What's On at UWA

Grantsmanship can make a difference! Come along and further develop your grant writing skills. This workshop, prepared in consultation with UWA researchers who have been successful in obtaining peer-reviewed funding and who have served on national reviewing bodies, will be structured to assist (...)

The seminar next week is from:

Dennis Stanley, Mun Woo, Ben Hollings and Christine Hanson

from Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG) and The UWA Oceans Institute

Title: “Sustained oceanographic observations around Australia using autonomous ocean (...)

This year the CMCA will be leading a WA-based consortium applying for funding through ARC LIEF to provide advanced X-ray micro-CT capabilities for local researchers mainly in the physical and geo-sciences.

To provide more information on the capabilities of the latest generation micro-CT (...)

The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative assessed research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprising experienced, internationally-recognised experts. Guest speakers, including an ERA panel (...)

The Research Development Office will be presenting a seminar regarding the rules and how to write a winning application for an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.

The Pearl River Estuary is a sub-tropical estuary and the second largest in China based on discharge volume from the Pearl River. Processes in the estuary vary spatially and temporally (wet vs dry season). In the wet season, the SW monsoon windspush the Pearl River estuarine plume into Hong Kong (...)

The North West Shelf of Australia is characterized by two types of plate boundaries: a passive Atlantic-type margin on the west and an active collisional boundary on the north. Our research is developing information which demonstrates that the stresses imposed on the plate due to the collision in (...)

A special seminar to be held on Friday 1st April, 1 – 2pm in the Jennifer Arnold Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, Zoology Building (South).

Dr Robert James will speak on “Community-Based Development and its Application to Marine Turtle Conservation in Drake Bay, Peninsula de Osa, Costa (...)

We are inviting all undergraduate, post graduate, and recent graduates, from Physics, Maths, atmospheric science and Ocean & Climate Science disciplines to come and find out about the exciting career opportunities available with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

On Friday 11 March 2011, the world was exposed once again to the immense power of tsunamis through an earthquake generated tsunami impacting the coastlines of the whole of Pacific Ocean with the largest impacts on north-east Japan. With a moment magnitude (Mw) of 9.1 the Taiheiyou tsunami is the (...)

UWA opens up the whole campus to the public.

Come and find out about the courses on offer, valuable research, community programs, and facilities...all mixed with a day full of lots of fun activities for everyone!

Title: A life ruled by motion: application of vertebrate activity sensing

Abstract: Activity and mobility play key roles in the lives of animals as these are related to the acquisition of resources, evasion from predators or as part of maintaining animals in an appropriate environment (...)

The Leeuwin Current: The Role of Mixing and Advection in Topographic Trapping and Shelfbreak Intensification of a Density-Driven Flow Jessica Benthuysen CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research

The Leeuwin Current is a poleward eastern (...)

We will offer an introductory course in R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics on Nov. 21-23, 2011. R is becoming more and more popular with life scientists as their statistical package of choice, due to the huge range of analyses available, the wide availability of (...)

The third annual Australian National Network in Marine Science (ANNIMS) conference will be held over three days at The University of Western Australia. The conference brings together early career marine researchers from UWA, The University of Queensland and The University of Tasmania. Participants (...)

The third annual Australian National Network in Marine Science (ANNIMS) conference will be held over three days at The University of Western Australia. The conference brings together early career marine researchers from UWA, The University of Queensland and The University of Tasmania. Participants (...)

Title: Carbon Capture & Sequestration in Ocean Space - Report for 1st LRET Research Collegium

Abstract: Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) has the advantage of significantly reducing the global atmospheric CO2 concentration within a relatively short timescale and effectively (...)

Title: Rotating Video Enables Fast Spatial Survey of Marine Macrofauna and Habitats

Abstract: Video techniques are increasingly used for observing underwater macrofauna and habitat. Most video techniques that do not need the presence of a diver use baited remote systems. I present an (...)

Seminar on calcifying organisms. Further details to follow.

Seminar on Ningaloo Cluster report on socioeconomic values (fishing and non-fishing recreation). Further details to follow