AWA: Academic Writing at Auckland

Use the scientific literature to evaluate the recent scientific evidence supporting and opposing the use of 1080 for conservation management. Use the PCE 2011 as a starting point.

Choose a topic in chemical ecology of insects and write a review.

A report of the methods and results of a study testing a-amylase activity in two marine gastropod species.

Compare and contrast of southern elephant seals and Weddell seals.

Optimum foraging theory and if/ how it applies to E. pustulosa.

Based on 3 hour lab - use relevant literature and write findings in the style of a scientific report, as if writing a paper for a scientific journal.

Is this DNA sample an anomalous primate?

Question: How have gymnosperms fared in the face of their 'superior' angiosperm competitors? With this assignment, the lecturer was aiming to "promote discussion of a topical area rather than offer an exhaustive ...

An investigation of how proximity to an anomaly in magnetic field affects the release orientation vanishing bearings of homing pigeons.

The mechanisms by which marine and terrestrial invasive species may arrive in Antarctica and the implications that the arrival of these new species may have on Antarctic ecosystems.

The mechanisms by which marine and terrestrial invasive species may arrive in Antarctica and the implications that the arrival of these new species may have on Antarctic ecosystems.

The purpose of the species risk assessment is to:
• compile all known information about the species relevant to its status as a potential invasive species in New Zealand;
• make a judgment (with ...

Many agencies produce "State of the Environment Reports" to assess the status of the environment for a particular area or issue. The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment prepares State of the Environment reports on a ...

Review & recommend management options for a newly established or pre-border species:

Write a report on the metabolism of carbohydrates in the two studied gastropod species. Discuss the results of your group in comparison to the class data set. Your discussion should be an ecophysiological interpretation ...

Literature review. Describe the steps in the evolution of xylem and wood from the first plants with a bifacial vascular cambium, to gymnosperms with tracheid based xylem and finally to the angiosperm vessel. Include the ...

Understanding repercussions of past events helps us to understand how taxa may fare in the future. Studying phylogeography provides a tool to understand this.

The tomato industry recently applied to EPA to import an exotic mirid (Macrolophus pygmaeus) as a biocontrol agent. Write a submission supporting or opposing this introduction as an invasion biologist.
The focus o ...

Write a research proposal for the development of a transgenic plant that could be used to enhance biofuel production.

This article reviews the main theories put forth to explain orchid evolution and speciation. These theories need not be mutually exclusive and each have valuable insight into the many processes likely to have affected or ...