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Environment Institute Seminar Series 2009
Semester 2

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.

DateSeminar Topic

Audio Visual Materials

1

31 July

Caught in the headlights - What holds us back from the big shift?
Speaker: Doctor Sam Wells

Slidecast

2

14 August

What is the future for the Lower Lakes?
Speaker: Doctor Kane Aldridge

Slidecast
321 August

Agrarian Landscapes, the Environment and World Heritage Sites: Why our region should apply?
Speaker: Professor Randy Stringer

Slidecast 

4

28 August

Is water a limiting factor for population growth in South Australia?
Speaker: Professor Graeme Hugo

Podcast

5

11 Sep

50 years of invasion ecology: the legacy of Charles Elton
Speaker: David Richardson

Slidecast

6

18 Sep

Environmental genomics
Speaker: Professor Alan Cooper

Slidecast

7

16 Oct

Giant Australian cuttlefish: a globally unique species under threat?
Speaker: Associate Professor Bronwyn Gillanders

Slidecast

8

23 Oct

Will simulation-based assessments and decisions save our built environment?
Speaker: Associate Professor Veronica Soebarto

Slidecast

9

6 Nov

Sperm competition and sex selection
Speaker: Professor Leigh Simmons

Slidecast

10

20 Nov

Pines and paddocks: Socioecology and population genetics of marsupials in fragmented systems
Speaker: Doctor Melanie Lancaster

Slidecast
1126 NovBuilding the atlas of living Australia
Speaker: Mister Donald Hobern
Slidecast
124 DecWater and the Law
Speaker: Professor John Williams and Matthew Lee
Slidecast
1310 Dec

Plant Introductions & Evolution: Hybrid Speciation and Gene Transfer
Speaker: Professor Richard Abbott

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.

Environment Institute
The University of Adelaide

SA 5005 AUSTRALIA

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