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How UWA is using a unique carbon offset partnership to help restore kelp forests
Media statementsResearch categoryEnvironmentSchool of Biological SciencesHome PageCorporateHomePartnershipsResearchOceans InstituteScience and Environment23 March 2023The University of Western Australia has partnered with local business Canopy Blue in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint, while allowing it to reinvest in its own research to help regenerate WA kelp forests lost in the 2011 marine heatwave.
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UWA sustainability projects win national funding
Media statementsOceans InstituteSchool of Molecular SciencesCorporateHomeHome PageEngineering and TechnologyPartnershipsResearchScience and Environment08 February 2023Research from The University of Western Australia that will reduce carbon dioxide emissions from industrial projects and reduce the cost of offshore wind energy have been awarded a combined $1.4 million in funding from the Australian Research Council.
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Beach walkers invited to help penguin research
EnvironmentNature and ScienceOceans InstituteSchool of Biological SciencesHome PageResearchScience and Environment23 January 2023A Western Australian Marine Science Institution project, led by a scientist from The University of Western Australia, is inviting people to help penguin research while getting fit.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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UWA Oceans Institute
The Oceans Institute nurtures an ecosystem of cross-disciplinary researchers and educators to serve the needs of the ocean community of Western Australia, the Indian Ocean and the world.
We are committed to supporting the scholarship of our blue planet for a better tomorrow.
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We pay our respects to the past and present Traditional Owners of the land on which our experts reside, the Whadjuk Nyoongar people of Western Australia, and to all the native peoples of the lands and seas on which our researchers work.