Ep 46 Season 7 PFAS in Turtles QLD with David Beale also for QLD SL oral history

Ep 46 Season 7 PFAS in Turtles QLD with David Beale also for QLD SL oral history

From TalkingPFAS by Kayleen Bell

June 23, 2025 · 1h 8m · Season 7 · Episode 46

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with David Beale about the impact of PFAS on freshwater turtles in Queensland.

Welcome back to the Talking PFAS podcast.  If you are joining me for the first time a very big welcome to you.   I am a journalist and your host Kayleen Bell. Last episode I brought you a very interesting discussion with Dr Cheng Zhang from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland in Australia.  We spoke about many things but mainly we discussed how his team of researchers have discovered that retrieved PFAS can be used in batteries.  I highly recommend you have a listen to that episode to find out more.  Today’s discussion will complete the PFAS collection of interviews that I have recorded for the Queensland State Library digital PFAS collection.   I will put a link to that collection in today’s show notes. Now a little about my guest today, he is Adjunct Professor David Beale, a senior research scientist who leads the CSIRO’s Ecosurveillance Systems team in Queensland. The majority of David’s research career is looking at the impact of contaminants on organisms, whether it be wildlife or humans or any biological system.   He has made significant…

People in this episode

Host: Kayleen Bell

Guest: David Beale

Topics covered

  • PFAS
  • turtles
  • environment
  • Queensland
  • research

Keywords

  • CSIRO
  • ecosystems
  • contaminants
  • wildlife

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: PFAS in Turtles QLD, Talking PFAS, Science of The Total Environment

Places: Australia, Queensland, Germany, UK, Europe, Asia, North America, US

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