糖心传媒

Ecology and Environmental Management

• A standard approach for evaluating reforestation projects - Dr Marie-Chantale Pelletier
• Towards coastal sustainability – an Australian case study -  / 

Environmental engineering and waste management

• Recycling organic wastes into soil amendment products – impacts on greenhouse gas production - 
• Recycling organic wastes into soil amendment products – impacts on soil nutrient cycling - 
• Use of iron minerals to recover phosphorus from dairy processing wastewater - 

Groundwater

• Groundwater nutrient and pesticides in the Great Barrier Reef - 
• Uncovering the role groundwater discharge has in coastal greenhouse gas and nutrient cycling - 

Medicinal plant chemistry

• Analysis of biologically active metabolites in medicinal plants (scholarship available) - 
• Understanding the biochemical basis for the delicious taste and smell of coffee (scholarship available) - 

Metals and toxicology

• Investigating pesticide and heavy metal distribution from soil, air, water and biota near expanding horticulture activities in the Coffs Harbour NSW region - 
• Chronic Mn toxicity to scleractinian corals. (SeaSim laboratory experiments, Townsville) - 
• Understanding metal toxicity to novel freshwater or marine species - 
• What is the chemical form of iron when other ions are around? -

Palaeosciences

• Archaeogeochemistry in human evolution context -
• Analyses of fossils to reconstruct palaeoenvironment - 
• Geochronology applied to human evolution - direct dating of fossil remains - 
• Deciphering signals of the past – geochemical investigation of human remains (scholarship available) - 

Plant biochemistry, nutrition and pathology

• Analysis of nutritionally important compounds in food (scholarship available) - 
• How does microbial redox activity in the root zone of plants influence phosphorus availability? -
• Studies into stem blight diseases of Horticultural Crops - 

Regional and urban planning

• Sediment accumulation and nutrient sequestration within mangrove nursery structures - 
• Catchment sediment load under different climate change scenarios -  Daniel Rodgers ( (JBP)) and  (SCU)

Society, culture and education

• Communicating science through interdisciplinary collaborations art/science interactions - 

Spatial sciences

• Coinciding weather events (storms, tides, surges, wind), amplifying natural disasters - 
• Building resilience to floods, storm surges, erosion, ecosystem change and water security by local councils - 
• Designing, simulating and implementing engineered log jams for river restoration - 
• Design considerations for constructed waterways for long term stability - 

Vegetated aquatic systems

• Ecosystem accounting for an internationally significant wetland under joint NPWS-Aboriginal management - Marie-Chantale Pelletier
• Insect and pollinators of sub-tropical mangrove systems - 
• Mangrove ecology - 
• Are ghost forests a cryptic source of greenhouse gases? (scholarship available) - 
• Greenhouse gas emissions from aquatic and wetland ecosystems - 
• Water quality across catchments and estuaries - 
• Water quality modelling in aquatic and wetland ecosystems - 
• Richmond River status, community values and aspirations (funding available) -

Pest and Disease

• Managing American Foulbrood Disease in smallholder Pacific Island beekeeping systems - 
• Novel methods for marking Small Hive Beetle (Athida Tumida) - 
• Managing Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella) in smallholder Pacific Island beekeeping systems - 
• Understanding and improving honey bee biosecurity strategies in Pacific Island countries - 
• Development of a bee hive design for the Small Asian Honey Bee (Apis cerana javana) - 
• Understating impacts of Apis cerana on managed Apis mellifera honey bees in far north QLD - 
• Novel approaches to sterilizing beekeeping inputs following bacterial brood infection - 
• Enhancing pest and disease management strategies for Varroa and Tropilaelaps in Pacific Island countries - 

Nutrition

• Developing a floral resource database for the beekeeping industry in Pacific Island countries - 

Technology

• Investigation of alternative frames/foundation configuration systems for smallholder beekeepers in Pacific Island countries - 

Training, Education and Extension

• Factors influencing income and resilience in small-holder beekeeping enterprises in Fiji and Papua New Guinea - 
• Factors influencing income and resilience in queen bee breeding operations in Fiji - 
• A scoping review of Australian honey bee industry levied research - 
• Evaluating the effectiveness and opportunities for improving working conditions for Pacific Island people under the Pacific Labour Mobility Scheme - 
• Identifying challenges and lessons learnt by young professionals in international agricultural research for development - 
• Limitations to women鈥檚 involvement in beekeeping: A case study of Australian women in apiculture - 

Coral reefs

• Drivers of outbreaks of the crown of thorns starfish on coral reefs - 
• Effect of deep water upwelling on coral communities (data project) - 
• Coral Reef Biogeochemistry -
• Honours Project on behaviour and survival of white teatfish -

Fisheries and aquaculture

• Aquaculture of seaweeds, fish or invertebrates -
• Growth and otolith development in juvenile stout whiting -

Marine chemistry

• Heavy metal deposition in estuaries downstream of intensive horticulture activity -
• Climate change mitigation by ocean alkalinity enhancement (enhanced weathering) - 
• Manipulation of iron bioavailability by marine cyanobacteria - 
• Biogeochemistry of reactive oxygen species - 

Marine Invertebrates

• Optimising underwater visual census of exploited coral reef invertebrates - l
• How climate change impacts invertebrate biology and ecology - 

Marine productivity

• Climate change / ocean acidification impacts on marine phytoplankton - 
• Decoding coccolithophores - calcification at the base of marine food webs (scholarship available) - 

Marine sustainability

• Marine turtle use of sub-tropical coastal habitat - 

Honours Project on behaviour and survival of white teatfish

Beekeeping

• Investigating Seasonal Population Dynamics and Economic Thresholds of Varroa destructor in Subtropical Australia - 
• Developing and evaluating novel monitoring methods for Varroa destructor - 
• Optimizing organic acaricide control methods for Varroa destructor in subtropical Australia - 
• Quantifying the decline in pollination services due to loss of feral honey bees - 
• Enhancing pest and disease management strategies for Varroa and Tropilaelaps in pacific island countries - 
• Assessing the nutritional value of pollens crucial to the Australian honey bee industry - 
• Evaluating the impact and outcomes of the pacific labour mobility scheme - 
• Investigating regenerative beekeeping principles and practices - 
• Limitations to women’s involvement in beekeeping: a case study of Australian women in apiculture - 
• Investigating the impact of sugar composition and nutritional value on honey bee health - 

Physiology

• Phosphorus efficiency in buckwheat (scholarship available) - 
• The role of Mycorrhizal fungi in Macadamia sp. (scholarship available) - 

Nutrients and recycling

• Antibiotics in pesticide residues in composted wastes (scholarship available) - 
• The value of raw and composted manures as nitrogen fertilisers (scholarship available) - 
• Struvite as a recycled phosphorus fertiliser (scholarship available) - 

• Trends and Outcomes in Seabird Rescue: A 10-Year Retrospective Study in the Northern Rivers Area - Barbara Padalino

• Understanding Turtle Rescue in the Northern Rivers: A 10-Year Review of Causes, Interventions, and Survival Rates - Barbara Padalino

• Understanding Cattle Mortality at NSW Saleyards: Risk Factors and Welfare Improvements - Barbara Padalino

• Horse Transportation Behaviour: Investigating Preferences to Enhance Equine Welfare - Barbara Padalino