Amplify Your Voice - Keys to Having a Prolific Scientific Career

The Environment Institute hosted Professor William Laurance at a free public event held at the University of Adelaide on 30 March.

William Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University (previously Senior Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama).  His prolific research career includes the publication of five books and over 300 scientific and popular articles.

His research focuses on the impacts of intensive land-uses, such as habitat fragmentation, logging and wildfires, on tropical ecosystems and on global-change phenomena and conservation policy.

He firmly believes that scientists must engage policy makers and the general public, as well as other scientists.

Click on the links below to view audio visual material from this event.  Each session runs for approximately 40 minutes.

Speaker	Topic	Audio-Visual Materials
	Session 1 How to be more prolific: strategies for writing and publishing scientific papers	Podcast (mp 9.0MB) PowerPoint (pdf 5.7MB)
	Session 2 Further ways to maximise your scientific impact- interacting with the popular media and how to promote yourself	Podcast (mp 6.0MB) PowerPoint (pdf 12.0MB)