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  2. Thumbnail for Avian influenza has killed millions of seabirds around the world: Antarctica could be next

    Avian influenza has killed millions of seabirds around the world:…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/avian-influenza-has-killed-millions-of-seabirds-around-the-world-antarctica-could-be-next
    2 Jan 2024: Antarctica is often imagined as the last untouched wilderness. Unfortunately, avian influenza (“bird flu”) is encroaching on the icy continent. The virus has already reached the sub-Antarctic islands between the Antarctic Peninsula and South
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    A love of Tasmania leads to cultivating solutions to climate change

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/a-love-of-tasmania-leads-to-cultivating-solutions-to-climate-change
    13 Dec 2022: Two decades ago, Dr Masayuki Tatsumi (BAppSc (ME) Hons 2012, PhD 2019) left Osaka, Japan, during his school summer break to visit his uncle in Launceston. Masayuki’s uncle was working on exchange as a researcher at the Australian Maritime College
  4. Thumbnail for Thick ones, pointy ones – how albatross beaks evolved to match their prey

    Thick ones, pointy ones – how albatross beaks evolved to match their…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/thick-ones,-pointy-ones-how-albatross-beaks-evolved-to-match-their-prey
    18 Aug 2023: Albatross are among the world’s largest flying birds, with wingspans that can stretch beyond a remarkable three metres. These majestic animals harness ocean winds to travel thousands of kilometres in search of food while barely flapping their wings
  5. Thumbnail for Fractured foundations: how Antarctica’s ‘landfast’ ice is dwindling and why that’s bad news

    Fractured foundations: how Antarctica’s ‘landfast’ ice is dwindling…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/fractured-foundations-how-antarcticas-landfast-ice-is-dwindling-and-why-thats-bad-news
    27 Jun 2023: There’s more to Antarctic ice than meets the eye. Sea ice is not a uniform crust overlying the salty Southern Ocean. Our new research is the first to review the many crucial roles of  “landfast” sea ice around Antarctica. Landfast ice is
  6. Thumbnail for Celebrating 50 years in Surveying and Spatial Sciences

    Celebrating 50 years in Surveying and Spatial Sciences

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/celebrating-50-years-in-surveying-and-spatial-sciences
    13 Dec 2022: In 2005, Dr Elyse Allender embarked on a Surveying and Spatial Sciences Degree at the University of Tasmania with the ambition of pursuing a career in space. Two decades on and the researcher and planetary scientist has applied those skills
  7. Thumbnail for Why are dead and dying seabirds washing up on our beaches in their hundreds?

    Why are dead and dying seabirds washing up on our beaches in their…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/why-are-dead-and-dying-seabirds-washing-up-on-our-beaches-in-their-hundreds
    16 Nov 2023: In October and November, horrified beachgoers often find dead and dying muttonbirds washing up in an event called a seabird “wreck”. Again this year, there are reports of Australia’s beautiful east coast beaches turned grim with hundreds of
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    Professor Craig Johnson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/professor-craig-johnson
    10 Feb 2023: BSc Hons 1980University of Tasmania ecologist and alumnus Professor Craig Johnson has spent his career underwater. He has dived under the ice with the navy in Canada, studied the rich kelp forests off South Africa, and researched the crown-of-thorns
  9. Thumbnail for There is something special about Tasmania’s forests, and Tassie wood

    There is something special about Tasmania’s forests, and Tassie wood

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/there-is-something-special-about-tasmanias-forests-and-tassie-wood
    13 Dec 2022: Rescuing climate-stressed treesIn a recent report, UNESCO noted Tasmania's World Heritage forests remove more carbon from the atmosphere than any other of their wilderness sites. In short, our forests are critical to solving climate change. But with
  10. Thumbnail for Can we eat our way through an exploding sea urchin problem?

    Can we eat our way through an exploding sea urchin problem?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/can-we-eat-our-way-through-an-exploding-sea-urchin-problem
    6 Nov 2023: Longspined sea urchins are native to temperate waters around New South Wales. But as oceans heat up, their range has expanded more than 650km, through eastern Victoria and south to Tasmania. Their numbers are exploding in the process, clear-felling
  11. Thumbnail for Chasing barrels and billfish: meet the scientist on a mission to conserve pelagic fisheries

    Chasing barrels and billfish: meet the scientist on a mission to…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/chasing-barrels-and-billfish-meet-the-scientist-on-a-mission-to-conserve-pelagic-fisheries
    28 Jun 2023: IMAS scientist Sean Tracey has spent many years catching tuna, swordfish and other large pelagic fish around Australia, but it’s not just the thrill of the chase that drives him. He is dedicated to fisheries research – and especially to

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