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Monthly Archives: November 2016

EI members head to Marrakech Climate Change Conference

Governments from around the world will descend in Marrakech this week for the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to tackle the issue of climate change. The Marrakech Climate Change Conference brings together the world’s governing bodies to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change. The central focus of the conference is […]

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Media Release: Humans settled Australia’s arid zone 49,000 years ago

New findings published today, involving University of Adelaide researchers, prove that humans occupied Australia’s arid interior and began developing sophisticated tools 10,000 years earlier than previously documented – around 49,000 years ago. Published in Nature, the findings from the Warratyi Rock Shelter in the desert region of northern South Australia, show it to contain the […]

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New Ground-breaking Software for Water Systems Developed

A new sophisticated software has been developed by the Intelligent Water Decisions Group to help manage our most precious resource: water. Researchers from the Intelligent Water Decisions Group have developed the Pumping Operation for Alternative Water Sources (POAWS) software, which is designed to assist organisations in the complex management of water. The software was developed […]

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ARC success for EI researchers

The Australian Research Council (ARC) grants have just been unveiled today and it’s good news for Environment Institute researchers! Congratulations to EI researchers who have secured ARC funding in the November 1st announcement. Professor Ivan Nagelkerken, Professor Corey Bradshaw and Professor Bronwyn Gillanders have an ARC grant for their project looking into the effect of invasions […]

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