Rate My Professor Steven Lucas

As a researcher at the University of Newcastle, Lucas has been involved in 20 grants amounting to $911,955. He has led significant projects such as the Stormwater Quality Monitoring Plan for the City of Newcastle ($108,650, 2020-2021), Monitoring of infiltration trenches in Seabreeze Estate, Port Stephens ($81,849, 2020-2023; earlier phase $49,720, 2017-2019), Norfolk Island Environmental Assessment ($87,405, 2019), Stormwater quality monitoring in the Newcastle LGA ($114,500, 2018-2022), and Field validation of Reactive Filter Media ($75,000, 2016-2022). Other grants address biodegradation of polystyrene, compost as landfill capping, bees as biodiversity monitors, and performance of on-site wastewater systems. His publications include books 'Sodium Flux in Woodlot Soils Irrigated with Treated Effluent: The Implications for Sustainable Irrigation and Soil Management' (2009) and 'Towards the Richmond Vale Rail Trail' (2017, co-authored with Golightly et al.); chapters 'Review on IPCC Reports' and 'Climate Change Drivers' (2022); and journal articles 'Characterising recycled organic and mineral materials for use as filter media in biofiltration systems' (2019, Lucas, Lee, Love), 'Contamination of estuaries from failing septic tank systems' (2019, Geary, Lucas), 'An overview on biodegradation of polystyrene and modified polystyrene: the microbial approach' (2018, Ho, Roberts, Lucas), 'On-site wastewater systems: investigating dynamics and diurnal patterns' (2017), and 'Small-Scale Household Biogas Digesters' (2015). With 36 publications cited over 740 times, his contributions advance water quality monitoring, biofiltration, and sustainable environmental practices. Lucas also provides lecturing and online teaching.