Research in Natural & Agricultural Sciences

Research in the Faculty of Natural & Agricultural Sciences is concentrated in four broad areas:

• Fundamental earth and biological sciences
• Agricultural and ecological systems
• Minerals and petroleum geosciences
• Environmental sciences (including marine science)
  

Facts about Faculty research:

• In 2007 our researchers will attract $34 million in research funds, which is 32% of the research income of the University.
• Postgraduate research students comprise 30% of our students with 20% of these being international students.
• We have numerous external research partnerships and are involved with 13 research centres.
• Professor Leigh Simmons (evolutionary biology) from the School of Animal Biology was awarded a Federation Fellowship in 2004 for his work on the evolution of female mating frequency and its consequences.
• Professor Hans Lambers (plant physiology and conservation biology) and Professor Steve Powles (herbicide resistance in plants) are on the ISI Highly Cited Researchers list, putting them among the top 0.5% of researchers in plant and animal science worldwide.
• We rank second in the 'Group of Eight' Universities in average citations per paper in Agricultural Sciences.