King Penguins - these large creatures have little to do directly with Peter Cawood’s work, but they are some of the charming attractions that he meets in carrying out his field work on tectonics.
As the director of the Tectonics Special Research Centre in the School of Earth and Geographical Sciences (TSCR) at UWA, Professor Peter Cawood is involved in looking back millions of years into Australia’s geographical history.
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In 2008 the Faculty attracted $36 million in research funds, which was over 30% of the research income of the University.
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