 Hi, I'm Tim Evans. I've just begun my PhD in environmental science. For this research, we'll be drawing our knowledge primarily from country. So my research is going to be looking at ways that we can connect this deep living knowledge and wisdom to modern scientific and social practices. So the problem is we've harvested all of this fossil carbon and we've put it up in the atmosphere and it's heating up the planet. Plants have the unique ability to capture carbon out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis. If the carbon that forms the bodies of these plants goes through the charring process and we bury that char in the ground, it greatly enhances the whole ecosystem's ability to grow more plants to capture more carbon and you get this flow-on effect. So you want to give this knowledge to everybody so that we can all start giving back to the earth more than we're taking. I'm very grateful for the scholarship funding that is allowing me to carry out this research. Without this sort of funding that's been made available to me, this research wouldn't get done. I started working on this project 12 months ago and just been doing it on a volunteer basis, so yeah, I was just so keen to just get further into it with the help of that funding. This scholarship funding is going to allow me to focus on this research for the next three and a half years with living costs and getting around, conducting experiments and with other tuition costs too. I'd like to thank everybody who's involved in scientific research, from the donors of this PhD to the universities, to the traditional custodians of the land. Together we could all make a much brighter future.