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Issue Date	Title	Author(s)
2009	An indexing model for stormwater quality assessment: stormwater management in the Gold Coast	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2009-02	Evaluation of pollutant build-up and wash-off from selected land uses at the Port of Brisbane, Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2009-03	Understanding the physical processes of pollutant build-up and wash-off on roof surfaces	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2009-03	Faecal pollution source identification in an urbanising catchment using antibiotic resistance profiling, discriminant analysis and partial least squares regression	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2009-03	Quantitative detection of pathogens in roof-harvested rainwater	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2009-11	Evaluation of multiple sewage-associated Bacteroides PCR markers for sewage pollution tracking	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2009-11	Comparison of molecular markers to detect fresh sewage in environmental waters	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2009-11	Prevalence and occurrence of zoonotic bacterial pathogens in surface waters determined by quantitative PCR	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	Traffic and climate change impacts on water quality: measuring build-up and wash-off of heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	The importance of a triple bottom line approach for safeguarding urban water quality	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	Sustainable water provision: challenges, alternative strategies and sources in the era of climate change	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	A multi-disciplinary approach for the design and management of airport terminals	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	e: An innovative modelling approach to assess stormwater pollutant loads from the Port of Brisbane, Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	Development of pollutant build-up parameters for MIKE URBAN for South East Queensland, Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	Urban traffic characteristics and urban stormwater quality: A methodology to measure traffic generated water pollutants	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	Investigating challenges and opportunities of water sensitive urban design for Knowledge based urban development of Australian cities	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010	Traffic and climate change impacts on water quality 2010	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
2010-06	Implications of faecal indicator bacteria for the microbiological assessment of roof-harvested rainwater quality in southeast Queensland, Australia	Goonetilleke, Ashantha
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