Current Research Interests

Assessment and management of groundwater ecosystems
Sensitivity of groundwater ecosystems to toxicants and disturbance
Laboratory to field validation of toxicity testing
Stream and groundwater bioassessment

Research Expertise

• Sampling and assessment of groundwater invertebrate and microbial assemblages
• Laboratory and field-based toxicity testing
• Analysis and modeling of complex ecological and toxicological data sets
• Stream and groundwater invertebrate taxonomy
• Ecological risk assessment for groundwater ecosystems

Recent Professional Experience

• Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management, UTS
• Research Fellow in Ecotoxicology , Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management, UTS
• Senior Project Officer, NSW Environment Protection Authority
• Environmental Scientist, Water Science Section, NSW Environment Protection Authority

Academic Qualifications

• BSc(Hons) PhD

Professional Society Memberships

• Australasian Society for Ecotoxicoogy
• Australian Society for Limnology

Publications Summary

1. Hose GC, Walter T, Brooks A. 2007. Short–term colonisation by macroinvertebrates of river cobbles in main channel and stream bank habitats. Hydrobiologia. 592: 513-522.
2. Hose GC. 2007. A response to comments on Assessing the need for groundwater quality guidelines using the species sensitivity distribution approach. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.13: 241-246.
3. Pablo F, Krassoi R, Jones PRF, Colville A, Hose GC, Lim RP. 2008. Comparison of the fate and toxicity of chlorpyrifos - laboratory versus a coastal mesocosm system. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. In press.
4. Hose GC, Murray BR, Park M, Kelaher B, Figueira W. 2006. A meta-analysis of sediment toxicity in the laboratory and in situ. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 25(4) 1148-1152.
5. Eamus D, Froend R, Murray BR, Hose GC. 2006. A functional methodology for determining the groundwater regime needed to maintain health of groundwater dependent ecosystems. Australian Journal of Botany. 54: 97-114.
6. Murray BR, Hose GC, Lacari D, Eamus D. 2006. Ecosystem services and the valuation of groundwater dependent ecosystems. Australian Journal of Botany. 54: 221-229.
7. Hose GC, Wilson SP. Toxicity of endosulfan to Paratya australensis (Decapoda) and Jappa kutera (Ephemoptera) in field based tests. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 75:882-889.
8. Hose GC. 2005. Assessing the need for groundwater quality guidelines using the species sensitivity distribution approach. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 11:951-966.
9. Battaglia M,Hose GC, Turak E, Warden B. 2005. Depauperate macroinvertebrates in a mine affected stream: clean water may be the key to recovery. Environmental Pollution. 138:132-141.
10. Hose GC, Lim RP, Jones P. 2005. Hyporheic macroinvertebrates in riffle and pool areas of temporary streams in south eastern Australia. Hydrobiologia. 532: 81-90.
11. Hose GC, Van den Brink PJ. 2004. Confirming the species sensitivity distribution concept for endosulfan using laboratory, mesocosm and field data. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 47(4): 511-520.
12. Hose GC, Murray BR, Eamus D. 2004. Water quality guidelines for groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Ecological Management and Restoration.5(1): 78-80.
13. Hose GC, Turak E, Waddell N. 2004. Reproducibility of AUSRIVAS rapid assessments using macroinvertebrates. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 23(1): 126-139.
14. Murray BR, Zeppel MJB, Hose GC, Eamus D. 2003. Groundwater-dependent ecosystems in Australia: It’s more than just water for rivers. Ecological Management and Restoration. 4:110-113.
15. Hose GC, Lim RP, Hyne RV, Pablo F. 2003. Short-term exposure to aqueous endosulfan affects macroinvertebrate communities. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 56(2): 282-294.
16. Hose GC, Lim RP, Hyne RV. 2003. The transport, fate and effects of endosulfan in Australian aquatic ecosystems. Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology. 9(1): 101-111.
17. Hose GC, Hyne RV, Lim RP. 2003. Toxicity of endosulfan to Atalophlebia spp. (Ephemeroptera) in the laboratory, mesocosm and field. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 22(12): 3062-3068.
18. Hose GC, James JJ, Gray MR. 2002. Spider webs as environmental indicators. Environmental Pollution. 120(3): 231-239.