Staff Profile
Senior Lecturer
Michael Noonan
BSc(Hons) PhD (Cant)
Contact Details
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences
| Location | Hilgendorf 404 |
| Phone | 64 3 325 2811 |
| Extension | 8195 |
| Michael J. Noonan |
Currently Teaching
- Introductory bacteriology and virology BIOS 111
- Food microbiology MICR 203, detrimental microbes in food
- Food microbiology MICR 326, beneficial microbes in food
- Environmental microbiology MICR 327
- Microbes which when put into the environment are pollutants and microbes which are used to reduce pollution origin of life (small section) BIOS 112
- Wine microbiology (small section) PHSC 208.
Academic and Professional Background
Expert advisor for Environmental Engineering Department, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichwan, China.
Current Research and Publications
- FoRST - movement of bacteria from surface applied dairy wastes through soil
- FoRST - movement of bacteria in groundwater
- FoRST - aerosols from spray irrigation of wastes (in collaboration with AgResearch, Hamilton).
Selected Publications
Jiang, G., Noonan, M.J., Buchan, G.D. & Smith, N. Transport and deposition of Bacillus subtilis through an intact soil column. Australian Journal of Soil Research 43: 695-703. 2005.
Sinton, L.W., Braithwaite, R.R., Hall, C.H., Pang, L., Close, M.E., Noonan, M.J. Tracing the movement of irrigated effluent into an alluvial gravel aquifer. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 166 (1-4): 287-301. 2005.
Pang, L., Close, M.E., Noonan, M.J., Flintoft, M.J., Vanden Brink, P. A laboratory study of bacteria-facilitated cadmium transport in alluvial gravel aquifer media. Journal of Environmental Quality 34(1): 237-247. 2005
Pang, L, Close, M E, Goltz, M, Noonan, M J & Sinton, L W. Filtration and transport of Bacillus subtilis spores and the F-RNA phage MS-2 in a coarse alluvial gravel aquifer. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 77: 165-194. 2005.
Donnison, A M, Ross, C, Noonan, M J, Fisher, G & Waller, J. Bacterial survival and dispersal in spray irrigation aerosols. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 47: 575-585. 2004.
Wright, D A, McAnulty, R W, Noonan, M J & Stankiewicz, M. The effect of Duddingtonia flagrans on trichostrongyle infections of Saanen goats on pasture. Veterinary Parasitology 118: 61-69. 2003.
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