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Associate Professor Tom Hubble, PhD

Associate Professor in Engineering and Environmental Geology
Pro-Dean, Faculty of Science

Madsen Building (F09), Rm 456
Phone: +61 2 9351 2920
Fax: +61 2 9351 3644
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Research Interests

Tom Hubble's research has been mainly in the field of marine and riverine site investigation including a major regional geomorphic and sediment mapping project on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River for Sydney Water. Current research projects include: the characterisation of the mass collapse mechanisms which are currently affecting the banks of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River in order to develop a remediation and prevention strategy; and, the evaluation the various stabilising mechanisms that trees and their root systems develop in soil slopes.

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Selected Publications

  • Docker B.B. and Hubble T.C.T. 2001: River bank collapse on the Nepean River in the Wallacia Valley: assessing possible causes by Historical and Geomechanical Methods. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Volume 134, p.
  • Hubble T.C.T. 1999: Channel Management. In Martens D., editor, Geomorphology of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River System. Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust, p. 69 – 77.
  • Hughes M.G., Harris P.T., and Hubble T.C.T. 1998: Dynamics of the turbidity maximum zone in a micro-tidal estuary; Hawkesbury River, Australia. Sedimentology. Volume 45; p. 397-410.
  • Hubble T.C.T. 1997: River Bank Erosion on the Nepean River, New South Wales: The relative contributions of long-term geomorphic change and recent human influence. In G. McNally editor, Case Studies in Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology, and Environmental Geology, Third Series, Special Publication of the Geological Society of Australia, p. 110 – 124.
  • Hubble T.C.T. and Hull T., 1996 : A model for bank collapse on the Nepean River, Camden Valley, New South Wales. Australian Geomechanics Volume 29, p. 80 – 99.
  • Hubble T.C.T., Packham G.H., Hendry D.A.F., and McDougall I. 1992 : Granitic and Monzodioritic Rocks from the southeastern Australian continental margin between Green Cape and Tuross Head. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 39, p. 619 - 630.
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