FENNER SCHOOL SEMINARS

Fenner School Seminar Series

• Monday 23 June, 5:30pm, Forestry Lecture Theatre

Dr Tom Denmead, Research Fellow, CSIRO Land and Water and University of Melbourne. “Water, carbon and nitrogen fluxes from Australian sugarcane crops”

• Thursday 26 June, 1-2pm, Forestry Lecture Theatre

Geraldine Li, Research Fellow, Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Settlements, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University.“Key Findings of the Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Settlements (IACCIUS) Project”

More information at: http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/news_events/seminars/

HUMAN ECOLOGY FORUM

Friday June 27^th, 12 - 2pm, Room 101, Forestry Building

David Eastburn (PhD candidate, Fenner School) will be leading a discussion on ‘The Price of Pre-ecological Policy Inertia: 10 000 hectares of dead Red gums?’ He will be digging into the need to protect water supply ‘Life lines’ as well as ‘Sites’ - current drought conditions have graphically revealed, in the form of thousands of hectares of dead and dying red gums and other flood-dependent vegetation, the inadequacies of current pre-ecological policies, structures and institutions, to achieve an ecologically sustainable future for the lower Murrumbidgee floodplain. Until there is protection of the flow regimes that define wetlands and their biota, their long-term future, even if they have reserve status, cannot be guaranteed. David will discuss the floodplain-saltbush-red gum resilience cycle. A feature of traditional European land-use and natural resources management in the lower Murrumbidgee landscape was that landholders practiced annual stock movement between floodplain and saltbush ecosystems (similar to Swiss transhumance). During difficult economic times (droughts or economic depressions), community members rely on red gum forests for their income.

More information at: http://hec-forum.anu.edu.au/

MORNING TEA

Kirien Whan and Jessica Drake are the hosts for morning tea next week in the John Banks Courtyard.

DIARY DATES

Tuesday 24 June 2008

AWA & Young Water Professionals event at the Commission.

The event is a great networking opportunity and we hope to attract all disciplines across the water industry, government, academic, engineering, economics, science, field work and all others.

More information on the AWA and YWP can be found at:

http://www.awa.asn.au/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Young_Water_Professionals&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=9460

Friday 04 July 2008

Launch of the Garnaut Climate Change Review Draft Report

Professor Ross Garnaut - Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University

http://www.npc.org.au/assets/files/documents/speakers/RossGarnaut040708.pdf

PUBLICATIONS

Brookhouse, M. and Brack, C. 2008. The effect of age and sample position on eucalypt tree-ring width series. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 38 (5), 1144-1158.

Paull, J. & Lyons, K., 2008. "Nanotechnology: The Next Challenge for Organics", Journal of Organic Systems, 3(1) 3-22

Snowdon, P. and James, R. (2007): Plantations: Historical Development of Silvicultural Practice. (pp 269-340), In, Raison, R.J. and Squire, R.O. (eds), Forest Management in Australia, Implications for Carbon Budgets. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 32. Department of Environment and Water Resources, Australian Greenhouse Office. Canberra.

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Lisa Robins, Fenner PhD Scholar, was featured in the 1 June edition of On Campus. Lisa is the only person from ANU to have won a scholarship with the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. This prestigious alliance of senior Australian researchers formed in 2002 to influence policy decisions about the future of the nation's environment.  More information is available from:

http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/On_Campus/095PP_2008/11PP_June1/_learning.asp

ABSENCES: THIS WEEK & FORTHCOMING

Brendan Mackey. Until July. OSP, USA

Geoff Cary. 10 June - 7 July.  Recreation and long service leave

Libby Robin. Until 1 August. OSP, Copenhagen (based at Research Centre. Danish National Museum) and at the Stockholm 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)

Lorna Fitzsimons. Monday 23 June - Thursday 3 July.  Leave

Peter Kanowski. 21 - 30 June, IUFRO & Forest Dialogue workshops, France & Switzerland

Valerie A. Brown. 19th June - 24th July. In Europe presenting invited workshops on Collective social learning for transformational change to the annual meeting of EU Development Agencies (Geneva), the European Conference of Pattern Languages for Program Design (Irsee, Bavaria) and Integrated Knowledge Emergent's Multiple Knowledges Research Program (Cambridge, UK)