[Aqualist] ARC Laureate Fellowship and Linkage Grants announced

[Simon Haberle]

Dear Colleagues,

The latest outcomes for ARC Laureate Fellowships and Linkage Grants have just been announced. Below is a summary of successful grants that are related to AQUA (including archaeology). Congratulations to all…

Regards, Simon

ARC LAUREATE FELLOWS (For further information about this funding scheme, please visit the Australian Laureate Fellowships page https://www.arc.gov.au/funding-research/funding-schemes/discovery-program/australian-laureate-fellowships)

Professor Peter Veth
Administering Organisation: The University of Western Australia
Fellowship Project Summary
FL220100046 – Desert People: Australian Perspectives
Future prosperity in the mining and resources industries, and the ongoing protection of 60,000-year-old Aboriginal sites are often conflicting and public battles. In the North-West Australian regions of the Ningaloo coast, Pilbara and Western Desert, mining and tourism contributes significantly to the regional economies, estimated as being worth over $100B/annum to the Western Australia economy. In parallel however, the cultural heritage value is not as well documented, and as a result the culturally significant heritage sites within these regions are at risk of being lost. By working with Traditional Custodians and using state of the art archaeological techniques including satellite surveys and ground-penetrating radar, this large-scale project will provide critical knowledge to Traditional Custodians, land managers and industry to guide future developments in these areas. The ultimate goal is to avoid another incident and loss like the Juukan Caves, enable heritage protection and future developments within the resources and green energy industries to co-exist, and provide a blueprint for regions where cultural heritage and industry can be co-managed and prosper, preserving the world's oldest continuing culture.
Australian Research Council funding: $3,224,956

Professor David Bowman
Administrating Organisation: University of Tasmania
Fellowship Project Summary
FL220100099 – Practical and sustainable pathways to community coexistence with bushfires
Australia’s disastrous Black Summer Bushfires of 2019–20, part of a global pattern of increasingly frequent and destructive wildfires, had massive social, economic, and environmental consequences. The Bushfire Royal Commission uncovered a constellation of complex social, administrative, and environmental factors contributing to their impact. Finding a pathway to sustainable bushfire management is an urgent national and global policy challenge. Professor Bowman will target concrete ways of meeting that challenge, through a careful harmonisation of social, economic, and biophysical lines of research. These will involve collaboration with government at all levels, Aboriginal fire managers, and leading fire scientists nationally and internationally. This multidisciplinary and deeply consultative research aims to develop and apply innovative, cost-effective, evidence-based, public-education and fire-management programs that will positively transform the relationship Australians have with their inherently bushfire-prone landscapes, and to reinforce Australia’s high standing in a vital area of research.
Australian Research Council funding: $3,360,986


ARC LINKAGE GRANTS (For further information about this funding scheme, please visit the Linkage Grants page https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/241)

The Australian National University
LP210300506  Professor Adrienne Nicotra; Dr Matthew Brookhouse; Professor Saul Cunningham; Professor Owen Atkin; Professor James Pittock; Professor Benjamin Smith; Ms Mellesa Schroder; Dr Rosie Cooney; Dr Josh Dorrough; Dr Paul Miller
Understanding snow gum dieback for effective and integrated management. The project leverages recent research and infrastructure investments and our determined and collaborative team as it aims to: 1) assess the future geography of snow gum dieback in the high country and identify priority locations for pro-active management, 2) quantify the impact of snow gums on high country water and carbon budgets and thus the socio- economic and biodiversity values, and 3) determine options for mitigation. Dieback of our iconic snow gum forests is diminishing the ecological, hydrological and cultural values of the Australian Alps and will impact state and national water-supply and power-generation systems. Our research will inform Alps-wide management efforts designed for long-term success.
NSW DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT, PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORATE - DEPARTMENTAL; AUSTRALIAN ALPS NATIONAL PARKS PROGRAM ; PARKS VICTORIA; LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN
0602    $1,231,305.00

Charles Darwin University
LP210300151  Professor Jeremy Russell-Smith; Professor Reuben Bolt; Associate Professor Brett Murphy; Professor Ruth Wallace; Dr Clement Duvert; Associate Professor Ben Sparrow; Dr Michaela Spencer; Dr Jennifer Macdonald; Dr Christopher Humphrey; Dr Justin Perry; Dr Andrew Harford; Mr Ricky Archer; Dr Catherine Robinson; Dr Renee Bartolo
Transforming Cultural & Natural Resource Management workforce capabilities. This project aims to implement a transformative program of transdisciplinary cultural and natural resource management and workforce development research in Northern Australia’s Arnhem Plateau region. This project expects to create new knowledge in the areas of cultural knowledges, wildfire, feral animal, invasive plants, mine-site rehabilitation, and climate change, as well as Indigenous training effectiveness. Expected outcomes of the project include practical learnings for application in broader Indigenous community/First Nations capability and supportive policy development contexts. The expected benefits are a long-term platform for enhancing cultural and environmental landscape management and sustainable employment opportunities.
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY; INDIGENOUS LAND AND SEA CORPORATION; GUNDJEIHMI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION; BININJ KUNWOK REGIONAL LANGUAGE CENTRE LTD; NORTH AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS LAND AND SEA MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE LIMITED; TERRITORY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INCORPORATED; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST; ENERGY RESOURCES OF AUSTRALIA LTD.; PARKS AUSTRALIA NORTH, ENVIRONMENT AUSTRALIA; ALFA (NT) LIMITED; ARBOR METRICS PTY LTD; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS PTY LTD; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH NETWORK (UQ); ATLAS OF LIVING AUSTRALIA (CSIRO)
0502    $935,882.00

Prof Simon Haberle
Director, School of Culture, History & Language
Professor of Natural History & Palaeoecology
ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage

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