Check out our calendar of events and participate in our seminars, public lectures and more.

Josh sits on a grassy alpine slope, facing away from the camera and looking out over a mountainous landscape with patches of snow and cloud-covered skies. They wear a wide-brimmed dark hat, a checkered long-sleeve shirt, and light-coloured pants. In the foreground, native alpine plants with tall white flower stalks are visible, adding texture to the natural scene
10 Jul 2025 | 10 - 11am

Alpine pollinators are uniquely adapted to cold, dynamic environments, but face growing threats from climate change. This talk explores how temperature across climates, weather, and microclimates shapes pollinator activity in Australia's mountains, and what this means for their survival.

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A serene rural dam with still, dark water reflecting a blue sky and scattered white clouds. The bank in the foreground is edged with dry grasses and reeds, and contains a plastic crate holding a yellow portable pump hooked up by hoses to a floating sampling device resting on the water. On the opposite shore, gently sloping pasture is dotted with eucalyptus and other native trees under a partly cloudy sky
22 Aug 2025 | 12 - 1pm

Teal carbon ecosystems are freshwater wetlands, like lakes, ponds, farm dams and reservoirs. Equivalent to blue carbon (coastal wetlands), they can regulate greenhouse gases and mitigate the effects of climate change.

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Past events

A kookaburra sits on a rock
25 Feb 2025 | 6 - 8pm

Join us at the Fenner School for a discussion on the progress of environment policy over the past twenty years, and the launch of the 3rd edition of the book: Environment and Sustainability: A Policy Handbook (Federation Press).

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Sunlight reflects of rock formations
19 Feb 2025 | 1 - 2pm

Indigenous Ways of Being, Knowing & Doing – A Valuable Pathway for Surviving Our Compounding Existential Crises and Thriving Again?

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Students sitting outside while enjoying a meal.
19 Feb 2025 | 12 - 1pm

Join us to welcome the new and returning Fenner BENSU students. Come along and meet the new cohort of Fenner Bachelor of ENvironment and SUstainability students.

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rows of sawn timber and logs
12 Feb 2025 | 1 - 2pm

Illegal use of natural resources, such as logging, fishing, mining, and poaching, varies widely in scale, actors, and governance. This presentation explores patterns linking legality and legitimacy, under-researched activities, and governance responses, offering a framework for comparison and analysis.

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The Ba river winds through a valley in fiji
18 Dec 2024 | 1 - 2pm

Environmental monitoring of ecosystems within waterways and riparian corridors is challenging due to constraints on the spatio-temporal coverage that can be reached by extension workers and environmental regulators. Spatial prioritisation may support the planning for allocation of finite resources for monitoring, conservation and rehabilitation.

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A group of academics, students and staff gather for a photo.
11 Dec 2024 | 12:30 - 3pm

You're invited to the Fenner School of Environment & Society End of Year picnic.

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Light shines on a flower and leaves against a black background.
11 Dec 2024 | 12:30pm

If you’ve been involved with The Fenner School in 2024 as a student, academic, professional staff member or affiliate, and you’ve captured a moment you’d like to share with us that speaks to this year’s theme, send it in!

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Colourful bins hang from a brick wall
6 Dec 2024 | 11am - 12pm
A fire burns through bush
20 Nov 2024 | 1 - 2pm

This work-in-progress presentation explores how communities in the Eurobodalla Shire (NSW) are reconstructing their environmental imaginaries and political engagement in the wake of the 2019-20 Black Summer fires. 

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