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  2. Thumbnail for Six tonnes of plastic removed from remote island's beaches

    Six tonnes of plastic removed from remote island's beaches

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/879-six-tonnes-of-plastic-removed-from-remote-islands-beaches
    3 Jul 2019: Dr Jennifer Lavers' research revealed in 2017 that the tiny uninhabited island was polluted with the highest density of plastic debris ever recorded. Part of the UK’s Pitcairn Islands territory, the island is so remote that it’s usually visited
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    Why plastic plants are blooming on campus

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/898-why-plastic-plants-are-blooming-on-campus
    31 Jul 2019: Banner image: Growing Seed Point 1, by Dr Linda Erceg. Big, twisting leafy vines made from irrigation pipe and cable ties are the newest addition to a growing art installation project at the University of Tasmania’s Inveresk campus. Artist and
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    Teaching careers attracting high achievers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/871-teaching-careers-attracting-high-achievers
    4 Jun 2019: Jordan Green, a Master of Teaching student based at the University of Tasmania’s Sandy Bay campus in Hobart, was inspired by his own high school experience to pursue a career in teaching. “Throughout high school, I had some really good teachers
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    Steering tech in the right direction

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/911-steering-tech-in-the-right-direction
    21 Aug 2019: For Molly Steer, raising the profile of women in STEM is a cause close to her heart- and one she was able to pass on to the next generation of students at the Big Day In tech event on the University of Tasmania’s Sandy Bay campus. “I'm a huge
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    Little study has big insights

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/953-little-study-has-big-insights
    17 Oct 2019: A study of Little Penguins in south-eastern Tasmania has shed light on how the marine predators adapt to subtle changes in environmental conditions to find food. To record their foraging behaviour, Little Penguins from three colonies around Storm
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    Got a great fish name handy?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/938-got-a-great-fish-name-handy
    3 Oct 2019: Banner image by Dr Rick Stuart-Smith. A new census of what is believed to be the world’s rarest fish has identified that there are fewer than 100 adult Red handfish left on the planet, in the only two known surviving populations near Hobart,
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    Turning fiction into a PhD

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/966-turning-fiction-into-a-phd
    28 Nov 2019: Writer and psychotherapist, Liz Evans has taken her professional experience and love of domestic noir novels into her Creative Writing PhD research, which involves writing a novel as well as a thesis. I’m looking at how contemporary psychological
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    Crash test... or splash test?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/955-crash-test-or-splash-test
    17 Oct 2019: Banner image: Drop weight impact chamber. Crash testing cars is generally simple and pretty inexpensive…but underwater vehicles– with massive price tags and complex engineering –need a different approach. A world-first facility that will be
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    How two students made the world their classroom

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/961-how-two-students-made-the-world-their-classroom
    18 Nov 2019: Most students don’t think about changing the world while studying an undergraduate course - that’s just what Edwina Knevett and Zoe Sellers set out to investigate when they joined Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a charity that helps link
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    Australian islands home to 414 million pieces of plastic pollution

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/860-australian-islands-home-to-414-million-pieces-of-plastic-pollution
    18 May 2019: Banner image: Dr Jennifer Lavers  and Silke Stuckenbrock with plastic debris on Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Image credit: Silke Stuckenbrock. A survey of plastic pollution on Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Islands has revealed the territory’s beaches

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