EucFACE Reveals That Australian Trees Limited By Lack Of Nutrients

 

The EucFACE experiment exposes native woodland to elevated carbon dioxide. We found that:

  • Despite consistent increases in leaf photosynthesis, eucalypts could not put on more wood, stem and leaf growth under elevated CO2.
  • When phosphorus was added in tests, productivity increased by 35%.
  • Findings completely opposite to overseas FACE experiments that found a 23% increase in tree productivity with elevated CO2.
  • Findings demonstrate the importance of Australian science with implications for global climate change models.

Latest News, Events And Highlights

PhD (HDR) Scholarship: Down To Earth Defence And Drought: How And When Australian Grasses Use Silicon Defence

"We are now offering a research scholarship to a highly motivated PhD candidate to work within a research group addressing the functional role of plant silicon in resistance to climate change and insect herbivores. The project is funded through the Australian Research Council."

PhD (HDR) Scholarship: Physiological Mechanisms of Vegetables Grown Under Innovative Glass and Photovoltaic Technologies

"We are now offering a PhD scholarship project on 'Research and operations to trial innovation glass and photovoltaic technologies in protected cropping'. This project is in collaboration with Swinburne University of Technology and Hort Innovation and the focus of this PhD project is to ingratiate the physiological, and biochemical response of major vegetable crops to the changes of innovation glass and photovoltaic technologies."

Racing To Relocate Kangaroos at Mount Panorama

24 July 2017

Scott Bevins, environmental scientist and graduate from Western Sydney University, has been spending his weekends since February 18th relocating hundreds of kangaroos from Bathurst's Mount Panorama with the Bathurst Kangaroo Project.

Nov 6
Annual TERN OzFlux Meeting 2017

November 2017

The Annual OzFlux Meeting brings the flux community together every year to learn the latest in environmental monitoring and scientific techniques.

Please join us in 2017 at the beautiful Hawkesbury campus of Western Sydney University, home to the Cumberland Plains Observatory and unique field facilities.

Positions Vacant

New positions vacant at HIE.

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Greenhouse Horticulture - 13 August 2017
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Microbial / Ecosystem Ecology - 15 August 2017
Jen Peters Wins HIE's Three Minute Thesis 2017

29 June 2017

PhD student Jen Peters won the 2017 HIE Round of the annual Three Minute Thesis Competition, with a stellar presentation 'A look inside leaves'. Awarded Runner-Up was PhD student Jonathan Finch with his talk 'Very Niche Ecology' and People's Choice Award went to Kirsten Ball's fabulously enthusiastic talk 'Native under-vine for cheaper wine'.

Presenting a complex research story inside three minutes is a tough ask yet our students presented with flair and passion to showcase their research directions and how they are relevant to everyday people.

'Success Showcase' Magazine

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Autumn Edition Of Success Showcase Magazine

Welcome to the Autumn Success Showcase, our showcase magazine of news, research, stories and features from the Hawkesbury Institute...

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Summer Edition Of Success Showcase Magazine

Selecting Red Gums for a warmer, drier Australia of the future and much more...

2017 QS University Rankings

 

The international Quacarelli Symonds Subject Rankings are a worldwide ranking of major disciplines. The criteria for designating a ranking are:

  • Academic peer review
  • Faculty/Student ratio
  • Citations per faculty
  • Employer reputation
  • International student ratio
  • A measurement of the diversity of the student community
  • International staff ratio

 

Quacarelli Symonds Rankings Agriculture and Forestry Top 200 2017

Quacarelli Symonds Rankings Environmental Sciences Top 300 2017

For Agriculture and Forestry, and the Environmental Sciences, these 2017 rankings place Western Sydney University within the top 3% of universities in the world.