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- Eucalypt Futures March 3, 2020
- The Exact Steps I Take to Write A Blog Post February 26, 2020
- How Sexy Systems Helped Me Scale My Business February 25, 2020
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- Philosophical discussions in the lab: Žižek criticises ideological ecology June 5, 2018 qaecology
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Tag Archives: research
Exposing the creatures of the deep Dr Tim O’Hara, Mr Skipton Woolley , Associate Professor Brendan Wintle, Dr Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita and Dr José J. Lahoz-Monfort For the first time, a light has been shone on the diversity of creatures that … Continue reading
Posted in ARC-CEED, Conservation, News, Qaecologists, spatial ecology
Tagged deep-sea, ecology, Environment, modelling, qaecology, research, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Opportunities with the NESP Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub (CAUL)
The University of Melbourne node of the NESP Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub is advertising four Research Fellow (Level A) positions. They are seeking candidates with expertise in amphibian ecology, urban ecology, urban greening and environmental psychology to contribute … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged amphibian, Biodiversity, greening, postdoc, psychology, research, The University of Melbourne, urban
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Changing patterns in plant invastions—Qaecologists unlock the power of the 21st century herbarium
Herbaria are more relevant than ever. Led by Aaron Dodd, Qaecologists and friends used 3 million specimen in the ‘virtual’ herbarium at the Atlas of Living Australia to study a 4 billion dollar national problem: invasive plants. You won’t believe what they … Continue reading
Socially-acceptable conservation planning: how can we integrate biological and social values to improve conservation?
By Rachael Vorwerk, Amy Whitehead and Heini Kujala (This article was first published in the July 2014 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) Understanding how society perceives and values different areas is important for … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Decision Point, post-docs
Tagged Biodiversity, conservation, research, science, social values, spatial prioritisation, Zonation
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Choose your cake and eat it too: A very QAECO morning tea
By Natasha Cadenhead How do academics forage at morning tea? Do sweets go extinct faster than savouries? Which cake should you eat? How much should you eat? How close should you be to the coffee? The exit? Yesterday we hosted … Continue reading
Adaptive management of kangaroos in Wyperfeld National Park
By Chris Jones, José Lahoz-Monfort, and Cindy Hauser There are many members of QAECO who work on projects incorporating adaptive management. This post describes an example of one such project lead by Cindy and José along with Yung En Chee, Brendan … Continue reading
Posted in ARC-CEED, Qaecologists
Tagged Adaptive management, Biodiversity, conservation, ecology, Environment, habitat, management, research, science, species
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Whereto for early to mid-career researchers: A Qaecologist reports from Canberra
Pia Lentini, a post-doc in the QAECO lab, attended the Early-Mid Career Researchers Forum, Science pathways: getting science on the national agenda held this week in Canberra. She reports on her experience in a triology of blog posts titled Young Australian Scientist … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, post-docs
Tagged ARC, Australia, careers, Early Career Researchers, research, science, Women in science
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