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  2. Thumbnail for Into the future: this year's Westpac Scholars announced

    Into the future: this year's Westpac Scholars announced

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/into-the-future-this-years-westpac-scholars-announced
    11 Apr 2024: Four new Westpac Scholarship winners are diving into their studies at the University of Tasmania this year. Two have received sought-after Westpac Future Leaders Scholarships worth $120,000 each, and two are headed overseas on Westpac Asian Exchange
  3. Thumbnail for Charting the course for an adventurous career

    Charting the course for an adventurous career

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/1198-charting-the-course-for-an-adventurous-career
    17 Jan 2022: Damon Whish-Wilson is a competitive trail runner who spends countless hours exploring Tasmania’s wildest and most remote places and challenging his physical and mental limits. He applied the same sharp focus and drive required to complete gruelling
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    Back to the wild: rescued red handfish returned to the sea

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/back-to-the-wild-rescued-red-handfish-returned-to-the-sea
    7 May 2024: Red handfish have been returned to the wild, after scientists rescued them this summer to protect their fragile population from record high sea and atmospheric temperatures. Scientists at the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and
  5. Thumbnail for Restoring coastal habitat boosts wildlife numbers by 61% – but puzzling failures mean we can still do better

    Restoring coastal habitat boosts wildlife numbers by 61% – but…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/restoring-coastal-habitat-boosts-wildlife-numbers-by-61-but-puzzling-failures-mean-we-can-still-do-better
    23 Apr 2024: Humans love the coast. But we love it to death, so much so we’ve destroyed  valuable coastal habitat – in the case of some types of habitat, most of it has gone. Pollution, coastal development, climate change and many other human impacts have
  6. Thumbnail for Creating a local solution to a global problem

    Creating a local solution to a global problem

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/1221-creating-a-local-solution-to-a-global-problem
    24 Mar 2022: The business plan Camila Campos developed through her studies in Agribusiness (Horticultural Business) has resulted in the creation of a localised solution to a global problem when it comes to food waste. Offered through the Tasmanian Institute of
  7. Thumbnail for Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’

    Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/floating-robots-reveal-just-how-much-airborne-dust-fertilises-the-southern-ocean-a-key-climate-shock-absorber
    16 May 2024: The Southern Ocean, a region critical to Earth’s climate, hosts vast blooms of microscopic ocean plants known as phytoplankton. They form the very basis of the Antarctic food web. Using a fleet of robotic floats, our study published in Nature today
  8. Thumbnail for Reflections on life-long learning, career, community and the environment

    Reflections on life-long learning, career, community and the…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/reflections-on-life-long-learning,-career,-community-and-the-environment
    15 Feb 2024: When John Osborne OAM was doing his honours in chemistry he received some advice from his supervisor Dr Geoffrey Cheesman that would stick with him for life. “The venue for much of my honours work was the outdoors back lane of the department, where
  9. Thumbnail for ‘How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?’: research reveals what Australian kids want to know about our warming world

    ‘How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?’: research…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/how-long-before-climate-change-will-destroy-the-earth-research-reveals-what-australian-kids-want-to-know-about-our-warming-world
    21 Mar 2024: Every day, more children discover they are living in a climate crisis. This makes many children feel sad, anxious, angry, powerless, confused and frightened about what the future holds. The climate change burden facing young people is inherently
  10. Thumbnail for A biting discovery about Tasmanian devils

    A biting discovery about Tasmanian devils

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/a-biting-discovery-about-tasmanian-devils
    13 Dec 2023: A Tasmanian devil expert has uncovered an evolutionary quirk that sets carnivorous marsupials apart from the crowd – and the secret lies behind their smiles. Professor Menna Jones from the University of Tasmania’s School of Natural Sciences has
  11. Thumbnail for Groundbreaking medical research from Tasmania to the world

    Groundbreaking medical research from Tasmania to the world

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/groundbreaking-medical-research-from-tasmania-to-the-world
    11 Apr 2024: Professor Tim Walsh, a world-leader in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), says Tasmania helped to shape his career and world view. Professor Walsh was the University of Tasmania’s Distinguished Alumni Award winner for 2023 and
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    Message in a satellite tag

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/message-in-a-satellite-tag
    20 May 2024: At the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), our PhD candidates play a vital and exciting role in building the global marine and Antarctic science knowledge bank. Meet Dr Collette Appert whose PhD research is
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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
  14. Thumbnail for Sustainability major will help create a better future

    Sustainability major will help create a better future

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/sustainability-major-reflects-priorities-for-our-future
    20 Feb 2023: In line with its commitment to a sustainable future for Tasmania, the University has now made a major in Sustainability easily accessible and visible for students across the University. Students in almost all Bachelor’s degrees that have an
  15. Thumbnail for Law alumna keen to share career options

    Law alumna keen to share career options

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/law-alumna-keen-to-share-career-options
    4 May 2023: Hailing from Blackmans Bay, Law alumna Georgina Barnes BEc-LLB(Hons) 2019, AssocDegPhil 2022, is now an Associate specialising in dispute resolution at Baker McKenzie in Sydney. Georgina works across a broad range of the law on matters which are in
  16. Thumbnail for Climate drivers behind Antarctic melt caused recent sea level rise

    Climate drivers behind Antarctic melt caused recent sea level rise

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/climate-drivers-behind-antarctic-melt-caused-recent-sea-level-rise
    14 Nov 2023: A team of researchers has revealed that climate variability—specifically the El NiÃo Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Annular Mode—played a significant role in the changes observed in the Antarctic Ice Sheet over the past 20
  17. Thumbnail for New Director for Tasmania Law Reform Institute

    New Director for Tasmania Law Reform Institute

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/new-director-for-tasmania-law-reform-institute
    10 Feb 2023: The University of Tasmania’s Jeremy Prichard (BA/LLB ’97, BA Hons ’98, PhD ‘04) has been appointed Director of the Tasmania Law Reform Institute. "I look forward to working closely with the Institute’s Board to serve Tasmanians through
  18. Thumbnail for Learn how to live with fire

    Learn how to live with fire

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/learn-how-to-live-with-fire
    11 Dec 2023: A free, online short course that explores the unpredictability of bushfires and how we live with them is teaching the community how to adapt in a changing climate. Dr Penelope Jones, who developed the short course, said this was a great opportunity
  19. Thumbnail for How a backyard project inspired a career that is protecting our reefs

    How a backyard project inspired a career that is protecting our reefs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/how-a-backyard-project-inspired-a-career-that-is-protecting-our-reefs
    13 Dec 2023: Associate Professor Scott Ling's (BSc Hons 2000, PhD 2009) fascination with science began as a backyard project when he was a boy growing up in Tasmania. With his cocker spaniel by his side, he became aware of a brown trout in the stream that ran
  20. Thumbnail for On the edge: warming waters destabilising ‘cold’ ice shelf

    On the edge: warming waters destabilising ‘cold’ ice shelf

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/on-the-edge-warming-waters-destabilising-cold-ice-shelf
    12 Oct 2023: Researchers have found large-scale anomalies in wind and sea ice are causing the waters below an East Antarctic ice shelf to warm, which could affect future sea level rise across the world. Dr Matthis Auger is a co-author of the new study published
  21. Thumbnail for Urgent call for Southern Ocean science in a changing world

    Urgent call for Southern Ocean science in a changing world

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/urgent-call-for-southern-ocean-science-in-a-changing-world
    18 Aug 2023: Today hundreds of international scientists are sounding a clarion call for urgent expansion of Southern Ocean science in the emerging climate crisis. This week 300 scientists from 25 nations have been meeting in the Antarctic gateway city of Hobart

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