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The Vietnam Maritime Archaeology Project Center explore’s Vietnam’s fascinating maritime history, including 13th century battles against Kublai Khan, traditional boat building, shipwrecks, training efforts and more. The centre was created by Dr. Mark Staniforth, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the School of Geography and Environmental Science, and a team of researchers who have been working in Vietnam for the ... Read more
Students take note of this opportunity for an internship working on current sustainability issues with a progressive not-for-profit organization, the Moreland Energy Foundation. The internship is named in honour of the late Frank Fisher, a former colleague and pioneering environmentalist here at the School of Geography and Environmental Science. Are you an advanced year-level student or ... Read more- Congratulations to Jacqui Dibden, who was recently awarded a certificate from Elsevier for writing one of the Top-10 most-cited articles published in the Journal of Rural Studies in 2009-2011. Jacqui’s co-author Chris Cocklin is a former Head of School in GES. Dibden, J., Potter, C. and Cocklin, C., 2009. Contesting the neoliberal project for agriculture: Productivist and multifunctional trajectories in the European Union ... Read more
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Byron Pakula graduated from our MIDEA program (now part of the Masters of Sustainability) in 2005. He is currently based in Jordan as Country Director for ACTED (a French NGO) to help with the Syrian refugee crisis. He recently worked on food security in South Sudan. Before that, he spent two years in Kyrgyzstan working ... Read more
Final Call for Papers Journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Special Issue “Transitions Through a Lens of Urban Water” We invite contributions to a special issue on transitions from an urban water perspective. The urban water sector seems to have ideal characteristics to be a model system for transitions studies. Urban water systems combine ecological, technological and social aspects ... Read more
A team of our physical geographers, including Dr. Margaret Loughnan, Prof. Nigel Tapper, Dr. Thu Phan and Ms. Kellie Lynch were involved in writing a report for The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) entitled ‘A spatial vulnerability analysis of urban populations during extreme heat events in Australian capital cities.’ The abstract is below and the full ... Read more
Dr. Wendy Stubbs, a sustainability expert and senior lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science, has recently been recognised by the Monash Postgraduate Association with the award of ‘Postgraduate Lecturer of the Year’. For more details please see the following link: http://www.monash.edu.au/news/show/excellence-in-postgraduate-teaching-recognised-with-new-award Warmest congratulations to Wendy on this well-deserved recognition! Read more
Dr. Vanessa Wong was recently awarded the Australian Society of Soil Science 2012 Publication Medal. Vanessa’s award recognised the quality and contribution of the following paper: Wong, V.N.L., Johnston, S.G., Burton, E.D., Bush, R.T., Sullivan, L.A. and Slavich, P.G. (2010) Seawater causes rapid trace metal mobilisation in coastal lowland acid sulfate soils: Implications of sea level rise for water ... Read more
