College of Science & Engineering

Sophia Love

Sophia Love

Romain Vaucher

Romain Vaucher

Jenny Fisher

Jenny Fisher

Ambili Narayanan

Ambili Narayanan

Sarfaraz Ali

Sarfaraz Ali

Mikaeylah Davidson

Mikaeylah Davidson

Liuxin Chen

Liuxin Chen

Rafael Cabral Carvalho

Rafael Cabral Carvalho

Tom Lloyd

Tom Lloyd

Mohamadreza Chalak Qazani

Mohamadreza Chalak Qazani

Improving the productivity of the Northern Australian livestock sector with the establishment of new legumes varieties (Old ID 23448)
Christopher Gardiner
17 Oct 2017 - 30 Nov 2020
Pasture legumes are quality feed and have benefits for livestock and the environment but few sown legumes are adapted to the vast clay soil regions of the north. JCU has 5 new varieties specifically developed for this region. The project aims is to: • Evaluate establishment techniques for these new legumes • Conduct grazing, pen, plot and soil trials evaluating new varieties • Demonstrate the benefits of legumes in terms of enhance livestock productivity • Undertake climate risk analysis • Engage students with a research focus on nutrition, soils and livestock productivity Uptake of legume technology will result in significant economic, environmental & social benefits
Australian ASEAN Food, Logistics and Technology Network (Old ID 24957)
Iain Gordon
01 Jun 2018 - 31 Dec 2019
The Australia ASEAN region is building trade and cultural relationships across many aspects of society and business. SME's are fundamental to both trade and cultural relationships. The Australia ASEAN Future Food, Logistics and Technology network will support SME's by driving the conversion of Australia and ASEAN's bioscience and technology. The aim is to develop a knowledge network of Australian and ASEAN universities, industry associations and businesses that enables research, cultural exchange and trade.
Mapping the future of Myanmar's human nutrition (Old ID 26719)
Bethany Smith
06 Jan 2020 - 24 Apr 2020
This project aims to utilise Geographical Information System (GIS) software to assist in the generation of maps to improve land use for nutritious food production (eg rice-fish systems (RFS)) in the Ayeyarwady Delta. Maps will be used to inform local governments of RFS suitability, supporting a broader understanding of different land use interactions in a multi-functional landscape setting. Additionally, outcomes will provide ecologically and socially tailored options for food production with an em0hasis on marginal land areas and groups. This will contribute to overarching policy goals of the government for poverty reduction, addressing under-nutrition and rural development.
Next generation training libraries to support Australia's coastal ecosystem monitoring systems (Old ID 27883)
Nicholas Murray
03 Jan 2023 - 28 Jun 2024
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water is seeking to develop the training data sets necessary to support the development of continuous ocean and coastal ecosystem extent mapping across the Australian continent. The mapping is expected to underpin the ongoing development of the National Ocean Accounts and other environmental-economic accounting activities. This project involves collecting training datasets to support models I have previously developed (Murray et al., 2022), so that these models can be employed by the Commonwealth for improved coastal mapping and monitoring.
Fresh and Secure Trade Alliance (FASTA) (Old ID 30029)
Bronson Philippa
01 Jul 2023 - 30 Nov 2030
FASTA is a national research initiative designed to protect and grow Australia's horticultural exports. Within the overall consortium, JCU is developing smart sensor technologies for a variety of pre- and post-harvest applications. We will develop smart traps for real-time monitoring of insect pests in the field and near-infrared spectroscopy methods to identify the species of insects to contribute to management efforts. We will also develop optical scanning methods to remove infested produce from supply chains. Overall, this work contributes towards a large-scale national effort to improve market access, biosecurity and pest management for Australian horticulture.
Regional mapping at the Mt Carlton High-sulphidation Au-Cu-Ag mine (Old ID 23651)
Paul Dirks
01 Sep 2017 - 31 Jan 2018
Past research on Mt Carlton has concentrated on the geological structures exposed in the open pit. The aim of this project is to map the region around the pit areas and develop a geological model that links the deposit to nearby prospects; and work out the extent to which later extensional structures have dismembered and displaced mineralisation. This work is a continuation of the GSQ North Queensland project and work conducted by one PhD student and a post-doctoral fellow who has obtained dates for many of the rock units, but does not have a coherent regional geological model to work with.
Identifying and eliminating future risk from regional Queensland wastewater treatment operations through biosolids technology innovation (Old ID 26919)
Elsa Antunes
04 Jan 2021 - 04 Jan 2024
This fellowship will investigate emergent contaminant content in biosolids, technological solutions to mitigate its impact and how these new technologies can prevent future emergent contaminant related disasters. Six North Queensland city councils are investing in this research project to implement sustainable biosolids management technologies in wastewater plants to mitigate environmental pathogenesis and impact of new emergent pollutants in the region. This research project is aligned with two of the research priorities of JCU: Tropical Ecosystems and Environment and Industries, and Economies in the Tropics. This project will leverage new funding applications in the field of pollutants mitigation and agricultural industry.
Ozflux FNQ tropical rainforest site (Old ID 18293)
Michael Liddell
01 Sep 2009 - 30 Jun 2019
As part of the Australian National Flux Network (Ozflux) the FNQ tropical rainforest site will be required to provide half-hourly average time series of a range of data streams including fluxes of carbon, water and energy. The data will be sent to a central console in Canberra where it will be quality assessed and archived. The processed data will be used by the ACEAS Ecological Monitoring and Synthesis centre in Brisbane after the appropriate data access conditions have been met and post-publication by the original authors.
Determination of Wind Resistance for Australian Roofing Tile Systems (Old ID 22101)
Daniel Smith
01 May 2015 - 01 Feb 2016
Removal of roofing tiles has been observed frequently during post-storm damage investigations in Australia. In order to improve the wind resistance of roofing tiles, the wind loading mechanism must be understood.
Solar Insect Repellents - Prevention of Insect-borne Diseases with Sunlight (Old ID 22156)
Michael Oelgemoeller
01 Jul 2015 - 31 Dec 2017
Following the 'prevention is better than cure' approach, this project will develop procedures for the sustainable production of a powerful insect repellent. It uses Northern Queensland's two major natural resources: sunshine and biomass. The funding will support a PhD project starting in mid-2015.
Title: Professor of Civil Engineering; Chair of Sustainable Cities, University of Melbourne
Reseracher: Anne Steinemann (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2015
End Date: 01 Jan 2022
Title: I was made a Distinguished Professor for outstanding achievement at JCU
Reseracher: Lin Schwarzkopf (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers (QAMT) and the Townsville Branch of the QAMT
Reseracher: Shaun Belward (Associate Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2011
End Date: 01 Jan 2020
Title: Program Manager / Senior Research Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography / CIRES, California NIDIS
Reseracher: Anne Steinemann (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2012
End Date: 01 Jan 2015
Title: PhD, University of New South Wales
Reseracher: Tao Huang (Senior Lecturer, Electronic Systems and IoT Engineering)
Title: Master, The University of Adelaide
Reseracher: Tao Huang (Senior Lecturer, Electronic Systems and IoT Engineering)
Title: Bachelor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Reseracher: Tao Huang (Senior Lecturer, Electronic Systems and IoT Engineering)
Title: (Australian) Public Service Medal (PSM)
Reseracher: Jon Day (Adjunct Principal Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2004
Title: Natural Park Technician, Generalitat Valenciana - Vaersa
Reseracher: Daniel Montesinos Torres (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2007
End Date: 01 Jan 2009
Title: Ph.D. Student, CSIC
Reseracher: Daniel Montesinos Torres (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2002
End Date: 01 Jan 2007