of the most intensive water quality monitoring projects along the GBR, the Port Curtis Integrated Monitoring Program (PCIMP). This collaborative holistic monitoring program has a consortium of 15 members representing industry, government, research institutions and other stakeholders. In 2008, the first Ecosystem Health Report Card was released to allow the wider community access to information on the health of the local waterways (http://www.pcimp.com.au/report_card.html).
Dr Wilson has also developed several toxicity tests for determining acute and chronic effects of both pesticides and metals to aquatic biota. He has international collaborations with university and government agencies in the UK, Italy, Germany, France and the USA. Dr Wilson is on the OECD expert group for amphibian testing and is a leading authority on organotin compounds and their impacts in the aquatic environment, undertaking one of the first studies of the effects of tributyltin to marine biota in Australia. He has over 40 publications including peer reviewed journals, reports and book chapters and has presented at over 50 conferences, workshops, seminars and public gatherings both nationally and internationally.
Current Research Interests
Development of a biological early warning system in water treatment monitoring using nativeDaphnids
Characterisation of natural organic matter loads in raw and reticulated water supplies
Ecological risk and biological removal of residual hydrogen peroxide from AOP water treatment
Determination of cane toad larval as a potential toxicity test organism
