Person
Batley, Graeme (1941 - )
AM
- Born
- 7 January 1941
Young, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Chemical analyst and Inorganic chemist
Summary
Graeme Batley is a chemist who's area of expertise is water sediment and quality assessment. Batley worked at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for 12 years before being appointed to the CSIRO in 1981 where he was still employed in 2012. In 1996 he shared the CSIRO Chairman's Medal for his research team's work on the Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study. Batley was instrumental in developing the CSIRO's influential Handbook for Sediment Quality Assessment and has published over 350 highly cited publications.
Details
Batley was awarded the following CSIRO medals:
1996 - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence as a member of the Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study team (with team members including Graham Harris and David Fox), for their four-year Port Phillip Bay environmental study resulting in a model of the Bay system.
2006 - In 2006 Batley (team leader, with Stuart Simpson, Jenny Stauber, and colleagues) was awarded the CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement for research advancing the assessment and regulation of contaminants in aquatic sediments, involving revised assessment protocols, new toxicity tests, and improved frameworks, underpinning revised sediment quality guidelines and defensible management actions that are appropriately protective of Australia's benthic and aquatic ecosystems.
Chronology
- c. 1958 - 1962
- Education - Bachelor of Science (Hons 1), University of Sydney
- c. 1963 - 1964
- Education - Masters of Science, University of Sydney
- c. 1964 - c. 1967
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy in analytical and inorganic chemistry, University of Sydney
- 1969 - 1981
- Career position - Research Scientist, Australian Atomic Energy Commission
- 1981 - ?
- Career position - Research scientist, CSIRO Division of Energy Chemistry
- 1990
- Career event - Established the Centre for Advanced Analytical Chemistry
- 1994
- Education - Doctor of Science, University of Sydney
- 1996
- Award - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence (with colleagues)
- 1997 - 2003
- Career position - Foundation President, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Asia/Pacific
- 2001 -
- Award - Honorary Life Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 2004 - 2010
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Environmental chemistry
- 2006 -
- Career position - Research scientist, CSIRO Division of Land and Water
- 2006
- Award - CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement (with colleagues)
- 2022
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to environmental toxicology and chemical science
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Batley, Graeme E (19410107-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-512348. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Dr Graeme Edward Batley, Member of the Order of Australia', in It's an Honour, Australian Awards and Honours Secretariat, Australian Government, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 2022. https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2010270. Details
- Ward, C., 'Graeme Batley', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Batley-Graeme. Details
See also
- Ward, Colin, 'CSIRO Entrepreneurship Award', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2013, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/csiro-entrepreneurship-award/. Details
- Ward, Colin, The Chair's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence, CSIROpedia, CSIRO, 2023. https://csiropedia.csiro.au/chairmans-medal/. Details
Rebecca Rigby
Created: 22 February 2012, Last modified: 23 April 2024