PhD Candidate William Harrington says that people who live in rural and remote Queensland shouldn’t be held back with slow internet. Not only has William established himself as an internet provider in North West Queensland, but he’s also trying to understand farmers’ internet needs so we can connect to a better farming future.
When you think about geckos, you might imagine the small brown lizard whose loud and distinctive chatter fills your home of an evening. In actual fact, there are over 1,500 species of gecko worldwide — most of which live in the wild.
JCU maritime archaeologist and Senior Curator Dr Maddy McAllister is uncovering the mysteries of the reef and bringing shipwrecks to life for the wider public to enjoy. Maddy has a joint role with JCU and the Queensland Museum where she researches the Great Barrier Reef’s landscape of sunken ships.
Hailing from the southwest regional town of Bunbury in Western Australia, Patrick Wright made the move to Townsville to study his Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) for years ago. Now graduated, Patrick says he’s ready to start his career and begin his internship at the Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania.
Whether it’s tracking outbreaks of COVID-19 or monitoring white spot disease on prawn farms, JCU Senior Research Fellow Dr. Michael Meehan says the answers to effectively controlling these infectious diseases lay in the numbers.
State and federal policy may not always align. Communication gaps are frustrating, but more importantly, what impact could this have on our threatened species? Rachel Miller, a JCU PhD student, is determined to find a method to close the communication gaps between the Australian federal and state policies concerning the management of threatened marine migratory species. Her goal is to start these governments working together.
JCU Engineering Alumni Melanie Olsen grew up in rural El Arish, not knowing what her future would hold. After a JCU lecturer visited her high school, Melanie’s passion for maths and science found new life and led her to pursue engineering. With a career that has led her from the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) to marine technology, Melanie has been around the world, under the ocean and even back inside the University.
While the European honeybee is most widely recognised in the global movement to save the bees, Australia has a number of native pollinators also in need of our help. A team of three JCU Science students — Holly Farnan, Indigo Spence, and Lisl Mohr — are tackling some of these key threats to our precious pollinators.