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Liu Y, Gates WP, Bouazza A.  2012. Effectiveness of polymers on attenuating the influence of sulfuric acid solutions on engineering properties of bentonite.  Proceedings of the Australian New Zealand conference on Geotechnical Engineering.

 

Aldridge LP, Gates WP, Bordallo HN, Churchman GJ. 2012. Water mobility in smectite.  22nd Biennial Conference of the ACMS, Mildura, Feb 2012.

 

Gates WP, Liu Y, Singh R.M, Bouazza A. 2012. Improving the swell index and fluid loss methods for compatibility testing of bentonites.  22nd Biennial Conference of the ACMS, Mildura, Feb 2012. ARC Discovery project DP1095129.

 

Liu Y, Gates WP, Bouazza A. 2012. Effectiveness of polymers on improving the fluid loss of bentonite used in geosynthetic clay liners.  22nd Biennial Conference of the ACMS, Mildura, Feb 2012.

 

Shaheen U, Kulasegaram S, Gates WP, Turney TW, Patti A, Daoud W.  2012. Modification of clay liners to improve barrier capabilities for hypersaline leachates. 22nd Biennial Conference of the ACMS, Mildura, Feb 2012.  ARC Discovery project DP1095129.

 

Gates WP, Hines P, Bouazza A. 2011. SEM study of mineralogical changes to GCLs following permeation by strongly alkaline leachates.  GeoAmericas, March 2011.

 

Liu Y, Gates WP,  Bouazza A. 2011. Polymer Modified Bentonite to Improve the Performance of Geosynthetic Clay Liners. International Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, November, 2011: 607-613

 

Buckley J, Gates WP, Gibbs D, Gassner F.  2010. Forensic Examination of Field GCL Performance in Landfill Capping and Mining Containment Applications. 3rd International Symposium on Geosynthetic Clay Liners, September 2010.

 

Bouazza A, Gates WP. 2010.  On the compatibility of GCLs to leachates of extreme chemistry. 

 

Bishop JL, Makarewicz HD, Gates WP, McKeown NK, Hiroi T. 2010. Beidellites: Spectral properties and importance for Mars. LPSC XLI 2010 #2080.

 

Cashion JD, Gates WP, Riley GM. 2009. Origin of two quadrupole doublets in NAu-1 nontronite. ICAME, July 2009.

 

Sattar S, Gates WP. 2009. Assessing the Compatibility of Geosynthetic Clay Liners with Soils and Leachates. Landfill 2009 – The Functional Landfill. Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa, Landfill Interest Group: Western Cape. Capetown, September 2009.

 

Hornsey W, Gates WP, Buckley J. 2009. Geosynthetic clay liners – Is the key component being overlooked?  GIGSA GeoAfrica 2009 Conference. Capetown, September 2009.

 

Bouazza A, Abuel-Naga HM, Gates WP, Laloui L.  2008.  Temperature effects on volume and hydraulic properties of geosynthetic clay liners.  Proceedings of the 1st Pan American Geosynthetics Conference and Exhibition. 2-5 March. Cuncun, Mexico.

 

Theng BKG, Churchman GJ, Gates WP, Yuan G.  2008.  Organically modified clays for pollutant uptake and environmental protection. Proceedings of the 4th ISMOM Conference, Huazhong Agricultural University, Hubei Province, Peoples Republic of China.  (Cited 2 times as of 1/11/10).

 

Gates WP. 2007. Geosynthetic clay liner technology: Understanding bentonite.  National Landfill and Transfer Station Conference, Melbourne, November 2007.  Waste Management Association of Australia.

 

Galbally I, Kelly K, Phillips F, Baigent R, Barker-Reid F, Gates WP, Grace P, Meyer M, Eckard R, Leuning R, Chen D, Weeks I, Bentley S, Griffith D. 2005. A Study of Environmental and Management Drivers of non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Australian Agro-Ecosystems, Proceedings of the 17th International Clean Air and Environment Conference, Hobart, Australia 3-6 May 2005, Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand.

 

Thompson A, Cashion JD, Gates WP. 2007.  Mossbauer analysis of iron sites in four Na- and Ca-saturated ferruginous smectites. Proceedings of the 31st A&NZ Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga.

 

Gates WP. 1998. Physical properties of smectites influenced by microbial reduction of structural iron. Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of Soil Science. Montpellier, France. ISSS, Cirad.

 

Gates WP, Madejová J, Janek M, Komadel P. 1994. Spectroscopic study of hectorite dissolution in HCL. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Mineralogy and Petrology, Prague, Czech Republic.  Geologica 38:183-191.