NUGEGODA, Dayanthi - Associate Professor

Dayanthi has a focus on aquatic ecotoxicology, pesticides, trace metals, endocrine disrupting chemicals and their effects on fish and invertebrates. She does biomonitoring of environmental contamination using fish and invertebrates in water and earthworms in soil. She has developed toxicity tests using Australian species and uses enzymes and hormones as biomarkers of environmental exposure to xenobiotics. Dayanthi has also worked on the effects of dryland salinity on freshwater ecosystems and the bioremediation of metal contaminated and salinised sites.

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Dayanthi Nugegoda