I’m surprised by the abundance of bike paths in Canberra. Both lanes along the road and segregated green cycle lanes supply a cycle infrastructure throughout Canberra.

A field trip takes student blogger Jesse Zondervan to a classroom in paradise on the Great Barrier Reef.

When Mae Noble was working on coral reef ecology in the sunny Caribbean, she probably didn’t foresee a future where she’d be snorkeling in the freezing Murray-Darling Basin, looking for endangered crayfish.

Juliet Kirby wants more girls to share in the glow of pride—and plasma—she experiences as a physics student at ANU. Juliet Kirby can talk about physics until she’s purple in the face.

“I have a background in straight science so it was really interesting for me to do some forest management courses, looking at how you balance the ecologically best option with what’s applicable in the real world."

“I never want to leave Mount Stromlo! It’s really serene and quiet, so you get a lot of work done.

I didn’t have undergraduate training in cellular neuroscience so the Master program was challenging at first, but it’s exactly what I want to do, so that’s kept me motivated. The teachers have all been great and very supportive too.

Mark studied forest science with honours in biology, a degree which he says gave him “a diverse set of skills to take with me to my workplace.

Chaitanya is currently working on her PhD at the Mathematical Sciences Institute at ANU. She’s looking at ways of modelling gravitational wave signatures and investigating how the process can be made more efficient.