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Climate change and mental health: can the Flood Impact Framework explain the links between an extreme weather-related event and mental health and wellbeing outcomes

We are looking for capable and motivated candidates with an interest in climate change and mental health. The project explores the relationships between exposure to an extreme weat more...

Supervisor(s): Morgan, Geoff (Associate Professor), Bennett-Levy, James (Professor), Longman, Jo (Dr)

Past climate and environmental impacts on Great Barrier Reef paleoecology over the past 9,000 years.

This project will investigate the links between environmental stress/disturbance, climate, and coral reef composition, diversity and structure by investigating episodes of reef grow more...

Supervisor(s): Webster, Jody (Professor)

Forecasting soil conditions

Not knowing where and how soil responds to climate change and human intervention compromises food, water, climate and energy security. Currently there is a lack of soil process know more...

Supervisor(s): Minasny, Budiman (Professor), McBratney, Alex (Professor)

Understanding drivers of tropical fish range expansions

Warming oceans from climate change is driving an increase in the occurrence of tropical fishes in temperate latitudes. While we are beginning to understand the factors that may limi more...

Supervisor(s): Figueira, William (Associate Professor)

Controls on the Holocene evolution of the Great Barrier Reef: linking 4D numerical modeling and observational data

This project will investigate the biological and geological processes that control the evolution of coral reef systems (e.g. reef communities, stratigraphic ages and growth rates, r more...

Supervisor(s): Webster, Jody (Professor), Chandra, Rohitash (Dr), Salles, Tristan (Dr)

Assessing the range expansion of hard corals into temperate waters

The subtropical endemic coral Pocillopora alicia has recently been observed off the coast of Sydney. This project will seek to document the extent of coverage of this species and to more...

Supervisor(s): Figueira, William (Associate Professor), Sommer, Brigitte (Dr)

Mapping the biogeography of harmful blue-green algae across Australia

There is evidence that the distribution and abundance of harmful blue green algae is changing in Australia. However, the evidence of this is generally limited to a number of reports more...

Supervisor(s): Van Ogtrop, Floris (Dr)

Sustainability Assessment of Cities

The topic of the research is to create a quantitative modelling framework for assessing the absolute sustainability of cities by combining global multi-region input-output (MRIO) an more...

Supervisor(s): Lenzen, Manfred (Professor)

Development of Shale Gas Reservoir Simulator

The aim of this project is to develop a triple porosity rock model coupled with the transport of gas and liquid phases for a more accurate evaluation of the shale gas recovery. more...

Supervisor(s): Shen, Luming (Associate Professor)

Using computer simulations to design better printable solar cells

The ability to print efficient, stable and cheap solar cells near ambient conditions would revolutionise our transition to renewable energy.  Metal halide perovskites have more...

Supervisor(s): Widmer-Cooper, Asaph (Dr)