College of Science & Engineering
Sophia Love
- Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
- sophie.love@jcu.edu.au
Elle Robertson
- Doctor of Philosophy (Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies)
- elle.robertson@jcu.edu.au
Romain Vaucher
- Senior Lecturer, Sedimentology
- romain.vaucher@jcu.edu.au
Jenny Fisher
- Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching
- jenny.fisher@jcu.edu.au
Ambili Narayanan
- Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
- ambili.narayanan@my.jcu.edu.au
Sarfaraz Ali
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- sarfaraz.ali@jcu.edu.au
Mikaeylah Davidson
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- mikaeylah.davidson@jcu.edu.au
Liuxin Chen
- Lecturer
- liuxin.chen@jcu.edu.au
Rafael Cabral Carvalho
- Lecturer, Marine Geoscience
- rafael.cabralcarvalho@jcu.edu.au
Tom Lloyd
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Ecosystems
- tom.lloyd@jcu.edu.au
Audio & Environmental Monitoring Equipment for Biodiversity
Proposed Use of Funds: To purchase a number of audio and environmental temperature monitoring units, to facilitate monitoring of animals and their environment for a range of collaborative projects in our group.
Audio & Environmental Monitoring Equipment for Biodiversity
Proposed Use of Funds: To purchase a number of audio and environmental temperature monitoring units, to facilitate monitoring of animals and their environment for a range of collaborative projects in our group.
Large leaf gas exchange chamber and light source
We propose to purchase a large leaf chamber and accompanying light source (6800-13L, Licor Inc.) for use with a recently purchased Licor 6800 portable photosynthesis system. The large leaf chamber and light source will significantly increase the range of applications for which the portable photosynthesis system can be used.
Large leaf gas exchange chamber and light source
We propose to purchase a large leaf chamber and accompanying light source (6800-13L, Licor Inc.) for use with a recently purchased Licor 6800 portable photosynthesis system. The large leaf chamber and light source will significantly increase the range of applications for which the portable photosynthesis system can be used.
Ecoacoustics Training Modules
Development of four one hour training ecoacoustic research training modules.
Each module will be delivered by zoom and recorded.
Materials and recordings will all be made available under a CC BY 4.0 open access licence which acknowledges DCCEEW NSW and has their logo.
Deadline for delivery 1 March 2026
Listening to Country – Acoustic data storage, analysis and deployment support
This is a project with the Threatened Species Operations (TSO), Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, QLD government.
TSO is supporting Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger organisations to undertake landscape scale acoustic montoring projects. Each team will be conducting tailored projects that focus on threatened species.
Acoustic data will be used to monitor presence and absence of threatened species, population density and movement and threatening processes such as pest species.
Data collected by ranger groups is to stored and analysed with reports provided to the contributors. The reporting process is to provided in a fit for purpose manner that suits the needs of the contributors.
TSO, JCU and partners will provide pre and post deployment training workshops that provide participants with practical skills in deployment, data collection and monitoring project design
Mitigating heat stress in tropical sheep systems through novel feed solutions
Rising temperatures and intensifying heatwaves in tropical Australia pose a growing threat to sheep welfare, productivity, and the long-term sustainability of the livestock sector. This project investigates the use of feed additives as innovative strategies to reduce the impact of heat stress in sheep.
Sensors to detect body temperature in heat-stressed sheep
This study aims to validate sensors as a reliable indicator of core body temperature in heat-stressed sheep.
Prototyping virtual field trip resource design with an active immersive blend
JCU Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant, 2024 recipient, for developing virtual field trips
Improving Hepatocellular Carcinoma Immunotherapy
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) constitutes 80-90% of all liver cancers and is the third leading cause of cancer-related death globally. There are just a few therapeutic options available for HCC patients. The most promising is immunotherapy, which uses the antibodies atezolizumab, an immune check point inhibitor, and bevacizumab an angiogenic inhibitor, that direct the immune system to kill HCC tumour cells.
However, immunotherapy is effective in just 30% of HCC patients and can in some instances promote tumour progression and have adverse effects. The major reason for this is that the HCC immune environment is immunosuppressed in 70% of patients, and the molecular events leading to this are poorly understood.
This project will use murine HCC models and atezolizumab and bevacizumab therapeutic equivalents, single cell sequencing and advanced cell biology to decipher how HCC escapes immunotherapy, and hence determine new therapeutic targets to treat immunosuppressed HCC.
Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial
- 2020
- Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
- Researchers:Michael Bird
Factors affecting elasmobranch escape from turtle excluder devices (TEDs) in a tropical penaeid-trawl fishery
- 2020
- Elsevier B.V.
- Researchers:Colin Simpfendorfer
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01 Jan 2003
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01 Jan 2020
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01 Jan 2025
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01 Jan 2023
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01 Jan 2025
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01 Jan 2018
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01 Jan 2020
Title:
JCU Distinguished Professor
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01 Jan 2010
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01 Jan 2018
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01 Jan 2010
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01 Jan 2015
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01 Jan 2004
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01 Jan 2006