Current honours projects
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Centre for Crop and Disease Management
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Chemistry
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Ecology
Camera trap catches in relation to vegetation and habitat structure
- Title: Camera trap catches in relation to vegetation and habitat structure
Supervisor: Dr Richard Harris
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Can a small desert passerine maintain evaporative water loss constancy under perturbing environmental conditions?
- Title: Can a small desert passerine maintain evaporative water loss constancy under perturbing environmental conditions?
Supervisor(s): Dr Christine Cooper, Dr Philip Withers (UWA)
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Can the quenda maintain evaporative water loss constancy under perturbing environmental conditions?
- Title: Can the quenda maintain evaporative water loss constancy under perturbing environmental conditions?
Supervisor(s): Dr Christine Cooper, Dr Philip Withers (UWA)
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Characterising the mineral and organic composition of rangeland soils with FT-IR spectroscopy.
- Title: Characterising the mineral and organic composition of rangeland soils with FT-IR spectroscopy.
Supervisors: Raphael Viscarra Rossel & Pogs Manalili
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Characterising the spatial-temporal variation of soil respiration in native forests
- Title: Characterising the spatial-temporal variation of soil respiration in native forests
Supervisor: Raphael Viscarra Rossel
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Comparative ventilatory physiology of marsupials
- Title: Comparative ventilatory physiology of marsupials
Supervisor: Dr Christine Cooper
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Comparison of vertebrate live trapping and camera trap data to monitor outcomes of cat and fox baiting programmes
- Title: Comparison of vertebrate live trapping and camera trap data to monitor outcomes of cat and fox baiting programmes
Supervisor: Dr Christine Cooper
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Do quail and pigeons disperse seeds of the shrub, Stachystemon, that only grows under isolated trees at Eneabba?
- Title: Do quail and pigeons disperse seeds of the shrub, Stachystemon, that only grows under isolated trees at Eneabba?
Supervisor: Dr Christine Cooper, Emeritus Prof Byron Lamont (Curtin)
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Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates of Swan River Jellyfish Phyllorhiza punctata
- Title: Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates of Swan River Jellyfish Phyllorhiza punctata
Supervisor: Dr Zoe Richards
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Fractionating soils to characterise their mineral-organic composition
- Title: Fractionating soils to characterise their mineral-organic composition
Supervisors: Raphael Viscarra Rossel & Pogs Manalili
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Invertebrate biodiversity within Perth’s lentic freshwater systems
- Title: Invertebrate biodiversity within Perth’s lentic freshwater systems
Supervisors: Dr Alison Blyth, Dr Mattia Saccó
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Nesting behaviour and spawning periodicity of scalyfins (genus Parma)
- Title: Nesting behaviour and spawning periodicity of scalyfins (genus Parma)
Supervisor: Dr Ben Saunders
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Oxidative damage and metabolic function during cryopreservation of endangered plant species
- Title: Oxidative damage and metabolic function during cryopreservation of endangered plant species
Supervisors: Prof Ricardo L. Mancera, Dr Eric Bunn
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Rhizosphere profiling using deep sequencing
- Title: Rhizosphere profiling using deep sequencing
Supervisor: Dr Claus Christophersen
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Scleractinian corals as depositories of environmental DNA
- Title: Scleractinian corals as depositories of environmental DNA
Supervisor: Dr Zoe Richards
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Sediment dynamic influences on fish grazing behaviour, Miri, Borneo
- Title: Sediment dynamic influences on fish grazing behaviour, Miri, Borneo
Supervisor: Dr Ben Saunders, Dr Nicola Browne, Assoc Prof Jennifer McIlwain
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Food and Agriculture
Bush food composition, nutritional profiling and safety research for food applications
- Title: Bush food composition, nutritional profiling and safety research for food applications
Supervisor: Dr Ranil Coorey
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Food Science
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