Research centres & groups

CSER

Centre for Spatial Environmental Research (CSER)

 QCPR

Queensland Centre for Population Research (QCPR)

Biophysical Remote Sensing Group (BRG) - A CSER Group

 crg

Climate Research Group (CRG)
LECG

Landscape Ecology & Conservation Group (LEC) - A CSER Group

 esprg

Environmental & Social Planning Research Group (ESPRG)

 

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Other GPEM Research

 

Last updated: Feb 22, 2013

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A mapping and monitoring approach using satellite remote sensing

PHD student Mitchell Lyons is researching ways to produce management ready environmental information from a continuous collection of Landsat satellite imagery, captured every two weeks since 1972. His focus is on mapping and understanding ...

A Price on Carbon Could Help Farmers

Scientists at UQ, in collaboration with JCU, may have found a way to offset up to 2.5% of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions and secure economic benefits for regional communities.   A recent study found that reducin...

All a Twitter for planning participation

For his final year research report UQ Bachelor of Regional and Town Planning student, Cliff Schmidt, decided to research the role social networking sites can play in encouraging planning participation.   He investigate...

Climate adaptation and transport planning

With climate change already happening and affecting the lives of individuals, not just in developed cities but most especially in developing cities, this study examines the potential role of indigenous transport towards increasing community resilien...

Flood Plume Mapping

This map shows the maximum extent and coverage of the Moreton Bay flood plume, estimated from MODIS imagery on 14 Jan 2011. The plume extent seen in the map is a result of mixing due to in and outgoing tides. A boundary of seagrass extent is also shown; seagrass, along with a wide range of other flora and fauna assemblages may be impacted by this flood plume. In the following weeks and months, Moreton Bay will be closely monitored to assess the impact of suspended sediment, nutrient and toxin input as well as associated algal blooms

Floods may impact Moreton Bay marine life

UQ remote sensing scientist Dr Chris Roelfsema is concerned about the impact the 2011 floods may have on seagrass in Moreton Bay. 

Green transport infrastructure works

The Queensland Centre for Population Research (QCPR) has revealed that the provision of green infrastructure at UQ’s St Lucia campus has had a major impact on the travel behaviour of the University population.  

Integrated Vegetation Bands

ARC Research Project Summary – June 2012 Integrated Vegetation Bands (IVBs) Experimental Field Site Upper Springbrook, Southeast Queensland Overview This project is an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded study to inv...

Major breakthrough in climate change research

Moreton Bay Goes Wireless

The impact of recent floods on Q...

Protected Area Management Effectiveness

In an on-going international collaboration researchers are working to produce a global review of management effectiveness evaluations of protected areas. The project has assembled and analysed studies of management effectiveness from around ...

Protecting biodiversity in Ghana

PhD student, Justus Deikumah has flown home to South-West Ghana to study the impacts of habitat loss on the health and condition of birds, after first training in the techniques needed at UQ. This will be the first study of its kind in the...

Southern sea levels rise drastically

Sustainable Land Management

GPEM student Jeremy Bourgoin is in the field in the uplands of northern Laos, investigating how to negotiate sustainable landscape management in the region.

Sustainable Seafood and Health

Seafood is an important food source and is known to have a variety of health benefits. A number of health agencies recommend that people increase their seafood intake to promote good health. To meet these dietary recommendations, we should consider ...

The costs of conservation

Conservation reserves are at the core of strategies to protect biodiversity, ecosystem services, cultural heritage, and recreational resources. Yet, even within reserves, these natural assets are at risk if funds for management are insufficient. In ...

UQ researchers forecast Australia’s population growth with new model

UQ researchers believe that long term population projections have a key role in informing policy in contrast with the government’s population strategy released today. Queensland Centre for Population Research (QCPR) demographers have d...

Koalas feel the heat

The Australian koala is vulnerable to climate change, with the iconic Australian marsupial's habitat likely to be restricted to the highly urbanised areas of eastern and southern Australia under a hotter and drier climate, according to a koala resea...

Ancient Larvae Could Be Key To Climate Change Results

Ancient chironomid larvae in lakes could provide the answer to how climate change has affected Australia’s weather over the past 21,000 years. Dr Craig Woodward from The School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at U...

Investigating Social Disadvantage

When researcher Dr Yan Liu recently relocated back to Brisbane, she faced a common problem – where to find an affordable home.   Concerned by rising housing prices and the disparity between different ...

Reforestation could mitigate climate change

Climate change is the most urgent environmental, economic and social issue facing Australia and the world. The concentration of greenhouse gases has grown rapidly in recent decades, and is expected to continue well into the 21st century, increasing ...

Changing Currents in Governance and Management

Australia’s marine environments are at risk from the impacts of human-induced climate change. With these changes come concerns over the adequacy of current marine protected areas. Present management may not be sufficient for future protection ...

Does pollution inhibit rainfall in QLD's South East

Like all natural systems, the atmosphere is a complex environment with many physical and chemical interactions taking place at a range of spatial and temporal scales. In recent yearsthe global science community has been focussing on climate change; ...

Floods and droughts: Predicting the extremes

Snowy Hydro Limited and The University of Queensland are carrying out research to better understand variability of climate and in-turn, inflows in waterways and catchments of the Snowy Mountains. By sampling the snowpack, and rain and snowfa...

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