Developed by team members from three different organisations, INFFER is the winner of this year's Australian Research Council Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research by an Interdisciplinary Team.

Some of Australia’s best farming research was on display at the recent Institute of Agriculture’s Frontiers in Agriculture Postgraduate Showcase 2009.

Seagrass meadows have joined the endangered list of ecosystems, along with tropical rainforests, coral reefs and mangroves.

A WA-led international team of researchers has made an important discovery about geological processes that were active in the early Earth, more than 2.7 billion years ago.

The Great Southern Development Commission welcomed twenty-five postgraduate students to the Great Southern last Friday. The students, from Africa, Europe, South Asia, the USA and Australia, are currently visiting the UWA Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management in Albany, to undertake a two week program studying water issues in the Great Southern as part of the International WaterCentre’s Master of Integrated Water Management Program.

Farmers in WA could benefit as a result of a symposium "Understanding Practice Change by Rural Landholders" to be held at The University of Western Australia next week.

Two researchers from The University of Western Australia - one who co-developed the world's most precise clock and the other, dedicated to finding ways of repairing ecosystems - have been awarded Australia's most prestigious research fellowships.

Professor Mike Tobar, internationally-renowned for his studies of measurement, and Professor Richard Hobbs, a world leader in restoration ecology, are two of 15 national Australian Laureate Fellowships winners, announced today by Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr.