Governments across South-East Asia have programs to intensify rice production but researchers from ANU and other institutions are arguing for the conservation of the traditional, once-per-year crop of floating rice in Myanmar.
Dr Ceridwen Fraser has been looking at the immediate impact of the recent earthquake, and how that disturbance has affected patterns of biological diversity in kelp.
A group of 30 students and staff from the ANU embarked on a four day field trip, covering the wheat/sheep zone at Cowra and Canowindra, the marginal cropping practices near Nyngan, the waters usage along hte Macquarie River and Macquaries Marshes and mining at North Parkes mine.