Earth & Environmental Sciences

Romain Vaucher

Romain Vaucher

Rafael Cabral Carvalho

Rafael Cabral Carvalho

Youseph Ibrahim

Youseph Ibrahim

Natalie Robson

Natalie Robson

Alexandre Wadoux

Alexandre Wadoux

Alica Hoess

Alica Hoess

Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair

Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair

Bethany Smith

Bethany Smith

Brandon Mahan

Brandon Mahan

Hannah Green

Hannah Green

CABAH Cadetship Scheme: Research management cadetship (Old ID 28930)
Michael Bird
05 Apr 2023 - 10 Jan 2024
Magdalena will be trained in research management at the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC), a non-profit organisation in Cairns. She will gain experience in research-informed conservation, government policy development, and community economic development in the tropics (Northern Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, and Papua New Guinea).
North Queensland Proterozoic Metallogenesis (Old ID 27601)
Helen McCoy-West
06 Jun 2022 - 05 Jun 2024
This project will assess the metallogenic potential of the Croydon and southern Etheridge provinces including their potential to host critical mineral resources
FIS/2013/015 Sustainable Management of Sport Fisheries for Communities in Papua New Guinea (Old ID 21249)
Amy Diedrich
01 Mar 2014 - 30 Nov 2018
The project aims to conduct the ecological, fisheries, social, business and tourism research needed to develop a viable local-based sport fishery for Black Bass in Papua New Guinea that can provide alternative livelihoods for local people.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (Old ID 27585)
Alana Grech
01 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2031
ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures. The proposed Centre aims to generate a new direction in knowledge creation based on Aboriginal- and Torres Strait Islander-led approaches to managing Land and Sea Country. The Centre expects to make a legacy contribution by developing complementary Indigenous and Western knowledge frameworks for modelling environmental, cultural, and historical change in Australia over the last millennium and into the near future. Expected outcomes focus on sustainable Indigenous land and sea management planning for future decades. Benefits include improved forecasting of the trajectory of environmental change, an increase in the capacity of Indigenous research, creation of a pipeline for Indigenous students into research, and evidence-based policy-making.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (Old ID 27585)
Michael Bird
01 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2031
ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures. The proposed Centre aims to generate a new direction in knowledge creation based on Aboriginal- and Torres Strait Islander-led approaches to managing Land and Sea Country. The Centre expects to make a legacy contribution by developing complementary Indigenous and Western knowledge frameworks for modelling environmental, cultural, and historical change in Australia over the last millennium and into the near future. Expected outcomes focus on sustainable Indigenous land and sea management planning for future decades. Benefits include improved forecasting of the trajectory of environmental change, an increase in the capacity of Indigenous research, creation of a pipeline for Indigenous students into research, and evidence-based policy-making.
Future proofing and restoring Australia’s tropical seagrasses (Old ID 27805)
Alana Grech
01 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
This project aims to develop and apply a comprehensive framework for restoration of Australian tropical seagrasses using innovative approaches and partnerships. The project expects to provide coastal managers with tools to mitigate and restore seagrass to minimise effects of climate and development related loss, protecting ecosystem services measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. Expected outcomes include new techniques for tropical seagrass restoration, a blueprint for seagrass friendly marine infrastructure, and restoration decision tools applied at local and regional scales. This will provide significant benefits by protecting seagrass ecosystem services and place Australia at the forefront of global seagrass restoration efforts.
Expert technical advice regarding project water quality and catchment modelling (Old ID 31066)
Scott Smithers
03 Jul 2023 - 03 Feb 2026
The project is to provide expert technical advice regarding the water quality and catchment modelling components of the Environmental Impact Statements for the proposed Big Rocks Weir, the raising of the Burdekin Falls Dam and the methodology behind the cumulative impact assessment.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies (Old ID 21109)
Tiffany Morrison
31 Oct 2014 - 31 Dec 2021
The overarching aim of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies is to provide the scientific knowledge necessary for sustaining ecosystem goods and services of the world's coral reefs, which support the livelihoods and food security of millions of people in the tropics. The Centre will enhance Australia's global leadership in coral reef science through three ambitious research programs addressing the future of coral reefs and their ability to adapt to change. A key outcome of the research will be providing tangible benefits to all Australians by bui8lding bridges between the natural and social sciences, strengthening capacity, and informing and supporting transformative changes in coral reef governance and management.
Council improving the water quality of the Great Barrier Reef through the use of smart sensors and the IoT for urban water management (Old ID 23533)
HanShe Lim
01 Feb 2018 - 30 Jun 2019
The primary aim of this grant application is to bring smart city technology into urban water management to improve urban water quality discharging to the Great Barrier Reef by: 1). Developing IOT technology to manage large data sets obtained from existing smart meters and water quality monitoring probes to make effective management decisions; and 2) Supporting the development of new cost effective, real time water quality monitoring technology. This grant application is for purchase of commercially available water quality monitoring probes suitable for a tropical urban stormwater environment, for supporting the development of new real time monitoring technology for nutrients; for the development of data analysis tools using IOT technology for both smart meter water consumption data, sewer pump station overflow data and stormwater water quality data so that the data is available in real time and can be used for effective decision making.
Sequestering carbon and improving sugarcane productivity by enhanced weathering of basalt (Old ID 23432)
Michael Bird
01 Jun 2017 - 31 May 2026
Arresting the build-up of atmospheric CO2 is one of humanity's biggest challenges. In geological time, the weathering of rocks consumes CO2, which is then sequestered as limestone in the ocean, but the natural rate of this process is very slow. In this project we will determine the feasibility of accelerating weathering by introducing crushed basalt (a common and easily weathered rock) into the place on earth with highest CO2 production and potential weathering rates - topsoil in the humid tropics. We will also examine the effects on soil condition and crop growth, which are likely to be beneficial.

Biochar-based fertilizer: supercharging root membrane potential and biomass yield of rice

Distributions of selenium and related elements in high pyrite and Se-enriched rocks from Ziyang, Central China

Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial

The economic value of shark and ray tourism in Indonesia and its role in delivering conservation outcomes

Palaeochannels of Australia's Riverine Plain - reconstructing past vegetation environments across the Late Pleistocene and Holocene

The igneous petrogenesis and rare metal potential of the peralkaline volcanic complex of the southern Peak Range, Central Queensland, Australia

Conservation and enforcement capacity index (CECi): integrating human development, economy, and marine turtle status

Mitigating negative livelihood impacts of no-take MPAs on small-scale fishers

  • 2020
  • Elsevier
  • Researchers:Meira MizrahiStephanie DuceColin SimpfendorferAmy Diedrich

Coupled polymer-membrane equilibration and cavity ring-down spectrometry for the highly sensitive determination of dissolved methane in environmental waters

Archaeal lipid-inferred paleohydrology and paleotemperature of Lake Chenghai during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition

Title: PhD, James Cook University
Reseracher: Alana Grech (Professor)
End Date: 01 Jan 2010
Title: Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honours), The University of Adelaide
Reseracher: Alana Grech (Professor)
End Date: 01 Jan 2003
Title: Economic Geology Research Centre (EGRU), EGRU activities, including workshops and industry engagement days
Reseracher: Helen McCoy-West (Senior Lecturer, Geology (Igneous Petrology and Critical Resources))
Start Date: 01 Jan 2020
End Date: 01 Jan 2025
Title: Geology Industry Advisory Board (JCU), Current chair
Reseracher: Helen McCoy-West (Senior Lecturer, Geology (Igneous Petrology and Critical Resources))
Start Date: 01 Jan 2023
End Date: 01 Jan 2025
Title: JCU Distinguished Professor
Reseracher: Michael Bird (Distinguished Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2010
Title: Universitas 21, Early Career Researcher Award
Reseracher: Tiffany Morrison (Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2012
End Date: 01 Jan 2012
Title: Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Leadership
Reseracher: Alana Grech (Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: Malayalam
Reseracher: Sminto Augustine (Technical Officer)
Title: English
Reseracher: Sminto Augustine (Technical Officer)
Title: Tamil
Reseracher: Sminto Augustine (Technical Officer)