News: Honours projects - Ecology and environmental science
Histopathology in Pacific oyster health surveillance
![pacific oyster](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/pacific-oyster.jpg?h=4011a40e&itok=tA22Kvt_)
Honours project: Look for health and signs of disease in Coffin Bay oysters, and develop the procedures for a statewide oyster health surveillance program.
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Physical enrichment of zebrafish held for research
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Honours project: Validate methods for assessing stress in Zebrafish before comparing tanks of fish with and without environmental enrichment.
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What's the best diet for a zebrafish?
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Honours project: Develop diet recipes for a variety of life stages of zebrafish.
Efficacy of commercial transport media swabs for use in aquatic animal disease diagnosis
![Aquaculture](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/aquaculture-24582.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=lAF1xwT6)
Honours project: Investigate the appropriateness of commercially available transport media for pathogenic marine bacteria isolated from diseased fish.
Can citizen science save the planet?
![Bandicoot visiting researcher Jasmin Packer's Hideyhole in the Adelaide Hills](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-11/packer-bandicoot-hideyhole.jpg?h=6eb229a4&itok=DmSNjOoE)
Honours project: Discover better ways to transform citizen science into behaviours that have a direct benefit for our endangered bandicoots.
Evolution of sterile helpers in bees, ants and wasps
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Honours project: Explore evolutionary genetics by explaining the evolution of sterile helpers in the eusocial Hymenoptera - ants, bees and wasps.
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Ecological selection of Giant Australian Cuttlefish
![Juvenile giant Australian cuttlefish developing under rocks in the waters of South Australia. Fred Bavendam, Author provided](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/2018-11/news-cuttlefish.jpg?h=8869a3dd&itok=rmrP6lLq)
Honours project: Plunge into research about the Giant Australian Cuttlefish!
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Survival of Western Pygmy possums in arid environments
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Honours project: Do western Pygmy possums show genetic evidence of selection for enhanced survival in arid environments that may be useful for predictive translocations ahead of climate change impacts?
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Echidna CSI [Conservation Science Initiative]
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Honours project: Get involved the citizen science project that combines field ecology and molecular biology for echidna conservation.
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The echidna genome project
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Honours project: Take part in an international collaboration that will provide the first echidna genome assembly.