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11550
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279

Overview

Wayne A. O'Connor is affiliated with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries in Australia. Their research primarily contributes to the field of Environmental Science, with 108 publications in this area. Key subfields of study include Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, Aquatic Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their work covers a range of topics focused mostly on marine and environmental sciences. Principal areas of research include Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, and Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations.

O'Connor's frequent coauthors indicate active collaboration within the scientific community. Prominent collaborators include Michael Dove, Laura M. Parker, Elliot Scanes, Pauline M. Ross, and Geoff R. MacFarlane.

Their research is often published in journals such as Aquaculture, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Aquaculture International, Environmental Science & Technology, and Environmental Pollution. This reflects a sustained contribution to several key venues in environmental and marine science research.

Among their recent papers, the following stand out:

  • Biofilms Enhance the Adsorption of Toxic Contaminants on Plastic Microfibers under Environmentally Relevant Conditions, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Understanding the Fundamental Basis for Biofilm Formation on Plastic Surfaces: Role of Conditioning Films, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Exploring the Composition and Functions of Plastic Microbiome Using Whole-Genome Sequencing, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • An advanced analytical approach to assess the long-term degradation of microplastics in the marine environment, 2023, npj Materials Degradation
  • Baseline analysis of metal(loid)s on microplastics collected from the Australian shoreline using citizen science, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Trophic transfer of microplastics and mixed contaminants in the marine food web and implications for human health.

    Maddison Carbery;Wayne O'Connor;Thavamani Palanisami

  • Impacts of ocean acidification on marine shelled molluscs

    Frédéric Gazeau;Frédéric Gazeau;Laura M. Parker;Steeve Comeau;Jean Pierre Gattuso;Jean Pierre Gattuso

  • Adult exposure influences offspring response to ocean acidification in oysters

    Laura M. Parker;Pauline M. Ross;Wayne A. O'Connor;Larissa Borysko

  • Predicting the response of molluscs to the impact of ocean acidification.

    Laura M. Parker;Pauline M. Ross;Wayne A. O'Connor;Hans O. Pörtner

  • Beyond the obvious: Environmental health implications of polar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    Oluyoye Idowu;Kirk T. Semple;Kavitha Ramadass;Wayne O'Connor

  • Development of extended shelf-life microalgae concentrate diets harvested by centrifugation for bivalve molluscs - a summary.

    M Heasman;J Diemar;W O'connor;T Sushames

  • The effect of ocean acidification and temperature on the fertilization and embryonic development of the Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea glomerata (Gould 1850)

    Laura M. Parker;Pauline M. Ross;Wayne A. O'connor

  • Comparing the effect of elevated pCO2 and temperature on the fertilization and early development of two species of oysters

    Laura M. Parker;Pauline M. Ross;Wayne A. O’Connor

  • Populations of the Sydney rock oyster, Saccostrea glomerata, vary in response to ocean acidification

    Laura M Parker;Pauline M Ross;Wayne A O'Connor

  • Biofilms Enhance the Adsorption of Toxic Contaminants on Plastic Microfibers under Environmentally Relevant Conditions.

    Geetika Bhagwat;Thi Kim Anh Tran;Dane Lamb;Kala Senathirajah

  • The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Reproduction, Early Development and Settlement of Marine Organisms

    Pauline M. Ross;Laura Parker;Wayne A. O’Connor;Elizabeth A. Bailey

  • Identification and characterisation of an ostreid herpesvirus-1 microvariant (OsHV-1 µ-var) in Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oysters) in Australia.

    Cheryl Jenkins;Paul Hick;Melinda Gabor;Zoe Spiers

  • Microtopography and antifouling properties of the shell surface of the bivalve molluscs mytilus galloprovincialis and pinctada imbricata

    Andrew Scardino;Rocky De Nys;Odette Ison;Wayne O'Connor

  • Persistence of Positive Carryover Effects in the Oyster, Saccostrea glomerata, following Transgenerational Exposure to Ocean Acidification.

    Laura M. Parker;Wayne A. O'Connor;David A. Raftos;Hans Otto Pörtner

  • Aquatic zooremediation: deploying animals to remediate contaminated aquatic environments

    Scott Gifford;R. Hugh Dunstan;Wayne O’Connor;Claudia E. Koller

  • Evaluation of the progeny of the fourth-generation Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea glomerata (Gould, 1850) breeding lines for resistance to QX disease (Marteilia sydneyi) and winter mortality (Bonamia roughleyi)

    Michael C Dove;John A Nell;Wayne A O'Connor

  • Exploring the Composition and Functions of Plastic Microbiome Using Whole-Genome Sequencing.

    Geetika Bhagwat;Qiyun Zhu;Wayne O'Connor;Suresh Subashchandrabose

  • Salinity and temperature tolerance of embryos and juveniles of the pearl oyster, Pinctada imbricata Röding.

    Wayne A O'Connor;Norm F Lawler

  • Pearl aquaculture—profitable environmental remediation?

    S. Gifford;R.H. Dunstan;W. O'Connor;T. Roberts

  • The evaluation of fresh algae and stored algal concentrates as a food source for Sydney rock oyster, Saccostrea commercialis (Iredale & Roughley), larvae

    John A. Nell;Wayne A. O'Connor

  • Diet and diet-associated bacteria shape early microbiome development in Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi).

    Jackson Wilkes Walburn;Bernd Wemheuer;Torsten Thomas;Elizabeth Copeland

  • The genome of the oyster Saccostrea offers insight into the environmental resilience of bivalves

    Daniel Powell;Sankar Subramanian;Saowaros Suwansa-Ard;Min Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie J. Bishop
Melanie J. Bishop Macquarie University
Hans-Otto Pörtner
Hans-Otto Pörtner Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Justin R. Seymour
Justin R. Seymour University of Technology Sydney
Maria Byrne
Maria Byrne University of Sydney
Kirk T. Semple
Kirk T. Semple Lancaster University
Natalie A. Moltschaniwskyj
Natalie A. Moltschaniwskyj University of Newcastle Australia
Paul E. Gribben
Paul E. Gribben University of New South Wales
Abigail Elizur
Abigail Elizur University of the Sunshine Coast
Frederic D.L. Leusch
Frederic D.L. Leusch Griffith University
Emma L. Johnston
Emma L. Johnston University of New South Wales

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