Isolation, Insularity and Change in Island Populations - an Interdisciplinary Study of Aboriginal Cultural Patterns in the Gulf of Carpentaria [ 2006-01-01 - 2011-04-30 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: A/Prof Neville White (Chief Investigator) ,  A/Prof Nicholas Evans (Chief Investigator) ,  A/Prof Paul Memmott (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Errol Stock (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Sean Ulm (Chief Investigator)
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Brief description Isolation, Insularity and Change in Island Populations - an Interdisciplinary Study of Aboriginal Cultural Patterns in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The project's national benefits centre on its contribution to safeguarding Australia and to an environmentally sustainable Australia. The participation of northern Indigenous people is critical to border protection policies and procedures. This project will help revitalise the Carpentaria Land Council's Aboriginal Rangers scheme, which has a potential role in safeguarding the nation's northern approaches, including combating feral plant and animal importation, Coastwatch surveillance and marine habitat protection. The geological research on sea level and climatic history in the Gulf of Carpentaria and associated coastal geomorphological impacts will contribute to predictive models on global warming and its consequences (sea-level rise).

Funding Amount $365,000

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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