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PhD opportunity: Create a platform to test smart grid operation mechanisms
This project aims to develop, test, and verify the impacts of local markets on the operation, profit and business model of the aggregator. To that end, the game theory will be used to form the interaction between prosumers, local market platform and the aggregator operation considering the potential of islanded operation as a business case for the aggregator. Applications open until filled.
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Why are our rivers running drier?
Researchers demonstrate that climate change is responsible for the changes in the flow and water volume of rivers globally.
PhD opportunity: Modelling and Quantification of Food Deserts
This project will combine mathematical modelling and data science approaches to improve our understanding of how food deserts arise in a city, accounting for community factors such as median household income, local geography, and other relevant population demographics. Applications close 16 April 2021.
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Job opportunity: McMahan Services are seeking Civil/Structural engineers
McMahon are looking for a Civil/Structural engineering graduate who is keen, enthusiastic, a good communicator and a good team worker who can work full time with various Construction and Demolition sites around the Adelaide CBD.
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Green space or light at night – how do we improve health?
New research questions whether the health benefits of green space exposure may in part be a result of avoiding light at night.
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Computer Science at Adelaide rises in the ranks
The latest QS World University Rankings by Subject have now seen the University of Adelaide claim eight top 100 rankings, with Computer Science now entering the top 100.
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Virtual reality teaching students cattle handling skills safely
University of Adelaide students are learning animal handling skills using virtual technology.
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Researchers bust myths on water market price rise
University of Adelaide researchers have found no evidence of water hoarding, or a clear source of speculative behaviour, driving Murray-Darling Basin water price rises.
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How to take heavy industry emissions to net-zero
Heavy industry is vital to our economy but it contributes to the planet’s climate challenge crisis, which is why transitioning the sector to net-zero carbon emissions is so important.
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Innovative researcher wins Wine Australia Award
Congratulations to research associate Dr Cheryl Suwen Law who has received the Wine Australia Award at the recent 2021 Science and Innovation Awards.
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