School of Environment and Science

In the Pacific, the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) recognizes the importance of strengthening engagement and cooperation in water security as a key determinant of resilience through the establishment of a Pacific Resilience Water Security Technical Working Group (WSTWG) to facilitate multi-sectoral collaboration and engagement. A key objective of the WSTWG… Read More

Using both formative and action research combined with regional knowledge sharing opportunities (two peer-to-peer learning exchange events), this research seeks to better understand ways that government and civil society organisations (CSOs) engaged in the WASH sector can leverage formal, as well as emergent and informal networks, to further support and… Read More

Building on World Vision’s Water for Women Laetem Dak Kona project, completed in 2022, from 2023-2024 this project aims to deliver lasting impact through: • Support to community WASH committees to model and upgrade existing WASH infrastructure — both community-wide and at evacuation facilities — to be climate-resilient and… Read More

The regional research project focuses on enhancing climate-resilient WASH services in urban informal settlements in PNG, Fiji and Vanuatu through trough the development of decision and planning support systems, citizen science for localized climate insights, advocacy methods, and engagement with settlement residents in collaborative planning. The goal is to understand… Read More

Aims. To compare species distribution models, SDMs, for humpback whales in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park based on different opportunistic sightings datasets and evaluate the impact different sources of opportunistic data have on our understanding of humpback whale habitat relationships. Read More

In close partnership and co-development with the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), the Antarctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AnMAP) will serve as a science-policy body facilitating sufficient and reliable pollution data from the Antarctic and Southern Ocean region

We provide the City of Gold Coast with monitoring, analytical, and interpretive services through a Receiving Environment Monitoring Program (REMP). The aim of the REMP is to provide a structured, robust and repeatable water quality monitoring program to monitor impact of the release of recycled water generated by the City’s… Read More

The Climate Change Adaptation programs are designed to give professionals from any background a sound interdisciplinary knowledge of climate change, the ability to analyse its impacts, and the creative skills needed to build resilience across society and the environment. This includes the ability to develop and deploy adaptation strategies to… Read More

This course offers students the opportunity to develop an understanding of how policymaking and planning can used to develop effective responses to the problem of climate change. A cross-section of adaptation and mitigation policies and plans are analysed, from the international to the national, state and local levels of government.

This activity involves participating in the organising committee of the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference held every 2 years. The aim is to assist international fusion energy research assemble the program for each upcoming conference and decide on presentations, priorities, and logistical matters for running the meeting.