A.M. Greenaway B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D. Cant. NZ. Senior Lecturer (Applied) tgreen@uwimona.edu.jm

Research Interests:

Present research interests are in the areas of Environmental Pollution and the production of Industrial Chemistry. The Environmental work is inter-disciplinary and focuses on coastal and industrial pollution and the transportation of pollutants (nutrients, organics and metals) in the coastal zone while the Industrial work focuses on the mechanisms of Gibbsite crystallization in the Bayer Process (the production of Alumina from Bauxite. These works are linked through the common aspects of precipitation/sedimentation and humic materials and require extensive use the Centre for Marine Science’s resources at Discovery Bay (DBML) and Port Royal, the facilities available at International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Science and the Electron Microscopy Unit on the Mona Campus. The chemistry laboratory established (1996) at the DBML has focused on the analysis of nutrients in the coastal zone with Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) aspects of Laboratory Management being a priority.

Selected Publications:

• A M Greenaway, J.E. Andrews, G.R. Bigg, D.F. Webber, P.F. Dennis and G.A. Guthrie. "Pollution History of a Tropical Estuary Revealed by Combined Hydrodynamic Modelling, Geochemistry and Sedimentology", Journal of Marine Systems, 18, 333-343, 1999.

• A M Greenaway, and A.R. Baker, "Comparison of Bauxite and Bayer Liquor Humic Materials by ¹³C NMR Spectroscopy. Implications for the Fate of Humic Substances in the Bayer Process", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 37, 4198 - 4202, 1998.

• A M Greenaway, J.E. Andrews, and P.F. Dennis, "Combined Carbon Isotope and C/N Ratios as Indicators of Source and Fate of Organic Matter in a Poorly-Flushed, Tropical Estuary: Hunts Bay, Kingston Harbour, Jamaica", Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, 46, 743-756, 1998.

• A M Greenaway, A.R. Baker, and C.W. Ingram, "A Microwave Digestion-based Determination of Low Molecular Weight Organic Acids in Bayer Process Liquor", Talanta, 42, 1355-60, 1995.

• A M Greenaway, M D Coley, and D.R. Chinloy, "Alumina Hydrate Precipitation: Effects of temperature", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual National Conference on Science and Technology, M. Bardowell (Ed). Scientific Research Council, Kingston, Jamaica, 1994.

• A.M. Greenaway and G.L.N. Parkin, "Water and Sediment Analyses on Samples from the Rio Cobre: An Assessment of their Relative Merits in Detecting Industrial Contamination", Jamaican Journal of Science and Technology, 4, 1-15, 1993.

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