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Les Dawes

Name
Les Dawes
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
School of Urban Development
Qualifications
B Sc (Geology) (QUT), PhD (QUT)
Discipline
Civil and environmental management engineering
Contact
Areas of expertise
  • On-site wastewater systems
  • Water quality
  • Soil chemistry
  • Earth wall construction
  • Engineering education
Selected publications
  • Dawes, L., Rasmussen, G., and Murray, M. (2005) "Student experiential learning". 4th ASEE/AaeE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Sydney
  • Dawes, L., Goonetilleke, A. and Cox, M., 2005. "Assessment of physical and chemical attributes of sub-tropical soils to predict long term effluent treatment potential", Journal of Soil and Sediment Contamination, 14(2): 211-230.
  • Dawes, L. and Goonetilleke, A., 2006. Using multivariate analysis to predict the behaviour of soils under effluent irrigation, Water Air and Soil Pollution, In Press.