Assoc Prof Erick Bestland

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Position/s:Geoscience
School of the Environment
Phone: +61 8 82012306
Email:
Location: Earth Sciences (214)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Erick is originally from the States (USA). Completed undergraduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Geoscience in 1982. Completed Ph.D. in geoscience from the University of Oregon in 1990 (Paleoenvironments of Miocene Ape Fossil Sites in Western Kenya). Post doctoral position at University of Oregon researching the Eocene-Oligocene transition in a field based project in the canyonlands of central Oregon (1991-1995). Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana (1996-1998). Post doctoral Associate at Idaho State University (hydrogeology) (1998-1999). Arrived Flinders University in 1999.

Qualifications

BSc Geoscience, University of Wisconsin Madison
MSc Geoscience, University of Oregon
Ph.D. Geoscience, University of Oregon

Teaching

Teaching interests

My teaching interests are broad and cover many different areas of geoscience. I focus on soil formation, weathering, biogeochemical cycles, landscape evolution, climate change and past climate change (from ice cores and deep sea cores), the carbon cycle, stable isotopes in geochemistry and hydrochemistry.

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Research and supervision

Research expertise

  • Biogeochemistry
  • Geochemistry
  • Geology
  • Soil sciences

RHD research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Hydrochemistry (1);

Publications

Book chapters
Bestland, E.A., Link, P.K., Lanphere, M.A. and Champion, D.E. (2002). Paleoenvironments of sedimentary interbeds in the Pliocene and Quaternary Big Lost Trough, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. In Geology, Hydrogeology, and Environmental Remediation. Boulder Colorado: Geological Society of America, pp. 27-44.
Refereed journal articles
Mollehuara Canales, R.F., Guan, H., Bestland, E.A., Hutson, J.L. and Simmons, C. (2013). Particle-size effects on dissolved arsenic adsorption to an Australian laterite. Environmental Earth Sciences, 68(8), pp.2301-2312. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-1909-3.
Mollehuara Canales, R.F., Guan, H., Bestland, E., Hutson, J. and Simmons, C. (2012). Particle-size effects on dissolved arsenic adsorption to an Australian laterite. Environmental Earth Sciences. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-1909-3.
Macken, A., Jankowski, N., Price, G., Bestland, E., Reed, E.H., Prideaux, G., et al. (2011). Application of sedimentary and chronological analyses to refine the depositional context of a Late Pleistocene vertebrate deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(19-20), pp.2690-2702. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.05.023.
Jahan, N., Guan, H. and Bestland, E. (2011). Arsenic remediation by Australian laterites. Environmental Earth Sciences, 64(1), pp.247-253. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-010-0844-4.
Pavelic, P., Dillon, P., Mucha, M., Nakai, T., Barry, K.E. and Bestland, E.A. (2011). Laboratory assessment of factors affecting soil clogging of soil aquifer treatment systems. Water Research, 45(10), pp.3153-3163. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2011.03.027.
Guan, H., Bestland, E.A., Zhu, C., Zhu, H., Albertsdottir, D., Hutson, J.L., et al. (2010). Variation in performance of surfactant loading and resulting nitrate removal among four selected natural zeolites. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 183(1-3), pp.616-621. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.07.069.
Forbes, M.S., Kohn, M.J., Bestland, E.A. and Wells, R.T. (2010). Late Pleistocene environmental change interpreted from {delta}13C and {delta}18O of tooth enamel from the Black Creek Swamp Megafauna site, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 291, pp.319-327. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.003.
Banks, E., Simmons, C.T., Love, A.J., Cranswick, R.H., Werner, A.D., Bestland, E.A., et al. (2009). Fractured bedrock and saprolite hydrogeologic controls on groundwater/surface-water interaction: a conceptual model (Australia). Hydrogeology Journal, 17(8), pp.1969-1989. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-009-0490-7.
Bestland, E.A. and Forbes, M.S. (2009). Evidence for biocycling from Ba/Ca, Sr/Ca, and 87Sr/86Sr in soils (Red Brown Earths) from South Australia. Australian Journal of Soil Research, 47(2), pp.154-165. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR08026.

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Books
Werner, A.D., Van Den Akker, B., Jakovovic, D., Jacobs, A. and Bestland, E.A. (2007). A desktop study of the groundwater resources of Cousine and Cousin Islands, Seychelles, Nature  Seychelles - MSP GEF Funded. Adelaide: Flinders University.
Werner, A.D., Bestland, E.A., Guan, H., Pichler, M.M., Hutson, J.L. and Simmons, C.T. (2007). Flinders  Lake Hydrological Investigation. Adelaide: Flinders University.
Book chapters
Bestland, E.A., Link, P.K., Lanphere, M.A. and Champion, D.E. (2002). Paleoenvironments of sedimentary interbeds in the Pliocene and Quaternary Big Lost Trough, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. In Geology, Hydrogeology, and Environmental Remediation. Boulder Colorado: Geological Society of America, pp. 27-44.
Refereed journal articles
Mollehuara Canales, R.F., Guan, H., Bestland, E.A., Hutson, J.L. and Simmons, C. (2013). Particle-size effects on dissolved arsenic adsorption to an Australian laterite. Environmental Earth Sciences, 68(8), pp.2301-2312. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-1909-3.
Mollehuara Canales, R.F., Guan, H., Bestland, E., Hutson, J. and Simmons, C. (2012). Particle-size effects on dissolved arsenic adsorption to an Australian laterite. Environmental Earth Sciences. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-1909-3.
Macken, A., Jankowski, N., Price, G., Bestland, E., Reed, E.H., Prideaux, G., et al. (2011). Application of sedimentary and chronological analyses to refine the depositional context of a Late Pleistocene vertebrate deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(19-20), pp.2690-2702. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.05.023.
Pavelic, P., Dillon, P., Mucha, M., Nakai, T., Barry, K.E. and Bestland, E.A. (2011). Laboratory assessment of factors affecting soil clogging of soil aquifer treatment systems. Water Research, 45(10), pp.3153-3163. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2011.03.027.
Jahan, N., Guan, H. and Bestland, E. (2011). Arsenic remediation by Australian laterites. Environmental Earth Sciences, 64(1), pp.247-253. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-010-0844-4.
Forbes, M.S., Kohn, M.J., Bestland, E.A. and Wells, R.T. (2010). Late Pleistocene environmental change interpreted from {delta}13C and {delta}18O of tooth enamel from the Black Creek Swamp Megafauna site, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 291, pp.319-327. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.003.
Guan, H., Bestland, E.A., Zhu, C., Zhu, H., Albertsdottir, D., Hutson, J.L., et al. (2010). Variation in performance of surfactant loading and resulting nitrate removal among four selected natural zeolites. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 183(1-3), pp.616-621. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.07.069.
Forbes, M.S., Krull, E., Bestland, E.A. and Wells, R.T. (2009). Chronology and organic chemistry of the Black Creek Swamp Megafauna site (Late Pleistocene), Kangaroo Island, Australia. Boreas, 38(4), pp.705-717. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00093.x.
Bestland, E.A., Milgate, S., Chittleborough, D., VanLeeuwen, J., Pichler, M.M. and Soloninka, L. (2009). The significance and lag-time of deep through flow?: an example from a small, ephemeral catchment with contrasting soil types in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 13(7), pp.1201-1214.
Kalantari, N., Bestland, E.A. and Jalalvand, A. (2009). Alluvial aquifer recharge enhanced by a natural dam?: feasibility assessment based on multidisciplinary characterization (Khuzestan, Southwest Iran). Environmental Earth Sciences, 59(1), pp.51-61. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-009-0003-y.
Banks, E., Simmons, C.T., Love, A.J., Cranswick, R.H., Werner, A.D., Bestland, E.A., et al. (2009). Fractured bedrock and saprolite hydrogeologic controls on groundwater/surface-water interaction: a conceptual model (Australia). Hydrogeology Journal, 17(8), pp.1969-1989. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-009-0490-7.
Bestland, E.A. and Forbes, M.S. (2009). Evidence for biocycling from Ba/Ca, Sr/Ca, and 87Sr/86Sr in soils (Red Brown Earths) from South Australia. Australian Journal of Soil Research, 47(2), pp.154-165. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR08026.
Bestland, E.A., Forbes, M.S., Krull, E., Retallack, G. and Fremd, T. (2008). Stratigraphy, paleopedology, and geochemistry of the middle Miocene Mascall Formation (type area, Central Oregon, USA). PaleoBios, 28(2), pp.41-61.
Forbes, M.S., Bestland, E.A., Wells, R.T. and Krull, E.S. (2007). Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Robertson Cave sedimentary deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54(4), pp.541-559. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120090601078388.
Forbes, M.S. and Bestland, E.A. (2007). Origin of the sedimentary deposits of the Naracoorte Caves, South Australia. Geomorphology, 86(3-4), pp.369-392. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.09.009.
Wells, R.T., Grun, R., Sullivan, J., Forbes, M.S., Dalgairns, S., Bestland, E.A., et al. (2006). Late Pleistocene megafauna site at Black Creek Swamp, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Alcheringa, 30(S1), pp.367-387. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510608619592.
Krull, E.S., Bestland, E.A., Skjemstad, J.O. and Parr, J.F. (2006). Geochemistry (delta13C, delta15N, 13C NMR) and residence times (14C and OSL) of soil organic matter from red-brown earths of South Australia: implications for soil genesis. Geoderma, 132(3-4), pp.344-360. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2005.06.001.
Grun, R., Eggins, S., Wells, R.T., Rhodes, E.J., Bestland, E.A., Spooner, N.A., et al. (2006). A cautionary tale from down under: dating the Black Creek Swamp megafauna site on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Quaternary Geochronology, 1(2), pp.142-150. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2006.05.029.
Bestland, E.A. and Rennie, J.M. (2006). Stable isotope record (18O, 13C) of a Naracoorte Caves speleothem (Australia) from before and after the Last Interglacial. Alcheringa, 30(S1), pp.19-29. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510608619571.
Forbes, M.S. and Bestland, E.A. (2006). Guano-derived deposits within the sandy cave fills of Naracoorte, South Australia. Alcheringa, 30(S1), pp.129-146. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510608619578.
Mee, A., Bestland, E.A. and Spooner, N. (2004). Age and origin of Terra Rossa soils in the Coonawarra area of South Australia. Geomorphology, 58(1-4), pp.1-25. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-555X(03)00183-1.
Forbes, M.S., Bestland, E.A. and Wells, R.T. (2004). Preliminary 14C dates on bulk soil organic matter from the Black Creek Megafauna Fossil site, Rocky River, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Radiocarbon, 46(1), pp.437-443.
Green, G.P., Bestland, E.A. and Walker, G.S. (2004). Distinguishing sources of base cations in irrigated and natural soils: evidence from strontium isotopes. Biogeochemistry, 68(2), pp.199-225. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:BIOG.0000025743.34079.d3.
Forbes, M.S., Bestland, E.A., Krull, E.S. and Dicker, D.G. (2004). Palaeoenvironmental mosaic of Proconsul habitats: geochemical and sedimentalogical interpretation of Kisingiri fossil sites, Western Kenya. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 39(1-2), pp.63-79. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2004.04.003.
Bestland, E.A. (2002). Fossil andisols identified with mass-balance geochemistry (Oligocene John Day Formation, Oregon, USA). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72(5), pp.673-686.
Krull, E.S., Bestland, E.A. and Gates, W.P. (2002). Soil organic matter decomposition and turnover in a tropical Ultisol: Evidence from delta C-13, delta N-15 and geochemistry. Radiocarbon, 44(1), pp.93-112.
Refereed conference papers
Bestland, E.A., Green, G.P. and rivett, kelly. (2003). Sources of base cations in soil solids and soil water: Examples from Red Brown Earths of South Australia. In Ian. C. Roach, ed. Advances in Regolith. Advances in Regolith. pp. 16-18. [online]. Available from: http://crcleme.org.au/Pubs/Advancesinregolith/Bestland_et_al.pdf.
Conference publications
Bestland, E.A., Soloninka, L. and Kalantari, N. (2010). Catchment-Scale Flow-paths of Soil Water, Groundwater, and Surface Water Determined from Environmental Tracers: Scott Creek, Adelaide Hills, South Australia. In Proceedings of 8th International River Engineering Conference. 8th International River Engineering Conference.
Sullivan, J., Wells, R.T., Reed, E.H., Forbes, M.S. and Bestland, E.A. (2006). A taphonomic investigation of the Black Creek Swamp megafaunal accumulation. In Alcheringa?: CAVEPS 2005 abstracts. 10th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium. pp. 468-468.
Wells, R.T., Grun, R., Forbes, M.S., Sullivan, J., Bestland, E.A., Reed, E.H., et al. (2006). The Black Creek Swamp Megafauna Site, Kangaroo Island: pre or post blitzkreig? In Alcheringa?: CAVEPS 2005 abstracts. 10th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium. pp. 472-472.
Other public research outputs
Dittmann, S., Pichler, M., Bestland, E., Whalen, M., Stangoulis, J., Guan, H., et al. (2013). Investigation of Field Methodologies for Measuring Coastal Wetland Carbon Capture and Storage Values. , pp.1-52.

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