Professor Barbara Downes

Geography Group, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Environment

Saving aquatic insects: We may be looking in the wrong place

Our aquatic insects are at risk of extinction but in understanding why we may need to be looking beyond the quality of the water

Sciences & Technology

Re-diversifying our waterways, a garden stake at a time

For hundreds of years we’ve cleared the natural debris that builds up in our waterways, wiping out the habitats and ecologies of river animals in the process. Now a low-tech idea is bringing them back.