EES in the News and Out There

Articles featuring the research of PhD student Anna Petts

Termites are a Miner's Best Friend - ABC Science
Termites can help miners locate gold, diamond reserves - Silver Scorpio
Nature's Gold Diggers - WA Today
Termites Cahsing Gold; the Eaters "revenge" - LaRepubblica.it
Termites could help mining sector strike it lucky - Geology Society of Australia

A billion frogs on world's plates - an article featuring the research of Corey Bradshaw

International coverage on the Project to save endangered Tassie Devils led by Dr Jeremy Austin

• The West Australian Newspaper
• The Advertiser
• ABC News
• Fox News
• Science Daily.com
• LiveScience.com

Galen Halverson, Alan Collins & Vic Gostin

Snowball Earth - "Today, when you think of ice and glaciers you think of the poles – of the high latitudes of the world. Perhaps the last place you’d expect to find a glacier is here in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. But these rocks tell the story of a very different planet from the one we know today."

Read transcript

Save the Murray - What the Experts Say

• Read comments from Mike Young
• Read comments from Wayne Meyer
• Read comments from Anne Jensen
• Read comments from Mike Geddes
• Read comments from Keith Walker

Forest loss 'threatening humans'

About 15 million hectares of tropical rainforest are being lost across the world every year, posing a direct threat to human life, according to University of Adelaide research.

Corey Bradshaw, from the university's school of earth and environmental sciences, says the world is losing the battle over tropical habitat loss.

Comments from David Paton surrounding the steep decline of the Coorong in light of a recently leaked report on the Lower Lakes of the Murray.

• Reuters UK online: 'Australia food bowl areas "beyond repair in months"'
• SBS World News: Australia: "Murray could be beyond saving: report"
• ABC News online: "Murray-Darling 'almost beyond recovery'"
• ABC News online: "Bird species on the brink"

"Green fields saved from housing" with comments from David Paton.

See Univeristy of Adelaide media release on the topic

International coverage of how "a new ecological study led by a University of Adelaide researcher [Corey Bradshaw] should help identify species prone to extinction under environmental change, and species that are likely to become a pest." [see full University of Adelaide media release]

• Times of India - Study to predict species likely to become extinct
• ScienceAlert – Study determines ‘species to watch’
• YubaNet - Threatened or invasive? Species' fates identified
• NetIndia123 - New study to identify species prone to extinction under environmental change
• Thaindian News (Bangkok) - New study to identify species prone to extinction under environmental change
• PhysOrg.com – Threatened or invasive? Species' fates identified
• The Independent Weekly – Extinction study published
• redOrbit – Plant Species – Threatened or Invasive?
• Huliq.com – Threatened or invasive? Species' fates identified
• Biology News Net: Threatened or invasive? Species' fates identified
• The West Australian - Study to identify at-risk species
• Science Daily - Threatened or invasive? Species' fates identified

"Soil carbon study aims to stem crop loss" featuring Postgraduate student Sjaan Davey

Corey Bradshaw on the need for a new form of environmental capitalism.

[see article]

David Paton on the Coorong - 'River's End'.

[see video and transcript]

ABC TV: 8pm Thurs, 1:30pm Tues; ABC2: 5:35pm Fri 

Look for David Paton and Mike Young talking about how drought and irrigation is effecting the wildlife in the Coorong.
"Coorong - The End Of The Line"

View story: windows media | real player
See more footage of David and Mike and on Catalyst's Interactive Edition page.

Barry Brook urges Scientists to make a stand on climate change. "Scientists must work harder at making the public aware of the stark difference between good science and 'denialist spin'."

see the University of Adelaide media release
see Barry Brook's article in Australasian Science magazine online

Mike Young - "To find out exactly what the Lake Albert blocking bank says about the state of the river, the lakes and the Coorong [...]" see transcript

Ian Plimer - 'SA could be Saudi Arabia of energy'

SOUTH Australia could become the Saudi Arabia of the energy world with a cradle to grave uranium industry, a geology professor says. [more]

Mike Young on the water crisis. see transcript

Jeremy Austin - uncovering the identity of HMAS Sydney's lost sailor. see transcript

Thursday 6 March 2008
(again on Tuesday 11 March 2008)

Steve Hill on the use of termites in mineral exploration.

The story is called 'Natures Diggers' and looks at how plants, termites and even kangaroo poo can tell us about mineral wealth that is otherwise hidden beneath the surface.

View story: windows media | real player

Jeremy Austin comments on the use of genetic data to inform the Hobbit debate:

• ABC News in Science
• BBC News
• Archaeology.org
• ScienceAlert
• redOrbit
• Perth Now

Mike Young - "River could be changed forever"

"WATER expert Professor Mike Young has warned that unless the coming winter delivers well above average rainfall, parts of the river system may have to be "abandoned or accepted as changed forever". [more]

Adelaide Now - The Advertiser online

Mike Young - "10 years to save the Murray"

"IT will take at least 10 years to save the River Murray and South Australians cannot expect it to occur sooner, says the state's Independent Murray-Darling Basin Commissioner Ian Kowalick.

"His warnings came as Federal Water minister Penny Wong revealed Adelaide University's Professor Mike Young's advice to the Federal Government on river management would be considered. " [more]

Steve Hilll and Anna Petts on the use of termites in mineral exploration.

Cosmos Magazine story by Heather Catchpole.
"Scientists are using techniques honed by millions of years of evolution to locate new mineral deposits in the Australian desert."

See the February/March 2008 issue of Cosmos Magazine for the article.

The front cover of the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of the Soil Science Society of America Journal features the work of our our staff. [see online version]

The article is:
Hettiarachchi,G., McLaughlin,M., Scheckel,K., Chittleborough,D., Newville,M., Sutton,S. and Lombi,E. "Evidence for different reaction pathways for liquid and granular micronutrients in a calcareous soil. SSSAJ
2008 vol 72, Issue 1, 98-110.

Luke Einoder on "Bird's15,000km mission for a takeaway meal"

"THE short-tailed shearwater will travel up to 15,000km in a single trip to find food for growing South Australian chicks, research has found." [more]

Prof Barry Brook gives his opinion on the U.N.'s recent climage change conference.

"The U.N.'s Bali climate change conference ended in drama last week – but is its outcome a blueprint for success or a roadmap to hell built on good intentions?" [more]

13 December 2007

Prof Mike Young, Water Economics and Management. Audio available via www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/index/

WATER - there's a hole in the bucket

"Mike Young is Professor of Water Economics and Management in the University's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He is one of Australia's leading water policy reformers."

More info on this talk including podcast available from the the University's Research Tuesdays pages www.adelaide.edu.au/lifeimpactresearch/researchtuesday/myoung.html

26 August 2007

Watching evolution in action

"Professor Alan Cooper is a Federation Fellow within the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and an expert in the field of ancient DNA and molecular evolution."

More info on this talk including podcast available from the the University's Research Tuesdays pages www.adelaide.edu.au/lifeimpactresearch/researchtuesday/acooper.html