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Re-inventing the wheel: balancing preconceptions with a researcher’s yearning for pioneer-days

By Ryan Hooper Having finished my PhD recently through blood-sweat and tears, I blog here to voice the need for continuity between past research and the new programs under the CoE. Following some of the blog postings it has occurred … Continue reading

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“What you see is… not what it is…?”

Pieter Poot presented last week in one of our ‘exchanges’-meetings about UWA’s research on Wandoo crown decline. His presentation once more demonstrated the arbitrary nature of words like tree or forest ‘health’. A not so healthy looking tree (e.g. one … Continue reading

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A New Year after Copenhagen

By Marleen Buizer, Postdoctoral Researcher Was it to be a Roadmap, an Agreement or a Treaty? In the very end, it became ‘but’ an agreement with a commitment to limit global warming to 2°C. What do they mean by commitment? … Continue reading

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Forays into Wandoo Country: What’s up with the fauna?

By Liz Manning (Executive Officer, Wandoo Recovery Group). Recently I spent two mornings helping Tracey Moore, (PhD candidate, Murdoch University) monitor her fauna traps in parts of Wandoo National Park.  Tracey is studying how changes in the overstorey canopy, predominantly … Continue reading

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