by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 30, 2019 | AWRI, News
Brisbane-based artist Elizabeth Willing has been announced as the AWRI’s very first artist in residence!In a new art + science residency made possible by the Australian Network for Art and Technology, Elizabeth will spend three months in stages embedded at the AWRI,...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 30, 2019 | AWRI, News, Research stories
As vintage winds up across much of Australia, researchers at the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) are also starting to pack up their high vis vests and safety boots, as they finalise a range of vintage trials. Such trials form a key part of AWRI research, as...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 30, 2019 | AWRI, News
Sustainability in Australian grapegrowing and wine production is going from strength to strength, with the AWRI announcing a single national sustainability program, Sustainable Winegrowing Australia. Sustainable Winegrowing Australia provides a unified sustainability...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 23, 2019 | Historic Precinct, News, Participation, University of Adelaide
What animals live in the Waite Arboretum, and where? The Waite Arboretum has recently launched a new Wildlife Orienteering Trail (WAWOT). The trail incorporates 30 metal creatures from beetles and butterflies, to lizards, bats and koalas! Visitors of all ages are...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 18, 2019 | AWRI, News, Wine Innovation Cluster
Wine Australia is inviting applications for funding through the Incubator Initiative, a program that connects early career researchers with Australia’s wine regions. This year, 6 of Wine Australia’s Regional Program partners have crafted 13 local research questions...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 18, 2019 | News, University of Adelaide
WI4896 is a new barley variety bred by the University of Adelaide that has just been named Leabrook (PBR 2017/197), with yield and agronomic data now available from the National Variety Trials website (https://app.nvtonline.com.au/). Growers and other industry...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 15, 2019 | News, Research stories, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite, WRI
In the last 20 years, the global honey bee industry has faced massive losses due to ‘colony collapse disorder’. Concern for the insects’ plight surfaces regularly in the media, inspiring multiple documentaries and science-fiction narratives.But European honey bees,...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 15, 2019 | News, Research stories, University of Adelaide
A spike of elite wheat pollinator with many extruded anthers Waite researchers have identified new genetic markers linked to pollination traits in male wheat plants including anther extrusion, anther size, spikelet number and spike length. Published in Theoretical and...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 9, 2019 | Careers, News, Students, Undergraduate, University of Adelaide
If you’ve been living under a rock (of ice perhaps), you might have missed the spike in the South Australian spirit industry. Perhaps it’s appropriate then, that the new ‘Adelaide Gin’ was created at the University of Adelaide’s Waite campus, home of the largest...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 3, 2019 | News, Students, TERN, Undergraduate, University of Adelaide
SA Riverland, 28th April – 5th May 2019The TERN Surveillance Field Method Training provides hands-on experience to scientifically standardised, nationally accepted ecological monitoring methods and techniques.The Waite-based TERN team are currently accepting...
