Region. UWS professor is a Tall Poppy

Associate Professor Ian Anderson, from the University of Western Sydney's Centre for Plant and Food Science and School of Natural Sciences, has won a prestigious 2008 Young Tall Poppy Science Award, which acknowledges the achievements of scientists who are in the early stages of their careers and already making discoveries. He is a molecular microbial ecologist who is researching the response of soil-dwelling fungi to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and climate change. The fungi sequester, or store, carbon from the atmosphere and fully understanding their role will help to improve the accuracy of carbon accounting in Australian forests. He has published more than 40 articles in scientific journals.