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NPAQ BURSARY AWARD CEREMONY ( Released March 2007 )
The National Parks Association of Queensland Inc (NPAQ) is pleased to announce the attendance of Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, Governor of Queensland and Patron of NPAQ at the upcoming NPAQ Bursary Award Ceremony, taking place at Lamington National Park on March 24.
Her Excellency will be attending the ceremony with Mr Bryce and will be presenting Queensland High School students with NPAQ Bursary award certificates.
The Ceremony will mark the participation of the students in the IBISCA Qld (Investigation of the Biodiversity of Soil and Canopy Arthropods) project during the weekend of March 24-26. NPAQ is a sponsor of the IBISCA Qld project, which is being held from March 8 to April 4, and part of NPAQ’s involvement includes bursaries being provided for ten high school students so that they can be actively involved in the research process.
Ten high school students from across the State will be taking part in the IBISCA Qld Project at Lamington National Park on March 24-26. The students will be assisting more than 35 scientists from around the world in the second phase of the international biodiversity study to identify signs of climate change.
Elizabeth Sayers, NPAQ Executive Coordinator said ‘the bursaries have been provided to enable the students the opportunity to participate in scientific processes at Lamington National Park as part of the IBISCA Qld project. The project has been conducted through Griffith University in the interests of determining the effects of Climate Change on this area. The students may well be the ones who will be working on ways to overcome the effects of climate change in the future and what better way to enable them to understand the impacts than to take part in a study of such significance’.
The students and four teachers who will be participating this year are from a range of schools across the State. They are: Cody Williams, Kawana State College, Meredith Wilson, Victoria Point State High School, Elliot Leach, Cavendish State High School, Danielle Udy, Moreton Bay College, Jack O’Donohue, Wellington Point State High School, Mikaela Shorter, Isis District State High School, Letitia Jennings, Redcliffe State High School, Renee Krueger, Redcliffe State High School, Rhiannon Werder, Wynnum State High School and Stephanie Gray Wynnum State High School. The supervising staff are: Brett Jasch and Ruth Palsson from Redcliffe State High School and Fay Seeto and Michele House from Wynnum State High School.
The students won a bursary each that was donated by NPAQ, part of a two-phased contribution by the Association to fund the students and supervising teachers. The seven students who took part in the initial project during October last year will also be attending the Award Ceremony and will each be receiving a certificate.
The IBISCA Qld Project will determine which groups of organisms are the best climate change predictors at different altitudinal zones and which survey methods detect these changes most effectively and efficiently. These indicators will contribute significantly to the management of climate change in subtropical and tropical regions as key components of monitoring systems that can build adaptive capacity into environmental, social and economic planning. The Project is being lead by University of Griffith Professor of ecology Roger Kitching.
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