Mike McLaughlin

Teagasc Adjunct Senior Fellow

Research Interests

Professor McLaughlin's research covers soil and environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, risk assessment, food quality, crop nutrition and fertilizer technology. He is a Research Professor with the School of Agriculture Food and Wine at The University of Adelaide, Australia and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with Teagasc (The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority), Oak Park, Carlow, Ireland. Professor McLaughlin established the Fertilizer Technology Research Centre at the University of Adelaide in 2007 supported by The Mosaic Company LLC and supported by projects through Australian rural research corporations and the Australian Research Council.

Current Projects

Fertilizer Technology Research Centre (The Mosaic Company LLC)
Remediation of PFAS-contaminated soils (The Australian Research Council)

Education

1983-1986, PhD, The University of Adelaide, Australia
1977-1979, MAgrSc, Reading University, UK
1974-1977, BSc, The University of Ulster

Professional Membership

Soil Science Australia
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Australian Land and Groundwater Association
Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
Australian Academy of Sciences

Publications

Navarro, D. A., Kah, M., Losic, D., Kookana, R. S., and McLaughlin, M. J. 2020. Mineralisation and release of 14C-graphene oxide (GO) in soils. Chemosphere 238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124558
Kabiri, S., Tran, D. N. H., Baird, R., McLaughlin, M. J., and Losic, D. 2020. Revealing the dependence of graphene concentration and physicochemical properties on the crushing strength of co-granulated fertilizers by wet granulation process. Powder Technology 360, 588-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2019.10.047
McLaren, T. I., Smernik, R. J., McLaughlin, M. J., Doolette, A. L., Richardson, A. E., and Frossard, E. (2019). The chemical nature of soil organic phosphorus: A critical review and global compilation of quantitative data. Advances in Agronomy 160, 51-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2019.10.001
Andelkovic, I. B., Kabiri, S., da Silva, R. C., Tavakkoli, E., Kirby, J. K., Losic, D., and McLaughlin, M. J. 2019. Optimisation of phosphate loading on graphene oxide-Fe(III) composites - possibilities for engineering slow release fertilisers. New Journal of Chemistry 43, 8580-8589. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nj01641d
Baird, R., Da Silva, R. C., Degryse, F., and McLaughlin, M. J. 2019. A column perfusion test to assess the kinetics of nutrient release by soluble, sparingly soluble and coated granular fertilizers. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 182, 763-771. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201800666
Coccina, A., Cavagnaro, T. R., Pellegrino, E., Ercoli, L., McLaughlin, M. J., and Watts-Williams, S. J. 2019. The mycorrhizal pathway of zinc uptake contributes to zinc accumulation in barley and wheat grain. BMC Plant Biology 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1741-y
Knight, E. R., Janik, L. J., Navarro, D. A., Kookana, R. S., and McLaughlin, M. J. 2019. Predicting partitioning of radiolabelled 14C-PFOA in a range of soils using diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy. Science of The Total Environment 686, 505-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.339
Markovic, M., Andelkovic, I., Shuster, J., Janik, L., Kumar, A., Losic, D., and McLaughlin, M. J. 2019. Addressing challenges in providing a reliable ecotoxicology data for graphene-oxide (GO) using an algae (Raphidocelis subcapitata), and the trophic transfer consequence of GO-algae aggregates. Chemosphere 245, 125640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125640
Mebane, C. A., Sumpter, J. P., Fairbrother, A., Augspurger, T. P., Canfield, T. J., Goodfellow, W. L., Guiney, P. D., LeHuray, A., Maltby, L., Mayfield, D. B., McLaughlin, M. J., Ortego, L. S., Schlekat, T., Scroggins, R. P., and Verslycke, T. A. 2019. Scientific integrity issues in environmental toxicology and chemistry: Improving research reproducibility, credibility, and transparency. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 15, 320-344. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4119
Nash, D. M., McDowell, R. W., Condron, L. M., and McLaughlin, M. J. 2019. Direct exports of phosphorus from fertilizers applied to grazed pastures. Journal of Environmental Quality 48, 1380-1396. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2019.02.0085
Peirce, C. A. E., McBeath, T. M., Priest, C., and McLaughlin, M. J. 2019. The timing of application and inclusion of a surfactant are important for absorption and translocation of foliar phosphoric acid by wheat leaves. Frontiers in Plant Science 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01532
Ramkissoon, C., Degryse, F., Da Silva, R. C., Baird, R., Young, S. D., Bailey, E. H., and McLaughlin, M. J. 2019. Improving the efficacy of selenium fertilizers for wheat biofortification. Scientific Reports 9, 19520. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55914-0