Associate Professor John Bavor

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Biography

BSc, MSc, PhD, MASM

In recognition of Dr Bavor’s research and achievement in the area of innovative constructed wetlands technology, the University of Western Sydney was invited to become a partner in the Commonwealth funded Cooperative Research Centre for Waste Management and Pollution Control and he was invited to manage one of the largest projects within the CRC. During the program he was seconded half-time to the School of Civil Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), as the CRC was administered from UNSW. As Project Leader of the Advanced Constructed Wetlands Project, Dr. Bavor directed and coordinated input from constructed wetland research partners including: UWS, UNSW, University of Queensland, CSIRO, PWD-NSW, NSW Department of Water Resources, Sydney Water and ANSTO. The Program had outputs which resulted in four of the first commercialised technologies developed through the CRCWMPC.

Currently, Dr. Bavor is Project Leader for an Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Project: Evaluation and adoption of improved farming practices on soil and water resources, Bohol Island, the Philippines. As Project Leader, he leads a team of UWS researchers collaborating with the Philippine Government - Bureau of Soil and Water Management (BSWM) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), in a comprehensive research program. This research project brings together the resources of two major Philippine government departments, The Bureau of Soil and Water Management (BSWM), Department of Agriculture, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF). with the University of Western Sydney.

Dr. Bavor also collaborates with the WHO – Western Pacific Regional Office in areas of water quality, water and wastewater management, food safety and risk-based food and water monitoring.

Developing research areas include collaboration with Bioforsk – the Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, a national R&D institute under the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food. New membrane-based techniques are being developed for the monitoring and microbial amelioration of a range of herbicide and pesticide contaminants.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Microbiology / Biotechnology
Water and Wastewater Management
Food and Water Microbiology
Environmental Monitoring
Advance Constructed Wetland Technology
Biosafety

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