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FENNER SCHOOL SEMINARSFenner School Seminar SeriesThursday 8 October 1-2pm – Forestry Lecture Theatre, Forestry Building - Dr Baihua Fu, Research Fellow, iCAM, Fenner School of Environment and Society “EXCLAIM2 – A tool for assessing climate change impacts on natural resources at a regional scale” PhD Student - Proposal SeminarThursday 8 October 9.00-9.30am - Council Room National Museum of Australia, Kathryn Medlock PhD Student “The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) in museums: collecting, science and extinction.” Abstract - I will be looking at the trade and exchange of thylacine specimens by museums in the 19th and early 20th century. The trade in specimens altered over time as scientific advances were made, museum needs changed and extinction loomed. Several aspects of this trade will be examined. As specimens became rare, their value (monetary and scientific) increased. Weekly Weather Briefing by Clem DavisThursdays 12-12:30pm, Room F102 Friday 2nd October, 11.00-12.00, Forestry Lecture TheatreDr Phillip Arkin, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) of the University of Maryland, will be visiting the Fenner School and Climate Change Institute at the ANU. Phil invented the GOES Precipitation Index (a method for estimating rainfall from geostationary satellite observations) and created and led the Global Precipitation Climatology Project. His seminar is titled “Observing the Global Hydrological Cycle: Uncertainties and Projections”. Friday 2nd October, 12.30-2pm, National Europe Centre, 1 Liversidge StreetDr Richard Price, Managing Director, Kiri-Ganai Research Pty Ltd, Adjunct Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society “Will The Last Man Standing Please Write the Damn Legislation!: An intensely personal reflection on the past, present and future of rural research”. A light lunch will be served from 12pm, please RSVP by Wednesday 30 September : nirra@anu.edu.au HUMAN ECOLOGY FORUMFriday 2 October, 10.00 – 12.00 noon, Room 101, Forestry Building Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and Jacqueline Y. Russell "Tackling Wicked Problems: through the transdiciplinary imagination": This book based on the work of the Human Ecology Forum is in the last production stages before going to publishers Earthscan. The editors will discuss how the themes of the book and the 15 papers from Forum members have been brought together in the book's final design. "The contributors to Tackling Wicked Problems range across directors of research institutions, international leaders in their fields of inquiry, professional practitioners, consultants, community activists and recent graduates. They come from the fields of physical and social science, education, management, health, design and political science. The authors offer their experience in addressing the wicked issues of social-environmental change collectively, through combining open critcal inquiry with the use of the imagination".MORNING TEADi Wallace and Janette Lindesay will be hosting this week’s morning tea in the John Banks Courtyard. PRESENTATIONSSteve Dovers presented a seminar to the Murray Darling Basin Authority on 23 September. Among other material, he revisited the currency of issues identified in his 1999 issues paper "Antidotes to policy ad hocery and amnesia in the Basin”. Steve Dovers and Carina Wyborn will be presenting a paper at the People and Place Symposium in Adelaide 30 September - 1 October, entitled "Beyond the barbed wire fence is a foreign country: thinking and managing across tenures". PUBLICATIONSRockefeller, S., Mackey, B. and Song Li (2009). Recommendations for Strengthening the Ethical Dimension of the UNFCCC Negotiating Text Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Ethical Analysis of Climate Science and Policy web site, Rock Ethics Institute. Available at URL: www.ClimateEthics.org Thompson, I., Mackey, B., McNulty, S., Mosseler, A. (2009). Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change. A synthesis of the biodiversity/resilience/stability relationship in forest ecosystems. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal. Technical Series no. 43, 67 pages. INFORMATIONNative grassland restoration volunteers wanted: on campus on Thursday 15th October, 12.45 to 3.15 pm. Volunteers are wanted to help restore an ecologically significant native grassland remnant on campus. The work will mostly involve weeding. This is a great opportunity to get to know some of the local flora. Participation will be limited to 12 volunteers. Please register with John Fitzgerald by October 8th on john.fitzgerald@anu.edu.au. Volunteers should wear sturdy, enclosed footwear and bring a hat and water bottle. Volunteers should meet at the bus stop outside Old Canberra House (building 73) on Lennox Crossing by 12.45. Saturday 17th October, 9am to 4pm, Fenner School - Friends of Grasslands woodland restoration working bee, Stirling Ridge. Please let Deb Cleland know if you are willing to lead a weeding team, help set up monitoring points, or run the registration or barbeque, or just volunteer for weeding. Register with Deb Cleland: deborah.cleland@anu.edu.au or 6125 8150 or 0408 283 852.
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