A.M. Greenaway B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D. Cant. NZ. Senior Lecturer (Applied) anthony.greenaway@uwimona.edu.jm

Research Interests:

Present research interests are in the areas of Environmental Pollution and Industrial Chemistry. The Environmental work is inter-disciplinary and focuses on the transportation of pollutants, primarily N and P nutrients, to the coastal zone while the Industrial work focuses the production of alumina from bauxite by the Bayer Process. These works are linked through the common aspects of precipitation/sedimentation/adsorption, mineralogy and quality assurance in analytical chemistry. Extensive use is made of the Centre for Marine Science's resources at Discovery Bay (DBML) and Port Royal and the facilities available at International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Science (ICENS) on the Mona Campus. Most of the industrial research is done in collaboration with and funding from the bauxite processing sector. Graduate students work both on campus and at the processing plants. A focus of the environmental work is to find ways to cost-effectively monitor the quality of the nation's river and coastal waters. On campus work is done in the Kenneth E. Magnus Applied Chemistry Teaching and Research Laboratory which has been organized with a focus on Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) aspects of Laboratory Management. .

Selected Publications:

• Kevin G. Taylor, Christopher T. Perry, Anthony M. Greenaway and Philip G. Machent. 2007. "Bacterial iron oxide reduction in a terrigenous-sediment impacted tropical shallow marine carbonate system, north Jamaica". Marine Chemistry, 197, 433-448.
• A.M. Greenaway. 2007. Interpretation of Distillery Wastewater as Fertilizer Project Data. A report commissioned by the National and Environment and Planning Agency as an independent assessment of data generated during a pilot project to investigate the suitability of using distillery wastes to fertilize cane fields.
• A. M. Greenaway and D-A. Gordon-Smith. 2006. "The effects of rainfall on the distribution of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus in Discovery Bay, Jamaica". Limnology and Oceanography, 51, 2206-2220.
• A.M. Greenaway and K.A. Campbell. 2003 "Water Quality of the Great River Watershed, St, James/Hanover/Westmoreland. Final report". Presenting the results of an 18 month study of water quality in the Great River watershed. Submitted to NEPA through the Ridge to Reef Watershed project.
• A.M. Greenaway. "The Planetary Environment, a Chemical Perspective". 2002. A chapter in a text on "Sustainable Development and Environmental Management" editors Ivan Goodbody and Elizabeth Thomas-Hope. UWI Press.
• A.M. Greenaway. "The National Water Quality Monitoring Programme". 2002. A proposed programme to monitor the rivers, aquifers, estuaries and coastal waters of Jamaica, prepared within the USAID/GOJ's CWIP project and submitted to NEPA.
• A.M. Greenaway. "The Port Antonio Water Quality Monitoring Programme - A report of the Results". 2002. An assessment of the water quality data generated during the 12 month monitoring programme. Submitted to the NEPA through the CWIP project.
• J.E. Andrews, A.M. Greenaway, P.F. Dennis and D.A. Barnes-Leslie. 2001. "Isotopic Effects on Inorganic Carbon in a Tropical River Caused by Caustic Discharges from Bauxite Processing". Applied Geochemistry, 16, 197-206.
• J.E. Andrews, A.M. Greenaway and P.F. Dennis. 1999. "Stable Isotope Composition of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and Sediment Carbonate in Hunts Bay, Kingston Harbour". Jamaica Journal of Science and Technology, 10, 16-28.
• A M Greenaway, J.E. Andrews, G.R. Bigg, D.F. Webber, P.F. Dennis and G.A. Guthrie. "Pollution History of a Tropical Estuary Revealed by Combined Hydrodynamic Modelling, Geochemistry and Sedimentology", Journal of Marine Systems, 18, 333-343, 1999.
• A M Greenaway, and A.R. Baker, "Comparison of Bauxite and Bayer Liquor Humic Materials by ¹³C NMR Spectroscopy. Implications for the Fate of Humic Substances in the Bayer Process", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 37, 4198 - 4202, 1998.
• A M Greenaway, J.E. Andrews, and P.F. Dennis, "Combined Carbon Isotope and C/N Ratios as Indicators of Source and Fate of Organic Matter in a Poorly-Flushed, Tropical Estuary: Hunts Bay, Kingston Harbour, Jamaica", Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, 46, 743-756, 1998.
• A M Greenaway, A.R. Baker, and C.W. Ingram, "A Microwave Digestion-based Determination of Low Molecular Weight Organic Acids in Bayer Process Liquor", Talanta, 42, 1355-60, 1995.

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