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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• DEADLINE CLOSING DATE 31st Oct 2008 for Honours, Masters and PhD degrees

• NEW Carbon and Climate Change 3 Day workshop

• Fenner School and Geoscience Australia release new Digital Elevation of Australia JUST RELEASED!

• Fenner School Top 20% of Environmental and Ecology Institutions in the World

• Fenner School Wins Eureka Prize for Environmental Research
 

 

 

Fenner School Seminar Series Hero photo, by Toby Roscoe 2006
 The Seminar Series in 2008 is held on Thursdays in the Fenner School's Forestry Lecture Theatre, ground level, Forestry building no. 48, Linnaeus Way (comes off Daley Road), ANU campus, ACT

The seminar will start at 13:00 and finish at 14:00*
* This schedule may change due to unforeseen circumstances. If you would like to be added to the notification list, please contact the Fenner School office or tel. 02 61254277. Suggestions for seminars (topics and presenters) are warmly welcomed- Please communicate them to Dr Bennett Macdonald

 

For upcoming Symposiums, Conferences and Book Launches see: Fenner School Events

SEMINARS for Feb-June 2008:

February-June 2008

28 Feb Are fine-scaled fire mosaics good for biodiversity?
Adam Leavesley, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.
6 March Murray River Country: an ecological dialogue with traditional owners
Jessica Weir, Visiting Research Fellow, Native Title Research Unit, A I A T S I S.
7 March Friday 1-2pm Quantifying biodiversity patterns in human-dominated tropical forests: challenges and opportunities
Toby Gardner, PhD Visiting Scholar, Ecology Centre University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia.
13 March Tree Regeneration and the Future of Farmland Biodiversity: A New Landscape-Scale Study
Joern Fischer and Jenny Stott, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.
14 March Friday 12-1pm The Human Factor in Land Use Systems: Analysing decision making in Natural Resource Management
Anette Reenberg, University of Copenhagen.
20 March The DiSCo (Distance to Structural Complement) approach for expressing landscape-level pattern in forest structural complexity
Matthew Brookhouse, Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.
26 March Wednes 5-6pm The science underpinning the conservation and management of ecological communities
Professor David Lindenmayer, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.
27 March Whose buffer's biggest? A global comparative study of forest practices
Professor Peter Kanowski, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.
3 April Milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere with reference to climate change
Andrew Glikson, Department of Earth & Marine Science, and Planetary Science Institute, Australian National University.
10 April Coastal change and climate variability, east coast Australia
Dr Peter Helman, Research Fellow Centre for Coastal Management, Griffith University.
10 April 17:00 onwards Fenner Lecture and Book Launch
The Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policy and Institutions
John Handmer and Stephen Dovers
24 April Large Landscapes and Climate Change Adaptation in the Yellowstone to Yukon region of Western North America
Dr Gary M. Tabor, Director- Center for Large Landscape Conservation, A Project of Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, Bozeman, Montana.
1 May Modelling the economic impact of climate risk on rural Australia
Phil Kokic, ABARE & Visiting Fellow, ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute.
2 May Conservation and development trade-offs in tropical landscapes - are there any win-win situations?
Bruce Campbell, Director of Forests and Livelihoods program, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
8 May The Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Tony Fleming, Australian Wildlife Conservancy.
9 May CANCELLED The emergence of Hendra virus from flying foxes in Australia
Dr Raina Plowright, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York, USA.
22 May PhD by Publication: A Student-Perspective
Lisa Robins, PhD Scholar, Fenner School of Environment and Society.
29 May Ancient palaeovalleys of the western Canning Basin, north-western Australia
Adrian Fisher, Onshore Energy and Minerals Division, Geoscience Australia.
19 June Habitat connectivity, productivity and bird conservation
Sandra Berry, Senior Research Associate, ANU WildCountry Research and Policy Hub, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.
23 June MONDAY 5:30pm Water, carbon and nitrogen fluxes from Australian sugarcane crops
Dr Tom Denmead, Research Fellow, CSIRO Land and Water and University of Melbourne.
26 June Key Findings of the Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Settlements (IACCIUS) Project
Geraldine Li, Research Fellow, Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Settlements, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University.


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