Ms Danni Oliver: helping reduce pesticide impact on the environment

Ms Danni Oliver develops techniques for analysing organic contaminants in soil and water and management practices.

• 24 October 2008 | Updated 14 October 2011

• Current research
• Expertise
• Recent professional experience 
• Academic qualifications
• Professional activities 
• Publications 

Ms Oliver is a Team leader in the Trace Organics and Risk Assessment research group, within the Environmental Biogeochemistry research program.

Ms Oliver has extensive experience in organic analytical chemistry, management of off-site transport of pesticides and environmental risk assessment of organic contaminants.

Current Research

Ms Oliver is currently involved in projects studying the processes of off-site transport of pesticides, sediment and nutrients from agricultural environments.

Expertise

Ms Oliver is an environmental chemist with expertise in:

• organic analytical techniques for soils and water samples
• management practices to minimise off-site transport of pesticides into waterways
• application of risk assessment tools to assess likelihood of environmental impact of pesticides.

Recent professional experience

Ms Oliver has over 20 years experience in environmental chemistry.

In the last 10 years she has focused on organic contaminants, in particular the analysis of organic contaminants in soil and water and the study of the fate, behaviour and transport of organic contaminants in agricultural environments.

Academic qualifications

Ms Oliver has been awarded a:

• Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Hons) from the University of Tasmania, Australia, in 1986
• Masters of Agricultural Science from Adelaide University, Australia, in 1995.

Professional activities

Ms Oliver is currently:

• an Executive Committee Member of the SA Branch of the Australian Society of Soil Science Inc
• a member of the Steering Committee for the National Landcare Program Project ‘Water Quality Impacts of Pesticide Application – A Property Level Assessment Tool’.

Publications

Ms Oliver is the author of:

• 24 peer-reviewed journal papers
• three book chapters
• 22 conference papers
• 30 reports, including consultancies. 

She has 223 career citations with three papers exceeding 20 citations each.

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