USIMS News and Events

News

The USIMS newsletter dubbed the "Marine Science News" is a quarterly newsletter which features an update from the USIMS Director on what's happening at USIMS.

Contributions by staff to the newsletter are welcome. One page submissions on research areas, projects and publications are encouraged.

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• Issue 1, November 2002
• Issue 2, August 2003
• Issue 3, December 2003
• Issue 4, March 2004
• Issue 5, June 2004
• Issue 6, March 2005
• Issue 7, December 2005

University of Sydney Gazette Articles on USIMS Staff

• The microscopic threat to the Great Barrier Reef, Ms Cheryl Jones on Dr Anya Salih, April 2003.
• Catching the drift, Ms Fiona Carruthers on Dr Dietmar Muller, April 2003.

Research News

**Sourced from the University of Sydney News site**.

• Measuring the threat to our coastline, 17 August 2005.
• The Aceh Tsunami - could it happen here?, 2 February 2005.
• Solution to global warming may lie under the sea, 10 November 2004.
• Sydney Harbour one of world's most contaminated, 17 August 2004.
• Model predicts climate change impacts on harbour, 5 July 2004.

Events

• The 7th Beer & Blubber evening, Thursday 7th August.

Fieldtrips

• Sydney Harbour Research Cruise,
  14 April 2005.

Books

• Full Fathom Five: 15 years of Australian Involvement in the Ocean Drilling Program, Australian Ocean Drilling Programme, Sydney, 2004, Baker E.K. and Keene J.B. (Editors).
• The Contaminant Status of Sydney Harbour Sediments: A Handbook for the Public and Professionals by Dr. Gavin Birch and Dr. Stuart Taylor. Environmental, Engineering and Hydrogeology Specialist Group of the Geological Society of Australia Inc., August 2004.
• Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate edited by R.R. Hillis and R.D. Müller. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and the Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 2003.
• Earth and Environmental Science: The HSC Course by Dr. Tom Hubble, C. Huxley and Imlay Gillespie. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology by Dr. Michael Hughes and G. Masselink. Hodder Arnold, 2002.