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Wildlife conservation, plant-animal interactions and restoration ecology
Honours project: Work with scientists in terrestrial ecology and behaviour to providing research outcomes that facilitate the management, conservation and restoration of biodiversity.
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Environmental monitoring with drones: Remote sensing
Honours project: Integrating / calibrating moderate resolution Landsat spectral data with extremely high resolution imaging.
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Environmental monitoring with drones: Vegetation
Honours project: Use drones to measure vegetation biomass from dense point clouds; or detect and discriminate seagrasses.
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Environmental monitoring with drones: Mammals
Honours project: Use drones for thermal sensing of kangaroos and RGB mapping of fur seals.
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Environmental monitoring with drones: Fire
Honours project: Use drones to model fire break design to manage fire while minimising ecological disturbances; or investigate spatial regrowth dynamics of Mallee after a fire.
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Chironomids in extreme environments
Honours project: Non-biting midges (Chironomidae) are very similar to mosquitoes, and are masters at survival.
Morphological evolution and diversification of the elapid snake radiation
Honours project: Investigate the evolution and diversification of the elapid snake radiation using macroevolutionary analyses of 3D morphometric and ecological data.
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How ocean warming & acidification (or nuclear winter) changes wildlife
Honours project: How does ocean warming and acidification affect wildlife?
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Investigating the origin of mammal sex chromosomes
Honours project: Undertake a research project that investigates the origin of therian sex chromosomes
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Fossil history of selected plant taxa
Honours project: Explores a detailed examination of the fossil history of selected plant taxa.
