This inaugural seminar series is designed to introduce members of the Environment Institute to each other and to showcase the excellent science being undertaken across the new Institute.
Visiting international collaborators and experts from other institutions will be invited to present during their visit in order to generate new ideas and collaborations for the Institute. Postgraduate students will also be encouraged to present their projects.
Seminars in Semester 2 will be held weekly on Fridays from 1pm-2pm in the Benham Lecture Theatre. All members of the Institute, its research groups and members of other University Faculties, Schools and Disciplines are welcome to attend. > -->Some visiting speakers may give presentations at other venues on different days and times, these will be marked (*). Details of these visitor seminars will be provided closer to the date of presentation.
Seminars start at 1:10pm and last for 30 minutes, plus a further 10 minutes of question time.
| Date | Seminar Topic | Audio Visual Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 31 July | Caught in the headlights - What holds us back from the big shift? | Slidecast |
2 | 14 August | What is the future for the Lower Lakes? | Slidecast |
| 3 | 21 August | Agrarian Landscapes, the Environment and World Heritage Sites: Why our region should apply? | Slidecast |
4 | 28 August | Is water a limiting factor for population growth in South Australia? | Podcast |
5 | 11 Sep | 50 years of invasion ecology: the legacy of Charles Elton | Slidecast |
6 | 18 Sep | Environmental genomics | Slidecast |
7 | 16 Oct | Giant Australian cuttlefish: a globally unique species under threat? | Slidecast |
8 | 23 Oct | Will simulation-based assessments and decisions save our built environment? | Slidecast |
9 | 6 Nov | Sperm competition and sex selection | |
10 | 20 Nov | Pines and paddocks: Socioecology and population genetics of marsupials in fragmented systems | Slidecast |
| 11 | 26 Nov | Building the atlas of living Australia Speaker: Mister Donald Hobern | Slidecast |
| 12 | 4 Dec | Water and the Law Speaker: Professor John Williams and Matthew Lee | Slidecast |
| 13 | 10 Dec | Plant Introductions & Evolution: Hybrid Speciation and Gene Transfer | Slidecast |
All are welcome. The seminars are free of charge and registration is not required, but is appreciated. For information about the series please email us at environment@adelaide.edu.au.