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News13 February 2026

Ph.D, Completion for Karma Jamtsho (MiWER)

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Fieldwork for 2025 completed

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News14 March 2022

Presentation at IMWA 2021

Mark Lund and Melanie Blanchette presented a talk and paper, "Saline Pit Lakes – What Biodiversity Values Can They Offer At Closure And Beyond?", at the online International Mine Water Association (IMWA) event in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Mark Lund was…

Mark Lund and Melanie Blanchette presented a talk and paper, "Saline Pit Lakes – What Biodiversity Values Can They Offer At Closure And Beyond?", at the online International Mine Water Association (IMWA) event in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Mark Lund was also elected to the IMWA Executive Council.

NewsMine Water and Environment24 September 2020

Advances in Pit Lake Science

Volume 39, Issue 3 of Mine Water and Environment is a special issue on Advances in Pit Lake Science, co-edited by Melanie Blanchette and Mark Lund. It contains three articles and a foreword from MiWER; the article links are open…

Volume 39, Issue 3 of Mine Water and Environment is a special issue on Advances in Pit Lake Science, co-edited by Melanie Blanchette and Mark Lund. It contains three articles and a foreword from MiWER; the article links are open access, and others can be downloaded free for a limited time.

News5 September 2019

MiWER at IMWA 2019 in Perm, Russia

Mark Lund and Melanie Blanchette attended the 2019 International Mine Water Association (IMWA) conference in Perm, Russia, and presented two papers, both free to download: "Incorporating microbes into environmental monitoring and mine closure programs: river diversions as test beds" and…

Mark Lund and Melanie Blanchette attended the 2019 International Mine Water Association (IMWA) conference in Perm, Russia, and presented two papers, both free to download: "Incorporating microbes into environmental monitoring and mine closure programs: river diversions as test beds" and "Sedimentation Rates In Two Pit Lakes: Implications For Riverine Flow-Through As A Closure Strategy".

News31 October 2018

MiWER at the 11th ICARD and IMWA annual conference

Mark Lund and Melanie Blanchette attended the 2018 11th ICARD and IMWA joint conference held at CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa. Mark presented a joint paper, "Seasonal River Flow-through As A Pit Lake Closure Strategy: Is It A Sustainable Option…

Mark Lund and Melanie Blanchette attended the 2018 11th ICARD and IMWA joint conference held at CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa. Mark presented a joint paper, "Seasonal River Flow-through As A Pit Lake Closure Strategy: Is It A Sustainable Option In A Drying Climate?", which can be viewed free of charge.

In the mediaCohesion magazine (Edith Cowan University)November 2013

Boom and Bust in tropical rivers – when and why?

Blanchette, M.L. (2013).

In the mediaCohesion Magazine (Edith Cowan University)2006

Collinsville Coal Project

Lund, M.A. and McCullough, C.D. (2006). p. 4.