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Articles
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Environment and Energy
Plastic is no longer just a marine problem
鈥淢ore and more, we are finding that microplastics are in the atmosphere, in the mountains, in the ice caps, in the human environment.鈥�
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Environment and Energy
How microplastics are impacting our precious plankton
Researching plankton might not seem like the most interesting organisms to study in the ocean.
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Environment and Energy
Helping oyster farmers to weather environmental challenges
It鈥檚 been a crazy twelve months for Batemans Bay oyster farmer Ewan McAsh. This time last year he was fighting bushfire flames at the front door of his oyster farm office and storage sheds.
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Environment and Energy
The two of us: Jeff Kelleway and Zachary Nagel-Tynan
PhD Candidate Zachary Nagel-Tynan is investigating what processes are occurring below ground in coastal wetland ecosystems. His supervisor is School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow Dr Jeff Kelleway.
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Environment and Energy
August_ The two of us: Duane Robinson and Brendan Banfield
PhD Candidate Brendan Banfield is passionate about renewable energy and sustainability. His research is investigating how smart technologies in buildings can be used to reduce electricity costs and increase thermal comfort. His supervisor is Duane Robinson who was appointed Deputy Director of the SRBC in 2015, and more recently Director of the APQRC in 2020.
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Community, Environment and Energy, Science and Technology
Researcher spotlight: Daniel Daly
This month we are focussing on United Nation鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, to raise the profile of researchers and projects working toward this important goal to ensure we protect our environmental future.