Amie Anastasi

• BSc(Chem) BBioMedSc (Hons) PhD
• Senior Researcher at Central Queensland University

Global plastic production is estimated to be 400 million tonnes per annum, with ~ 5.25 trillion fragments floating in our oceans. Microplastics (< 5 mm) have the potential to disproportionately accumulate and become trapped in mangroves and seagrass meadows, creating plastic ‘sinks’. This is concerning as these ecosystems are of great ecological an...

Dog feces are a known source of nutrient, pathogen, and plastic pollution that can harm human and ecosystem health. Home composting may be a more environmentally sustainable method of managing dog feces and reducing this pollution. While composting is an established method for recycling animal manures into low‐risk soil conditioners for food produc...

Full technical report can be accessed via GHHP's webpage: https://www.ghhp.org.au/technical-report

Full technical report can be accessed via GHHP's website: https://www.ghhp.org.au/technical-report

The full technical report can be accessed directly via GHHP's webpage: https://www.ghhp.org.au/technical-report File URL: https://www.ghhp.org.au/_files/ugd/5c25a1_162c0c14a1954a77a8b4280d89062438.pdf

Report cards are increasingly popular tools communicating the condition of coastal and riverine environments to environmental managers, stakeholders and the public, and synthesising complex data drawn from a range of indicators. Mud crabs have not previously been included in ecosystem health report cards in Australia or elsewhere but have been sugg...

The 2020 Gladstone Harbour Report Card reports on the environmental health of 13 reporting zones in and around Gladstone Harbour and the overall Environmental, Social, Cultural and Economic health of the harbour. This report card covers environmental monitoring undertaken in the period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 and environmental, social, cultural...

Utilising a potential coastal trace element bioindicator requires understanding its accumulation patterns under varying environmental scenarios. The present study aimed to understand, from two experiments, the influence and effect of low light (15.3 μmol photons m⁻² s⁻¹) and variable salinity (normal 36 and reduced 29) on Zostera muelleri accumulat...

This technical report is the fifth annual report card of the Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership (GHHP). The 2019 Gladstone Harbour Report Card contains the results calculated using 33 indicators derived from 108 different measures within the four components of harbour health: Environment, Economic, Social, and Cultural. For further details visit...

The 2018 Gladstone Harbour Report Card reports on the environmental health of 13 reporting zones in and around Gladstone Harbour and the overall environmental, social, cultural and economic health of the harbour. This report card covers monitoring undertaken in the period 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

Building on the 2016 report card, the Gladstone Harbour Report Card 2017 has been informed by 99 measures of the four components of harbour health: environmental, social, cultural and economic. This report card is based on data collected during the period from July 2016 to June 2017. As GHHP continues to expand and refine its monitoring programs, a...

Cyanobacteria are commonly found in a number of temperate and tropical bioregions, and provide important roles in fuelling many nutrient poor freshwater and marine ecosystems. Although cyanobacteria commonly occur in these environments, little is known about the use of cyanobacteria as suitable organisms for toxicity studies. Here, we propose the u...

Manganese (Mn) is a naturally-occurring element found in rock, soil and water. In the aquatic environment, manganese mainly exists in two forms: Mn(II) and Mn(IV). Oxidation and reduction reactions convert these species, and may be abiotically or microbially mediated. Currently there is no appropriate measured rate constant for the calculation of m...