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Examples of new Discovery Projects in 2012 - Australian Capital Territory
Discovery Projects totalling $32 299 554 covering 93 projects
University of Canberra
Productivity and work-life balance in technology-enabled virtual work environments (DP120104521)
Summary: This project examines the impact of technology-enabled virtual work environments on the productivity and work-life balance of professional knowledge workers. Guidelines will be developed that improve organisational and individual outcomes for professional knowledge workers who use technology extensively in their interactions with others.
Chief Investigator: Professor John A Campbell
ARC funding: $210 000
The Australian National University
Next-generation tsunami warning (DP120103207)
Summary: This project generates the science for rapid tsunami forecasts of sufficient accuracy and detail to maintain public confidence in tsunami warnings. It will show how next-generation warning systems can assimilate multi-sensor data to provide probabilistic forecasts enabling emergency managers to make well-informed decisions about imminent tsunamis.
Chief Investigator: Professor Phil R Cummins
ARC funding: $420 000
The Australian National University
SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey (DP120101237)
Summary: The Southern Sky Survey is the first digital imaging survey of the entire southern hemisphere sky. The resulting information on a billion stellar and galaxy images underpins a number of significant national science programs of international prominence. These include the discovery of the oldest stars in our galaxy, fossils from its formation.
Chief Investigator: Professor Gary S Da Costa
ARC funding: $390 000
The Australian National University
Diversification and conservation of Australian frogs (DP120104146)
Summary: Australia's 216 known species of frogs are exceptionally diverse - 98 per cent are found nowhere else in the world and many of them are in trouble. This project will test ideas concerning the tempo of Australian frog diversification, identify previously cryptic new species and provide information critical to the conservation of Australia's declining frogs.
Chief Investigator: Professor J Scott Keogh
ARC funding: $320 000
The Australian National University
Adaptive economic management of Australia's urban water (DP120103846)
Summary: This project responds to the so-called 'wicked problem' of ensuring an adequate supply of water to urban consumers at the lowest price even during long-term droughts. The project will generate, for the first time in the world, an integrated, dynamic, and adaptive supply and demand model to manage urban water optimally over time.
Chief Investigator: Professor Rupert Q Grafton
ARC funding: $350 000
