ACADEMIA

Details of the successful UQ E-Research grants are: Dr Nicole Bordes, from the School of Physical Sciences, leads a project developing and implementing an Australian archaeological digital collection platform based on existing High Performance Computing techniques and infrastructure. This collection will facilitate the dissemination and interchange of archaeological data across disciplines and institutions and across the public and private sectors; enhance archaeological research; and contribute to discourses about Australian cultural heritage and identity. Professor Maria Orlowska, from the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, leads a project aiming to establish an ICT infrastructure to facilitate a whole-of-environment approach to environmental research. The project hopes to create a federated distributed data infrastructure for research, that encourages data creators to make their data available to other scientists, and encourages users to make use of data available from many sources. Professor Bernard Pailthorpe, from the School of Physical Sciences, leads a project aiming to further develop a software platform for collaborative and network-based, shared scientific visualisation tools. Case studies will be on ecological and geosciences data, relevant to agriculture and coastal studies, marine sciences and coral reefs.