Working Group Projects (WGPs)
Below are the list of successful projects, with additional information, such as contacts and outcomes found by clicking on the project title.
| Round | Project and CI(s) | Amount awarded |
| 1 | Coping with
change: resilience of marine social-ecological systems Professor Terry Hughes, Coral Reef Centre of Excellence, James Cook University |
$90,000 |
| 1 | Recent Human Impact
on Australian Ecosystems (OZPACS) Dr Peter Gell, University of Ballarat |
$79,000 |
| 1 | Multidisciplinary
approaches to key Australian biodiversity challenges of 2010 and beyond. Dr Dan Faith, The Australian Museum, NSW |
$88,000 |
| 1 | Plant exploitation
and domestication east of the Wallace Line: movement, manipulation and management
of plant biodiversity Dr Tim Denham, Monash University, School of Geography & Environmental Science |
$87,450 |
| 1 | Land-Ocean correlation of long Quaternary records
from the southern hemisphere on orbital and sub-orbital timescales Professor Peter Kershaw, Monash University |
$41,000 |
| 1 | An ecological
history of Australia's temperate marine environments: accounting for the
shifting baseline syndrome Dr Sean Connell, University of Adelaide, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
$30,000 |
| Round | ||
| 2 | Integrating historical, ecological,
molecular and geographic data to reconcile Australian Biotic radiations
- using eucalypts and song birds as a case study. Prof David Bowman, Charles Darwin University |
$20,254 |
| 2 | Human-land interactions of Australia's earliest
inhabitants: adaptation and impact. Prof Jim Bowler, University of Melbourne |
$30,000 |
| 2 | Relief v Antarctic ice: passive or active drivers
of Cenozoic climatic change Prof Jim Bolwer, Univesity of Melbourne |
$ 5,000 |
| 2 | Evolutionary
history of the Australian biota Dr Margaret Byrne, CALM; Prof David Bowman, University of Tasmania; and Dr David Yeates, CSIRO Entomology |
$88,290 |
| Round | ||
| Evolution of short-range endemic taxa associated
with troglobitic and groundwater Prof Andy Austin, University of Adelaide, Dr Steve Cooper, SA Museum & Dr Bill Humphreys, WA Museum. |
$75,200 |
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| 3 | Habitat reconstruction and restoration: securing
biodiversity assets in the face of climate change A/Prof David Paton, University of Adelaide, Prof Andy Lowe, Dept. for Environment and Heritage & Prof Bob Hill, University of Adelaide |
$64,950 |
| 3 | Role of Melanesia in the diversification
of the Australian terrestrial biota Dr Ken Aplin, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems; Prof Steve Donnellan, SA Museum; and Prof Arthur Georges, University of Canberra |
$58,754 |
| Round | ||
| 4 | SahulTime: An Interactive Exploration of Australia's Cultural and Natural History Aim(s): Dissemination of EFN Network knowledge as a publicly accessible visual resource for education, environmental management and academic study. Tim Denham, Monash University |
$10,000 |
| 4 | Adelaide
Conference on Mathematical Evolutionary Biology 2008. Inaugural. Aim(s): To bring together mathematicians and evolutionary biologists from around Australia, and internationally, to initiate collaborative research projects through the discussion of current research problems and approaches. Topics to be discussed include biomathematical approaches to climate change and biodiversity, phylogeny and taxonomy, and environmental change (eg human impact). It will serve to attract international researchers to Australia, and attract high quality students via meeting attendance and new collaborative research projects. Alan Cooper, University of Adelaide, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
$8,000 |
| 4 | The evolution of dispersal and
population growth rate in range-shifting populations. Aim(s): To develop spatially-explicit models describing the effect of range-shift on the evolution of dispersal ability and population growth rate and to marry these models to data. Ben Phillips & Gregory Brown, Tropical Ecology Research Facility, School of Biological Science, University of Sydney |
$9980 |
| 4 | Understanding the Drivers of Biodiversity Gradients: Towards a Process-Based
Approach Aim(s): To develop novel, process-based approaches to understanding regional variation in biodiversity. Sean Connolly, James Cook Univesity, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine & Tropical Biology |
$10,000 |
| 4 | Southern Connections and Convergences:
climate, environment and cultural adaptations in the cool temperate southern
hemisphere. Aim(s): To bring together a working group of scientists and scholars with comparative interests in the deep environmental and cultural history (late Pleistocene through Holocene and into the historical period) of the three cool temperate regions of the south Pacific: Tasmania, southern New Zealand and southern Chile. A. Anderson & Simon Haberle, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University. |
$9990 |
| Round | ||
| 5 | An interactive identification guide to Australian invertebrates for students, ecologists, and environmental agencies and assessment companies. A. Austin, The University of Adelaide |
$40,000 |
| 5 | Expanding the national and global implications our frameowrk: a climate data tool, a first product for the global 'biodiversity observation network' (GEO BON). |
$40,000 |
| 5 | Added modules on the SahulTime: An interactive Exploration of Australia's Cultural and Natural History T. Denham, Monash University |
$23,000 |
| 6 | Assessing the potential of the palaeontological resource in southern Australia. B. Hill, University of Adelaide l & T. Flannery. |
$50,000 |
| Round | ||
| 7 | Development of a symposia on plant systematics and evolution to feature in the International Botanical Congress program 2011 B. Hill & M. Byrne, Western Australian Herbarium. |
$5,000 |
| 7 | A database of Cretaceous and Cenozoic plant fossil localities and their contents as a web resource. B. Hill, University of Adelaide |
$25,000 |
| 7 | An interactive identification guide to Austrlian invertebrates for students, ecologists, and environmental agencies and assessment companies. A. Austin, The University of Adelaide |
$37,389 |
| 8 | A tasmanian on-line dendrochronology database and collection Tasmanian wood samples. D. Bowman, University of Tasmania |
$39,757 |
| 8 | Continue work on developing an understandign of e-Research applications for ECRs in Australia utilising the Australasian Pollen and spore Atlas (APSA: Part 2). S. Haberle, Australian National University |
$15,000 |
| 8 | Surviving a dustry Ice Age - identifying the impacts of a biotic response to climate change in Quaternary Australia. A.Cooper and J. Austin, University of Adelaide, S. Donnellan, SA Museum. |
$28,000 |
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