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Growing up, Philip Bowrey spent much of his time learning and playing in the virtual world.
- Author: Hannah Gray
- Date: 13 July 2020
- Study Area: Information Technology
Few could carve out a dream vocation that involves digging for dinosaurs across the world and uncovering African hominid fossils of staggering significance, but geologist Dr Eric Roberts hasn’t had just any old career.
- Date: 16 April 2020
- Study Area: Geoscience; Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
- College: College of Science and Engineering
From rhinos in Africa to horses in Mongolia, JCU Alumni Dr Campbell Costello has worked with animals all across the globe. Now, he’s back on Australian soil treating animals in the outback.
- Author: Mykala Wright
- Date: 26 November 2021
- Study Area: Veterinary and Animal Science
Some of the largest structures ever documented in the Australian archaeological record are being studied in the remote Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia, revealing the sophisticated engineering capabilities of Indigenous Australians.
- Date: 10 May 2019
- Study Area: Arts and Social Sciences
- College: College of Arts, Society and Education
When JCU alumni, Dr Brooke Schampers, began working with the Animal Emergency Service in Brisbane, she quickly discovered that she had entered a wild world. From patients in need of urgent care to the long nights of shift work, Dr Brooke shares her
- Date: 17 May 2021
- Study Area: Veterinary and Animal Science
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.
- Author: Tianna Killoran
- Date: 19 May 2021
- Study Area: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
Notorious for spreading through oceans and lakes in toxic blooms that can affect humans, livestock, and fish alike, algae can be very bad news. But they also have a good side.
- Date: 10 May 2019
- Study Area: Marine Science
- College: College of Science and Engineering
JCU PhD student Tom Swan researches tiger mosquitos in the Torres Strait, in order to better protect Australia from the bite of one of the most aggressive mosquitos in the world.
- Author: Bianca de Loryn
- Date: 18 August 2020
- Study Area: Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Known as the ‘other’ CO2 problem, ocean acidification stunts the growth of corals and shelled marine organisms, slowing future recovery from mass bleaching events.
- Date: 10 May 2019
- Study Area: Marine Science
- College: College of Science and Engineering
What do clunky computers and Snoopy, the cheeky dog from the Peanuts cartoon, have in common? JCU Computer Science alumni Ken Jones lets us in on the connection.
- Author: Bianca de Loryn
- Date: 7 July 2020
- Study Area: Information Technology
If you keep a diary of the birds visiting your garden or log your catches when fishing, you could be a scientist without even realising it.
- Author: Bethany Keats
- Date: 23 January 2019
- College: College of Science and Engineering
As technology becomes smaller and more affordable, unmanned airborne systems (UAS), commonly called drones, are becoming more accessible for data gathering and research.
- Author: Bethany Keats
- Date: 10 May 2019
- Study Area: Science
Facebook knows who you and your friends are the moment you upload your photo. Snapchat animates rainbow vomit when you open your mouth. How do they know you and your face? And should we be worried?
- Author: Bethany Keats
- Date: 21 January 2019
- Study Area: Information Technology
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.
- Author: Tianna Killoran
- Date: 13 July 2021
- Study Area: Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
What’s it like to study marine science? Marissa Hutchings explains what it was like getting her hands wet on Orpheus Island, South Australia and the Galapagos Islands.
- Author: Bianca de Loryn
- Date: 2 November 2020
- Study Area: Marine Science