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Our goal is to promote sustainable development in Northern Australia and the global tropics through long-term partnerships with communities, institutions and governments throughout the tropics
Our goal is to promote sustainable development in Northern Australia and the global tropics through long-term partnerships with communities, institutions and governments throughout the tropics
Improving seaweed production and processing opportunities in Indonesia
Indicative Funding: $1,600,000 over 4 years
Seaweed culture in Indonesia is one of the few available income-generating opportunities for coastal communities and supports an estimated 120,000 small holder seaweed farmers. There are however problems with seaweed quality, processing procedures and utilisation of waste streams from processing and a strong desire to commercialise new species with the ability to value-add and that new products be developed thus diversifying the markets into which seaweed can be sold.
Investigators: Nicholas Paul, Michael Rimmer and Natalie Stoeckl [Cairns Institute Adjunct] (University of the Sunshine Coast, College of Science & Engineering, College of Business and Law & Governance)
Rural Economies Centre of Excellence (RECoE)
Indicative funding: $508,727 over 3 years administered by University of Southern Queensland
The Rural Economies Centre of Excellence (RECoE) is a multi-site centre of expertise in rural economic development located in regions across Queensland. It will be based in Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Cairns, Townsville, Emerald, Malanda and Gatton. It is a partnership between universities with key rural economic development expertise across the state:(i) The University of Southern Queensland; (ii) Central Queensland University; (iii) James Cook University; and (iv) The University of Queensland.
Chief Investigators: Jim Cavaye, John Rolfe, Allan Dale, Rob Cramb, Helen Ross, Stewart Lockie, Zhang-Yue Zhou, Trina Myers, Riccardo Welters [Theme Leader & Fellow], Diane Jarvis, Jennifer McHugh (University of Southern Queensland, Central Queensland University, Cairns Institute, The University of Queensland, College of Business and Law & Governance)
Sequestering carbon and improving sugarcane productivity by enhanced weathering of basalt
Indicative funding: $479,169 over 5 years administered by University of Sheffield
Arresting the build-up of atmospheric CO2 is one of humanity's biggest challenges. In geological time, the weathering of rocks consumes CO2, which is then sequestered as limestone in the ocean, but the natural rate of this process is very slow. In this project we will determine the feasibility of accelerating weathering by introducing crushed basalt (a common and easily weathered rock) into the place on earth with highest CO2 production and potential weathering rates - topsoil in the humid tropics. We will also examine the effects on soil condition and crop growth, which are likely to be beneficial.
Chief Investigators: Paul Nelson, [Cairns Institute Fellow], Michael Bird and David J Beerling (College of Science & Engineering and University of Sheffield)
Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education - Collaborative Research Networks (CRN) Program
Indicative funding: $453,065
The project is part of an Australian Government grant to Charles Darwin University to support the development of their social and environmental research capacity it has two main objectives
A. First: that Charles Darwin University is nationally recognised as a critical node in social and environmental research for the remote tropical north, working as part of a critical mass of researchers with two of Australia’s most research-intensive universities (Australian National University and James Cook University), and a major research institution (Australian Institute of Marine Science); and
B. Second: to enable ongoing and sustainable programs of multi-disciplinary collaborative, world-class research that is sought out by both end users and next users for integration into policy and practice.
Chief Investigators: Hurriyet Babacan [Cairns Institute Adjunct], Allan Dale
Collaborating Schools/Institutions: The Cairns Institute; Charles Darwin University
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Regional Queensland Coordinator for NESP Northern Hub
Indicative funding: $300,000 over 3 years
The role of the NESP Regional Queensland Coordinator is to: Help coordinate meetings and engagement within the region (currently have a least four projects operating in the Cape/Mitchell/Gulf area); organise workshops or briefings (plus conference displays or sessions) to communicate project outputs; work with the communications team in Darwin to prepare project level communications materials; help with negotiating research agreements with Indigenous communities if they are needed; be a point of liaison for the Hub with regional stakeholders i.e., NRM groups, Indigenous, industry.
Chief Investigator: Stewart Lockie, Lyndal Scobell (Cairns Institute)
Seventh Day Adventist responses to HIV in Papua New Guinea
Indicative funding: $295,650 over 3 years
The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church is one of the most influential churches in Papua New Guinea with an extensive range of health, education and social services throughout the country. This research aims to document and analyse SDA policy and theology on HIV in PNG. It will then describe how these policies and theology are interpreted and influence responses to HIV by church leaders, church employees and church members.
Chief Investigators: David MacLaren with the help of Matupit Darius, Tracie Mafile'o, Graeme Humble, Lalen Simeon, Rachael Tommbe, Michael Wood, Ton Otto and Michelle Redman-MacLaren
Collaborating Schools/Institutions: School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sciences; Pacific Adventist University; School of Arts & Social Sciences; The Cairns Institute
Regional Queensland Coordinator for NESP Northern Hub
Indicative funding: $300,000 over 3 years
The role of the NESP Regional Queensland Coordinator is to: Help coordinate meetings and engagement within the region (Currently have a least four projects operating in the Cape/Mitchell/Gulf area); Organise workshops or briefings (plus conference displays or sessions) to communicate project outputs; Work with the communications team in Darwin to prepare project level communications materials; Help with negotiating research agreements with Indigenous communities if they are needed; Be a point of liaison for the Hub with regional stakeholders i.e., NRM groups, Indigenous, Industry.
Chief Investigator: Stewart Lockie (Cairns Institute)
Always-connected, always aware, always informed in rural and regional Australia: The digital homestead
Indicative funding: $170,000 over 2 years
The project will investigate how electronic services enabled by connectivity to the National Broadband Network can support greater productivity for farming enterprises, as well as providing related support and social services to rural residents.
Specifically, the project will determine how sensor and related technologies can provide information to simple and usable cloud-based decision support systems for farmers and agriculture advisers, associated with the northern beef industry, which makes up almost half of the total beef sector across Australia, thus forming a key component in driving Queensland's economic growth.
Chief Investigators: Ian Atkinson, Ickjai Lee (Cairns Institute Fellow), Phillip Pearce, Zhangyue Zhou
Collaborating Schools/Organisations: School of Business; CSIRO, QUT
eCloud project
Indicative funding: $92,656
The eCloud solution will provide Australian mining and emerging industrial markets such as South America, to integrate remote location sensors and data loggers in to a high availability “cloud” solution for real time data analysis to increase response times to critical environmental data. Sensors will be installed in extreme remote locations ranging from the Andes in South America to mining leases in Central and Western QLD, away from modern hard line communications. The research component of “eCloud” project has the following two goals:
The core of the project will be to deliver the data in a harmonious and intuitive solution for interpretation by end users in the emerging markets.
Chief Investigators: Ickjai Lee [Cairns Institute Fellow]
Collaborating Schools/Institutions: School of Business; Nepean Power; The Cairns Institute
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