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Research seminar: Understanding and Addressing the Impacts of Vineyard Exposure to Bushfire Smoke

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 · 12:30 p.m. · Melbourne
About This Webinar

The Australian wine industry is worth ~$6 billion annually, but making and selling Australian wine, even in a ‘good’ year, has become increasingly challenging due to the effects of climate change.

Our grapegrowers and winemakers are not only affected by drought and heatwaves, but vineyard exposure to bushfire smoke can taint grapes and wine, causing significant revenue losses due to unpalatable smoke and ashy characters that render wine unsaleable. In this presentation, Professor Kerry Wilkinson will share key findings from ~15 years of smoke taint research: (i) the chemical and sensory consequences of grapevine exposure to smoke; (ii) the complexities of smoke taint (bio)chemistry that have hindered progress towards a viable solution; and (iii) recent research evaluating novel techniques for monitoring and mitigating smoke exposure in the vineyard.

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Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, UoA
Dr. Xiaoguang Duan obtained his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Curtin University in 2016. He is currently a Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, UoA. His research areas focus on green catalysis, functional materials, advanced water purification technologies, plastic upgrading, and disinfection/sterilisation nanotechnology. Dr Duan has published over 180 peer-reviewed research papers including 36 ESI Highly Cited Papers (1%) on Chemical Society Review, Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Materials, Angew Chem Int Ed, Matter, Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research etc. His publications received over 10,000 citations with h-index of 57. He has successfully secured over 1M AUD grant from Australian Research Council (ARC) and two projects from Australia's National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) as a chief investigator. He was awarded ACS Catalysis Early Career Researcher award in 2018, JMCA Emerging investigator in 2019, ARC Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and Global Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters) in 2020. He has been selected as the Australian Research Early Achievers Leaderboard - TOP 40 Rising Stars in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as well as Best Five ECR performers in the discipline of Chemical and Materials Sciences.
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