Elena Mazourenko

PhD Candidate

Previous Degree

• Bachelor of Environmental Management (Honours First Class), Flinders
• Bachelor of Music (Piano and Pipe Organ Performance and Teaching), Almaty Conservatorium of Music, Kazakhstan

Present Research Project

• Role of EV in balancing the economically, socially and environmentally sustainable allocation of water in South Australia and Alberta (Canada)

Positions Held Prior to Flinders University

• Research Officer – Environment Strategy Unit, Department of Transport and Urban Planning;
• Piano Teacher – Flinders Street School of Music;
• Pianist for Vocal Studio – Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide.

Past Research Project

• Valuing the Environmental Costs of Vegetation Removal and Ecosystem Disturbance Associated with Petroleum Developments in Cooper Basin, South Australia (Honours Thesis)
• Waste Stream from the Transport Sector
• Implications of Emissions Trading for the SA Transport Sector
• Street Sweeping and the Removal of Pollutants from Road Run-off
• Freight Transport and the Environment
• Sequestration Accounting of CO2 in Achieving a Carbon Neutral Public Transport System
• Issues in Evaluation of Environmental Externalities

Publication

• APPEA 2006 Journal: Valuing the environmental Costs of Vegetation Removal and Ecosystem Disburbance Associated with petroleum Operations, Cooper Basin, South Australia.
  

What I Like About Flinders/Adelaide

• Everything – from location to population. This is why I am still here after some years...

Hobbies/Interests

• Reading
• Classical music
• Bushwalking
• Playing with pets (a Rottweiler and two black cats)
• Enjoying a sunset on the coast
• Cooking (not very often though)