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  2. Thumbnail for Shrinking glaciers offer surprising benefits for one species

    Shrinking glaciers offer surprising benefits for one species

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/55-shrinking-glaciers-offer-surprising-benefits-for-one-species
    18 Mar 2016: Shrinking glaciers in the Antarctic is a global concern. But for one species, there are surprising benefits. A study led by Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) researcher Jane Younger has found that Adelie penguins in East Antarctica
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    Forest whisperers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/56-forest-whisperers
    18 Mar 2016: Everyone wants to ensure the long-term sustainability of forests, but how do we achieve it? In the face of global warming, changing fire regimes, agricultural expansion, timber harvesting, and conservation pressures, how do we know what is best for
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    Let's talk about sex, baby

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/79-lets-talk-about-sex-baby
    2 May 2016: Did you know that Australia has the world’s highest rate of mammal extinctions? More than 10 per cent of all of our mammal species have gone extinct since European settlement. And this is furthered by the extensive number of species currently
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    The “boring billion” is anything but...

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/80-the-boring-billion-is-anything-but
    6 May 2016: PhDs should always tackle the big questions- but Indrani Mukherjee is investigating some of the biggest of all. Why are we here? More importantly how did we come into being? The answer is millions of years ago a single celled organism decided to
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    The bumpy road to perfect fruit

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/204-the-bumpy-road-to-perfect-fruit
    12 Dec 2016: Would you buy a bruised banana? Many shoppers won’t. And that is having a huge impact on the banana industry. PhD candidate Indika Fernando is researching how to improve banana quality in the post-harvest supply chain. Bananas are susceptible to
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    Big science, tiny lab

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/205-big-science-tiny-lab
    13 Dec 2016: What do analytical chemists do when they need a particular piece of lab equipment? They invent it themselves. Elisenda Fornells Vernet is studying her PhD at the University of Tasmania, and is doing just that. “I’m working in separation science,
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    Basqueing in the light

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/215-basqueing-in-the-light
    21 Dec 2016: Institute for Regional Development PhD Candidate Emma Lee has swapped selling fuel at her local service station for study, a move which now sees her sampling seafood in Spain. She’s currently in Basque Country, observing traditional fishing
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    Agriculture graduate becomes a future industry leader

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/229-agriculture-graduate-becomes-a-future-industry-leader
    30 Jan 2017: An agriculture graduate from the University of Tasmania has received a prestigious $120,000 Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship to continue her research into Tasmania’s cider industry. Madeleine Way, 22, graduated from the University of Tasmania
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    Greener greenhouses to feed the future

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/235-greener-greenhouses-to-feed-the-future
    6 Feb 2017: Did you know greenhouse cultivation is a relatively new practice of food production in Australia? PhD candidate Dianfan Zhou is going to help bring our country up to speed. “I recently started my PhD in UTAS’ School of Land and Food and my
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    How can we get faster growing lobsters?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/234-how-can-we-get-faster-growing-lobsters
    6 Feb 2017: Audrey Daning Turzan wasn’t interested in studying aquaculture…until the day she went scuba diving. “I used to watch X Files and I wanted to work in forensics. But I wasn’t able to study that, instead I got a Diploma in Fisheries. At first I

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