resources

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• Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality - Australia and New Zealand's key resource for managing water quality.
• Water Quality Australia - Home of the National Water Quality Management Strategy (NWQMS), which houses numerous water quality guidance documents, including the Aust/NZ Water Quality Guidelines.
• Approved (2018) Aust/NZ method for deriving water quality guideline values for toxicants.
• Shinyssdtools App, for generating species sensitivity distributions. Although not the currently approved method in Australia and New Zealand for deriving default guideline values, this tool may be of use for site-specific applications.

• Recent developments in SSD modeling (journal paper, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2021).
• How specific is site-specific? Review and guidance for selecting and evaluating approaches for deriving local water quality benchmarks (journal paper, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 2019).
• Deriving site-specific guideline values using physico-chemical, ecotoxicological or ecological data (Journal paper, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2014).
• Bringing water quality benchmark derivation approaches into the 21st century (presented at SETAC Europe meeting, Rome, May 2018).
• Preview of the revised Water Quality Guidelines website (presented to the Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra, April 2018).
• Deriving water quality guideline values and using weight of evidence in water quality assessments (presented at International Symposium on Environmental and Health Risk Assessment, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, December 2017).

(>100 peer-reviewed publications and >100 conf. presentations - see Curriculum Vitae)

• van Dam RA & Chapman JC 2001. Direct toxicity assessment (DTA) for water quality guidelines in Australia and New Zealand. Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology 7(2), 175-198.
• van Dam RA, Harford AJ, Houston MA, Hogan AC & Negri A 2008. Tropical marine toxicity testing in Australia: A review and recommendations Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology 14(2/3), 55-88.
• van Dam RA, Hogan AC, McCullough C, Houston M, Humphrey CL & Harford AJ 2010. Aquatic toxicity of magnesium sulfate, and the influence of calcium, in very low ionic concentration water. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 29(2), 410-421.
• van Dam RA, Harford AJ & Warne MStJ 2012. Time to get off the fence: The need for definitive international guidance on statistical analysis of ecotoxicity data. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 8(2), 242-245.
• van Dam RA, Humphrey CL, Harford AJ, Sinclair A, Jones DR, Davies S, Storey AW 2014. Site-specific water quality guidelines: 1. Derivation approaches based on physico-chemical, ecotoxicological and ecological data. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 21, 118-130.
• Bartolo RE, Harford AJ, Bollhoefer A, van Dam RA, Parker S, Breed K, Erskine W, Humphrey CL & Jones DR 2017. Causal models for a risk-based assessment of stressor pathways for an operational uranium mine. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 23, 685-704.
• van Dam RA, Hogan AC & Harford AJ 2017. Derivation and implementation of a site-specific water quality limit for uranium in a high conservation value ecosystem. Integrated Environmental Assessment & Management 13, 765–777.
• Van Dam JW, Trenfield MA, Streten C, Harford AJ, Parry D & van Dam RA 2018. Water quality guideline values for aluminium, gallium and molybdenum in marine environments. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25(26), 26592- 26602.
• Warne MStJ, Batley GE, van Dam RA, Chapman JC, Fox DR, Hickey CW & Stauber JL 2018. Revised Method for Deriving Australian and New Zealand Water Quality Guideline Values for Toxicants. Prepared for the revision of the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality. Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian state and territory governments. 48 pp.
• van Dam RA, Hogan AC, Harford AJ & Humphrey CL 2019. How specific is site-specific? Review and guidance for selecting and evaluating approaches for deriving local water quality benchmarks. Integrated Environmental Assessment & Management. 15(5), 683-702.
• Fox DR, van Dam RA, Fisher R, Batley GE, Tillmans AR, Thorley J, Schwarz CJ, Spry DJ & McTavish K 2021. SSD modelling: recent developments and future directions. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 40(2), 293-308.
• van Dam RA, Bankin K & Parry D 2022. Derivation of site-specific guideline values for nitrate toxicity in Pilbara receiving waters with high hardness. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 18, 1035-1046.