Abstract 1. Nurse plants modify the environment beneath their canopies to create favourable habitats for propagule recruitment. Nurse plants are potentially valuable tools for ecological restoration—yet empirical… Read more “New Paper – Barriers to restoration: pollution alters nurse effects for an ecosystem engineer”
Congratulations to Cátia Freitas
Congratulations to our PhD student Cátia Freitas, who won the Deakin University Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and the People’s Choice award for her fantastic presentation on… Read more “Congratulations to Cátia Freitas”
New Paper: ‘There’s a much bigger world of science than just Australia’: Australian students’ development of disciplinary knowledge, transferable skills and attributes through a New Colombo Plan short-term mobility program to Japan
One in four Australian undergraduate students participates in learning abroad during their study. Since 2012, faculty-led mobility programmes have overtaken exchange programs to become the most popular… Read more “New Paper: ‘There’s a much bigger world of science than just Australia’: Australian students’ development of disciplinary knowledge, transferable skills and attributes through a New Colombo Plan short-term mobility program to Japan”
PhD project: Developing seaweed aquaculture production of Australian ‘hijiki’ alternatives
We are seeking a highly-motivated PhD student to join our DeakinSeaweed research group for a project based at the Deakin Warrnambool Campus examining the potential for cultivation… Read more “PhD project: Developing seaweed aquaculture production of Australian ‘hijiki’ alternatives”
New Paper: Reading over and under the waves: A study of ocean picture books for children
Marine science picture books have the capacity to shape what young people know and how they think about ocean environments and marine biodiversity. Despite academic scholarship on… Read more “New Paper: Reading over and under the waves: A study of ocean picture books for children”
Dr Alecia Bellgrove 