FENNER SCHOOL SEMINARS
Fenner School Seminar Series
Sandra Berry, Senior Research Associate, ANU WildCountry Research and Policy Hub, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.
More information at: http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/news_events/seminars/
HUMAN ECOLOGY FORUM
Friday June 13th. 12 - 2pm, Room 101, Forestry Building.
Keith Johnston (ANU School of Management, Marketing and International Business) Can environmental managers provide clear and effective leadership in the face of high levels of uncertainty and complexity?
More information at: http://hec-forum.anu.edu.au/
MORNING TEA
David Cook, U N Bhati and Colin Matheson are the hosts for morning tea next week
DIARY DATES
Fenner Student Seminars
11th June 2008, Hancock Seminar Room, 6th Floor Hancock Building
9:30 - 10:20 Catherine Gross, PhD midterm seminar Applying justice frameworks to environmental decision-making
10:30 - 11:00 Fenner morning tea
11:00 - 11:20 IRP students - Two short presentations by undergraduate Fenner students undertaking independent research projects
11:20 - 11:35 Home Energy Audits in the ACT
Biology Discipline Curriculum Committee
June 10, 2-3 pm, BoZo Seminar Room
Imagining the Real Life on a Greenhouse Earth
June 11 – 12. Manning Clark Lecture Theatre 3.
http://manningclark.org.au/
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Karen King, Jon Marsden-Smedley, Adam Leavesley, Geoff Cary, Grant Allan, Ross Bradstock and Malcolm Gill who were members of the DesertFire Research Project that won the Southern Cross Television Desert Knowledge Research Award category of the 2008 Northern Territory Research and Innovation Awards. The DesertFire Research Project, led by Dr Glenn Edwards, included two ANU-led projects (Modelling Fire Dynamics in the West MacDonnell Range Area and The response of Birds to the Fire Regimes of Mulga Woodlands in Central Australia) which were jointly funded by the Desert Knowledge CRC and Bushfire CRC.
WELCOME AND FAREWELL
Dr Lyndall Bull, Lecturer in Forestry and Convenor of the National Forestry Masters Program. Lyndall joins us after working with Timbercorp Ltd in Perth, following a year working on the National Wood and Paper Products Skills Audit, and a PhD in forest sector innovation at the University of Melbourne. Lyndall is in room F105. P: 55100.
As the IACCIUS urban climate impacts project wraps up, the project team this week farewelled Paula Sutton, who will soon fly away to France for a well deserved break from integrative research.
PUBLICATIONS
John Dargavel. 'Iron, steel and timber: a transient heritage'. Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 6(1): 67-75, 2008.
P VanOploo, I White, BCT Macdonald, P Ford and MD Melville. ‘The use of peepers to sample pore water in acid sulphate soils’. European Journal of Soil Science, 2008.
P VanOploo, I White, BCT Macdonald, P Ford and MD Melville. ‘Pore water chemistry of acid sulphate soils: Chemical flux and oxidation rates’. Geoderma, 2008.
NOTICES
First Aid Course. 11 - 13 June.
2008 Australian Agricultural Industries Young Innovators and Scientists Awards. The 2008 Australian Agricultural Industries Young Innovators and Scientists Awards has extended the application closing date to 5pm EST 14 July 2008
The Mathematics of Water Supply and Pricing AMSI/MASCOS Industry workshop and ICE-WaRM Industry Short Course. 14 - 16 July 2008, Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Queensland. This 3-day long event will consist of three short courses, invited lectures and contributed talks on the mathematics of water supply and pricing.
http://www.amsi.org.au/water.php
Applications for the 2009 General Sir John Monash Awards close on 31 August 2008. The General Sir John Monash Awards are Australia's prestigious scholarships supporting postgraduate study at the world's best universities overseas. Award Winners are expected to become leaders of their fields and of the nation.
http://www.monashawards.org
Laurel Hill Mentors. Peter Kanowski is looking for a couple of mentors for the annual pilgrimage, 7 - 11 July, all expenses paid and a contribution towards other field trip costs. Please register your interest with Cathy Gray at Fenner reception by 18 June, 2008.
ABSENCES: THIS WEEK & FORTHCOMING
Brendan Mackey. Until July. OSP, USA
Cris Brack. 11 June. Attending the Science Reference Group for the Greening Australia Capital Region (GA-CR). This Group provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and establishment of collaborations between academics, researchers and experienced field scientists from a range of organisations interested in ecological restoration and vegetation management in the wider Canberra region.
Geoff Cary. 10 June - 7 July. Recreation and long service leave
Graham Cooke. 12 May - 11 June. Brussels and London (University of London)
Hartmut Holzknecht & Kulala Mulung. 6 - 18 June. ACIAR Project fieldwork, PNG
Jacki Schirmer. June 2 - 16. Attending fisheries workshop, conducting focus groups in Vic and SA and attending ISSRM conference in US
Kate Sherren. June 1 - 8. Cedar Creek, Queensland (NW of Brisbane), for a week-long training course on 3D Nature's Visual Nature Studio software. This program will be used to render realistic landscape futures for the grazing landscapes around Cowra and Boorowa, helping to visualise vegetation cover under a range of farm management scenarios
Libby Robin. Until 25 July. OSP, Copenhagen (based at Research Centre. Danish National Museum) and at theStockholm Resilience Centre; attending the Resilience Conference (April) and presenting as part of a panel on IHOPE
Lisa Robins. 6 June - 19 July. In Canada presenting a paper at the Canadian Water Resources Association Conference in Gimli, Manitoba (Capacity development for watershed management: Insights from Canada and Australia). Lisa will also have meetings with the Gordon Water Group of Concerned Scientists (Toronto, Victoria and Vancouver), Bow River Basin Council (Calgary), Quebec's Coalition of Water Organisations (Quebec), Quebec Ministry (Montreal) and staff in several departments at UBC (Vancouver)
Matthew Brookhouse. 25 April - 22 June. Poland (TRACE conference), Wales (Swansea University) and Germany (Jülich)
Peter Kanowski. 6 - 18 June. ACIAR Project fieldwork, PNG; 21 - 30 June, IUFRO & Forest Dialogue workshops, France & Switzerland
Piers Bairstow. 26 May - 9 June. Leave
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