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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Podcast: Gut contents reveal wasps’ favourite caterpillars
FameLab winner, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, from the University of Adelaide describes how wasps can be used to save crops from attack by caterpillars in her winning presentation, which is now available as a podcast on ABC radio national. Wasps make perfect agents for biological control. Parasitic wasps choose specific caterpillars to lay their eggs, then when the […]
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Vodcast: Sprigg Geobiology Seminar. Assoc. Prof. Greg Jordan
As part of the Sprigg Geobiology Seminar Series, Associate Professor Greg Jordan, from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania delivered a seminar on the 29th of April, 2016 entitled “Five reasons why we might underestimate past climate change“.
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Transitions Film Festival: advocating for sustainability
The Transitions Film Festival is a visionary festival dedicated to showcasing inspirational documentaries about the social and technological innovations, revolutionary ideas and trail-blazing changemakers that are leading the way to a better world. There are some fabulous films being shown at the Transitions Film Festival, in Adelaide March 20th – 29th May. The film “Racing […]
Best Student Oral Presentation
The Environment Institute would like to congratulate PhD student Tullio Rossi on winning the best student oral presentation at the 4th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World in Hobart recently, for his presentation, ‘Ocean acidification leaves dispersing fish larvae lost at sea,’ Rossi.T, Nagelkerken.I, Connell.S.D (2016). This is the largest global […]
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Bellagio Academic Writing Resident Fellowship
Professor Corey Bradshaw (Sir Hubert Chair of Climate Change, School of Biological Sciences and Environment Institute) has been awarded a prestigious Bellagio Academic Writing Resident Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. It is a joint award with Professor Paul Ehrlich (Stanford University) to write a book about a sustainable future of human wellbeing, while based at […]
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FameLab Competition Winner
The Environment Institute would like to congratulate Erinn Fagan-Jeffries for winning the 2016 national science communication competition FameLab. Erinn spoke about her research on the taxonomy and systematics of parasitoid wasps in her talk ‘Protecting your potatoes: the caterpillar-killing wasps’. You can listen to her presentation available as a podcast on ABC radio national. She will […]
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Podcast: Carp in our rivers
Professor Justin Brookes from the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute spoke with Ian Henschke on 891 ABC Adelaide recently, discussing a potential bio-control agent designed to control the carp problems we have in our rivers. Managing the current carp infestation problem in the Murray River systems has benefits and risks, and how we manage those can all have […]
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Future Earth: providing the knowledge and support to achieve a sustainable world
Future Earth is an international hub to coordinate new, interdisciplinary approaches to research on three themes: Dynamic Planet, Global Sustainable Development and Transformations towards Sustainability. It also aims to be a platform for international engagement to ensure that knowledge is generated in partnership with society and users of science. It is open to scientists of […]
What do wombats, UAV’s and tiger snake venom have in common? They are the focus of our successful 2016 ARC Linkage grants!
Congratulations to Environment Institute researchers who have had success in todays 2016 ARC Linkage Grant announcement! The details of the three successful projects for the EI are below, with all the successful applicants Australia wide listed on the ARC website. Wombats as a model for evidence based management of native fauna Associate Professor Bertram Ostendorf; […]
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Storify NRM Science Conference debrief – did your presentation get featured?
The South Australian Natural Resource Management Conference highlights NRM science underpinning environmental decision making, policy and management in SA. The 2016 Conference showcased 285 presentations across 5 theatres to 1000 attendees and virtual participants via livestream over three days. There was loads of interest and involvement online, with the #SANRM16 hashtag trending. Check out the […]
