Malcolm Cox

Associate Professor, School of Natural Resource Sciences and Water Initiative of the Institute for Sustainable Resources, Queensland University of Technology

Associate Professor Malcolm Cox has established a strong groundwater research and training presence in Queensland and forged collaborative links with many state government agencies, industry and local governments.

He has extensive international research experience in groundwater studies covering a wide range of geological and climatic settings, including geothermal and volcanic systems.

His main focus is in hydrogeology and environmental geochemistry with particular interests in the occurrence and migration of groundwater, the geological and geochemical character of aquifer materials, water-rock interaction and aqueous geochemistry.

As co-chief investigator in NCGRT’s program on aquifer characterisation, he intends using his broad groundwater experience and expertise in hydrogeochemistry and geothermal systems in the development of 3D models in areas such as the Great Artesian Basin.

Such an application will have substantial overlap with modelling of possible CO2 sequestration and hydrocarbon occurrence, and lead to a better understanding of the long-term integrity of the basin’s complex system.

Associate Professor Cox is on the drafting team for National Climate Change Adaptation Research Plan for Water.

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