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Spatial information, environmental remote sensing & GIS

Remote Sensing

Honours project: Use spatial information tools and data in a wide range of applications and settings, including terrestrial, wetland and marine ecology, wildlife and habitats, land assessment and management and earth science.

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Ecology of Koonamore Reserve

Field work environmental science

Honours project: Research projects with fieldwork including differences in spatial heterogeneity between grazed and ungrazed areas.

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Interactions between microbes & plants

Plant research

Honours project: Learn about the success of invasive species and how we can help increase our ability restore native vegetation.

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Restoring grassy woodlands: interaction between native & invasive grasses

Woodland vegatation image, Greg Guerin

Honours project: Contribute to research into various strategies to restore grassy woodland.

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Interactions between plant parasites & their hosts

Invasive species - blackberry

Honours project: Join the investigation into the use of parasites as biological control agents.

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Mighty macrophytes: Ecology & management of common reed & bulrush

Ecology & management of common reed & bulrush

Honours project: Investigate the ecology and management of common reed and bulrush.

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Viable, but non-culturable bacteria: Understanding the risks for food safety

Salmonella species growing on X.L.D. agar Nathan Reading [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]

Honours project: This project aims to determine the ability of viable but non culturable bacteria to cause disease.

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Australian zeolite for ammonia control in aquarium fish tanks

Aquaculture

Honours project: Study the effects of 'in water and 'in feed' application of zeolite powder for the control of ammonia in aquarium fish display tanks.

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Isolation & evaluation of protein pattern of koala retroviruses

Koala, Cleland

Honours project: Determine the antigenic pattern of isolated Koala retroviruses in South Australia.

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Full genome sequencing of recombinant strains of canine hepatitis

DNA sequencing

Honours project: Full genome sequencing will be performed to find the genomic structure of a new infectious canine hepatitis virus.

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