Tagged with Environment

The burgeoning popularity of adventure racing events in national parks is causing increasing environmental concern, says research from Griffith and Murdoch Universities. This is just one of the topics on the agenda at next week’s two day international symposium People in Parks: Managing the Environmental Impacts of Visitors. Organised by Griffith University’s Environmental Futures Centre […]

Uncovering the science behind the diminishing levels of coral on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the goal of a unique study led by Griffith University. In collaboration with the University of Queensland, The Australian Institute of Marine Science and The Georgia Institute of Technology, the multidisciplinary research team is examining how rising carbon dioxide levels […]

Plans for a northern foodbowl seriously threaten the already vulnerable freshwater ecosystems of northern Australia. This is one of the topics on the agenda at the 14th International Riversymposium today. Supported by Griffith University, the International Riversymposium is the preeminent international river management conference. Held from September 26-29 in Brisbane, it is exploring the multiple […]

Griffith Professors Hamish McCallum and Alan Mackay-Sim have scored a double win for the university in the Australian Museum Eureka Awards, the most prestigious awards in Australian science. Professor Hamish McCallum from the School of Environment is part of the winning team — affectionately known as the ‘Devil’s Advocates’-awarded the Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental […]

Professor Scott Baum from the Griffith University Urban Research Program cycled about 240km recently in the Rio Tinto Ride to Conquer Cancer. Professor Baum, with his team Breast Friends for a Cure and thousands of other men and women, cycled from Brisbane to the Somerset Region and back over two days, all in the name […]

Conservation work to protect the Tasmanian devil is under the spotlight as a team of specialist researchers reach the finals of this year’s 2011 Annual Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. The team, affectionately known as the ‘Devil’s Advocates’ and which comprises researchers from Griffith University, The University of Sydney, The University of Tasmania, Save the Tasmanian […]

The Australian Rivers Institute (ARI) will host the Brisbane launch of a new book about Australia’s waterways by Peter Cullen on Friday, June 17. This Land Our Water, Water Challenges for the 21st Century, A Collection of Papers is a celebration of the late Professor Peter Cullen AO, a respected advocate for the land and […]