AIMS@JCU Scholarships

Preference will be given to applicants with project proposals that address one or more of the following Priority Research Areas:

Improvement in quantitative tools, models and data platforms that can extract greater meaning from data.
Improved understanding the status and trends of tropical marine ecosystems.
Development of innovative/autonomous/automated marine observing technologies and related assessment methods, to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of data acquisition.
Improved understanding critical habitats and populations of key threatened and endangered marine species.
Development of regional models of environmental condition and function to support management of tropical marine ecosystems.
Improved understanding of cumulative pressures to support better management solutions for improved ecosystem health at local and regional scales.
Improved understanding of the scope and rates of recovery, acclimatisation and adaptation of coral reef species to climate change, in order to improve forecasting ability of future coral reef status.
Development of new tools for coral reef restoration that enhance resistance and resilience of key coral reef taxa to climate change.
Improved data analysis workflows and knowledge delivery systems to enhance understanding of tropical marine ecosystems amongst diverse end users (Traditional Owners, government, industry, the public etc)
Development of structured decision support tools that link risk, monitoring, modelling and adaptive management to support improved ecosystem management policies and procedures.