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Drones to look after Tassie animals

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1126-drones-to-look-after-tassie-animals

12 Apr 2021: Drones are being increasingly embraced as a powerful, cost-effective tool in wildlife management. Yee Von Teo will spend the next three years monitoring large mammals in Tasmania using drones for her doctoral research. Her PhD project is supervised
Study quantifies devils’ decline due to facial tumour disease

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1116-study-quantifies-devils-decline-due-to-facial-tumour-disease

4 Mar 2021: New research from the University of Tasmania has estimated the toll a deadly facial cancer has taken on Tasmanian devil populations since the disease was discovered in 1996. In a paper published in Ecology Letters, researchers traced the spread of
White continent, white blokes: shedding Antarctica's exclusionary …

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1113-white-continent-white-blokes-shedding-antarcticas-exclusionary-past

11 Feb 2021: This article was originally published in The Conversation as White continent, white blokes: why Antarctic research needs to shed its exclusionary past. The icy continent has historically been a place for men. First “discovered” in 1820,
Creative & personalised foods for the future

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1130-creative-personalised-foods-for-the-future

22 Apr 2021: First-generation, small-scale commercial additive food manufacturing machines are more accessible and affordable. Additive manufacturing involves producing objects by layering materials one layer at a time. Food additive manufacturing has several
Scientists get to the bottom of wombat cubed poo mystery

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1109-scientists-get-to-the-bottom-of-wombat-cubed-poo-mystery

28 Jan 2021: An international study into how wombats produce their distinctive cube-shaped poo has shed further light on the physics behind this biological puzzle. The research, published today in the journal Soft Matter, expands on the discovery that wombat poo
Scholarship winner's eye on the future of climate change

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1147-scholarship-winners-eye-on-the-future-of-climate-change

29 Jun 2021: “Take all the chances you can, go further, learn more, change lives. ”These are the words that University of Tasmania higher degree by research candidate and alumna Charlotte Jones carries with her as she embarks on an exciting new chapter as a
How a biography brought me to family history

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1142-how-a-biography-brought-me-to-family-history

11 Jun 2021: Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article may contain the names and images of people who are now deceased. Back in the early 2000s, the Australian Dictionary of Biography decided to prepare a supplement
Study reveals attitudes to Hobart's bushfire preparation

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1183-study-reveals-attitudes-to-hobarts-bushfire-preparation

24 Nov 2021: NEARLY one in five people living near bushland in Hobart plan to remain in their homes even under life-threatening bushfire conditions, while four in five expect to experience a serious bushfire during their lifetime, according to data collected
Unravelling the role of climate and forestry in the bushfire disaster

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1134-unravelling-the-role-of-climate-and-forestry-in-the-bushfire-disaster

10 May 2021: The recent Australian bushfires shocked the world. Between August 2019 to March 2020 the fires burned from the subtropics to temperate zone, impacting more than 7 Mha of mostly Eucalyptus forests. These fires broke numerous records and reframed
Tasmania Project identifies inequalities for LGBTIQ

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1140-tasmania-project-identifies-inequalities-for-lgbtiq

9 Jun 2021: Tasmania was the last Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality in 1997 and we now arguably lead the nation in terms of LGBTIQ rights and law reform. However, new research from the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Social Change has