The idea of a seed bank is to preserve the biodiversity of our food crops, in case of natural or human induced calamity, but there are a multitude of crops…
Greening up the city
Your local park is likely playing a vital role in your city’s health, and probably your own too. Parks and other “green spaces” help keep cities cool, and as places of…
Real-time shoreline monitoring
Simply understanding the movements of a dynamic coastal shoreline is a challenge. Trying to engineer solution to ensure pristine beaches for the thriving tourist city of the Gold Coast is…
Art and climate change
The role of creative arts in stimulating responses to climate change. Can art contribute to getting people to respond to the issues of climate change? Art doesn’t only operate on…
Professor Jon Olley profile
How much information can a single grain of sand give you? According to the Australian Rivers Institute’s Professor Jon Olley quite a bit: from the origins of Australia’s cultural history…
Monitoring poisons without passports
The United Nations describes persistent organic pollutants as: … chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects to…
Launch
Impact @ Griffith Sciences launched on the 26 November. The suite of publications from Griffith University’s Sciences Group includes this website, a quarterly digital magazine and a public lecture series in Brisbane…
Shark warrior
Following the ethos of “Share the Seas”, the Sarah Shark Project is an independently produced series of six films focusing on the natural history, public perception and conservation of sharks around Australia….
Sir Samuel Griffith Centre
Griffith is home to Australia’s first teaching and research facility designed to rely on photovoltaic arrays and hydrogen-metal hydride storage technologies to keep it off the power grid. The innovative Sir Samuel Griffith…