Dr Graeme Batley

Introduction

Sydney hosted the 5th World Congress of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in 2008, following a successful bid led by Dr Graeme Batley in partnership with Business Events Sydney. 1,050 academics, industry and government delegates from across the world attended the congress in 2008.

Biography

Dr Batley is a Chief Research Scientist and past Director of the Centre for Environmental Contaminants Research, CSIRO Land and Water, based at Lucas Heights. He is one of Australia’s leading researchers in the study of contaminants in aquatic systems and was a recent winner of the Eureka Prize for Water Research. He chaired the 2008 World Congress of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

He has been an active researcher for over 35 years in the analytical and environmental chemistry of trace contaminants in natural water systems, in particular with respect to trace metal and organometal speciation and bioavailability in estuarine waters and sediments. He played a lead role in the development of sediment quality guidelines for Australia and New Zealand and in the recent revision of their water quality guidelines.

He is the author of some 350 scientific publications and editor of several books. He was the recipient of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s Analytical Medal in 1991, its Environment Medal in 1995, the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal in 1996, a CSIRO research achievement award in 2006 and the Eureka Prize for Water Research in 2006. He holds a BSc (Hons1), MSc, PhD and DSc degrees from the University of New South Wales.