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Researchers at The University of Western Australia have secured almost $19 million in grants from the Australian Research Council.  Another $10.4 million has been pledged by national and international organisations to support a number of specific research projects.

Also in the national ARC funding, 12 UWA academics and postdoctoral researchers won individual fellowships to support their work.

The UWA research projects include the stability of oil rigs on the north-west shelf, four dimensional mapping of mineral deposits, Indian Ocean climate change though investigations on Ningaloo Reef, astrophysics and gravitational wave research, studies of memory and cognition, plant and animal biology and artificial intelligence and image processing for defence and security.

The funding - for ARC Discovery Projects, ARC Linkage Grants and ARC Fellowships - were announced today in Canberra by the Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr.

UWA's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Robyn Owens said that the grants to UWA represented around 67 per cent of all federal research funding coming to Western Australia.

"It is pleasing that the Federal Government and the ARC have again recognised the contribution UWA researchers make to the big issues which are fundamental to the social and economic well-being of the nation," Professor Owens said.

"UWA's research strengths in supporting the energy and minerals industries, the defence of the nation, evolutionary biology, climate science and agriculture have all been recognised," she said.

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Professor Robyn Owens (Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research))  (+61 8)  6488 2460
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716