These birds shore are being disturbed
While studying for my bachelor degree over the past few years I began to focus my assessments on a particular bird – the bush stone-curlew; and more specifically what the threatening factors to it...
View ArticleRe-discovering ‘Marege’ – our unique Makassan maritime legacy
Last October I visited Hasanuddin University, in Makassar, southwest Sulawesi — one of the myriad of islands in the archipelagic nation of Indonesia. Arriving on a weekend, my PhD student and I decided...
View ArticleEgg-onomic benefits
As well as being a senior research associate at RIEL I also run a consultancy, Big Gecko, which specialises in all things crocodile. We are very pleased to announce that we have been granted approval...
View ArticleEACU scores top marks in international quality assurance
Within RIEL’s Coastal and Marine Ecology & Management theme, the Environmental Analytical Chemistry Unit (EACU) led by Professor Karen Gibb, provides commercial analytical services in...
View ArticleLessons for Darwin Harbour from Chesapeake Bay
After three full-on days in Washington DC (blog) it was a delight to be picked up at my hotel by Prof Bill Dennison for a leisurely drive east to Annapolis to spend a day and a half with colleagues...
View ArticleThe RIEL MAFIA ready to roll
We are pleased to announce that the power of mobile stable isotope analysis (SIA) is now available here at RIEL. The Mobile Australian Field Isotope Alliance (MAFIA) is a collaboration between James...
View ArticleMuch-needed work around ghost nets in the Arafura and East Timor Seas...
In lieu of the recent decision to cease funding to the award-winning conservation program GhostNets Australia, the need to inform the wider community about the value of efforts to clean up and protect...
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