A number of Flinders University Climate Response Seed Grant projects have started.

The project summary and lead chief investigators from three colleges will help progress ongoing research in a wide range of areas vital to future environmental and economic viability.

Projects

• Impacts of fires on Kangaroo Island and climate change for South Australian dunefields (Professor Patrick Hesp)
• Quantifying the impact of climate change on the threatened Doongmabulla Spring Complex, Queensland (Dr Dylan Irvine)
• Towards an adaptive woody vegetation management for reducing bushfire risks (Associate Professor Huade Guan)
• Protecting the world’s coastal aquifers from sea-level rise: A novel engineering solution (Dr Eddie Banks)
• Climate-change impacts on upwelling in the eastern Great Australian Bight (Associate Professor Jochen Kaempf)
• Minimising the end-of-life climate impact of electric vehicle batteries (Professor Rocco Zito)
• Ensuring effective outcomes and implementation for climate adaptation policy: reviewing a co-designed, stakeholder-engaged, evidence-based approach to decision-making (Associate Professor Cassandra Star) 
• Climate change threats to water quality and freshwater resources on small islands in the Asia-Pacific region (Dr Amir Jazayeri) 
• Climate change and sea-level rise impacts to Australia’s largest replenished aquifer: Lower Burdekin Delta, Queensland (Professor Adrian Werner)
• Integrated assessment of local governments’ coastal adaptation planning and practice (Associate Professor Beverley Clarke)