Dr Owen Missen
Globally, society needs increasing volumes of metals to meet the sustainable development needs of the growing population. The challenges associated with mining metals include impacts to landscapes and local air and water quality. Modern day mining produces a wider array of metal and metalloid products than ever before, providing the critical raw materials for everything…
Read More »Dr Brooklyn Fraser
Dr Brooklyn Fraser is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, whose research explores how childhood physical fitness shapes cardiovascular health across the lifespan. Although aerobic and muscular fitness are recognised indicators of cardiovascular health, childhood fitness is rarely assessed or incorporated into disease prevention strategies. Consequently, opportunities…
Read More »A/Prof Rutger de Zoete
Chronic neck and back pain are massive, invisible burdens in Australia, costing the healthcare system over $10 billion every year and causing substantial personal suffering. For decades, patients have been told to focus primarily on the joint or muscle, yet this traditional “one-size-fits-all” approach has contributed to a frustrating cycle of clinical trial-and-error, where many…
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Dr Harriet Goodrich
Fish have always lived in changing environments, but the pace and combination of changes they now face are increasing. Warmer water, declining oxygen, shifting food availability and fishing mortality can occur together, with each challenge changing how the body works and how much capacity remains to deal with the next one. The difficulty is that…
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Dr Tori Graham
Environmental management confronts the complex challenge of how to effectively protect and restore ecosystems while recognising the diverse ways people value and connect with nature. Dr Tori Graham works on projects at the science-policy interface that aim to improve environmental management and biodiversity conservation outcomes. Drawing on expertise in conservation and economics, her research aims…
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