The Australian Research Council has announced (very quietly) another round of Linkage Grants. Intriguing among the 16 are:

Funding for Arul Arulrajah and colleagues at Swinburne U to investigate harvesting geo-thermal energy from pavements made from recycled materials.

Work on stain resistant paint led by Brian Hawkett at the University of Sydney.

Yongsheng Gao and team at Griffith University who will research vision technology to improve productivity in lobster farming.

A grant to Anna Zhu and others at the University of Melbourne will fund work on the way the design of income-support impacts children from low-income families.