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

Striking Gold - Determining the genetic drivers of gold coloration in barramundi (Old ID 26972)
Dean Jerry
16 Aug 2021 - 31 Dec 2026
Australian farmed barramundi exhibit “greying” in the flesh which reduces consumer attractiveness. The rare colour variant “golden skinned” barramundi do not exhibit this negative flesh attribute. This project will determine the underlying genetic basis of the golden skin phenotype & adopt experimental approaches to increases its occurrence.
Pathways for performance improvements of organic light emitting diodes (Old ID 27152)
Bronson Philippa
01 Jan 2021 - 25 Apr 2026
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) represent the next generation technology for displays and lighting. Despite their rapid uptake, one of the factors limiting their application in lighting is the efficiency roll-off at high brightness. This project aims to work towards solutions for this problem using an innovative combination of simulation studies and experimental work. Expected outcomes include improved theoretical and experimental approaches leading to new design rules for OLEDs. This should provide significant benefits such as a pathway for development of improved efficient, high brightness OLEDs for applications in low energy consumption lighting and long-lasting, bright displays.
Road map to coastal restoration assessment (Old ID 27594)
Nathan Waltham
28 Jan 2022 - 31 Mar 2022
Coastal wetlands are under threat from a range of past land use changes. Efforts to restore the value back into wetlands is underway in many places, and demonstrating the success of these efforts requires access to scientific data. This project examines through stakeholder participation the elements of a national road map to coastal and marine restoration. The project outcome will be a framework to implement a national road map for restoration that can be used by stakeholders in planning and completing restoration around Australia.
Governing Changing Oceans (Old ID 27725)
Tiffany Morrison
01 Jun 2022 - 30 Jun 2025
Climate impacts are creating novel marine ecosystems, stimulating new interventions to conserve oceans and communities. Novel interventions include blue economy, blue carbon, and blue conservation approaches that mitigate climate change (e.g. offshore renewable energy development, seaweed restoration, carbon trading) and promote conservation and adaptation (e.g. assisted marine animal and plant migration, marine climate refuge protection, solar-radiation control). Novel interventions require transitions in governance: to realise new opportunities, meet escalating demand for marine resources, and manage risks and unintended consequences. Achievement of these multiple outcomes is limited by a lack of understanding of which governance arrangements are enabling intervention win-wins for nature and people. This SNAPP group works directly with governments, NGOs, and donors to co-create practical guidance on how to govern new marine interventions in a changing climate.
Wildlife in Virtual Reality - a New Way to Educate and Engage (Old ID 22306)
Ickjai Lee
01 Sep 2015 - 01 Mar 2016
This project will harness rapidly evolving technologies to create an exciting new product for raising community awareness of conservation issues. Specifically, the project will use the latest computer wizardry to allow people (locals, visitors, students) to have the unique experience of getting up close and personal with a Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo through virtual reality.
Develop the ResPax (digital) Passbook (Old ID 27496)
Ickjai Lee
09 Feb 2022 - 08 Feb 2023
To develop digital tools for collecting tourism data in the region to enable better decision-making through various data mining approaches.
Genetic audit of Cygnet Bay Pearls’ Akoya oyster broodstock (Old ID 27738)
Dean Jerry
01 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2023
This Project will examine genetic diversity in Cygnet Bay’s current Akoya oyster breeding populations, design mating pairs for a spawning followed by analysis of the genetic diversity in the offspring.
Population assessments and ecology of threatened Queensland plants. (Old ID 29008)
Myles Menz
09 Jun 2023 - 11 Nov 2025
This project involves the assessment of population status, abundance, and ecology of 48 NCA/EPBC Vulnerable to Critically Endangered plant species. State of condition reports or population summaries will be generated for the species identified. We also propose to collect living material to investigate the feasibility for vegetative propagation. The data will be provided to DES for use in reviews of threat classification and development of management programs. The proposed project will generate key information on the status of 48 species of threatened plants and provide an important baseline for ongoing ecological research on these species.
Optimisation of internal pressure for designing industrial buildings (Old ID 21871)
John Ginger
14 Oct 2015 - 31 Dec 2020
The internal pressure in a building is dependent on the sizes of openings in the envelope, and its volume and flexibility, and is a critical loading parameter in building design. Post windstorm damage investigations have shown that incorrect internal pressures are frequently used in building design leading to damage. This project will study the internal pressures generated in buildings with a range of volumes and openings in the envelope. A combination of model scale and full scale tests and theoretical analysis will e used to determine critical parameters for highly turbulent air-flow through openings. Results will be used to revise design data in codes and produce guidelines for consistent, optimal design of industrial type buildings.
MINJAR GOLD - INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF CLAY ON GOLD EXTRACTION (Old ID 27376)
Elsa Antunes
22 Feb 2021 - 30 Nov 2021
The main objective of this thesis is to explore possible ways of mitigating issues associated with the presence of clay in a Carbon in Pulp (CIP) plant. It is hypothesized that heat treatment is an effective way of eliminating these issues as well as providing several subsequent benefits such as improvements to grinding and recovery. Yet, the efficacy of heat treatment is largely determined by the characteristics unique to each clay species. Thus, preliminary testing using equipment in the James Cook University Analytical Centre such as the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) is necessary. This will provide the optimal heat treatment temperature, where the impacts of the heat treatment on viscosity in these conditions can be determined. Furthermore, secondary benefits such as improvements to recovery and grinding will also be quantified. This method allows for a thorough understanding of the impacts of heat treatment and will determine whether it is an effective approach to mitigating issues associated with the presence of clay.
Title: Best Academic Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. (University of New South Wales)
Reseracher: Tao Huang (Senior Lecturer, Electronic Systems and IoT Engineering)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2011
Title: International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) for doctoral studies at the University of Queensland
Reseracher: Robert Kinobe (Associate Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 1999
Title: The University of Queensland Postgraduate Research Scholarship (UQPRS) for doctoral studies at University of Queensland
Reseracher: Robert Kinobe (Associate Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 0200
Title: Research Scholarship for Biomedical Research Training (Graduate course) by World AIDS Foundation and Fogarty International Centre/NIH MIRT programme at Makerere University, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Reseracher: Robert Kinobe (Associate Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 1997
Title: Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons), James Cook University
Reseracher: Adrian Shatte (Senior Lecturer, Information Technology)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2010
End Date: 01 Jan 2013
Title: Associate Editor for Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences
Reseracher: Lyanne Brouwer (Senior Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: Associate Editor for Emu-Austral Ornithology
Reseracher: Lyanne Brouwer (Senior Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2020
Title: Sepracor Award for best overall Oral Presentation (Chemical Institute of Canada)
Reseracher: George Vamvounis (Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering)
Start Date: 01 Jan 1998
Title: Topic Editor, Frontiers in Water
Reseracher: Mahmood Sadat Noori (Senior Lecturer, Civil Engineering)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: Editorial Board Member: Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
Reseracher: Ulf Schmitz (Associate Professor, Bioinformatics)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019