News: Honours projects - Environmental geoscience
Noble gases in ancient fluid droplets in minerals
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Honours projects: Extract rare noble gas isotopes from specific mineral phases such as quartz.
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Fossils under a new light
![Fossil front visible image Georgios Tsiminis](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-fossil-front-visible.jpg?h=b646a0fe&itok=rsvzpMcx)
Honours projects: Use new fluorescence imaging techniques to analyse fossils that range in age from half-a-billion to some tens of thousands of years old.
It’s space water, but not as we know it
![Full moon. Image: Gregory H. Revera, CC BY-SA 3.0](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-full-moon.jpg?h=bfc5f87a&itok=d7Xyypqw)
Honours projects: Explore laser-induced fluorescence of water and aqueous minerals for space applications.
Reconstructing past marine life using ancient DNA
![Linda Armbrecht microscope image](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-11/linda-armbrecht-microscope.jpg?h=414dba20&itok=i_GfOVn3)
Honours project: Reconstruct past marine life using ancient DNA from deep ocean sediments.
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Spatial information, environmental remote sensing & GIS
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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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