Blog archive: Science

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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 9

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam. 

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 20 September 2011
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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 8

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam. 

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 19 September 2011
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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 7

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 16 September 2011
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    DigiVol: Our first blog post

    The Rapid Digitisation Project (RDP), funded by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), makes label data accessible without needing to go to the physical collection.

    Written by Rhiannon Stephens / Category Science / Published 15 September 2011
    Digivol Blog
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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 6

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 15 September 2011
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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 5

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam. 

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 14 September 2011
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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 4

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam. 

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 13 September 2011
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    Coral Biodiversity Expedition #1

    Monitoring the relationship between coral and fish biodiversity is the focus of Dr Zoe Richards latest expedition to beautiful Lizard Island.

    Written by Zoe Richards / Category Science / Published 12 September 2011
    Great Barrier Reef Coral diversity, blog
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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 3

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 12 September 2011
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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 2

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 09 September 2011
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    Welcome to the Jungle - Day 1

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitos: Highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley / Category Science / Published 08 September 2011
    frog amphibian frogs herpetology
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    Using Biomimicry to cut the carbon!

    Biomimicry is looking at the way nature does things and then copying nature to build a sustainable future and now scientist are looking at humans to learn how we can help with climate change.

    Category Science / Published 24 August 2011
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    'Living fossil' eel in an undersea cave

    Dr Dave Johnson from the US National Museum in Washington just emailed me about an incredible eel that he and colleagues recently described. The fish, Protanguilla palau, is now classified in a new family, the Protanguillidae.

    Written by Mark McGrouther / Category Science / Published 18 August 2011
    Eel blog
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    Mistaken identity?

    Which is the greater threat to bird biodiversity: the introduced Common Myna or the Australian native Noisy Miner?

    Written by Richard Major / Category Science / Published 16 August 2011
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    Save our owls

    The Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua), one of Australia's iconic birds, is currently listed as vulnerable in NSW with only 20-30 mating pairs in the Sydney region.

    Written by Jen Cork / Category Science / Published 08 July 2011
    birds blog Ornithology owl