The University of Adelaide has been awarded more than $3.8 million by the Australian Research Council (ARC) to collaborate with industry on a range of projects spanning fields such as computer science, genetics, agriculture, engineering, communications, physics and the environment.
Agricultural research is just one of the areas that recently received funding at the University of Adelaide.Photo credit: Hinrich, Wikimedia CommonsThe grants amount to 60% of all ARC Linkage Project funding awarded in the State, for research in collaboration with industry and government.
The 10 successful University of Adelaide projects awarded funding today are:
$268,844 for a project led by Dr James Anstie (School of Chemistry and Physics, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing): Untangling complex molecular spectra with an optical frequency comb
$340,000 for a project led by Professor Andrew Austin (Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity, Environment Institute): Subterranean invertebrate communities of arid zone Western Australia diversity assessment and food-web structure
$675,000 for a project led by Professor Alan Cooper (Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Environment Institute): Using genetics to recover Australia's lost history
$340,000 for a project led by Dr Anthony Dick (Australian Centre for Visual Technologies, School of Computer Science): Sentient buildings
$524,000 for a project led by Associate Professor Sigrid Heuer (Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine): Exploring genetic diversity in root traits of wheat and rice for higher drought tolerance and fertiliser use efficiency
$270,000 for a project led by Professor Dmitri Kavetski (School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering): A robust integrated streamflow forecasting framework for Australian water information and management agencies
$457,000 for a project led by Professor Martin Kennedy (Sprigg Geobiology Centre, Environment Institute): Quantifying the flux of fugitive greenhouse gasses associated with CSG and calibrating it against the baseline of natural and anthropogenic sources
$194,873 for a project led by Dr Hung Nguyen (Teletraffic Research Centre for Mathematical Modelling): Software based networking: transforming defence and emergency operations
$550,000 for a project led by Dr David Ottaway (School of Chemistry and Physics, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing): Laser airborne methane sensor (LAMS)
$240,000 for a project led by Professor Ian Reid (School of Computer Science): Visual sensing for localisation and mapping in mining
The grants amount to 60% of all ARC Linkage Project funding awarded in the State, for research in collaboration with industry and government.
The 10 successful University of Adelaide projects awarded funding today are:
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