Posts by Karen Pearce

Building total system health around northern Australian development

A total system approach to health and biosecurity risk assessment is not only good for northern Australia, but also for sustaining Australia’s healthy population and economy.

The right water mix for the north: options and opportunities

Cost-effective development of northern Australia’s water resources for agriculture requires a more holistic look at the opportunities.

Creating Indigenous jobs and looking after country

Jobs, income, protecting cultural sites: northern Indigenous communities reap other benefits from looking after country.

Eye in the sky on reef pollution

Spotting an oil spill in a 2,300 km long marine park is no easy task, but new remote sensing technology is set to change that.

A new spin on ocean eddies and marine primary production

Our understanding of the ocean’s biological pump, and the capacity of the ocean to sequester carbon dioxide, has been enhanced by a new study examining ocean eddies.

Tropical forest carbon storage at risk from defaunation

Disappearing vertebrates are affecting the structure and carbon storage capacity of tropical forests.

Safety among the gum trees for Wye River

Our leading bushfire risk expert Justin Leonard has been working with the community and a wider Advisory Panel to develop a set of voluntary guidelines that will help improve the townships resilience to bushfire.

Are toxic algal blooms the new normal for Australia’s major rivers?

Blooms of toxic blue-green algae were unheard of in Australia's major waterways before 1991. Now the Murray River is experiencing its fourth bloom in a decade.