ANU Open Week 2020
Open Week is all about learning why ANU is the university for you!
The Fenner School of Environment & Society has a range of virtual activities, with interactive webinars, panel sessions, Instagram Live sessions, and podcasts and videos.
To join any of the sessions, please visit the ANU Open Week website.
Program
Saturday 22 August | 10:00 | Instagram ask me anything session - Niam Foxcroft (3rd Year Undergraduate in Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Environmental Sustainability) on being a Fenner undergraduate and a regional student | Niam Foxcroft | ||
15:00 | Instagram Live session - Dr Matt Brookhouse on studying his Environmental Science Undergrad course (a taster of fieldwork) | Dr Matt Brookhouse | |||
Sunday 23 August | 10:00 | Instagram Live session - Bushwalking, Bettongs, and Bunyips 'Adventures at Mulligans Flat' | “Mulligang” researchers / Linda Neaves | ||
Monday 24 August | 11:00 | Panel Session - Managing bushfires – how the Fenner School of Environment & Society research is changing how we think about fire | Associate Prof Geoff Cary / Dr Marta Yebra / Prof Phil Gibbons / David Lindenmayer | ||
12:30 | Keynote seminar - Can Australia save the Murray-Darling Basin? | Prof Jamie Pittock | |||
14:00 | Instagram Live - Possums of ANU! | Prof Phil Gibbons / Yee Seng Tay | |||
16:00 |
Want to study Environmental Science? – Putting together your undergraduate degree |
Dr Craig Strong / Harriet Torrens / Rachel Larobina | |||
Tuesday 25 August | 12:00 | Panel Session - Why studying sustainable development can help solve our global challenges – your first year at the Fenner School of Environment & Society | Prof Jamie Pittock / Associate Prof Lorrae Van Kerkhoff / Dr Beck Pearse | ||
13:00 | Panel Session - Conservation in the 21st century – Conducting fieldwork in Environmental Science | Dr Ben Scheele / Dr Craig Strong / Prof David Lindenmayer / Natasha Robinson | |||
Wednesday 26 August | 11:00 | Keynote Seminar - New insights into bushfire recovery | Prof David Lindenmayer | ||
16:00 | Panel Session - Forest Science - Forestry in the 21st Century | Prof Peter Kanowski / Dr Matt Brookhouse / Depi Susilawati | |||
Thursday 27 August | 11:00 | Panel Session - Honours and Masters at the Fenner School of Environment & Society | Dr Sara Beavis / Dr Rob Dyball / Sam Provost | ||
13:00 | Panel Session - Climate science - understanding our greatest challenge | Prof Mark Howden / Dr Joelle Gergis / Dr Steven Crimp | |||
18:00 | Panel Session - Understanding Food Systems | Bronwyn Wilkes / Dr Rob Dyball / Dr Craig Strong |