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Future wildfire warning for Australia

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/236-future-wildfire-warning-for-australia

7 Feb 2017: University of Tasmania Professor of Environmental Change Biology David Bowman led an international collaboration - including researchers from the University of Idaho and South Dakota State University - to compile a global satellite database of the
Bringing sustainability into the 21st century

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/337-bringing-sustainability-into-the-21st-century

3 Jul 2017: A team of University of Tasmania students has been awarded for their innovative approach to digitising sustainability data gathering. The 2016 ICT Project “Digitran" team won the 2017 Undergraduate Tertiary Students prize at the recent iAwards.
Researchers keen on quinoa's salty secret

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30 Oct 2017: A new study into the breeding of salt-tolerant crops has made an important finding, which could prove instrumental in long-term efforts to address global food security. The research, published in the journal Cell Research, found that quinoa, which
Hear two of our leading scientists discuss their work

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28 Aug 2017: "The art of science: one opinion on how to be a successful researcher" (Professor Barry Brook)Science is the systematic study of the natural world using observation and experiment. Art is the flourish of human creativity, imagination and emotion.
#ImReady is set to help kids get healthier

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31 Jul 2017: The University of Tasmania is funding a project which aims to find lasting ways to improve Tasmania’s childhood and adolescent obesity and overweight statistics, which are some of the highest in the country. The inaugural #ImReady project will help
Leading lobster work lands commercial partnership

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14 Sep 2017: A Tasmanian firm with a world-class pedigree in the mariculture sector is partnering with the University of Tasmania to commercialise ground-breaking research into rock lobster production. Despite the high value of rock lobsters, until now the long
Eyes in the sky helping climate research

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5 Sep 2017: New drone technology which enables scientists to better assess the impact of climate change in Antarctic regions through analysing fragile moss has been developed by University of Tasmania scientists. Associate Professor Arko Lucieer and Dr Zbyněk
Full marks for Teacher Development Initiative

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28 Aug 2017: Nardia Broomhall has never shied away from a challenge. Her decision to put her student cap back on this year and enrol in the Teacher Development: Inclusive Education Specialisation Initiative, after almost two decades as an educator, are testimony
Research hub to grow forest innovation

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14 Dec 2017: With a track record of research and innovation in timber stretching back decades, the University of Tasmania is the ideal place for the National Institute of Forest Products Innovation to base its Launceston hub. The institute is made up of two
How researchers are trying to save Australia's precious native…

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28 Jun 2017: There has been a widespread decline of many native marsupials, with 29 Australian mammals now extinct – the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world. A further 30 per cent of our surviving mammal species are now listed as threatened. 29the