Opportunity to work with world-class scientists at summer school

Thursday, 25 October, 2012

Have you ever wanted to work alongside internationally renowned scientists on real-world problems like food security, estuary and wetland sustainability, coral bleaching and blue-green algae outbreaks?

Southern Cross University’s 2013 Science Summer School gives undergraduates or recent graduates the opportunity to team up with one of the university’s leading researchers to undertake a short science-based project over four weeks.

The program is open to all budding scientists and researchers, not only students or graduates of SCU.

“The SCU Science Summer School is a great opportunity to develop valuable field and laboratory skills, and experience what undertaking an Honours, Masters or PhD project is like,” said Associate Professor Andrew Rose from Southern Cross GeoScience and the Science Summer School coordinator.

The 2013 Science Summer School runs from 7 January 1 to February with the support of researchers from Southern Cross GeoScience, Southern Cross Plant Science, the Marine Ecology Research Centre and the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry Research.

The Science Summer School is now in its third year at SCU.

“Last year we received more than 25 high-quality applications from both across the country and overseas,” said Professor Rose.

“The Science Summer School is a wonderful showcase of the range of scientific research being completed right here on the NSW North Coast.”

There is no course fee charged to successful applicants taking part.

The 2013 Science Summer School projects include:

  • Waxing on about rice quality
  • Getting to the root of adaptive variation in Tea Tree
  • Is Lyngbya majuscule distribution in Moreton Bay driven by groundwater inputs of dissolved iron?
  • Antioxidant activity of native Australian plants
  • Tackling the seedy business of fertiliser waste
  • Environmental chemistry of coastal wetlands: acid sulfate soils, element cycling, water quality and wetland sustainability
  • How will ocean acidification affect calcium carbonate formation rates?
  • Phosphorus dynamics in a eutrophied Australian estuary
  • Green bands in corals: could this be the much sought-after coral bleaching proxy?

Full details of the projects and an application form can be downloaded from www.scu.edu.au/science-summerschool. Applicants will be ranked based on their academic record, demonstrated interest or capacity to conduct science-based research, and the availability of research projects that match the applicant’s nominated preferences.

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