Research: Environmental Engineering

• Water Purification
• Waste Water Processing and Recycling
• Greenhouse Gas Recovery
• Sustainable Technologies

Preserving pristine environments

Our researchers are working to preserve Antarctica's icy wonderland by cleaning up the contamination, waste disposal sites and abandoned stations of past expeditions.

Working in an environment where winter temperatures can drop to lower than minus eighty degrees celsius, staff and postgraduate students of the University of Melbourne are helping protect fragile ecosystems on land and in surranding bays and seas. They are devising ways to deal with a variety of waste problems. Their challenge is to find ways to cleaning up waste sites that will work effectively in Antarctica's demanding conditions.

See the Melbourne Engneering Research Institute (MERIT) Sustainable Systems theme.