SEI Grant to Examine Climate Buffer Infrastructures

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Dr Aaron Opdyke is part of a team awarded a Sydney Environment Institute Collaborative Grant (AUD 20,305) which will compare grey and green infrastructure approaches to coastal adaptation in the Philippines. The team consistents of Dr Justin See (Sydney Environment Institute), Dr Sophie Webber (School of Geosciences), Dr Sandra Seno Alday (Sydney Business School), and Ginbert Permejo Cuaton (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Pearly Joy Peja (Eastern Visayas State University). The project titled, “Promises and Perils of Climate Buffer Infrastructures as Adaptation: Case Studies from the Philippines" will study two coastal projects in Tacloban in 2024.

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New Project to Understand Aboriginal Infrastructure Research Priorities and Advance Indigenous Engineering Curriculum

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Dr Aaron Opdyke has been awarded funding (AUD 9,000) from the University of Sydney Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services for work in collaboraiton with Maranuka to examine research priorities for infrastructure needs in Aboriginal communities and how to integrate into exisiting engineering curriculmn.

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