News: Honours projects - Ecology and environmental science
Histopathology in Pacific oyster health surveillance
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
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?
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
Honours project: Investigate the appropriateness of commercially available transport media for pathogenic marine bacteria isolated from diseased fish.
Can citizen science save the planet?
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
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
Honours project: Plunge into research about the Giant Australian Cuttlefish!
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Survival of Western Pygmy possums in arid environments
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]
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
Honours project: Take part in an international collaboration that will provide the first echidna genome assembly.
