First Name: Catherine
Name: King
Position: Senior Principal Research Scientist
Email: cath.king@aad.gov.au
Institute / University / Company: Australian Antarctic Division
Research Unit: Environmental Protection Program
Address (city, state): 203 Channel Highway, Kingston TAS 7015
Country: Australia
Please give 5 key-words showing your research / interest in Microbial Ecotoxicolgy:
- community response
- does-response modelling
- soil health
- Community structure & function
- detoxification and/or degradation of pollutants by microorganisms
Main kinds of contaminant(s) of interest:
- metals
- petroleum hydrocarbons
- PAHs
- sewage wastewaters
- mixed waste
Main kinds of microorganisms of interest:
- microbial communities
- microinvertebrates
- microalgae
Main kinds of ecosystems of interest:
- Antarctic, sub-Antarctic, temperate
- Terrestrial soils, freshwater streams and lakes, coastal marine
Do you give courses on Microbial Ecotoxicology ?: NO
Most relevant articles in the field of Microbial Ecotoxicology (max.5):
- van Dorst J, Wilkins D, King CK, Spedding T, Hince G, Zhang E, Crane S, Ferrari BC (2020). Applying microbial indicators of hydrocarbon toxicity to contaminated sites undergoing bioremediation on subantarctic Macquarie Island. Environmental Pollution 259: 113780 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113780
- Pudasaini S, Wilkins D, Adler L, Hince G, Spedding T, King C, Ferrari B (2019). Characterization of polar metabolites and evaluation of their potential toxicity in hydrocarbon contaminated Antarctic soil elutriates. Science of the Total Environment 689: 390-397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.389
- Crane SL, van Dorst J, Hose GC, King CK, Ferrari BC (2018). Microfluidic qPCR enables high throughput quantification of microbial functional genes but requires strict curation of primers. Frontiers in Environmental Science 6: 1-14 (Article 145). https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00145