Blog archive: February 2016
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Science
Our Global Neighbours: Pearl-shelling in Australia
From body decoration and charms to bitterly hard labour.
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Science
Q and A with 2015 Eureka Prize winners Professors Dayong Jin and Bradley Walsh
Read about their Eureka experience
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AMRI
Translating AMRI research into conservation action
IUCN Red List assessments of several hundred Australian land snail species are currently conducted by AMRI scientists.
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Museullaneous
A Diploma for ‘Stuffed Fish’, 1883
Why is the recently discovered 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition diploma, designed by Linley Sambourne, unique?
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AMRI
Can frogs help combat the Zika virus?
Healthy frog populations may help keep disease-carrying mosquitos at bay, but not in the way you might expect.
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AMRI
Zircons galore: an Indo-Pacific Heritage
Zircons are gemstones found along volcanic fields in eastern Australia, Asia and Russia. Research follows the trail of their origins.
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AMRI
Fossil tube microstructure helps to address evolutionary unknowns of deep-sea tubeworms
Do fossil tetragonal Mesozoic tubes belong to the ancestors of the worms living in the deep sea today?
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AMRI
And a worm award goes to… an AMRI student!
AMRI's Yanan Sun wins the Best Student Poster Award for her presentation on invasive calcareous tubeworms.
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Education
Streamwatch campaign for community awareness
Greystanes High School attended the Youth Eco Summit to promote awareness of water quality in local creeks.
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AMRI
Oldest known fossils of Australian climbing songbirds discovered in Queensland
Fossils of treecreepers and a new species of a sittella add to the growing picture of Australia’s past songbird diversity.
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AMRI
Little crustaceans of desert pools
Few people have heard of clam shrimps, yet in many desert pools they are abundant and diverse.
