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Highland Statistics Course
A reminder for those interested to register in the Highland Statistics Course. The course is on Introduction to Linear mixed effects models, GLMM & MCMC with R, and will take place the week of 20 June, 2016. For course details please see the Highland Statistics website.
SARDI Women’s Science Bursary
The Environment Institute would like to congratulate University of Adelaide student, Jasmin Martino for winning the 2016 SARDI Science Bursary for Women. Jasmin is currently undertaking a PhD in Marine Biology, supervised by Professor Bronwyn Gillanders, Dr Zoe Doubleday and Dr Tony Fowler (SARDI). Ms Martino will use the $1500 bursary to help support research […]
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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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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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Research Tuesdays. Unreconciled: Museums, Galleries and Aboriginal Art History
Don’t miss out on Research Tuesdays Seminar presented by Dr John Carty on 14 June, 2016. Dr John Carty is Head of Anthropology at the South Australian Museum. The value of the South Australian Museum is unquestioned. It holds among the most extensive and important collections of Aboriginal creativity and material culture in the world. But […]
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Killer vine helps destroy invasive European weeds
A recent article in New Scientist has highlighted research by Robert Cirocco from the University of Adelaide using plants as weapons against invasive weeds. Many weeds that were introduced into Australia by the European settlers of the early 1800s are now causing native plants to struggle in their natural environments. Research into the use of the […]
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News story: SA Museum research shows Mount Lofty Ranges bandicoots need room to mingle
Professor Steve Cooper, Principal Researcher at the SA Museum and an affiliate of the University of Adelaide was recently interviewed for a news article about his research into the southern brown bandicoots’ inability to easily move around the SA landscape to mix and breed with other bandicoots. The three main areas these bandicoots are found […]
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