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We're going on a beetle hunt
This is a story about what it's like to tackle an entirely new problem, so nothing is easy. Not even catching some beetles.
Let the hunt begin!
Disability advocate Marcus Dadd: ‘I hope I can inspire people to chase their dreams’
Fenner graduate and disability advocate Marcus Dadd has a passion for inclusive and sustainable practices in agriculture.
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Australia’s summer weather heats up
Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick gives us the run down of what is expected to be Australia's hottest hummer on record.
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Fenner School students Isabella Howard and William Jaggers were featured in a Canberra Times article profiling the 2020 FrogWatch ACT and Region's annual frog census.
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Fenner School ecologist Eleanor Lang has been featured in an article by The Cowra Guardian, discussing the endangerment of eastern long-neck turtles that are often seen highway-side in regional parts of NSW on road trips and drives into town.
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As a climate scientist watching the most destructive bushfires in Australian history unfold, Joelle Gergis feels like she is witnessing the collapse of the biosphere.
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From Tasmania’s majestic forest giants to the eucalypt on your nature strip, trees in Australia are many, varied and sometimes huge. But how many are there exactly? And how does their number change over time?
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Fenner School PhD Charles Massy was featured in Australian Story (ABC) with a biopic about his life as farmer and researcher a regenerative agriculture.
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Test whether artificial habitat refuges can aid the recovery of small mammals and reptiles in the presence of introduced predators and herbivores within fire-affected areas of Namadgi National Park
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A researcher from the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU has found the benefits of some fresh produce schemes extend beyond the convenience of skipping supermarket queues: it seems the humble fruit and veggie box can make some people feel happier.
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Cosmos Magazine spoke to Dr Matthew Brookhouse about using wood dating techniques - dendrochronology - to authenticate a Rembrandt painting.
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modelling the relation between landscape attributes and disturbance,
quantifying association between dieback, ecosystem structure and plant phenotypic traits
integrating dendrochronological dating of dieback-affected stands