The Institute offers research support funds for activities that further the ILWS mission to undertake internationally recognised integrated environmental, social and economic research for rural and regional areas. A project of 'Carbon and nutrient release from inundated agricultural and forested floodplain sediment and vegetation: influence of floodplain land use on the development of hypoxic blackwater during floods’ has been conducted and a paper of this work has been published on journal of Marine and Freshwater Research in 2019. This grant was approved for $30,000.