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Keytext Communication provides high quality research, writing and editing for newsletters, websites, fact sheets, information brochures, magazines and reports. We work in partnership with scientific or natural resource organisations that have specialised markets. We make complex information accessible.
As a contributor to a variety of publications, we cover everything from the sights and sensations of travel features, to complex scientific issues and achievements in natural resource management.
Click on selected samples of published features.
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Science
- Highlights of environmental research in Australia (1.46 MB)
A collection of stories that explore scientific achievements by Australian CRCs in addressing some of the country's most challenging environmental problems.
- Satellite sensors monitor health of coastal waters
Australian scientists have teamed up with the US National Aeronautic and Space Administration and the European Space Agency to monitor Australia’s tropical wetlands, estuaries and coasts using sensors mounted on satellites and aircraft.
- What Lies Beneath
Without putting a toe in the water, scientists can now see the bottom of Sydney Harbour like never before.
- Strange holes at Yongala
Scientists have discovered hundreds of shallow holes around the historic Yongala shipwreck in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, 80 nautical kilometres from Townsville.
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Environment
- 1920s research sheds light on a potential Reef calamity
Low Isles, first named by Lieutenant James Cook in June 11, 1770, hours before he struck Endeavour Reef, is providing a window to the Great Barrier Reef for scientists and tourists alike.
- Undara’s underworld
“Welcome to the bat cave,” whispers our guide Jimmy Richards ...
- Mantas at Lady Elliott
Lady Elliot Island dazzles like an emerald floating on a cobalt sea as we begin our descent.
- Whales of the Kaikouras
The rockbound Kaikoura coast of New Zealand is a place of magnificent moodiness. Serene and friendly when calm, wild and unforgiving as storms vent their energy. Each way, it’s a marine enthusiast’s paradise.
- Paddling into Thailand's lost worlds
You’d never find the narrow cave entrance between the rising tide and soaring limestone cliff without the help of a guide. It’s like a secret door controlled by the tide.
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Papers
- Communicating Science to non-scientists (94.83 KB)
Presented at Coastal Zone Asia Pacific Conference, Bangkok, May 2002
- Seven Habits of Successful CRC Communication Programs (101.90 KB)
Keynote Address to National Cooperative Research Centres Association National Conference, Perth, 15-17 May, 2002
- Partnerships with the media (180.34 KB)
Presented during 2004 to the Coast to Coast Conference in Hobart, International Riversymposium in Brisbane, and Coastal Zone Asia Pacific Conference in Brisbane.
- How managers seek and use information (105.73 KB)
Presented at the 6th International Conference in Public Communication of Science and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, 2001.
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Brochures
- Eco friendly anchors helping the Reef
An innovative mooring system may be the salvation for coral damaged by increasing numbers of boats anchoring on popular sites along the Great Barrier Reef.
- River loggers measure sediment to reef
When coral reef scientists start looking forward to tropical cyclones, diving in crocodile-inhabited rivers and major floods, its not that they're going troppo ...
- Good politics and science will save coral reefs
Australia's coral reef scientists and managers enjoy an enviable reputation as world leaders in marine research, education and protected area management.
- 3-D models maps reefs and islands
Marine park managers and coral reef scientists will soon be using advanced three-dimensional topographic models of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area for their routine planning and management decisions.
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Travel
- Riding the Munda Bidi
You don’t have to be super fit and well equipped to experience the delights of Western Australia’s Munda Biddi trail.
- Summer skiing cheap thrills
Skiing the Swiss Alps isn’t a privilege reserved just for the rich and famous.
- Arthur’s Pass wilderness luxury
For much of New Zealand’s winter, the Southern Alps hide from its visitors.
- Dive sites aplenty in the Coral Sea
On the second morning the dive vessel Spoilsport seems to hover, suspended above a Coral Sea reef like an alien spaceship above a mountain.
- When the fagus turns to gold
Mention Mount Field National Park to a Tasmanian bushwalker in April and they become quite excited.
- Endeavour sails into history
The privilege of sailing aboard the Endeavour replica during her inaugural tour of north Queensland wears a bit thin late on the first day after I’m told to act as lookout, 20 metres up the main mast.
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