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Tracking the clast to the blast

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/360-tracking-the-clast-to-the-blast

21 Jul 2017: Did you know that when an underwater volcano erupts, the pumice clasts it creates travel huge distances floating on the oceans, shedding mass as they go? Dr Martin Jutzeler, Lecturer in Earth Sciences, is investigating how far (and fast) these
Why scientists are keeping tabs on life at Earth’s final frontier

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/469-why-scientists-are-keeping-tabs-on-life-at-earths-final-frontier

28 Nov 2017: “One of the things I love telling my students is no matter what David Attenborough says, Antarctica is not pristine. It’s been majorly messed with,” said Mark Hindell, Professor of marine science at the University of Tasmania in Australia.
Combining architecture and agriculture leads to beautiful creation

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/376-combining-architecture-and-agriculture-leads-to-beautiful-creation

17 Aug 2017: A group of Architecture and Design students were lucky enough to put their creative skills into practice on a recent New Colombo Plan-funded study trip to Vietnam. Under the guidance of Dr Helen Norrie, the group explored the use of bamboo for soil
Predicting mine waste environmental impacts before it’s too late

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/273-predicting-mine-waste-environmental-impacts-before-its-too-late

10 May 2017: Mining for precious, base and ferrous metals can result in millions of tonnes of tailings and waste rock, which if left unmanaged can have dire environmental consequences. Poorly designed storage facilities can potentially leak pollution for
Don’t worry about the huge Antarctic iceberg...

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7 Jul 2017: Icebergs breaking off Antarctica, even massive ones, do not typically concern glaciologists. But the impending birth of a new massive iceberg could be more than business as usual for the frozen continent. The Larsen C ice shelf, the fourth-largest
World-class AUV launched

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18 Aug 2017: An innovative new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) capable of diving up to 5,000 metres, operating underneath the ice and gathering data on Antarctic research missions was unveiled today at the University of Tasmania’s Australian Maritime
Explainer: What are marine macrofauna?

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28 Nov 2017: The ocean is full of weird and wonderful creatures, from the enigmatic handfish to the large and ancient Maugean skate. But what about all the organisms we can’t see? As we zoom in on the oceans’ smallest life forms, just before we hit the realm
How can we get faster growing lobsters?

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6 Feb 2017: Audrey Daning Turzan wasn’t interested in studying aquaculture…until the day she went scuba diving. “I used to watch X Files and I wanted to work in forensics. But I wasn’t able to study that, instead I got a Diploma in Fisheries. At first I
Tasmania's new global centre for innovation launched

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17 Mar 2017: Launceston will be home to a new advanced manufacturing facility, producing sensors which would previously have been sourced from global hi-tech giants such as Japan and China. Partners today officially opened the University of Tasmania’s Advanced
Who goes to MONA? Peering behind the ‘flannelette curtain’

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/270-who-goes-to-mona-peering-behind-the-flannelette-curtain

8 May 2017: “I’ve never been with so many bogans in my life. Aren’t they fantastic!” cried an enraptured guest at the 2011 opening of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art. The general opening party debauchery (despite rumours of an impending orgy)
Deadly disease can ‘hide’ from a Tasmanian devil’s immune system

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4 Jan 2017: The Tasmanian devil facial tumour (DFT) cells may use a molecular deception – common in human cancers – that could allow the deadly disease to avoid the animal’s immune system, according to our new research published this month. Recently it
From fish to forests, conflicts to coffee....

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/253-from-fish-to-forests-conflicts-to-coffee

31 Mar 2017: A new international study led by scientists from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and the University’s Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS) has highlighted how humans are being affected by climate-driven changes in the
Melting ice and satellites: how to measure the Earth’s ‘wiggle'

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/293-melting-ice-and-satellites-how-to-measure-the-earths-wiggle

30 May 2017: "In a driverless future, it will be vital that our cars know exactly where they are on the road, down to the millimetre. We’ve found that our current methods of measuring location may not be up to scratch. Changes on Earth’s surface, including
Cows in Antarctica?

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16 Aug 2017: Elizabeth Leane, Associate Professor of English and ARC Future Fellow, and Hanne E. F. Nielsen, PhD Candidate in Antarctic Representations, investigate the unusual history of cows in Antarctica for The Conversation. Domestic animals are rarely
How does the Venus flytrap work?

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28 Nov 2017: "This plant, commonly called Venus' fly-trap, is one of the most wonderful in the world,” Charles Darwin wrote in 1875. What did the species Dionaea muscipula do to receive such lofty praise? Well, it can catch a meal as large as a frog; it can
Here's why fat is everything in the coldest place on Earth

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28 Nov 2017: Nature has dished up some pretty extreme milks over the course of evolution, but hooded seal milk is in a league of its own. While human breast milk contains a relatively modest amount of fat (between three and five per cent), hooded seal milk
Why experts are predicting this species will change the future of food

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28 Nov 2017: As freakishly warm weather continues to wreak havoc on rainfall over the Pacific, the risk of major droughts and flooding has begun to surge around the world. But there’s another threat to our farmlands that’s a whole lot harder to see –
The top 5 sea creatures Australians should be worried about

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28 Nov 2017: One of the most amazing things about Australia is the unique conglomeration of plants and animals that call the country’s bushlands, deserts, and coastal waters home. But the flipside of having so many species that are found nowhere else on the