PIARN postgraduate travel scholarship winners

Nine students from across Australia received travel scholarships from PIARN this month, giving them the opportunity to attend both the CCRSPI Conference and the PIARN Postgraduate Workshop.

The students, all undertaking research in climate change adaptation for primary industries, came from a variety of disciplines including economics, agronomy, sociology and forest science.

Scholarship recipients:

• Muktar Ahmad, University of Sydney – Global warming influence on wheat crop and adaptation strategies for temperature
• Sara Bayat, University of New England – Climate change interactions with sub-lethal pesticide impacts on Australian native bats (Nyctaphilus geoffroyi)
• Brad Evans, Monash University - Comparative studies on the appropriate application of remote sensing and climate modelling for better understanding forest health under a changing climate
• Tim Huggins, University of Melbourne – Nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide (DCD), to reduce nitrous oxide emissions on dairy farms in south-western Victoria
• Hoi-Fei Mok, University of Melbourne – Eucalypt tree vulnerability in the Victorian central highlands
• John Rochcouste, University of Queensland – Managing crop production uncertainties and climate variability through a map based system
• Asad Shabbir, University of Queensland – Integrated management of parthenium weed – current and future climate change scenarios
• Humaira Sultana, University of Melbourne – Nitrogen fertilisers and their climate change implications
• Tas Thamo, University of Western Australia – Costs and benefits of different options for West Australian farmers to mitigate greenhouse gases emissions