Available Honours projects - School of the Environment

Please see a list of available projects below. You can find more information about how to apply on our webpage.

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Our searchable research themes are:

Biodiversity and conservation science
Earth science and resources
Ecology genetics and evolution
Environmental management
Geography
Marine biology and ocean science
Zoology and wildlife biology

What is koala carrying capacity?

Theme: Biodiversity and conservation science, Environmental management, Geography, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: William Ellis
Using Coral Geochemistry to Interpret the Effects of Local Environmental Gradients on Palaeoenvironmental Data

Theme: Earth science and resources, Marine biology and ocean science
Contact: Greg Webb
Using a High-Resolution Ocean Model to Understand the Oceanographic Context of the Moreton Bay-Coral Sea System During Drought and Flood Regimes

Theme: Earth science and resources, Marine biology and ocean science
Contact: David Gwyther
Unravelling the Omnigenic Model of Evolution: Integrative Network and Regression Analyses

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
Unravelling Climate Cyclicity in Permian Peat Mires

Theme: Earth science and resources, Environmental management, Geography
Contact: Joan Esterle
Understanding the Persistence of Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Andrew Letten
Tree Selection by Rehabilitated and Relocated Koalas

Theme: Biodiversity and conservation science, Environmental management, Geography, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: William Ellis
The Language of Attraction: How Do Plants Attract Symbionts?

Themes: Biodiversity and conservation science, Ecology genetics and evolution, Environmental management
Contact: Paul Dennis
The Evolution of Redundancy During Parallel Polygenic Adaptation

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
Testing Models of Species Distribution in Peri-urban SEQ

Theme: Biodiversity and conservation science, Environmental management, Geography, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: William Ellis
Sustainability and Communication in Livestock Industries

Theme: Environmental management
Contact: Bradd Witt
Subsurface rock reactions in geological energy storage

Theme: Earth science and resources
Contact: Julie Pearce
State of In-situ Stress and Fractures in the Bowen-Surat Basins, Queensland: Implications for Fault Stability

Theme: Earth Science and Resources
Contact: Mojtaba Rajabi
Singapore Daisy seedbank dynamics

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: Gurion Ang
Singapore daisy floodwater dynamics

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: Gurion Ang
Scientific visualization for communication and outreach

Theme: Geography
Contact: Helen Bostock Lyman
Rigorous Koala monitoring using drone-based distance sampling

Theme: Biodiversity and conservation science, Ecology genetics and evolution, Environmental management, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: Diana Fisher
Reconstructing Holocene environmental history for Noosa estuarine lakes from sediments and microfossils

Theme: Earth science and resources, Geography, Marine biology and ocean science
Contact: Annie Lau
Powering the future: Critical and rare earth elements in basalts from Central Queensland.

Theme: Earth Science and Resources
Contact: Carlos Spier
Ombrotophism in the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures

Theme: Earth science and resources, Geography
Contact: Joan Esterle
Modelling the Persistence of Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Andrew Letten
Microbial Diversity Along a pH Gradient

Themes: Biodiversity and conservation science, Ecology genetics and evolution, Environmental management
Contact: Paul Dennis
Microbial Diversity Along a 750 km Drought Gradient

Themes: Biodiversity and conservation science, Ecology genetics and evolution, Environmental management
Contact: Paul Dennis
Mental Health Genetics in C. elegans

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Paul Ebert
Mate recognition and hybridization of cochineal lineages

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: Gurion Ang
Linking Ecosystem Functions to Uncultured Microorganisms

Themes: Biodiversity and conservation science, Ecology genetics and evolution, Environmental management
Contact: Paul Dennis
Lagocheirus funestus distribution and impact on cactus biocontrol

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: Gurion Ang
Isolation of Plant Stress Tolerance Enhancing Microbes

Themes: Biodiversity and conservation science, Ecology genetics and evolution, Environmental management
Contact: Paul Dennis
Is climate change affecting Queensland’s climate?

Theme: Geography
Contact: Helen Bostock Lyman
Investigating the Molecular Evolution of Gene Candidates Involved in Cold Tolerance in Anopheles Mosquitoes

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Luke Ambrose
Internal Migration and Climate Change: How Does Climate Change Impact Internal Migration Within Australia?

Themes: Environmental management, Geography
Contact: Aude Bernard
Impacts of Magmatic Intrusions on Vertical Stress in Sedimentary Basins

Theme: Earth Science and Resources
Contact: Mojtaba Rajabi
Impact of insect predation on cochineal biological control

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: Gurion Ang
Hybridization Dynamics and Coancestry Analysis in Spatially Structured Populations: A Computational Approach

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
How will climate change impact agriculture in Queensland?

Theme: Geography
Contact: Helen Bostock Lyman
How to Measure Fitness of Bacteria?

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Jan Engelstaedter
Growing Sustainable and Affordable Australian Cities amid Climate Change

Theme: Environmental management, Geography
Contact: Frank Zou
Gene Exchange in Bacteria: How and When Does it Happen?

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Jan Engelstaedter
Fracture and Mechanical Stratigraphy in Bowen-Surat Basins, Queensland

Theme: Earth Science and Resources
Contact: Mojtaba Rajabi
Exploring the Evolution of Genetic Architecture in Plants: A Tensor and Hypergraph Approach to Gravitropism

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
Exploring bacteria-phage dynamics under antibiotic pressure

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: James Orr
Environmental tolerance of cochineal insects

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution, Zoology and wildlife biology
Contact: Gurion Ang
Environmental geochemistry of the abandoned Normanby Mine, QLD

Theme: Earth science and resources, Environmental management
Contact: Carlos Spier
Ecological Niche Modelling of Anopheles Mosquitoes from Northern Australia and New Guinea

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Luke Ambrose
Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Urinary Tract Infections

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Jan Engelstaedter
Development of marine science educational resources for secondary and tertiary learners to improve research skills

Theme: Marine biology and ocean science
Contact: Nicola Browne
Coupling Organic Microscopy and Palynology to Track Succession in Modern Peats

Theme: Earth science and resources, Environmental management, Geography
Contact: Joan Esterle
Coastal Erosion or Accretion Under Sea Level Rise? Shoreface Sand Supply to Beaches in QLD.

Themes: Geography, Marine biology and ocean science
Contact: Dan Harris
Biogeography of Microbially Mediated Ecosystem Services

Themes: Biodiversity and conservation science, Ecology genetics and evolution, Environmental management
Contact: Paul Dennis
Adaptive Potential of Corals: What Do We Already Know?

Theme: Ecology genetics and evolution
Contact: Katrina McGuigan