Griffith University

The Environmental Futures Centre is a major research initiative of the Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology (SEET) group, Griffith University, and aims to understand and develop solutions to facilitate a clean, resilient and sustainable future for our global environments.

The magnitude of the environmental challenges already being felt regionally, nationally and globally require a trans-disciplinary and collaborative approach from a comprehensive series of scientific fields. Issues of sustainability, food security, clean energy, climate change and biodiversity conservation cannot effectively be approached from traditional disciplinary perspectives. As such, our network of researchers undertake a vast range of both theoretical and applied sciences that fall under the areas of environmental, physical and social sciences.

While our scientists are leaders in a comprehensive range of research fields, there are also many commonalities including foci on:

• developing enabling technologies for environmental remediation and new sources of renewable energy;
• improving our understanding of biodiversity and ecosystems and developing practical solutions to conservation challenges;
• providing sustainable solutions to renewal bio-production and to green environments; and
• exploring our prehistory, informing environmental policy and educating attitudes towards the natural world.

People in Parks - International Symposium

International and national experts in the management of tourists in protected areas will present at People in Parks: Managing the Environmental Impacts of Visitors. The two day event will be held on the Gold Coast campus from 14 - 15 November 2011.

• Full details are available at Conferences.
  

Honours Thesis Write-Up Scholarships - Applications Close 1st December

The Environmental Futures Centre is offering recently completed Honours students up to $2,000 each to publish a paper from their thesis. Let us help you publish your research!

• Full details are available at Student Opportunities. 

3rd Australia-China Symposium for Materials Science

Co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation of China and Australian Research Council, the  3rd Australia-China Symposium for Materials Science is scheduled to be held on the Gold Coast from 19 to 23 November 2011.

• Visit ACSMS website for full details