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10 exciting new PhD projects in environmental sciences

Posted on Oct 22 2014 by Corri Baker

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Hot tip: how to give the land a break after a fire

Posted on Oct 20 2014 by Corri Baker

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eScience. Nautilus: The Australian living fossil under threat

Posted on Oct 20 2014 by Corri Baker

"Irony is rare in science, and unknown in nature; it is a purely human concept. Yet there is a sad ironic twist to the likely future fate of the cephalopod nautilus, a shelled mollusc that is the last remnant of an ancestral order stretching back 500 million years, and who's exquisite, iconic and endlessly copied shape has not changed for more than 115 million years."

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"Alien" fossils found on Kangaroo Island have been identified as human relatives

Posted on Oct 16 2014 by Corri Baker

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A Hypothetical Forum: Fast Forward to 2050 - Water Scenarios for South Australia’s future

Posted on Oct 16 2014 by Corri Baker

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Media Release: Ancient fossils confirmed among our strangest cousins

Posted on Oct 14 2014 by Corri Baker

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Modelling species distributions in fragmented landscapes: Seminar & short course presented by Fangliang He

Posted on Oct 8 2014 by Corri Baker

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PhD position: Reconstructing Australian megafaunal extinction histories using luminescence dating techniques.

Posted on Oct 7 2014 by Corri Baker

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7000 year old German farmer helps uncover genetic history of Europeans

Posted on Sep 18 2014 by Corri Baker

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Vodcast: Satellite imagery tells a 25 year story - Erika Lawley

Posted on Sep 10 2014 by Corri Baker

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