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15 July, 2016

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Reminiscences of the Great War: A Flanders Fields Poppy Trail 2016 Exhibition

Date/Time: Friday, 17 June 2016 - Friday, 26 August 2016

Location: Barr Smith Library, Rare Books & Special Collections, Level 1

Cost: Free: All Welcome

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A selection of memorabilia from Michael Milburn and other South Australian collectors.

From the destruction of Belgium to the victory in 1918, this exhibition will take the viewer through an intimate understanding of the suffering and day to day life of the ordinary soldiers, the modernisation of guns, transports and the nursing stations, and the heart breaking messages of soldiers and their families.

Curated by Christine Rothauser

Contact: Ms Cheryl Hoskin, Email: cheryl.hoskin@adelaide.edu.au, Special Collections Librarian, Business: (08) 8313 5224


 

Using soundscapes to detect forest degradation

Date/Time: Friday, 15 July 2016, 1:10 pm to 2:00 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre G10, Benham Building

Cost: Free

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Dr Zuzana Burivalova, postdoctoral research fellow from Princeton University, will present a seminar entitled "Using soundscapes to detect different degrees of tropical forest degradation".

Communities and indigenous people play a fundamental role in tropical forest management and they are often efficient at preventing deforestation.

In Papua New Guinea, the majority of land is officially owned and managed by the resident communities, making community forest management crucial in achieving global biodiversity conservation goals.

We used a new biodiversity remote sensing technology, the recording of soundscapes, to test whether the saturation of soundscape changes with increasing land use intensity by the managing communities.

In the talk, I will: 1) suggest a simple, robust, and easily interpreted way to analyse soundscapes; 2) demonstrate the gradual degradation of soundscapes with increasing human influences in Papua New Guinea; and 3) discuss the potential of soundscape analysis to transform the study of tropical forest ecology and conservation.

Contact: Corri Baker, Email: corri.baker@adelaide.edu.au, Website: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/, Marketing, Communications and Events Coordinator, Environment Institute, Adelaide University, Business: (08) 83133670