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Field‐based Forest Carbon Assessment Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus
No full textThe native forests of Griffith University contribute a range of ecosystem services and functions including sequestering carbon, and hence are an important component of Griffith University’s Sustainability Goals including United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) 13: Climate Action and UNSDG 15: Life on Land. To estimate the carbon currently stored within the native forests, and potential for future carbon sequestration, field estimation of the carbon sequestered in the forests on the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University was undertaken in 2023. Specifically, Above Ground Biomass was estimated by converting measurements of the height and width of all woody plants and standing dead trees with a Diameter at Breast Height of at least 5 cm along two randomly located 20 x 50 m transects in the dominant Blackbutt forest Regional Ecosystem (RE) using standard allometric calculations. These field values were then converted to tons of Above Ground Carbon per ha (126 t C ha‐1 ) which was then combined with the current area of intake for the forest on‐campus (29.2 ha) to give a final estimate of the amount of Above Ground Carbon (3,679 t carbon) as well as both Above and Below (in roots) Ground Carbon in woody plants (4,672 t carbon). Furthermore, these forests could be contributing to further carbon sequestration at an estimated rate of 85 t ha‐1 y‐1 . These results demonstrate the importance of the forests on the Gold Coast campus in their role as relatively high carbon stocks when compared to other sub‐tropical forest types in Queensland. It also emphasises their role as carbon sinks when they recover from past logging, and other types of disturbance, with an estimated sequestration of carbon at a rate of 85 t ha‐1 y‐1 . However, they could become a source of carbon (losing more than they sequester) if not appropriately managed, including damage to the few remaining large old trees, which are significant carbon stores, with less than 3% of the trees accounting for more than 52% of the carbon stock on the campus. Inappropriate bushfire management is another important risk that could reduce the sequestration potential of these forests.Full Tex
Griffith the Utopian
No full textBackground:
By invitation, I contributed research text to the SCLQ’s public Exhibition, The Many Hats of Sir Samuel Griffith. Marking the centenary of Griffith’s passing, this eponymous Exhibition is long-running, 23.11.20-29.10.21. It questions the impact and legacy of Griffith’s legal history in seven standalone components. I authored two separate components within the Exhibition’s walk-around textual/object installation. COVID-19 has delayed the upload of the accompanying permanent online archive and the launch event by Federal Court Justice Andrew Greenwood (now 11.5.21).
Contribution:
This major research contribution concerns the sixth component, ‘Griffith the Utopian’. It recognises a little-recognised influence on Griffith – utopian philosophy, including Marx and George. This component underlines Griffith’s influences and attempted reforms, the contemporary political complexities and ferment, and his abiding desire for social justice and democracy. It is innovative in relating to installed pictorials – an 1885 Queensland satiric news cartoon and More’s 1516’s Utopia – and to diverse intellectual resources and reform initiatives. By foregrounding the intellectual background to Griffith’s political decisions and opinion pieces, the complexities of his political compromises are indicated. This component offers valuable educational perspectives/resources for lawyers, academics, students and the public, and offers continuing legal history interest.
Significance:
The Exhibition is significant for its public benefit aims and judicial-academic collaboration. This component is notable for juxtaposing Griffith’s little-promoted visionary aspects and reform influences, with his political career and pragmatic decisions. Accompanied by public lectures and Curator’s tours, the acclaim of this on-going Exhibition is attested to by its publicity, permanent online status, and continued attendance during COVID-19.No Full Tex
Griffith Climate Action Survey 2023: Summary for Policy and Decision Making
No full textGriffith University’s Climate Action Beacon conducted the third of five planned Climate Action Surveys from September to December 2023. The survey discovered what Australians think, feel, and do about climate change and related environmental and climatic events, conditions and issues. This report gives details of the background of the survey, as well as its methods, major findings and potential implications. Comparisons are made with findings from the corresponding 2021 and 2022 surveys.Full Tex
Field Based Forest Carbon Assessment Griffith University, Nathan Campus
No full textThe native forests of Griffith University contribute a range of important ecosystem services and functions including sequestering carbon, and hence are an important component of Griffith University’s Sustainability Goals including in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDG13: Climate Action as well as SDG15: Life on Land. To estimate the carbon currently stored within the native forests on the Nathan campus of Griffith University, and potential for future carbon sequestration, field estimation of the carbon in the forests was undertaken along 14 transects across 7 of the 12 Regional Ecosystems (RE) on the campus in 2023. Specifically, Above Ground Biomass was estimated by converting measurements of the height and width of all wood plants and standing dead trees with a Diameter at Breast Height of 5cm along 14 10m * 50m transects (two per RE, randomly located) using standard allometric calculations. These field values were then converted to tons of Above Ground Carbon per ha (12.5.3a = 98.1, 12.9‐10.17c = 155.2, 12.9‐10.26 = 168.2, 12.9‐10.4 = 141.3 12.11.24 = 177.2, 12.11.25 = 106.8, 12.11.26 = 94.4, weighted average across RE = 150 t C ha‐1 ) which when combined with the area of each sampled RE and other RE on campus (144.6 ha) to give a final estimate of the amount of Above Ground Carbon (21,749 t carbon) (living and standing dead) as well as both Above and Below (in roots) Carbon in woody plants (living and standing dead) (27,186 t carbon). There were lots of dead standing trees in the forest (20.9% of wood plants). When they were removed from the calculations the carbon values were slightly lower per RE (12.5.3a = 85.1, 12.9‐10.17c = 144.2, 12.9‐10.26 = 161.3, 12.9‐10.4 = 132.3 12.11.24 = 158.5, 12.11.25 = 102.4, 12.11.26 = 64.0, weighted average across RE = 139.4 t C ha‐1 ) while the total Above Ground Carbon in living wood plants was estimated as 20,193 t carbon and both Above and Below (in roots) Carbon in living woody plants was estimated as 25,241 t carbon. These values are broadly similar to those for a range of wet open forests in subtropical Queensland and reflect the generally high BioCondition of the forests at Nathan. It is also possible to estimate carbon flux for the forests on campus based on a rate of 2.92 t ha‐1 y‐1 given for similar forests in the region. Using this value, the Nathan forests may be sequestering carbon from the atmosphere at the rate of 423 t ha‐1 y‐1 . However, too frequent/hot bushfires, further clearing, drought conditions and the spread of weeds will reduce biodiversity in the forests and their capacity as carbon stores and carbon sinks.Full Tex
Griffith Climate Action Survey: Summary for Policy and Decision Making
No full textThe Griffith Climate Action Beacon (CAB) seeks to develop knowledge, leadership, capacity, and responses to enable effective and just action throughout society, with a focus on interdisciplinary research and cross-sectoral practice collaborations as catalysts for change. A key point of difference from other facilities is that the CAB’s interdisciplinary and partnership approach enables research disciplines and communities-of-practice to collaboratively define, research, implement, and evaluate solutions for climate action.Full Tex
Griffith the Dantista
No full textBackground
By invitation, I contributed research text to the SCLQ’s public Exhibition, The Many Hats of Sir Samuel Griffith. Marking the centenary of Griffith’s passing, this eponymous Exhibition is long-running, 23.11.20-29.10.21. It questions the impact and legacy of Griffith’s legal history in seven standalone components. I authored two separate components within the Exhibition’s walk-around textual/object installation. COVID-19 has delayed the upload of the accompanying permanent online archive and the launch event by Federal Court Justice Andrew Greenwood (now 11.5.21).
Contribution
This major research contribution concerns the seventh component, ‘Griffith the Dantista’. It recognises Griffith’s four main translations and stresses Dante’s influence on Griffith’s remarkable life and enduring achievements – he was Dante’s first Australian translator. This component underlines Dante as a vital outlet and cultural interest for Griffith, particularly during his labours as Chief Justice of the highest courts of Queensland and Australia. It is innovative in relating to the installed rare-book objects/translations, and in stressing this literary dimension of Griffith. By contextualising Griffith’s Dantista contributions, this component offers valuable educational perspectives/resources for lawyers, academics, students and the public, and offers continuing legal history interest.
Significance
The Exhibition is significant for its public benefit aims and judicial-academic collaboration. This component is particularly notable given the coinciding anniversaries of Griffith’s and Dante’s deaths – Griffith’s 100th and Dante’s 700th. Queensland’s Italian Consul visited the Exhibition and adverted to Dante’s anniversary and this component’s excellence in his emailed congratulations to me. Accompanied by public lectures and Curator’s tours, the acclaim of this on-going Exhibition is attested to by its publicity, permanent online status, and continued attendance during COVID-19.No Full Tex
Moments in Vanuatu: Changing the way we tell stories
No full textIN LATE 2018, fifteen Griffith University communication and journalism students travelled to Vanuatu to participate in a climate change communication study tour funded by the New Colombo Plan. The tour was built around planning and adaptation projects being undertaken by the Griffith Climate Change Response Program, and was initiated in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme and the University of the South Pacific.Full Tex
Griffith and Dante: Entanglement, convergence, contrapasso
No full textSir Samuel Walker Griffith (1845–1920) is distinguished as the first Australian translator of Italy’s ‘Supreme Poet’, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). This article considers how Griffith’s entanglement with Dante casts light on the Queensland–Italian connection. First, it sketches the concept of entangled history and entanglement, an evolving transcultural historiographic approach. Second, it canvasses how entangled history can assist in appraising implications of Griffith’s recently contested legacy as Premier of Queensland. Third, it outlines points of convergence between Griffith and Dante, beginning with Griffith’s translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Fourth, it extends this lens on convergence to Griffith’s and Dante’s common dimensions that include Griffith’s Italophilia, and the experience of divisive, factional and fractious politics. Fifth, it narrows to consider the limited justice of contrapasso in Dante’s treatment of crime and punishment. Finally, it traverses codified justice that features in Griffith’s entanglement with Dante and the Italian Penal Code – Griffith translated Dante when drafting Queensland’s ground-breaking Criminal Code and when referencing the Italian Penal Code as a source therein. This article proposes that Griffith’s translational project was not simply a vehicle for sharpening his Italian or pursuing fame or status per se, but was a lifelong creative pursuit that offered imaginative, intellectual applications resonating with his public service values. Whatever impelled Griffith’s translations, his appreciation of Dante clearly instances Queensland–Italian interconnectedness.No Full Tex
The Griffith Tax Clinic
No full textGriffith University (Queensland) was one of 10 Australian universities chosen to be part of the 2019 National Tax Clinic Project. This project sought to expand the foundational work done by Curtin University (Western Australia) to establish student tax clinics across Australia. The objectives of these clinics were to provide greater access to justice for unrepresented taxpayers, a rich learning environment for students, and greater tax literacy for the community. The Griffith Tax Clinic opened its doors to the public in July 2019. This article reports on the experience of the Griffith Tax Clinic, in its first year of operation, and sets out key learning outcomes and recommendations gleaned from that experience.Full Tex
Changes in Health Care Access, Behaviors, and Self-reported Health Among Low-income US Adults Through the Fourth Year of the Affordable Care Act
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Griffith, KN, & Bor, JH. (2020). “Changes in access, health behaviors, utilization, and self-reported health through the fourth year of the Affordable Care Act.” Medical Care 58(6), 574-578.
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