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Congratulations to Dr Westgate who recently received the 2017 Wiley Next Generation Ecologist Award for his work, which includes a $3000 professional development gran
Grants to realise big ideas for agriculture from young rural innovators
A Canberra researcher is developing a way for scientists to keep up with the ever-increasing number of academic papers.
The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand in collaboration with the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Programme Threatened Species Recovery Hub is convening a one-day forum featuring a range of presentations about the latest spatial information, population data,
Early Career Ecologist Twitter Symposium #ECEcol17 - 16 August 2017 between 7-9pm AEST.
Putting ecology to work in a changing world. Join in the discussion.
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The Ecological Society of Australia is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment. Each year, the fund supports around 200 post-graduate students to conduct research in ecology, wildlife management, and natural history studies.
Conferences
The joint conference of the Ecological Society of Australia and the New Zealand Ecological Society
26 November - 1 December 2017
Cypress Lakes Conference Centre in the Hunter Valley in NSW,
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EcoSmart Ecology and the University of the Sunshine Coast are seeking a suitable student to undertake post-graduate research on Pseudantechinus mimulus (Masters or PhD considered). The research, which will include a large field component, will be conducted in north-western Queensland and nearby Northern Territory. This position is funded with a generous stipend and will be part-time or full-time (to be negotiated). Only students with previous field experience and demonstrated ability to work independently in remote locations will be considered.
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PhD Top-Up Scholarship: The Reintroduction Genetics of a Restoring Woodland Faunal Community
We are seeking two motivated people to join our research team based at the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Western Australia (Perth). You will work within multidisciplinary teams involved in a range of projects studying the impacts of land management, particularly water extraction on in-stream and riparian biota, and the distribution and impacts of grassy weed invasion on fire behaviour. The positions will require significant amounts of time in northern Australia.
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The Murray–Darling Freshwater Research Centre (MDFRC) in association with The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (on behalf of the joint...
The Murray–Darling Freshwater Research Centre (MDFRC) in association with The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (on behalf of the joint...
These projects will suit students with interest and knowledge in plant evolutionary ecology, ...
