Dr Divina Navarro

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• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2015 - 2018	Lecturer	University of Adelaide
  2015	Research Scientist	CSIRO
  2003 - 2006	Instructor	University of the Philippines

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2006 - 2011	The State University of New York University at Buffalo	USA	PhD Chemistry
  1999 - 2003	University of the Philippines Los Baños, Los Baños	Philippines	BS Chemistry

• Postgraduate Training

  Date	Title	Institution	Country
  —	Postdoctoral Fellow	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra	Australia

• Certifications

  Date	Title	Institution name	Country
  0	Licensed Chemist	Republic of the Philippines Professional Regulation Commission	Philippine

• Research Interests

  Environmental Chemistry Environmental Nanotechnology

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• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2019	Lath, S., Knight, E., Navarro, D., Kookana, R., & McLaughlin, M. (2019). Sorption of PFOA onto different laboratory materials: Filter membranes and centrifuge tubes. Chemosphere, 222, 671-678. DOI
  2018	Lath, S., Navarro, D., Losic, D., Kumar, A., & Mclaughlin, M. (2018). Sorptive remediation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) using mixed mineral and graphene/carbon-based materials. Environmental Chemistry, 15(8), 472-480. DOI
  2018	Lath, S., Navarro, D., Tran, D., Kumar, A., Losic, D., & McLaughlin, M. (2018). Mixed-mode remediation of cadmium and arsenate ions using graphene-based materials. Clean: Soil, Air, Water, 46(9), 1800073-1-1800073-8. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  2018	Walker, G., Kookana, R., Smith, N., Kah, M., Doolette, C., Reeves, P., . . . Navarro, D. (2018). Ecological risk assessment of nano-enabled pesticides: a perspective on problem formulation. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 66(26), 6480-6486. DOI Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC2
  2017	Navarro, D., Kookana, R., McLaughlin, M., & Kirby, J. (2017). Fate of radiolabeled C₆₀ fullerenes in aged soils. Environmental Pollution, 221, 293-300. DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC1
  2016	Navarro, D., Kookana, R., Mclaughlin, M., & Kirby, J. (2016). Fullerol as a potential pathway for mineralization of fullerene nanoparticles in biosolid-amended soils. Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 3(1), 7-12. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
  2016	Doolette, C., Gupta, V., Lu, Y., Payne, J., Batstone, D., Kirby, J., . . . McLaughlin, M. (2016). Quantifying the sensitivity of soil microbial communities to silver sulfide nanoparticles using metagenome sequencing. PLoS ONE, 11(8), e0161979-1-e0161979-20. DOI Scopus10 WoS10 Europe PMC5
  2015	Doolette, C., McLaughlin, M., Kirby, J., & Navarro, D. (2015). Bioavailability of silver and silver sulfide nanoparticles to lettuce (Lactuca sativa): effect of agricultural amendments on plant uptake. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 300, 788-795. DOI Scopus30 WoS25 Europe PMC8
  2014	Navarro, D., Kirby, J., McLaughlin, M., Waddington, L., & Kookana, R. (2014). Remobilisation of silver and silver sulphide nanoparticles in soils. Environmental Pollution, 193, 102-110. DOI Scopus24 WoS23 Europe PMC7
  2014	Wegst-Uhrich, S., Navarro, D., Zimmerman, L., & Aga, D. (2014). Assessing antibiotic sorption in soil: a literature review and new case studies on sulfonamides and macrolides. Chemistry Central Journal, 8(1), 1-12. DOI Scopus57 WoS51
  2013	Clabeaux, B., Navarro, D., Aga, D., & Bisson, M. (2013). Combined effects of cadmium and zinc on growth, tolerance, and metal accumulation in Chara australis and enhanced phytoextraction using EDTA. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 98, 236-243. DOI Scopus16 WoS10 Europe PMC4
  2013	Navarro, D., Kookana, R., Kirby, J., Martin, S., Shareef, A., Du, J., & McLaughlin, M. (2013). Behaviour of fullerenes (C₆₀) in the terrestrial environment: potential release from biosolids-amended soils. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 262, 496-503. DOI Scopus19 WoS18 Europe PMC4
  2013	Batley, G., Halliburton, B., Kirby, J., Doolette, C., Navarro, D., McLaughlin, M., & Veitch, C. (2013). Characterization and ecological risk assessment of nanoparticulate CeO₂ as a diesel fuel catalyst. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(8), 1896-1905. DOI Scopus22 WoS21 Europe PMC10
  2012	Navarro, D., Bisson, M., & Aga, D. (2012). Investigating uptake of water-dispersible CdSe/ZnS quantum dot nanoparticles by Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 211-212, 427-435. DOI Scopus63 WoS51 Europe PMC14
  2011	Navarro, D., Depner, S., Watson, D., Aga, D., & Banerjee, S. (2011). Partitioning behavior and stabilization of hydrophobically coated HfO <inf>2</inf>, ZrO <inf>2</inf> and Hf <inf>x</inf>Zr <inf>1-x</inf>O <inf>2</inf> nanoparticles with natural organic matter reveal differences dependent on crystal structure. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 196, 302-310. DOI Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC1
  2011	Navarro, D., Banerjee, S., Watson, D., & Aga, D. (2011). Differences in soil mobility and degradability between water-dispersible CdSe and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots. Environmental Science and Technology, 45(15), 6343-6349. DOI Scopus22 WoS21 Europe PMC4
  2011	Clabeaux, B., Navarro, D., Aga, D., & Bisson, M. (2011). Cd tolerance and accumulation in the aquatic macrophyte, chara Australis: Potential use for charophytes in phytoremediation. Environmental Science and Technology, 45(12), 5332-5338. DOI Scopus34 WoS29 Europe PMC12
  2011	Akaighe, N., MacCuspie, R., Navarro, D., Aga, D., Banerjee, S., Sohn, M., & Sharma, V. (2011). Humic acid-induced silver nanoparticle formation under environmentally relevant conditions. Environmental Science and Technology, 45(9), 3895-3901. DOI Scopus185 WoS174 Europe PMC60
  2010	Navarro, D., Banerjee, S., Aga, D., & Watson, D. (2010). Partitioning of hydrophobic CdSe quantum dots into aqueous dispersions of humic substances: Influence of capping-group functionality on the phase-transfer mechanism. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 348(1), 119-128. DOI Scopus22 WoS21
  2009	Navarro, D. A., Watson, D. F., Aga, D. S., & Banerjee, S. (2009). Natural Organic Matter-Mediated Phase Transfer of Quantum Dots in the Aquatic Environment. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 43(3), 677-682. DOI WoS42

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2012	MacCuspie, R. I., Rogers, K., Patra, M., Suo, Z., Allen, A. J., Martin, M. N., . . . Holbrook, R. D. (2012). Silver nanoparticle metrology, chemistry and materials science for predicting environmental transformations. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Vol. 243 (pp. 1 page). San Diego, CA: AMER CHEMICAL SOC.
  2011	Navarro, D. A. G., Aga, D. S., Banerjee, S., & Watson, D. F. (2011). Studies on the chemical fate and transport behavior of water-soluble CdSe and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots in the soil environment. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Vol. 241 (pp. 1 page). Anaheim, CA: AMER CHEMICAL SOC.
  2010	Navarro, D. A. G., Aga, D. S., Banerjee, S., & Watson, D. F. (2010). Mechanisms of interaction between humic acid and hydrophobic CdSe quantum dots facilitating the partitioning into aqueous phase. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Vol. 240 (pp. 1 page). AMER CHEMICAL SOC.
  2008	Navarro, D. A. G., Aga, D. S., Coats, J. R., Henderson, K. L., Moorman, T., & Bidwell, J. (2008). AGRO 50-Determination of the effect of pH, ionic strength, and humic acids on the soil sorption coefficients (Kd) of tylosin and erythromycin antibiotics. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Vol. 236 (pp. 1 page). Philadelphia, PA: AMER CHEMICAL SOC.

• Conference Items

  Year	Citation
  2017	Navarro, D., Kookana, R., McLaughlin, M., & Kirby, J. (2017). Radiochemical studies on the fate of C60 in soils. Poster session presented at the meeting of ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Washington, DC: AMER CHEMICAL SOC.

Teaching interests: Environmental Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and General Chemistry.

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• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2016	External Supervisor	Fate and Bioavailability of Perfluorinated Compounds in Soils	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Emma Rae Knight

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2013 - 2015	External Supervisor	Behaviour of silver and silver sulfide nanoparticles in the environment: Effects on wastewater treatment processes and soil organisms	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Casey Louise Doolette

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• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2015 - ongoing	Member	Australian Soil Science Society	Australia
  2015 - ongoing	—	Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Nanotechnology Advisory Group	—
  2007 - ongoing	Member	American Chemical Society	—

• Position: Affiliate Lecturer
• Phone: 83138587
• Email: divina.navarro@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: Waite
• Building: Prescott (CSIRO)
• Org Unit: School of Agriculture, Food and Wine