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Overview

James Udy is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to oceanography and global and planetary change.

Their recent research outputs cover a variety of topics relevant to marine and coastal environments as well as human interactions with natural spaces. Notable papers include:

  • The Risk of Multiple Anthropogenic and Climate Change Threats Must Be Considered for Continental Scale Conservation and Management of Seagrass Habitat (2022, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Cloud Processing for Simultaneous Mapping of Seagrass Meadows in Optically Complex and Varied Water (2022, Remote Sensing)
  • Beyond proximity: How subjective perceptions of enablers and constraints influence patterns of blue space recreation (2022, Landscape and Urban Planning)

Key areas of study in their work include:

  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine biology and ecology research
  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Urban green space and health
  • Recreation, leisure, wilderness management
  • Land use and ecosystem services

Their major fields of study can be summarized as:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

They are also engaged in subfields such as:

  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Social Psychology

James Udy collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Chris Roelfsema
  • Mitchell Lyons
  • Kathryn McMahon
  • Kieryn Kilminster
  • Robert Canto

Their work is published in specialized venues focused on marine science and environmental research, including:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Remote Sensing
  • Landscape and Urban Planning

Best Publications

  • Unravelling complexity in seagrass systems for management: Australia as a microcosm

    Kieryn Kilminster;Kathryn McMahon;Michelle Waycott;Gary A. Kendrick

  • Physiological and morphological responses of the seagrass Zostera capricorni Aschers, to light intensity

    E.G. Abal;N. Loneragan;P. Bowen;C.J. Perry

  • Growth and physiological responses of three seagrass species to elevated sediment nutrients in Moreton Bay, Australia

    James W. Udy;William C. Dennison

  • Climate change impacts on emerging contaminants

    Shane Snyder;Yongrui Tan;James Udy;Michael Bartkow

  • Assessing Ecological Impacts of Shrimp and Sewage Effluent: Biological Indicators with Standard Water Quality Analyses

    A.B. Jones;M.J. O'Donohue;J. Udy;W.C. Dennison

  • Using nitrogen stable isotope ratios (δ15N) of macroalgae to determine the effectiveness of sewage upgrades: changes in the extent of sewage plumes over four years in Moreton Bay, Australia

    Simon D. Costanzo;James Udy;Ben Longstaff;Adrian Jones

  • Benthic metabolism as an indicator of stream ecosystem health

    Christine S. Fellows;Joanne E. Clapcott;Joanne E. Clapcott;James W. Udy;James W. Udy;Stuart E. Bunn

  • Responses of seagrass to nutrients in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    James W. Udy;William Cullen Dennison;Warren J. Lee Long;Len J. McKenzie

  • Blooms of the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula in coastal Queensland, Australia: disparate sites, common factors.

    Simon Albert;Judith M. O’Neil;Judith M. O’Neil;James W. Udy;Kathleen S. Ahern

  • Seagrass ecosystem trajectory depends on the relative timescales of resistance, recovery and disturbance

    Katherine R. O'Brien;Michelle Waycott;Paul S. Maxwell;Gary A. Kendrick

  • Anaerobic digestion of harvested aquatic weeds: water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), cabomba (Cabomba Caroliniana) and salvinia (Salvinia molesta)

    Cathryn O'Sullivan;Beth Rounsefell;Alistair Grinham;William Clarke

  • An autonomous surface vehicle for water quality monitoring

    Matthew Dunbabin;Alistair Grinham;James Udy

  • Effect of the seagrass Zostera capricorni on sediment microbial processes

    Jens W. Hansen;James W. Udy;Christine J. Perry;William C. Dennison

  • Physiological responses of seagrasses used to identify anthropogenic nutrient inputs

    James W. Udy;William C. Dennison

  • Vulnerability of seagrasses in the Great Barrier Reef to climate change

    Michelle Waycott;Catherine Collier;Kathryn McMahon;Peter Ralph

  • Assessing the spatial and temporal variability of diffusive methane and nitrous oxide emissions from subtropical freshwater reservoirs

    Ronald S. Musenze;Alistair Grinham;Ursula Werner;Deborah Gale

  • The exposure of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) to tumour promoting compounds produced by the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula and their potential role in the aetiology of fibropapillomatosis

    Karen Arthur;Karen Arthur;Colin Limpus;George Balazs;Angela Capper

  • Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from a subtropical estuary (the Brisbane River estuary, Australia)

    Ronald S. Musenze;Ursula Werner;Alistair Grinham;James Udy

  • Measures of nutrient processes as indicators of stream ecosystem health

    James W. Udy;Christine S. Fellows;Michael E. Bartkow;Stuart E. Bunn

  • Quantification of ebullitive and diffusive methane release to atmosphere from a water storage

    Alistair Grinham;Matthew Dunbabin;Deborah Gale;James Udy

  • Moreton Bay and Its Estuaries: A Sub-tropical System Under Pressure from Rapid Population Growth

    Badin Gibbes;Alistair Grinham;David Neil;Andrew David Olds

  • Water quality monitoring: a combined approach to investigate gradients of change in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

    J. Udy;M. Gall;Ben Longstaff;Kate Moore

  • In situ field experiment shows Lyngbya majuscula (cyanobacterium) growth stimulated by added iron, phosphorus and nitrogen

    Kathleen S. Ahern;Colin R. Ahern;James W. Udy

  • Examining the link between terrestrial and aquatic phosphorus speciation in a subtropical catchment: the role of selective erosion and transport of fine sediments during storm events.

    Jason Grainger Kerr;Michele Astrid Burford;Jon Olley;Stuart Bunn

  • Chapter 08: Vulnerability of seagrasses in the Great Barrier Reef to climate change

    M. Waycott;C. Collier;K. McMahon;P. Ralph

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart E. Bunn
Stuart E. Bunn Griffith University
William C. Dennison
William C. Dennison University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Zhiguo Yuan
Zhiguo Yuan City University of Hong Kong
Chris Roelfsema
Chris Roelfsema University of Queensland
Michelle Waycott
Michelle Waycott University of Adelaide
Michele A. Burford
Michele A. Burford Griffith University
Jon Olley
Jon Olley Griffith University
Colin J. Limpus
Colin J. Limpus Queensland Government
George H. Balazs
George H. Balazs National Marine Fisheries Service
Peter Davies
Peter Davies French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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