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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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    Economics with experience

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/942-economics-with-experience
    7 Oct 2019: Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in the nineteenth century that economics was ‘the dismal science” because of its pessimistic outlook for mankind. But for University of Tasmania Economics Honours graduate Peter Legg, it’s anything but
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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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    Numbers, nature and a whole new lifestyle

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/957-numbers-nature-and-a-whole-new-lifestyle
    31 Oct 2019: Studying in Tasmania means that international student Prithviraj (Neil) Banerjee gets to be a part-time explorer as well as an economics student. Now, when he’s not studying, he is spending his spare time exploring our State…including scaling
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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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    The state that turns everyone into an outdoors person

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/950-the-state-that-turns-everyone-into-an-outdoors-person
    14 Oct 2019: When Upadhya Anjalie Balachandra saw photos of Tasmania, she immediately wanted to move here for uni. “I found it beautiful! I have loved exploring Tasmania while studying here, it has so much to offer. Before coming to Tassie I was never much of an
  10. Thumbnail for How Simon Baptist is using economics to make a difference

    How Simon Baptist is using economics to make a difference

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/965-how-simon-baptist-is-using-economics-to-make-a-difference
    26 Nov 2019: Beginning at the University of Tasmania, Simon Baptist's career has taken him all over the world. After completing his undergraduate in Hobart, Simon has studied a PhD in Economics at Oxford University, worked for an environmental economics start-up
  11. Thumbnail for Australian islands home to 414 million pieces of plastic pollution

    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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