Deep ocean study yields climate clues

Scientists from the Australian National University and Rutgers University have created the first continuous deep ocean temperature record for the last 3.2 million years, shedding new light on the nature of Earth’s past ice ages.

Scientists Sign Up For Secrets Of The Seas

Australian scientists are better placed to discover the secrets of the seas after Australia and New Zealand signed up to the world’s largest ocean research program - The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).

Biodiversity threatened by climate change: Report

This recently released report was written for the Federal Government by a team of eight experts led by Prof. Will Steffen, Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute and including Prof. David Lindenmayer and Prof. Pat Werner of the Fenner School of Environment and Society.

Ecological Society of Australia Symposium

Ecology and environmental policy: never the two shall meet? Sponsored by the Fenner School.

Fri 4 Dec 2009, 8:30am-5:00pm, Shine Dome, Canberra


Sorry State Of Murray-Darling

Researchers including Dr Paul Tregoning of the Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU have shown using satellite data that the Murray-Darling Basin has lost 200 cubic kilometres of water over the last six years – the equivalent of 400 Sydney Harbours.

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