FENNER SCHOOL SEMINARS

FENNER SCHOOL SEMINARS – No Fenner School Seminar this Thursday

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

HUMAN ECOLOGY FORUM

Friday July 4^th, 12 - 2pm, Room 101, Forestry Building

Speaker: John Schooneveldt (Nature and Society Forum), 'From the Music of the Spheres to the Clatter of the Dice and Back Again.' The case for applying Darwinian principles to explain social and cultural change

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

FAREWELL

Farewell (for a while...) to Geraldine Li who finished her work on the IACCIUS project on 1st June, with all eleven reports submitted - a marvellous job of researching, managing, shepherding, organising and cajoling the rest of the team, and the far-flung project partners. Geraldine will maintain a presence as a Visiting Fellow with the School, but in the interim is off overseas for a well-deserved break, albeit one that itself will be broken by an appearance in Davos at the international disasters conference.

Farewell also to Eugene (Pie) Wallensky.  After a long career at ANU that started at in the Geography Department as a student and ended with him being housed in the Geography building in his Executive Officer for Kioloa position Eugene is retiring.  We wish him all the best in his new work in Bali.

CONGRATULATIONS

Alex Readford a REM/Law student of ours who is off to Oxford to do a "green" internship.

http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/On_Campus/095PP_2008/12PP_June2/_sustainability.asp

STAFF MOVEMENTS

Clive Hilliker and Debbie Claridge have moved office to the dizzy heights of Fenner School's West Hancock. Clive and Debbie can be located in Office 5.06 (level 5). Phone No?s remain the same (Debbie 53795, Clive 53262).

Diane Jakobasch has moved to the front office of building 48, she can be contacted on 52579 or 50661

Cathy Gray has moved to room 11 of building 48, and can be contacted on 53709

DIARY DATES

Tuesday 1 July, 9.30am-1pm: Semester 1 examiners meeting

Tuesday 1 July, 2-4pm: Environment & Society Discipline Sub-Committee meeting

Wednesday 2 July, 9.15am - 12 noon: Semester 1 Fenner Teaching and Learning workshop

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

King KJ, Bradstock RA, Cary GJ, Chapman J and Marsden-Smedley JB (2008) The relative importance of fine scale fuel mosaics on reducing fire risk in south west Tasmania, Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 17, 421-430.

Paull, J., "China's Organic Revolution", chapter seven in "Marketing of Organic Products: Global Experiences", Bhaskaran S. & Mohanty S. (eds.), Icfai Books, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, May, 2008

Saunders, D.L. and Heinsohn, R. (2008) Winter habitat use by the endangered, migratory Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) in New South Wales.  Emu, 108, pp 81-89.

Proust, Katrina. 2008. 'Salinity in Colonial Irrigation: British India and South-eastern Australia', Australian Geographer 39(2), 131-147.

Schirmer, J. (2008). Forestry, jobs and spending: Forest industry employment and expenditure in Tasmania, 2005-06. Technical Report No. 184. Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry, Hobart. URL: www.crcforestry.com.au

MORNING TEA

Vanessa Sagar, Dianne Wallace and Cathy Gray are the hosts for morning tea next week in the John Banks Courtyard.

ABSENCES: THIS WEEK & FORTHCOMING

Brendan Mackey. Until July. OSP, USA

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

Debbie Claridge. 7 July – 1 September. Leave

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

Mike Hutchinson. 30 June – 2 July – Invited speaker at the Australian Statistical Conference 2008 in Melbourne giving a talk called ?Smoothing Spline Methods for Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Environmental Data?.

Richard Greene. 3-4 July. Attending meetings in Sydney at Transgrid and UNSW.

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)

OTHER INFORMATION

Applications now open for the 2009 Fulbright Scholarships*

Looking to build research links with leading U.S. institutions?

Considering sabbatical second semester 2009 or first semester 2010?

Valued at up to $A40,000, Fulbright scholarships are open to Australian citizens to undertake research or study in the United States for 3 – 12 months. Scholarships can be started between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010. As the largest and one of the most prestigious educational scholarship programs in the world, Fulbright provides unique opportunities for Australians to build long term research collaboration and linkages with U.S. universities.

Applications are open to Postgraduates (to do research related to their Australian PhD., or enrol in a U.S. degree); Postdoctoral, Professional and Senior Scholars from any field of study. Applicants from Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia and Victoria are encouraged to consider the state specific Fulbright Scholarships that have now been established.

For further information and application forms see www.fulbright.com.au

Applications close 31 August 2008.