Graduate Convenor for Resources and Environment

Research Fellow
Hydrology, hydrogeology, water resources management
Phone: +61 2 6125 8138 and 6125 9377
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: sara.beavis@anu.edu.au

Professional Activities

Temporal and spatial analysis of anthropogenic disturbances to landscapes and impacts on catchment hydrology and sediments. Inland and coastal acid sulphate soils ? with particular reference to sediment physical properties.

Selected Publications

Beavis, S.G., 2000. Structural controls on the orientation of erosion gullies in mid-western New South Wales, Australia. Geomorphology, 33 2000.:59-72

Welch S, Yates G, Higgins A, Wallace L, Kirste D and Beavis S (2006) Experimental results on Sulfur and Salt flux from an inland sulfidic system- The Loveday Basin. CRC LEME Conference Nov 5-9 2006, Handhorf SA

Isaacson L, Kirste D, Beavis S, and Welch S, (2006) Controls of Acid, Salt and Metal Distribution at a Coastal Acid Sulfate Soils Site. CRC LEME Conference Nov 5-9 2006, Handhorf SA

Somerville P, White I, Macdonald B, Welch S and Beavis S (2006) .1 Groundwater and stream water interactions in Widden Brook, Upper Hunter Valley NSW II. CRC LEME Conference Nov 5-9 2006, Handhorf SA

Beavis S, Welch S, Beavis F, Higgins A, Kirste D, Somerville P and Wallace L (2006) The Relationship between wetting and drying cycles and pedal structure, fabric, and mineralogy at the Loveday Lagoon. CRC LEME Conference Nov 5-9 2006, Handhorf SA

Beavis S, Welch S, & Dirk Kirste D (2006) The Relationship between Soil Physical properties and Chemical Fluxes, Loveday Lagoon. CRC LEME Conference Nov 5-9 2006, Handhorf SA

Higgins A, Beavis S, Kirste D, and Welch S (2006) Physicochemical Properties of sediments: Loveday Disposal Basin, South Australia. CRC LEME Conference Nov 5-9 2006,

Wallace L, Welch S, McPhail DC, Kirste D and Beavis S (2006) Preliminary rates of sulfide oxidation under circum-neutral and acidic conditions: Loveday Basin, Lower Murray Floodplains, South Australia Handhorf SA CRC LEME Conference Nov 5-9 2006, Handhorf SA

Tynan S; Opdyke B; Ellis D; Beavis S; Welch S, Kirste D; Wallace L (2006) Interpreting the trace element ratios of freshwater bivalve shells and their application to understand environmental variability. CRC LEME Conference Nov 5-9 2006, Handhorf SA

Somerville P, Welch SA, Beavis S, Kirste D, Kehoe M, Beavis FR, Isaacson L (2006) Spatial and temporal variability of acidity in a coastal acid sulfate soils hotspot. Australian Earth Sciences Convention. Melbourne, Australia, July 3-6 2006

Isaacson L, Kirste D, Welch SA, Beavis S (2006) Acid groundwater dynamics in an ASS backswamp, Mays Swamp, Kempsey NSW. Australian Earth Sciences Convention. Melbourne, Australia, July 3-6 2006

Beavis S, Welch SA, Kirste D, Wallace L, Beavis FR, Somerville P, McPhail DC, (2006), Physical, geochemical and biological controls of S redox chemistry in an inland salt disposal basin. Australian Earth Sciences Convention. Melbourne, Australia, July 3-6 2006

Welch SA , Kirste D, Beavis S, Beavis F, Wallace L, Yates G, (2006) Geochemistry of S in an inland acid sulfate soil system. 16th VM Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, Australia Aug 27-Sep1 2006

Kirste DM, P. de Caritat P and Welch S, (2006), Characterising geochemical processes using the ?34S and ?18O of sulfate in groundwater. 16th VM Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, Australia Aug 27-Sep1 2006

Somerville P, White I, S Beavis, Macdonald B and Welch S (2006) Groundwater and stream water interactions in the Widden Brook, Upper Hunter Valley, NSW. 16th VM Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, Australia Aug 27-Sep1 2006

Beavis S, Somerville P, Isaacson L, Kehoe M, Beavis FR, Kirste D, Welch SA (2006) Sources, sinks, and fluxes of acidity in a coastal acid sulfate soils site. 16th VM Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, Australia Aug 27-Sep1 2006

Wallace LJ, McPhail DC, Welch S, Kirste D, Beavis S, Lamontagne S and Fitzpatrick RW (2006) Spatial heterogeneity of S and C stores.