Earth's population heads rapidly towards eight billion New challenges to our environment and society continue to emerge at Southern Cross University.

We're working to deliver innovative and practical solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems.

Lake Alexandria in South Australia is the site of the world's largest bioremediation project.

One of the real challenges it faces.

Societies around the world is maintaining clean water supplies in many areas.

The quantity of water is an issue, it's the quality.

And it's the role of selling cross year science to understand the behavior of those sort of chemicals in natural waters and to give advice to government agencies about how these sort of natural waters could be managed to optimize water quality.

A vision is to be a world leader.

In researching the soil and water and land based issues, we had to take innovative research in both fundamental and applied areas in the sum of man's most pressing environmental issues.

In the 2011 Excellence in Research for Australia report, our research in the field of geochemistry was given the highest possible rating of well above world standard, reflecting the expertise of our scientists in geo science and the scent of a coastal bio geochemistry in the field of Earth sciences.

Our research was also rated above world standard.

The university is a participant in seven national cooperative research centers working with government and industry, the contaminated assessment and remediation of the environment.

CSC is involved in looking at assessment and remediation of acid sulfate soil in the wetlands of these Trinity Ni cans.

One of our partners was the Queensland Department of Environmental Research and Management.

The Southern Cross University scientists gave us a lot of additional scientific grunt understanding the geochemistry in the area.

It would be very hard to find a top class research you that in Australia, little in the world that could have done the work that seven cross GSR on arrival, food shortages and health are rather global challenges being addressed by the university's second Special Research Center.

Southern Cross plants science research in plant science as we do it in Southern Cross plant science requires international and multi disciplinary collaboration.

One example of such a collaboration on a national level is one where we look at the so called bush tomato and indigenous food off Australia, for which there are lots of questions which have not been answered in terms off how to develop this into a more productive crop.

Another example, where we have had a lot of success already is looking at the management of chronic wounds.

They are plants may offer a novel alternative toe, manage and treat these wounds in a very difficult situation in a person's life span.

All this contributes in one way or another too exciting.

Opportunities toe help us in this situation off eight billion people on Earth.

Through our other six research centers, we tackle the environmental and social problems, creating solutions that are grounded in our regions but also globally relevant.

Southern Cross University is a young, vibrant and energetic university, and this dynamism is reflected in our research strategy.

Our researchers respond to problems which have regional, national and international significance of the day out.

Centers for environmental innovation, marine ecology and coastal bio geochemistry make significant contributions to research in a range of climate and resource issues through the centers for Gambling, research, tourism, leisure and work, and Children and young people.

We're looking at human and social issues in creative, innovative ways, utilizing cross discipline expertise in many ways, the Center for Children and Young People is very unique.

No other University Research center has such a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and collaborative research activity that is actually focused on improving outcomes for Children.

And young people were involved in national cooperative research centers focusing on rail innovation, integrated engineering, asset management, remote economic participation, forestry and national plan.

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Southern Cross is a young and dynamic university, providing a support, even stimulating environment for higher degree researchers.

Postgraduate students at Southern Cross University get access to the top experts in the field.

Research intensive regional universes like Southern Cross have got the number of real advantages over the metropolitan universities.

The access you can get to supervises, the amount of collaboration you can do with those supervisors and the general development of an academic relationship with the university.

It's a really strong experience, so my research he has been working with native grasses.

My PhD, which was through the grand food, say, I say, was to find novel uses for native grasses during roughly aged eight.

Southern Cross University also had the opportunity to undertake the graduates to getting research management fixes designed by Southern Cross University and needs to get it if you use back to feel a specific hole in the training of Patch Day students in Australia, the positive experience of our researchers is reflected in the strength of our research as we continue to focus on finding practical solutions to some of the biggest issues affecting our region and beyond.