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Issue Date	Title	Author(s)
2010-06	Understanding nutrient build-up on urban road surfaces	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2020-07	In this study, the host-specificity and -sensitivity of human- and bovine-specific adenoviruses (HS-AVs and BS-AVs) were evaluated by testing wastewater/fecal samples from various animal species in Southeast, Queensland, Australia. The overall specificity and sensitivity of the HS-AVs marker were 1.0 and 0.78, respectively. These figures for the BS-AVs were 1.0 and 0.73, respectively. Twenty environmental water samples were collected during wet conditions and 20 samples were colleted during dry conditions from the Maroochy Coastal River and tested for the presence of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), host-specific viral markers, zoonotic bacterial and protozoan pathogens using PCR/qPCR. The concentrations of FIB in water samples collected after wet conditions were generally higher compared to dry conditions. HS-AVs was detected in 20% water samples collected during wet conditions and whereas BS-AVs was detected in both wet (i.e., 10%) and dry (i.e., 10%) conditions. Both Campylobacter jejuni mapA and Salmonella invA genes detected in 10% samples collected during dry conditions. The concentrations of Salmonella invA ranged between 3.5 × 102 and 4.3 × 102 genomic copies per 500 ml of water Giardia lamblia β-giardin gene was detected only in one sample (5%) collected during the dry conditions. Weak or significant correlations were observed between FIB with viral markers and zoonotic pathogens. However, during dry conditions, no significant correlations were observed between FIB concentrations with viral markers and zoonotic pathogens. The prevalence of HS-AVs in samples collected from the study river suggests that the quality of water is affected by human fecal pollution and as well as bovine fecal pollution. The results suggest that HS-AVs and BS-AVs detection using PCR could be a useful tool for the identification of human sourced fecal pollution in coastal waters.	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010-09	Human and bovine adenoviruses for the detection of source-specific fecal pollution in coastal waters in Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010-09	Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban stormwater in Queensland, Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010-09	Evaluating sewage-associated JCV and BKV polyomaviruses for sourcing human fecal pollution in a coastal river in southeast Queensland, Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010-10	Quantitative PCR assay of sewage-associated Bacteroides markers to assess sewage pollution in an urban lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010-11	Health risk from the use of roof-harvested rainwater in southeast queensland, Australia, as potable or nonpotable water, determined using quantitative microbial risk assessment	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010-11	Determination of a set of surrogate parameters to assess urban stormwater quality	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010-10	Impacts of traffic and rainfall characteristics on heavy metals build-up and wash-off from urban road	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Sustainability and urban settlements: urban metabolism as a framework for achieving sustainable development	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Influence of organic matter in road deposited particulates in heavy metal accumulation and transport	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Water sensitive urban design through the lens of urban metabolism	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Atmospheric deposition as a source of stormwater pollution in Gold Coast, Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Variability of input parameters related to pollutants build-up in stormwater quality modelling	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Enhancing water sensitive urban design (WSUD) practices to mitigate urban stormwater pollution and reuse potential	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Composition and source identification of road deposited pollutants	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Sustainable water provision	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011-04	Analysis of the build-up of semi and non volatile organic compounds on urban roads	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011	Analysis of build-up of heavy metals and volatile organics on urban roads in gold coast, Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2011-04	Prediction model of the buildup of volatile organic compounds on urban roads	Goonetilleke, Ashantha