Dr Karina Meredith
Staff Profile
Role at ANSTO
Karina is a research scientist in the Isotopes for Water project. She is working in the fields of hydrochemistry, hydrogeology and isotope hydrology on a variety of projects located throughout Australia. Her research interests lie in applying a variety of stable, radiogenic and cosmogenic isotopic tracers to investigate groundwater resource sustainability and the suitability of aquifer systems as potential low resolution climate archives.
Expertise
Hydrogeochemistry, hydrogeology, radiocarbon, groundwater, hydrogeochemical modelling, isotopes.
Qualifications & Achievements
- Post Doctoral Research Fellow at ANSTO, 2007 to 2009.
- PhD in Hydrogeochemistry, Hydrogeology and isotopes studies. University of New South Wales, 2001 to 2005.
- Australian Postgraduate Award, 2001 to 2004.
- First Class Honours, University of New South Wales, 2000.
- Member of International Association Hydrogeologist.
- Member of International Association of Geochemistry.
Publications
Meredith, K., Moriguti, T., Tomascak, P., Hollins, S., Nakamura, E., 2013. The lithium, boron and strontium isotopic systematics of groundwaters from an arid aquifer system: Implications for recharge and weathering processes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 112, 20-31.
Meredith, K., Cendn, D.I., Pigois, J.-P., Hollins, S., Jacobsen, G. 2012. Using 14C and 3H to delineate a recharge window into the Perth Basin aquifers, North Gnangara groundwater system, Western Australia. Science of The Total Environment 414, 456-469.
Taylor, G.R., Day, M., Meredith, K. 2012. Soil degradation due to the destruction of crystalline kaolinite and the formation of X-ray amorphous clays accompanying ephemeral saline groundwater discharge. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 59, 135-152.
Hughes, C.E., Cendon, D.I., Johansen, M.P., Meredith, K.T. 2011. Sustaining Groundwater Resources, International Year of Planet Earth, in: Anthony, J., Anthony, A., Jones, A. (Eds.), Climate Change and Groundwater. 97-117. Springer Science+Business Media B.V
Meredith, K.T., Hollins, S.E., Hughes, C.E., Cendn, D.I., Hankin, S., Stone, D.J.M. 2009. Temporal variation in stable isotopes (18O and 2H) and major ion concentrations within the Darling River between Bourke and Wilcannia due to variable flows, saline groundwater influx and evaporation. Journal of Hydrology 378, 313-324.
Morgan K. Jankowski J. and Taylor G. 2005. Structural controls on groundwater flow and groundwater salinity in the Spicers Creek catchment, Central West Region, New South Wales, Australia. Hydrological Processes, 20 (13): 2857-2871.