Honours information

Ecology and Environmental Management

• Connections between oceans and freshwater ecosystems - Dr Benjamin Mos
• Impacts of the marine ornamental aquarium trade - Dr Anna Scott
• Towards coastal sustainability – an Australian case study - Professor Anja Scheffers / Associate Professor Kai Schulz

Environmental engineering and waste management

• Recycling organic wastes into soil amendment products – impacts on greenhouse gas production - Associate Professor Dirk Erler
• Recycling organic wastes into soil amendment products – impacts on soil nutrient cycling - Associate Professor Dirk Erler
• Use of iron minerals to recover phosphorus from dairy processing wastewater - Professor Andrew Rose

Groundwater

• Groundwater nutrient and pesticides in the Great Barrier Reef - Dr Douglas Tait
• Uncovering the role groundwater discharge has in coastal greenhouse gas and nutrient cycling - Dr Douglas Tait

Medicinal plant chemistry

• Analysis of biologically active metabolites in medicinal plants (scholarship available) - Dr Ben Liu
• Understanding the biochemical basis for the delicious taste and smell of coffee (scholarship available) - Dr Ben Liu

Metals and toxicology

• Investigating pesticide and heavy metal distribution from soil, air, water and biota near expanding horticulture activities in the Coffs Harbour NSW region - Associate Professor Christian Sanders
• Chronic Mn toxicity to scleractinian corals. (SeaSim laboratory experiments, Townsville) - Professor Amanda Reichelt-Brushett
• Understanding metal toxicity to novel freshwater or marine species - Professor Amanda Reichelt-Brushett
• What is the chemical form of iron when other ions are around? - Professor Andrew Rose

Palaeosciences

• Archaeogeochemstry in human evolution context - Associate Professor Renaud Joannes-Boyau
• Analyses of fossils to reconstruct palaeoenvironment - Associate Professor Renaud Joannes-Boyau
• Geochronology applied to human evolution - direct dating of fossil remains - Associate Professor Renaud Joannes-Boyau
• Deciphering signals of the past – geochemical investigation of human remains (scholarship available) - Associate Professor Renaud Joannes-Boyau

Plant biochemistry, nutrition and pathology

• Analysis of nutritionally important compounds in food (scholarship available) - Dr Ben Liu
• How does microbial redox activity in the root zone of plants influence phosphorus availability? - Professor Andrew Rose
• Studies into stem blight diseases of Horticultural Crops - Dr Jay Anderson

Regional and urban planning

• Sediment accumulation and nutrient sequestration within mangrove nursery structures - Associate Professor Christian Sanders
• Catchment sediment load under different climate change scenarios -  Daniel Rodgers (Jeremy Benn Pacific (JBP)) and Professor Anja Scheffers (SCU)

Society, culture and education

• Communicating science through interdisciplinary collaborations art/science interactions - Professor Amanda Reichelt-Brushett

Spatial sciences

• Coinciding weather events (storms, tides, surges, wind), amplifying natural disasters - Professor Anja Scheffers
• Building resilience to floods, storm surges, erosion, ecosystem change and water security by local councils - Professor Anja Scheffers
• Designing, simulating and implementing engineered log jams for river restoration - Professor Anja Scheffers
• Design considerations for constructed waterways for long term stability - Professor Anja Scheffers

Vegetated aquatic systems

• Insect and pollinators of sub-tropical mangrove systems - Dr Debra Stokes
• Mangrove ecology - Dr Debra Stokes
• Are ghost forests a cryptic source of greenhouse gases? (scholarship available) - Associate Professor Damien Maher
• Greenhouse gas emissions from aquatic and wetland ecosystems - Professor Bradley Eyre
• Water quality across catchments and estuaries - Professor Bradley Eyre
• Water quality modelling in aquatic and wetland ecosystems - Professor Bradley Eyre
• Richmond River status, community values and aspirations (funding available) - Professor Amanda Reichelt-Brushett

Coral reefs

• Drivers of outbreaks of the crown of thorns starfish on coral reefs - Professor Symon Dworjanyn
• Effect of deep water upwelling on coral communities (data project) - Associate Professor Kai Schulz
• Coral Reef Biogeochemistry - Bradley Eyre

Fisheries and aquaculture

• Aquaculture of seaweeds, fish or invertebrates - Professor Symon Dworjanyn
• Better ways to grow microalgae, invertebrates and fish - Dr Benjamin Mos
• Fisheries biology of exploited sea cucumbers on the Great Barrier Reef - Associate Professor Steven Purcell

Marine chemistry

• Heavy metal deposition in estuaries downstream of intensive horticulture activity - Christian Sanders
• Climate change mitigation by ocean alkalinity enhancement (enhanced weathering) - Associate Professor Kai Schulz
• Manipulation of iron bioavailability by marine cyanobacteria - Professor Andrew Rose
• Biogeochemistry of reactive oxygen species - Professor Andrew Rose

Marine Invertebrates

• Ecology of harvested sea cucumbers on coral reefs - Associate Professor Steven Purcell
• How climate change impacts invertebrate biology and ecology - Professor Symon Dworjanyn
• Examining the symbiosis between sea anemones, anemonefishes and zooxanthellae in a changing climate - Dr Anna Scott
• Investigating the reproductive biology and developing captive breeding techniques for host sea anemones - Dr Anna Scott
• Impacts of the marine ornamental aquarium trade - Dr Anna Scott
• Invertebrates in current and future oceans - Dr Benjamin Mos

Marine productivity

• Climate change / ocean acidification impacts on marine phytoplankton - Associate Professor Kai Schulz
• Decoding coccolithophores - calcification at the base of marine food webs (scholarship available) - Associate Professor Kai Schulz

Marine sustainability

• Marine invertebrates and plastic pollution - Dr Benjamin Mos
• Marine turtle use of sub-tropical coastal habitat - Dr Debra Stokes

Pest and Disease

• Managing American Foulbrood Disease in smallholder Pacific Island beekeeping systems - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Novel methods for marking Small Hive Beetle (Athida Tumida) - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Managing Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella) in smallholder Pacific Island beekeeping systems - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Understanding and improving honey bee biosecurity strategies in Pacific Island countries - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Development of a bee hive design for the Small Asian Honey Bee (Apis cerana javana) - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Understating impacts of Apis cerana on managed Apis mellifera honey bees in far north QLD - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Novel approaches to sterilizing beekeeping inputs following bacterial brood infection - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Enhancing pest and disease management strategies for Varroa and Tropilaelaps in Pacific Island countries - Dr Cooper Schouten

Nutrition

• Developing a floral resource database for the beekeeping industry in Pacific Island countries - Dr Cooper Schouten

Technology

• Investigation of alternative frames/foundation configuration systems for smallholder beekeepers in Pacific Island countries - Dr Cooper Schouten

Training, Education and Extension

• Factors influencing income and resilience in small-holder beekeeping enterprises in Fiji and Papua New Guinea - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Factors influencing income and resilience in queen bee breeding operations in Fiji - Dr Cooper Schouten
• A scoping review of Australian honey bee industry levied research - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Evaluating the effectiveness and opportunities for improving working conditions for Pacific Island people under the Pacific Labour Mobility Scheme - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Identifying challenges and lessons learnt by young professionals in international agricultural research for development - Dr Cooper Schouten
• Limitations to women’s involvement in beekeeping: A case study of Australian women in apiculture - Dr Cooper Schouten

Beekeeping

• Integrating poultry in beekeeping systems for integrated pest management control - Dr Cooper Schouten (scholarship available)
• Evaluating the nutritional value of pollens of significance to the Australian Honey Bee Industry - Dr Cooper Schouten (scholarship available)
• Exploring regenerative beekeeping principles and practices - Dr Cooper Schouten (scholarship available)

Physiology

• Phosphorus efficiency in buckwheat (scholarship available) - Professor Terry Rose
• The role of Mycorrhizal fungi in Macadamia sp. (scholarship available) - Professor Terry Rose

Nutrients and recycling

• Antibiotics in pesticide residues in composted wastes (scholarship available) - Professor Terry Rose
• The value of raw and composted manures as nitrogen fertilisers (scholarship available) - Professor Terry Rose
• Struvite as a recycled phosphorus fertiliser (scholarship available) - Professor Terry Rose