HOME
  ABOUT OUR CENTRE
  OUR PEOPLE
  RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
  EDUCATION & TRAINING
  FACT SHEETS
  SEMINARS
  NEWSLETTERS
  SUSTAINABLE MINERALS
    INSTITUTE
  CONTACT US



  INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
  my.UQ
  UQ STAFF
  RESEARCH SOLUTIONS
  UQ NEWS ONLINE
  Home > Our People > Andrew Grigg
 
 
Dr. Andrew Grigg
  
Position Research Fellow
Field Ecology
Courses Vegetation & Habitat Rehabilitation ENVM7301
E-mail a.grigg@cmlr.uq.edu.au
Phone/Fax (P) +61 7 3365 8541
(F) +61 7 3365 3452
   
Scientific Interests Ecosystem processes, ecosystem development, plant-soil interactions, ecology of disturbed landscapes
   
Current/Recent Projects
  • Long-term ecosystem development on open-cut coal mines in central Queensland.
  • Quantifying risk to reduce and manage uncertainty in rehabilitation sign-off for mine closure.
  • Assessing the topsoil seed bank for rehabilitation at the Donaldson coal mine, Hunter Valley.
  • Determining feasible native vegetation communities for an open-cut coal mine in central Queensland based on ecological theory.
  • Sustainable grazing on rehabilitated lands in the Bowen Basin (ACARP Project C9038 Stage 2).
  • A simple model of salt movement under pasture rehabilitation in the coalfields of central Queensland (ACARP Project C12043).
  • Monitoring and assessment of rehabilitation for the closure of Kidston Gold Mine.
  • Rehabilitation monitoring at the Moura mine.
  • Completion criteria for pasture-based rehabilitation in the Bowen Basin (ACARP Project C8038).
  • Rehabilitation monitoring at the Curragh coal mine.
  • Comparison of the LFA techniques and alternative indicators of Ecosystem Functioning: as case study from Kidston Gold Mine.
Recent and/or Key Publications:
  • Grigg, A.H. and Gravina, A.J. (2002). Rehabilitation Monitoring at the Moura Mine (2002). Assessment of Vegetation, Habitat, Soil and Erosion Parameters. Final report prepared for Moura mine, December 2002. Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, The University of Queensland. 94 pp.

  • Grigg, A.H., Gravina, A.J., Madsen, T.A. and Bellairs, S.M. (2002). Monitoring and assessment of rehabilitation for the closure of Kidston Gold Mine. 2001 Assessment. Report to Kidston Gold Mines Limited, September 2002. Centre for Mined land Rehabilitation, The University of Queensland. 42 pp.

  • Grigg, A.H. (2002). Litter decomposition on directly revegetated tailings at the Kidston gold mine, north Queensland, Australia. In ‘Reclamation with a purpose’ Proceedings of the 2002 National Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation, Lexington KY, June 9-13, 2002, pp. 708-722. ASMR, Lexington, Kentucky.

  • McCallum, N.J. and Grigg, A.H. (2002). Seed treatment and field testing of native species for open-cut mines in central Queensland. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Workshop on Native Seed Biology for Revegetation. (Eds S.W. Adkins, S.M. Bellairs and L.C. Bell). Mildura, 3 - 4 September 2001, pp. 99-103. Australian Centre for Mining Environmental Research, Brisbane.
  • Grigg, A.H., Emmerton, B.R. and McCallum, N.J. (2001). The development of draft completion criteria for ungrazed rehabilitation pastures after open-cut coal mining in central Queensland. Australian Coal Association Research Program Project C8038. Final Report to ACARP, August 2001. Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, The University of Queensland.
  • Grigg, A.H. (2001). How much grazing? Options for rehabilitated grasslands after open-cut coal mining in central Queensland. Ecological Management and Restoration 2, 151-152.
  • Grigg, A.H. and Mulligan, D.R. (2000). Revegetation of coal tailings at Saraji mine, central Queensland. Re-assessment of vegetation trials on Tailings Dam 3, December 1999. Report prepared for Saraji mine, BHP Coal Pty Limited, April 2000. Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, The University of Queensland.
  • Grigg, A.H., Murray, M-A. and Mulligan, D.R. (2000). Ecologically-based criteria for evaluating the success of rehabilitation efforts: a case study from Weipa, Australia. In 'Global Land Reclamation/Remediation 2000 and Beyond' proceedings 25th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Reclamation Association and 4th Meeting of the International Affiliation of Land Reclamationists, Edmonton, Canada, 17-21 September 2000.
  • Grigg, A.H., Shelton, M. and Mullen, B. (2000). The nature and management of rehabilitated pastures on open-cut coal mines in central Queensland. Tropical Grasslands 34, 242-250.
  • Catchpoole, S. and Grigg, A.H. (2000). Rehabilitation at the Gregory mine with the deliberate omission of buffel and Rhodes grasses. Monitoring of establishment and early development, October 1998-December 1999. Report to BHP Gregory mine, June 2000. Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, The University of Queensland.
  • Harwood, M.R., Corbett, M., Mulligan, D.R., Bowen, D., Menzies, N.W., Grigg, A.H., Bellairs, S.M. and Foot, P. (2000). Ecosystem Development Following Heavy Mineral Sands Mining on North Stradbroke Island, Australia. In 'Global land reclamation/remediation 2000 and beyond.' Proceedings of the 25 Annual meeting of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association and the 4th meeting of the International Affiliation of Land Reclamationists, Edmonton, Canada, 16-21 September 2000.
  • Grigg, A.H. and Catchpoole, S. (1999). Rehabilitation of pre-strip Tertiary spoils at Saraji mine. Assessment of soil and vegetation development 8 years after establishment, June 1999. Report to BHP Saraji mine, December 1999. Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, University of Queensland.
  • Grigg, A.H. and Mulligan, D.R. (1999). Litterfall from two eucalypt woodlands in central Queensland. Australian Journal of Ecology 24, 662-664.
  • Grigg, A.H. and Mulligan, D.R. (1999). Biometric relationships for estimating standing biomass, litterfall and litter accumulation of Acacia salicina on mined land in central Queensland. Australian Journal of Botany 47, 807-816.
  • Mulligan, D.R., Grigg, A.H., Bowen, D., Orr, M.S., and Bell, L.C. (1999). A comparison of vegetation development on coarse coal reject and replaced topsoil on an open-cut coal mine in central Queensland. Paper presented at the 1999 National Meeting of the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation, Scottsdale, Arizona, August 1999.
  • Proctor, H. and Grigg, A.H. (1999). An investigation of aquatic invertebrates at Moura mine. Report to BHP Moura mine, July 1999. Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, University of Queensland.


© 2004 The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
ABN 63 942 912 684
CRICOS Provider No:00025B
Authorised by: CMLR
Maintained by: S. McEwan
Last Updated - 9 Jul, 2004