Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences

Chris Paxman

Research Assistant

Researcher biography

Chris Paxman (Paxy) has been with QAEHS/Entox since 2002 and has worked on many projects relating to the collection of numerous sample matrices including:

  • Water (passive and active sampling of marine, fresh and wastewater)
  • Air (passive and active sampling of ambient air, contaminated sites, workplaces and bushfires)
  • Soil and sediment
  • Biosolids
  • Blood and serum
  • Breast milk
  • Urine
  • Marine and freshwater biota
  • Dust

Currently, Chris is heavily involved with numerous aquatic passive sampling projects including the GBR Marine Monitoring Program, SEQW Routine Monitoring, DES (Qld) Wetlands monitoring, SA Water and Veolia.

He also co-ordinates a nationwide passive air sampling and archiving project and provides assistance on a number of other sampling campaigns.

Chris also runs the essential QAEHS/PACE Staff and Student Coffee Club and is unofficially recognised as QAEHS’ “poet laureate”. Chris once dressed as Crocodile Dundee at an international conference in order to attract visitors to a conference that Entox was to host in Cairns. Chris’ blood (and urine) is worth bottling, and have been used as controls in several biomonitoring projects.

 

Publications

Journal Articles (5)
Conference Papers (3)
Reference Entry (1)
Research Reports (18)

Journal Articles

O'Brien, Jake W., Grant, Sharon, Banks, Andrew P.W., Bruno, Raimondo, Carter, Stephen, Choi, Phil M., Covaci, Adrian, Crosbie, Nicholas D., Gartner, Coral, Hall, Wayne, Jiang, Guangming, Kaserzon, Sarit, Kirkbride, K. Paul, Lai, Foon Yin, Mackie, Rachel, Marshall, Judi, Ort, Christoph, Paxman, Christopher, Prichard, Jeremy, Thai, Phong, Thomas, Kevin V., Tscharke, Ben and Mueller, Jochen F. (2018). A National Wastewater Monitoring Program for a better understanding of public health: a case study using the Australian Census. Environment International, 122, 400-411. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.12.003
Baduel, Christine, Paxman, Christopher J. and Mueller, Jochen F. (2015). Perfluoroalkyl substances in a firefighting training ground (FTG), distribution and potential future release. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 296, 46-53. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.03.007
Wang, Xianyu, Kennedy, Karen, Powell, Jennifer, Keywood, Melita, Gillett, Rob, Thai, Phong, Bridgen, Phil, Broomhall, Sara, Paxman, Chris, Wania, Frank and Mueller, Jochen F. (2015). Spatial distribution of selected persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Australia's atmosphere. Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts, 17 (3), 525-532. doi: 10.1039/c4em00594e
Kennedy, Karen, Devlin, Michelle, Bentley, Christie, Lee-Chue, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Carter, Steve, Lewis, Stephen E., Brodie, Jon, Guy, Ellia, Vardy, Suzanne, Martin, Katherine C., Jones, Alison, Packett, Robert and Mueller, Jochen F. (2012). The influence of a season of extreme wet weather events on exposure of the World Heritage Area Great Barrier Reef to pesticides. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 64 (7), 1495-1507. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.05.014
Kennedy, Karen, Schroeder, Thomas, Shaw, Melanie, Haynes, David, Lewis, Stephen, Bentley, Christie, Paxman, Chris, Carter, Steve, Brando, Vittorio, Bartkow, Michael, Hearn, Laurence and Mueller, Jochen F. (2012). Long term monitoring of photosystem II herbicides – Correlation with remotely sensed freshwater extent to monitor changes in the quality of water entering the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 65 (4-9), 292-305. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.10.029

Conference Papers

Mueller, J., Bartkow, M. E., Bengtson-Nash, S., Stephens, B. S., Muller, R., Shaw, M., Bauer, U., Kennedy, K. E., Quayle, P. A., Kapernick, A. P., Komarova, T. and Paxman, C. J. (2005). Environmental Pollutants: Passive sampling and toxicity testing. Science Week at QHSS, Brisbane, Queensland, 15-19 August 2005. Brisbane, Queensland: EnTox, The University of Queensland.
Mueller, J., Muller, R., Goudkamp, K., Shaw, M., Mortimer, M., Haynes, D., Paxman, C. J., Hyne, R., Burniston, D., Symons, R. and Moore, M.R. (2004). Dioxin-like chemicals in bivalves and sediment collected from around Australia. Dioxin 2004, Berlin, 6-10 September 2004. Berlin: TU Berlin Servicegesellschaft mbH.
Mueller, J., Bartkow, M. E., Bengtson-Nash, S., Stephens, B. S., Muller, R., Shaw, M., Shaw, C., Bauer, U., Kennedy, K. E., Quayle, P. A., Kapernick, A. P., Komarova, T. and Paxman, C. J. (2004). Combining passive samplers and toxicity testing: A novel approach to risk assessment for organic compounds. 4th Annual Queensland Health and Medical Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, 30 Nov - 1 Dec 2004. Brisbane: Queensland Health.

Reference Entry

Costanzo, S. D., Bruce, S. L., Chapman, H., Gaus, C., Toms, L. L., Moore, M.R., Mueller, J., Ng, J. C., Paxman, C. J. and Stephens, B. S. (2004). Reference Guide.

Research Reports

Thompson, Kristie, Shiels, Ryan, Li, Yan, Paxman, Chris, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Carswell, Christina, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Xia, Summer, Mueller, Jochen and Kaserzon, Sarit (2023). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring Program – Passive Sampling Report 19 – Winter 2023. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), UQ.
Kaserzon, Sarit, Shiels, Ryan, Li, Yan, Paxman, Chris, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Carswell, Christina, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Bowman, Jasper, Xia, Summer, Schulze, Bastian, Beggs, Carly and Mueller, Jochen (2023). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring Program – Passive Sampling Report 18 – Summer 2023. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS).
Kaserzon, Sarit, Shiels, Ryan, Li, Yan, Paxman, Chris, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Carswell, Christina, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Bowman, Jasper, Cheneval, Olivier, Jeon, Youngjoon, Schulze, Bastian, Beggs, Carly and Mueller, Jochen (2022). Catchment and drinking water quality micro pollutant monitoring program – passive sampling report 16 – summer 2022. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences.
Kaserzon, Sarit, Shiels, Ryan, Li, Yan, Paxman, Chris, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Carswell, Christina, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Bowman, Jasper, Xia, Summer, Schulze, Bastian, Thompson, Kristie and Mueller, Jochen (2022). Catchment and drinking water quality micro pollutant monitoring program – passive sampling report 17 – winter 2022. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences.
Yeh, Ruby Yu-Lu, Thompson, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Gallen, Christie, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Verhagen, Rory, Vijayasarathy, Soumini, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Jiang, Hui, Eaglesham, Geoff, Mueller, Jochen and Kaserzon, Sarit (2018). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring program – Passive Sampling. Report 9 – Winter 2018. Woolloongabba, QLD Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences.
Kaserzon, Sarit, Yeh, Ruby Yu-Lu, Thompson, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Gallen, Christie, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Schacht, Veronika, Van Niekerk, Sean, Verhagen, Rory, Vijayasarathy, Soumini, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Jiang, Hui, Eaglesham, Geoff and Mueller, Jochen (2018). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring Program – Passive Sampling Report 8 – Summer 2018. Ipswich, QLD, Australia: Seqwater.
Kaserzon, Sarit, Thompson, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Gallen, Christie, Elisei, Gabriele, Mackie, Rachel, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Jiang, Hui, Eaglesham, Geoff, Samanipour, Saer and Mueller, Jochen (2018). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring Program – Passive Sampling. Report 7 – Winter 2017. Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences.
Grant, S., Thompson, K., Paxman, C., Elisei, G., Gallen, C., Tracey, D., Kaserzon, S., Jiang, H., Samanipour, S. and Mueller, J. F. (2018). Annual Report for inshore pesticide monitoring 2016-2017. Townsville, QLD Australia: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
Kaserzon, S., Gallen, C., Thompson, K., Paxman, C., Elisei, G., Grant, S. and Mueller, J. F. (2017). Wetlands Passive sampling methods, analyte quantification and QA/QC. Prepared for Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Queensland Government, Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation.
Kaserzon, Sarit, O’Malley, Elissa, Thompson, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Elisei, Gabriele, Eaglesham, Geoff, Gallen, Michael and Mueller, Jochen (2017). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring Program – Passive Sampling. Report 6 – Summer 2017 and summary report.
Kaserzon, S., Paxman, C., O’Malley, E., Elisei, G., Gallen, M. and Mueller, J. F. (2017). Water monitoring program for PAHs using silicone passive sampling devices. Prepared for the Department of Primary Industries, NSW. Orange, NSW Australia: NSW Department of Primary Industries.
Kaserzon, Sarit, O’Malley, Elissa, Gallen, Christie, Thompson, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Montero Ruiz, Natalia, Eaglesham, Geoff, Gallen, Michael, Wang, Xianyu, Hearn, Laurence and Mueller, Jochen (2016). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring Program – Passive Sampling. Report 5 – Winter 2016. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Entox.
Kaserzon, S., Thompson, K., Paxman, C., Gallen, C., O’Malley, E., Eaglesham, G., Gomez Ramos, M. J. and Mueller, J. F. (2015). Monitoring program for marker pharmaceutical and personal care product (PPCP) chemicals using passive sampling devices. Prepared for SA Water, South Australia.. South Australia: SA Water.
Bentley, C., Devlin, M., Paxman, C., Chue, K. L. and Mueller, J. (2012). Pesticide monitoring in inshore waters of the Great Barrier Reef using both time-integrated and event monitoring techniques (2011 - 2012). Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, The National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology (Entox).
Kennedy, K., Bentley, C., Heffernan, A., Paxman, C., Stevenson, G. and Mueller, J. (2010). Gladstone air study 2009-2010 : Monitoring for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) & furans (PCDFs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).. Brisbane, Qld., Australia: National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, UQ.
Kennedy, Karen, Bentley, Christie, Paxman, Chris, Dunn, Andrew, Heffernan, Amy, Kaserzon, Sarit and Mueller, Jochen (2010). Final Report - Monitoring of organic chemicals in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park using time integrated monitoring tools (2009-2010). Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Mueller, J., Muller, R., Goudkamp, K., Shaw, M., Mortimer, M., Haynes, D., Paxman, C. J., Hyne, R., McTaggart, A., Burniston, D., Symons, R. and Moore, M.R. (2004). Dioxins in Aquatic Environments in Australia - Technical Report No. 6. Canberra: Dept of the Environment & Heritage.
Mueller, J., Holt, E. and Paxman, C. J. (2004). Dioxin-like compounds and chlorophenols in ambient air measurements undertaken during soil remediation at Eagle Farm, Brisbane in March 2004. Brisbane: EnTox/The University of Queensland.