Dr Nathan Downs

Research interests
Solar UV radiation
Public Health
Maths/Science Education

USQ Research affiliations

• Centre for Health Sciences Research (CHSR)
  

• International Centre for Applied Climate Sciences (ICACS)
  

Currently teaching courses/programs
ENM1500
MAT1000
MAT1102

Research most recent
1. Garzón-Chavez, D.R., Quentin, E. Harrison, S.L., Parisi, A.V., Butler, H.J., Downs, N.J. 2018, “The geospatial relationship of pterygium and senile cataract to ambient solar ultraviolet in tropical Ecuador”, Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, DOI: 10/1039/C8PP00023A.

2. Downs, N.J. & Harrison, S.L. 2018, “A comprehensive approach to evaluating and classifying sun-protective clothing”, British Journal of Dermatology, vol. 178, no. 2, pp. 1-7. DOI:10.1111/bjd.15938.

3. Downs, N.J, Butler, H. & Parisi, A.V. 2016, "Solar ultraviolet attenuation during the Australian (Red Dawn) dust event of 23 September 2009", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 98, pp. 2039-2050 .

Conference Presentations / Proceedings
1. Downs, N.J., Garzón-Chavez, D.R., Quentin, E., Harrison, S.L., Parisi, A.V. & Butler, H.J. 2018, “The inverse relationship between the incidence of solar induced eye disease and reported skin cancer rates at high elevation in the tropical Andes, Ecuador, South America,” 4th International Conference on UV and Skin Cancer Prevention, 1-4 May 2018, Toronto, Canada.

2. Downs, N.J., Schouten, P.W. & Parisi, A. 2016, “In-situ measurements of solar exposure distribution on a coral reef: preliminary findings relating to reef aspect, water turbidity and dosimeter design,” 13th International Coral Reef Symposium, 19-24 June 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

3. Downs, N., Harrison, S., Garzon-Chavez, D., Parisi, A. 2015, “Classroom teachers and occupational UV exposure characteristics: Townsville and Toowoomba,” 3rd International UV and Skin Cancer Prevention Conference, 7-11 December 2015, Melbourne.

Research most notable
Downs, N. & Parisi, A. 2009, “Measurements of the anatomical distribution of erythemal ultraviolet: a study comparing exposure distribution to the site incidence of solar keratoses, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma”, Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1195-1201. DOI:10.1039/b901741k

Publications in ePrints

Jebar, Mustapha A. and Parisi, Alfio V. and Downs, Nathan J. and Turner, Joanna (2020) Influence of Clouds on OMI Satellite Total Daily UVA Exposure over a 12-year Period at a Southern Hemisphere Site. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41 (1). pp. 272-283. ISSN 0143-1161

Ali, Mumtaz and Deo, Ravinesh C.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2290-6749 and Downs, Nathan J. and Maraseni, Tek (2020) Monthly rainfall forecasting with Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations integrated with statistical bivariate copulas. In: Handbook of probabilistic models. Elsevier (Butterworth-Heinemann), Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 89-105. ISBN 978-0-12-816514-0

Dexter, Ben and King, Rachel and Harrison, Simone L. and Parisi, Alfio V. and Downs, Nathan J. (2019) A pilot observational study of environmental summertime health risk behaviour in central Brisbane, Queensland: opportunities to raise sun protection awareness in Australia’s Sunshine State. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 95 (2). pp. 650-655. ISSN 0031-8655

Downs, N.J. and Butler, H.J. and Baldwin, L. and Parisi, A.V. and Amar, A. and Vanos, J. and Harrison, S. (2019) A site-specific standard for comparing dynamic solar ultraviolet protection characteristics of established tree canopies. MethodsX, 6. pp. 1683-1693.

Downs, Nathan J. and Axelsen, Taryn and Schouten, Peter and Igoe, Damien P. and Parisi, Alfio V. and Vanos, Jennifer (2019) Biologically effective solar ultraviolet exposures and the potential skin cancer risk for individual gold medalists of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games. Temperature. pp. 1-20. ISSN 2332-8940

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