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4
Sep
TropWATER wins national business environment award
James Cook University has won a prestigious award for helping safeguard the environment near Queensland ports.A team including JCU’s Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) has picked up a Business Higher Education Round Table (BHERT) award for an Outstandi...
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Aug
Diplomatic interest in TropWATER research
For the past 15 years, TropWATER’s Professor Eric Wolanski has developed a collaboration with a Portuguese university which has recently caught the attention of the Australian Ambassador to Portugal, Ms Claire Rochecouste. It was when Prof. Wolansk...
19
Jun
TropWATER’s Alumni Dr Hector Barrios-Garrido at the International Sea Turtle Society Symposium
The 39thedition of the International Sea Turtle Society Symposium (ISTS) just happened in Charleston, USA, gathering more than 800 attendees.Dr Hector Barrios-Garrido is a TropWATER alumni now Associate Professor at the University of Zulia (Venez...
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May
Exciting new partnership with OzFish Unlimited
TropWATER is proud to announce a new partnership with OzFish Unlimited. OzFish is a not-for-profit organization that was launched in 2015 with the aim of protecting and restoring fish habitat around Australia and involving recreational fishermen from...
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Apr
TropWATER Scientist invited to the European Union Council Presidency
Following the publication of two very influential books, Professor Eric Wolanski has been invited to give a talk on May 9th, 2019 to the European Union Council Presidency in the Bucharest Palace, Romania.His latest books: 'Estuarine Ecohydrology....
6
Feb
Coasts and Estuaries- The Future
New book release led by Professor Eric Wolanski. JCU’s adjunct professor Eric Wolanski is the lead editor of a new book covering all aspects of coasts and estuaries in a changing world. The book entitled “Coasts and Estuaries, the future” desc...
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Nov
A painted turtle hatchling brings hope
After five years of annual monitoring for adult painted turtle, a tiny hatchling is recorded for the first time in Australia at the tip of Queensland. The survey is led by Queensland government researcher Alastair Freeman in conjunction with the loca...
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Nov
New edition of Eric Wolanski’s “Coastal Wetlands” book
JCU’s Professor Eric Wolanski has just published the second edition of “Coastal Wetlands- An Integrated Ecosystem Approach”. The book, co-edited by world experts in coastal ecosystems Gerardo Perillo (Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía), Dona...
29
Aug
Three new PhD projects focused on redclaw crayfish
2019 JCU Redclaw crayfish PhD project 1 - sperm technologies2019 JCU Redclaw crayfish PhD project 2 - egg & embryo technologies2019 JCU Redclaw crayfish PhD project 3 - husbandry technologies...
15
Aug
Clever little fish
Sometimes animals surprise us. We are familiar with dogs catching frisbee, parrots talking and the cat that ninja-grabs at twine, but fish performing party tricks. Mmmmm what’s going on here?A quirky behaviour exhibited by a freshwater fish has...
