News and Events

Conferences

Congratulations to our staff and students that won awards at the recent eWater CRC Annual Conference & CRC Student Conference "Future Leaders in Water Management'

• Evan Harrison: eWater CRC Student of Year for exceptional scientific research stakeholder communications and contributions to the eWater CRC community.
• Evan Harrison: Best Presentation at the 2009 eWater CRC Student Conference ‘Future Leaders in Water Resources Management”
• Katie Ryan: Best Poster Presentation 2009 eWater CRC Annual Conference
• Richard Norris, Simon Linke, Ian Prosser, William Young, Peter Liston, Nicholas Bauer, Nerida Sloane, Fiona Dyer and Martin Thoms: eWater CRC best published paper 2009: “Very broad-scale assessment of human impacts on river condition” Freshwater Biology 52 959-976 (2007).

We would also like to congratulate the staff and students that participated in the Australian Freshwater Turtle Symposium (February 14-15, 2009). Kate Hodges won an equal first place for the best student talk (with IAE alumni Darren Fielder) for her talk 'Maps and molecules: Comparative phylogeography of long-necked turtles in the Murray-Darling Basin'. Carla Eisemberg won the award for best conservation student talk. Her talk was entitled 'Achieving conservation objectives for pig-nosed turtles in the Kikori'.

Seminars

The Institute for Applied Ecology 2009 Seminar Series commences on Tuesday 3 March 2009.

One-hour Seminars are held weekly during semester in Building 6, Level B, Room 10, University of Canberra, Tuesdays 3:30-4:30. Contact: Institute for Applied Ecology Office for confirmation of sessions or further information. All welcome!

• 5 May 2009 - Dr Tony Arthur, Interactions between livestock grazing, plateau pikas and avian biodiversityon the Tibetan plateau
• 12 May 2009 - Dr Ben Yaru, Biodiversity and conservation projects of Oilsearch, PNG
• 19 May 2009 - Professor Glenn Saunders, Pest animal control and animal welfare: Are they compatible?
• 26 May 2009 - Professional Practice Students, Yass Primary School community project

For directions please click on the link to the University map

Journal Club

We meet to discuss ideas and papers at the Journal Club held weekly during semester in Building 3, Level C, Room 53A, University of Canberra, Wednesdays 12:30-1:30. Contact: Institute for Applied Ecology Office for confirmation of sessions or further information. All welcome! Bring your lunch.

• 5 May 2009 Patrick Harvey

Wildlife Genetics Lab Meeting

Genetics Lab Meetings are held weekly during semester in Building 3, Level C, Room 53A, University of Canberra, Fridays 3:30-5:30. Topics of discussion are wide ranging, for those of us into molecular stuff. Talks are followed by drinks at the bar. Contact: Institute for Applied Ecology Office for confirmation of sessions or further information. All welcome!

IAE Social Events

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Honours and Post Graduate Quantitative Stats Group

When you did your undergraduate stats subjects, I bet all the data analysis worked out just fine, but in the real world this does not happen. Therefore we have started a quantitative stats group that meets each month to discuss approaches to analysis and to work through real world data. Each month a student presents some of their data for analysis and we all analyse and discuss it with the aid of UC statisticians.

This group will give you new insight into better ways to analyse various data sets. So, if you want to learn more stats in a friendly environment, just turn up at the next meeting or contact Joelle Vandermensbrugghe for more information (Joelle.Vandermensbrugghe).

When: First Friday of each month, 2:30-4.00pm

Where: 11 B24

Recent Presentations

Science and Marine Parks in New South Wales: the hoodwinking continues.   (October 30/2008)

Bob Kearney, Emeritus Professor of Fisheries, University of Canberra

"A reviewer of the first draft of this talk commented that I had unearthed seriously poor governance of marine parks in NSW. But why expose this in a public seminar? Why not take the matter up directly with the Government? Answering these questions unfortunately requires more detail on my personal activities in relation to this issue than I would normally consider appropriate. However, the questions do require answers..."

Click on the link to read a copy of the talk.