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2022 Publications Performance
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Monash Research Outputs: 77
Mean Field Weighted Citation Impact(FWCI): 1.74
3 Year Rolling Mean FWCI: 2.73
Algorand Centre of Excellence on Sustainability Informatics for the Pacific
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The Algorand Centre of Excellence on Sustainability Informatics for the Pacific (ACE-SIP), led by the Blockchain Technology Centre in partnership with eight institutions across the Pacific, utilises blockchain technology to foster sustainable development and innovation. ACE-SIP’s work encompasses environmental sustainability, governmental sustainability, and social and community sustainability.
The Centre’s efforts focus on preserving natural resources and environmental quality, driving a more protected and optimised government model, and supporting the community socially, economically and culturally. In 2022, ACE-SIP organised a sustainability-themed hackathon and summer school to foster long-term sustainability through active community engagement.
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Living Within Limits: Adapting the Planetary Boundaries to Understand Australia’
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The Planetary Boundaries Framework defines the global environmental limits within which humans are capable of developing and thriving. Climateworks Centre’s Land Use Futures program has adapted the global Planetary Boundaries Framework to an Australian context in the report Living Within Limits: Adapting the Planetary Boundaries to Understand Australia’s Contribution to Planetary Health.
The framework tracks Australia’s position on climate change, freshwater use, land-system change, biosphere integrity and biochemical flows, and how each of these boundaries intersect with the land use sectors, including agriculture and forestry. This report pushes the boundaries of science in defining the complex parameters of planetary health, helping us understand the national problem with clear and robust data.
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Streptomyces Bacteria as Potential Probiotics in Aquaculture
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Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) is a bacterial disease affecting shrimp that has caused severe damage and economic losses to the global aquaculture industry. The disease is caused by a particularly virulent strain of bacteria, Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Researchers from Monash University Malaysia’s School of Pharmacy discovered that a species of Streptomyces bacteria isolated from mangrove forests in Malaysia is capable of conferring protection against AHPND. Utilising this research, the team worked with industry to develop a probiotic for aquaculture called FarmMate-S1 to enhance shrimp farming output.
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Centre for Geometric Biology
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The Centre for Geometric Biology in the Faculty of Science is developing and testing a new theory for how and why organisms grow. Geometric biology allows us to understand the dynamics of how living things convert energy flows into mass, and how the size and shape of organisms ultimately determine these flows. The Geometric Theory of Biology allows us to predict how things function, grow, and change; be they tumours, schools of fish, or whole forests. Researchers from the Centre are utilising this theory to focus on how the net flux of energy (the energy acquired through food, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis minus the energy lost to metabolism) changes with a living thing’s size.
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