Event program University of Adelaide 13–15 April 2016 Day 1 - Opening session Wednesday 13 April
Opening session
8:30 Welcome – Sandy Carruthers, Director of Science, DEWNR, The Braggs Theatre
8:35 Welcome to Country – Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O’Brien
8.45 Aboriginal welcoming ceremony – Paitya Dance Group
9:00 Opening address from Minister for Sustainability, Conservation and Environment, Hon Ian Hunter MLC
9:15 Welcome – Chief Executive DEWNR, Sandy Pitcher
9.30 Keynote 1 – Prof Emma Johnston (UNSW)
10:00 Keynote 2 – Dave Johnson, Director Science Partnerships, Dept. of the Environment - Sharing science and the path to impact: Great concept, but it’s not in my job description, budget or busy schedule!
10:30 Morning tea – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
Notes
2 | NRM Science Conference 2016 Day 1 - Session 1 Wednesday 13 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Movement of people Biodiversity Fire Management Climate Change and marine critters in conservation 1 projections and response to changing impacts ocean conditions
11:00 Mixed fortunes: Rural landscapes, From the ashes: the role A perfect storm? Natural contrasting status, stakeholder networks and of Natural Resources variability and climate trends in abundance biodiversity conservation: Management in personal change impacts and and management issues a structural analysis and property recovery implications for natural for South Australian from Eyre Peninsula; after the Sampson resource management pinnipeds; Simon Wayne Meyer (UoA) Flat Bushfire; Tom Darren Ray (BOM) Goldsworthy (SARDI) Brookman (DEWNR) 11:15 Building blue Risks to prime agricultural A spatial decision support Climate projections at infrastructure in land in the South East system for natural hazard regional scales: adding South Australia NRM region from risk reduction policy value to Australia’s through restoration of unconventional gas assessment and planning; national projections; native shellfish reefs; Heidi mining; Anne Daw Jeffrey Newman (UoA) Louise Wilson (CSIRO) Alleway (PIRSA / UoA) 11:30 6 months, 60 experts Bridging the gap between BIGG Recovery of Native Are we underestimating and 37 threats: a rapid farmers and NRM. Lessons Pastures after Bushfire; the risk of climate change assessment of ecological learnt from working with Georgie Keynes (BIGG) in South Australia?; risk to marine habitats the Agricultural Industry; John Tibby (UoA) in Spencer Gulf; Zoë Susan Sweeney (DEWNR) Doubleday (UoA) 11:45 Should I stay or should Hydraulic redistribution How do bush fires change Talking with dryland I go? The movement of in Western myall: our landscape - using farmers about adapting mulloway (Argyrosomus implications for mine airborne Lidar to assess to climate change; the japonicus) around the site rehabilitation; the fire signature of the understandable focus Great Australian Bight Emma Steggles (UoA) Sampson Flat Fire, Jorg on the near future and Marine Park inferred Hacker (ARA/ FUSA) the status quo bias; from satellite telemetry; Peter Hayman (SARDI) Thomas Barnes (UoA) 12:00 Oceanographic Research Land use change under Bushfires, biodiversity Constraining worst- Supporting South uncertainty: real options and peri-urban planning case climate projections Australian Fisheries analysis of biomass in a second modernity: for realistic adaptation and Aquaculture; Mark agroforestry in agricultural the example of the Mt planning; James Doubell (SARDI) land. What conditions Lofty Ranges; Douglas Ward (UniSA) will trigger land use Bardsley (UoA) change from agricultural food production to sequestering carbon? Courtney Regan (UoA) 12:15 Effects of climate change Futures for Australian Of life and land; the An Isotopic TREND: and ocean acidification on land use and journey of Pinery Water stress in South Australian marine fishes; ecosystem services; fire recovery and the Australian flora; Stefan Ivan Nagelkerken (UoA) Brett Bryan (CSIRO) role of NRM; Taryn Caddy-Retalic (UoA) Mangelsdorf (DEWNR)
12:30 Lunch – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
NRM Science Conference 2016 | 3 Day 1 - Session 2 Wednesday 13 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Are SA marine parks Invasive and over Fire ecology Biodiversity 1 Abundant species making a difference? abundant species / wildlife health 1:15 South Australia’s Marine A Landscape Approach Burning for environmental Investigating the The koala on Kangaroo Parks – how will we to Invasive Species benefit – do assumptions molecular basis of echidna Island: Breeding dynamics know if they’re working? Management; Miguel and theories always biology for application of an overabundant, Simon Bryars (DEWNR) Lurgi Rivera (UoA) stack up?; Naomi Rea in conservation, wildlife out of range herbivore management and subject to fertility habitat monitoring; control management; Frank Grützner (UoA) Freyja Watters (UoA) 1:30 Cameras and eyes Good Ol’ Olive debate, is Diversity and fire: a Management and Sustainable management – complementary your control as effective conservation conundrum conservation issues of of the Kangaroo Island approaches to counting as it can be?; David in understory plants from the Southern Hairy- koala population; Robyn fish in Marine Parks; Hughes (DEWNR) two Kangaroo Island nosed Wombat. What Molsher (DEWNR) Danny Brock (DEWNR) mallee communities; Dave do we know and what McKenna (DEWNR) evidence is lacking in order to safeguard the future of the species?; Bertram Ostendorf (UoA) 1:45 A mapping strategy Over-abundant Burnt trees: Habitat Centres of plant SA koala health and for the assessment of macropods - Managing or Hazardous? Kirstin biodiversity in South disease research; habitats within South the risks; Jason van Abley (DEWNR) Australia; Greg Natasha Speight (UoA) Australia’s Marine Parks; Weenen (DEWNR) Guerin (UoA) David Miller (DEWNR) 2:00 Answering the big The devil within: the Prescribed burning Historical changes The Roseworthy Wildlife questions – the role of biosecurity risk of illegal urbanises bird in the distribution of Health Research Centre: research in the Marine pet reptiles in Australia; assemblages in the hairy-nosed wombats Proposing a new hub to Parks MER Program; Pablo García-Díaz (UoA) Mount Lofty ranges; (Lasiorhinus spp.); Michael support the ‘One health’ Robyn Morcom (DEWNR) Thomas Prowse (UoA) Swinbourne (UoA) concept in South Australia; Wayne Boardman (UoA) 2:15 Eyre Peninsula Marine Sucking the lifeblood Prescribed burn Microbial Old Friends: How to capture emerging Parks Bio-blitzes – creating out of major invasive intensity alters pollinator looking for ‘win-wins’ in diseases of wildlife! a lasting connection weeds of Australia; interactions in the biodiversity management Wildlife Health Australia with the ocean through Robert Cirocco (UoA) Narrow-leaved Mallee and human health; Craig and Wildlife Disease science; Shelley (Eucalyptus cneorifolia) Liddicoat (DEWNR) Surveillance at the Harrison (DEWNR) woodland community University of Adelaide; of Kangaroo Island; C Wayne Boardman (UoA) Cannizzaro (FUSA) 2:30 Marine Park Compliance Watsonia control: Impact of fire on the Management of Managing rabbit – Implementation of Effectiveness of 2,2- reproductive success of biodiversity for apple and damage in the era of a new responsibility; DPA, impacts on native terrestrial orchids in the pear pollinators; Katja myxamatosis and rabbit Andrew Burnell (DEWNR) flora and influence Mount Lofty Ranges; Hogendoorn (UoA) haemorrhagic disease; of a prescribed-burn; Renate Faast (UoA) Greg Mutze (PIRSA) Anthony Abley (DEWNR) 2:45 To feed or not to feed Prioritising pest and weed Using Prescribed Burns Spatial analysis of different A proposed project fish in marine parks? management to optimise to Achieve Weed types of Australian investigating correlates David Pearce (DEWNR) success of a landscape- Management Objectives; hemiparasites; Bjorn of Toxoplasma gondii scale restoration project; Andrew Sheath (DEWNR) Dueholm (UniSA) and macroscopic species Ben Shepherd (DEWNR) of Sarcocystis to explain their higher prevalence on Kangaroo Island; Patrick Taggart (UoA) 3:00 Afternoon tea – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
4 | NRM Science Conference 2016 Day 1 - Session 3 Wednesday 13 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Charismatic marine Biosecurity Water management in Climate change Environmental predators and the Mt Lofty Ranges adaptation management of the their interactions Murray River 1 with people
3:20 Seascape genetics for The on-shore biosecurity Three years of Rethinking Climate Weir Pool Manipulation shark management: an threat from the domestic environmental flows in Adaptation Planning - for Environmental Benefit innovation in sustainable cage-bird trade; Phillip the South Para, Torrens Turning awareness into in the River Murray; fisheries modelling; Cassey (UoA) and Onkaparinga Rivers; action; Peter Day (UoA) Jaimi Smith (DEWNR) Bronwyn Gillanders (UoA) Steve Gatti (DEWNR)
3:35 An investigation of the Assessing herbivore Developing hydrological A framework for nature Assessing the influence importance of little impact to inform herbivore restoration options conservation under future of operation of an penguins in the diet management programs - a for Glenshera Swamp, climates, to inform climate environmental flow of long-nosed fur seal rapid method to guide Stipiturus Conservation adaptation planning in regulator on ecosystem (Arctocephalus forsteri); effective management Park; Mark Bachmann regions of the Murray productivity within an Sarah-Lena Reinhold of feral goats, (Nature Glenelg Trust) Basin, south-east Australia; anabranch; Sanjina (Flinders Uni, SARDI) Bounceback Program; Dan Rogers (DEWNR) Upadhyay (UoA) Trish Mooney (DEWNR)
3:50 Shorebird use of the Micro-organism triggers Evaluating the Biodiversity adaptation Management of Samphire Coast in Gulf widespread small implementation of a to climate change environmental water to St Vincent; Tony Flaherty mammal recovery in arid water allocation plan in in the Mount Lofty stimulate productivity (DEWNR AMLR) South Australia; Rabbit the Mount Lofty Ranges, Ranges: evidence, in order to achieve Haemorrhagic Disease South Australia; Ashley scenarios, synthesis, and ecological outcomes in Virus maximises bang Greenwood (DEWNR) management implications the lower River Murray; for conservation buck; Andrew West (DEWNR) Todd Wallace (UoA) Rob Brandle (DEWNR)
4:05 Living with dolphins in What are flying foxes New methodology for Climate change adaptation Integrating disciplines an urban environment; doing in Adelaide? assessing risk posed in the Alinytjara Wilurara for NRM outcomes: Mike Bossley (WDC) Researching the disease to water dependent region of South Australia; an example from the and ecological implications ecosystems due to Douglas Bardsley and River Murray floodplain; of Grey-headed flying altered flow regimes; Nathanael Wiseman (UoA) Nadine Kilsby (DEWNR) foxes in South Australia; Doug Green (DEWNR) Wayne Boardman (UoA)
4:20 Preferred habitat of Family Matters: genes of Practical implementation Carbon sequestration Climate change and southern Australian life in the world of rabbits; of environmental water potential of priority environmental water bottlenose dolphins Amy Iannella (UoA) deliveries downstream of revegetation activities in reallocation in the (Tursiops c.f australis) water supply reservoirs Eyre and Yorke Peninsula Murray-Darling Basin: in Adelaide’s coastal in the Western Mount landscapes under a impacts on flows, waters; Nikki Zanardo Lofty Ranges; Steve changing climate; Trevor diversions and economic (Flinders Uni) Kotz (SA Water) Hobbs (DEWNR) returns to irrigation; Jeff Connor (CSIRO)
4:35 ‘Effectiveness of an Remote cameras extend Optimising low flow Carbon exchange of Floodplain Watering Trial: industry Code of Practice monitoring of pest releases to meet perennial semi-arid a partnership between in mitigating interactions control and native fauna sustainable development woodland in south Aboriginal Lands Trust, of the South Australian populations, Bounceback objectives of a water eastern Australia Gerard Community Sardine Fishery with the Program, Flinders Ranges; allocation plan; Daniel responding to drought Council, Gerard Aboriginal Short-beaked Common Trish Mooney (DEWNR) Penney (DEWNR) and fire – implications Learning on Country Dolphin (Delphinus for NRM planning to Team and Natural delphis) (Tim Ward, PIRSA)’ manage global carbon; Resources SA Murray- Georgia Koerber (UoA) Darling Basin Wetland and Floodplain Team; Irene Wegener (DEWNR)
4:50 Conservation concerns Introduction of Aquatic macroinvertebrate Climate change adaptation about common dolphin Dactylopius ceylonicus community development on the SA coast – the interactions in the South Green (Hemiptera: in riffle habitats with policies and the science Australian Sardine Fishery; Dactylopiidae) to onset of flow; Sonia behind them; Murray James Brook (CCSA) South Australia; Henry Giglio (SA Water) Townsend (DEWNR) Rutherford (DEWNR)
5.05 Networking event - Ingkarni Wardli Atrium
NRM Science Conference 2016 | 5 Day 2 - Opening session Thursday 14 April
Opening session
9:00 Keynote 3 - The Braggs Theatre, Prof Birger Moller (University of Copenhagen) - Synthetic plant biology: Light-driven production of structurally complex diterpenoids
9:30 Keynote 4 - The Braggs Theatre, Prof Phil Weinstein (University of Adelaide) - Does biodiversity suppress infectious disease emergence?
10:00 Keynote 5 - The Braggs Theatre, A/Prof Martine Maron (University of Queensland) - Trading nature to save it: the biodiversity offsetting debate
10:30 Morning tea – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
Notes
6 | NRM Science Conference 2016 Day 2 - Session 4 Thursday 14 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Aboriginal Environmental Restoration Charismatic marine Botany 2016 — Past, knowledge in NRM management of the ecology predators and the present and future decision making Murray River 2 primary production that supports them
11:00 Keeping Culture: Lower Lakes and barrage Identifying cost-effective An overview of recent Botany 2016 — Past, community data storage release modelling; reforestation approaches research and monitoring present and future; and access, a project Claire Sims (DEWNR) for biodiversity of highly migratory pelagic Michelle Waycott (SH/ within the Diamantina conservation and sharks in South Australia; DEWNR, UoA) River Catchment project carbon sequestration Paul Rogers (SARDI) (Lake Eyre Basin); Melissa in southern Australia; White (DEWNR) Corey Bradshaw (UoA) 11:15 Assessing the Barrage release strategy Applying an intervention Assessing white shark What’s hot in hydrogeology of impacts on the Murray ecology framework activity at the Neptune biosystematics and Hookina Spring (Pungka Mouth and Coorong; to the 30 Year Plan Islands to minimise taxonomy in Australasia, Pudanha), Ikara- James Fuller (DEWNR) for Greater Adelaide: the effects of cage- and why you need to Flinders Ranges; Lauren improving the recognition diving tourism; Charlie know about it; Kevin Houthuysen (DEWNR) of complementary Huveneers (Flinders Uni) Thiele (Eubio Consulting) environmental and socio- economic outcomes; Andrew West (DEWNR) 11:30 The Riverland Rangers The drought isn’t over Translating the Landscape Long-nosed Fur Seals in The vegetation history Working on Country yet; Prolonged recovery Assessment Framework the Coorong and Lower of South Australia; project – Most Significant of acid sulfate soils for the Mount Lofty Lakes: exploring different Bob Hill (UoA) Change Evaluation; Phil and water quality in Ranges into Targeted perspectives and their McNamara (DEWNR) the Lower Murray; Restoration Action; implications for research Luke Mosley (UoA) Randall Johnson (DEWNR) and management; Mike Greig (DEWNR) 11:45 Ngarrindjeri worldview Ecosystem Services Is planting arrangement Long-term study of Molecular and isotopic on the description Dynamics in the important? The influence skeleton pathology shows insights into botanical of Ramsar ecological Murrumbidgee of population density differences between history in South Australia; character; Steve Hemming Catchment; Claire and aggregation on Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Cesca McInerney (UoA) (FUSA), Daryle Rigney Settre (UoA) seed production in a Dolphins in Gulf St and Luke Trevorrow revegetated woodland; Vincent and Spencer Kimberly McCallum (UoA) Gulf, South Australia; Ikuko Tomo (SAM) 12:00 Ngarrindjeri Futures – Assessing water and Managing Native Investigating the Bioactive natural The future of Aboriginal salinity risks to viticulture Vegetation in Kangaroo offshore migratory products and the South Partnerships in South production in the Island’s Agricultural movement of southern Australia flora: The arid Australia; Steve Riverland, South Australia; Landscape - Successes right whales: addressing zone awaits; Bradley Hemming (FUSA) Vinod Phogat (SARDI) and Challenges; Grant critical conservation and Simpson (FUSA) Flanagan (DEWNR) management needs; Alice Mackay (SARDI) 12:15 Engaging with Ngarrindjeri The impact of water Linking the landscape Development of Projected climate change Cultural Knowledge; and soil salinity on for woodland birds in hyperspectral reference implications for the Steve Hemming (FUSA) water market trading in the Upper South East; database to enhance South Australian flora; the southern Murray- Cassie Hlava (DEWNR) imagery mapping of Greg Guerin (UoA) Darling Basin; Juliane seagrass distribution in Haensch (UoA) Adelaide, South Australia; Tim Kildea (SA Water) 12:30 Ngarrindjeri Partnerships Four Catchments project - Regional ecosystem Ecologically-guided Project; Steve Protecting and enhancing monitoring to improve discovery of bioactive Hemming (FUSA) riparian vegetation in understanding of plant compounds; priority catchments of oyster productivity; Paul Casey Hall (UoA) the Southern Flinders and Van Ruth (SARDI) Northern Mt Lofty Ranges; Jennifer Munro (DEWNR) 12:45 Lunch – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
NRM Science Conference 2016 | 7 Day 2 - Session 5 Thursday 14 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Restoration ecology 2 Citizen Science in Threatened species 1 Water quality Botany 2016 — Past, NRM decision making present and future 1:30 A coordinated approach Assessing and developing Trial reintroduction of Varying responses of Botany and science to planning landscape- citizen science projects; the western quoll and two lakes with different at Adelaide’s Botanic scale ecological Phil Roetman (UniSA) brushtail possum to the trophic status to effects Gardens since the restoration; Sacha Ikara-Flinders Ranges of warming and nutrient founding of the State Jellinek (DEWNR) National Park; Katherine loading; Chaturangi Herbarium; Laurie Moseby (UoA) Wickramaratne (UoA) Haegi (SH/DEWNR) 1:45 Building knowledge to A citizen science Does release method Contaminant Transport The value of the ‘other optimise the success of community bird matter when from Horticulture stuff’ in collections-based restoration outcomes; monitoring project reintroducing brushtail in Mt Lofty Ranges; scientific and cultural Hafiz Stewart (DEWNR) on Eyre Peninsula; possums to the semi- Danni Oliver (CSIRO) institutions; Tony Kanellos Greg Kerr (DEWNR) arid zone? Hannah (BGSA/DEWNR) Bannister (UoA) 2:00 Evaporation of perennial Citizen Science on a Conservation biology of Fire and Water – Sampson Waite Arboretum — semi-arid woodland in shoestring: The Eyre the endangered sandhill Flat Fire effects on water Past, present and future; south eastern Australia Peninsula goannas project; dunnart (Sminthopsis quality at Millbrook Jennifer Gardner (UoA) is adapted for irregular Ben Smith (DEWNR) psammophila); Amanda Reservoir; Jacqueline but common dry periods; Mclean (UoA) Frizenschaf (SA Water) Wayne Meyer (UoA) 2:15 Defining Habitat Use Mapping the distribution Islands as refuges for Using diatoms to assist History and collections by Declining Woodland of the European rabbits threatened species: in the setting of water of the State Herbarium; Birds to Inform (Oryctologus cuniculus) in The success of multi- quality guidelines in south- Graham Bell (SH/DEWNR) Restoration Programs; Australia using occurrence species translocation to east South Australia and Phil Northeast (UoA) data from targeted field Wedge Island; Bertram the Mount Lofty Ranges; studies and citizen science; Ostendorf (UoA) Jenny Richards (UoA) Emilie Roy-Dufresne (UoA) 2:30 Native vegetation & Cat Tracker: Habitat suitability mapping Seasonal variation in Tales from the type bay invertebrates: landscape- understanding cats and fire management the nature of DOM in of the State Herbarium scale provision of through citizen science; – towards improved a river and drinking of South Australia; Robyn ecosystem services; Phil Roetman (UniSA) conservation outcomes for water reservoir of a Barker (SH/DEWNR) Richard Glatz (DESS/ the Endangered Mount closed catchment in UoA/SA Museum) Lofty Ranges Chestnut- South Australia; John rumped Heathwren and Awad (UniSA) associated heath species; Kirsten Abley (DEWNR) 2:45 Translating restoration Little corellas in South Of bees and burns: What to do about South Australian lichens goals into functional Australia: a citizen science conservation of the blue-green algae in the — A Kangaroo Island case trait targets: comparing approach to social and green carpenter bee River Torrens; Katharine study; Gintaras Kantvilas remnant communities ecological research Xylocopa aeratus in Ward (DEWNR) (Tasmanian Herbarium) to early restoration for management; Phil relation to fire-history on outcomes; Sally Roetman (UniSA) Kangaroo Island; Katja Maxwell (DEWNR) Hogendoorn (UoA) 3:00 Long-term revegetation SA Murray-Darling Basin Have shorebirds been Simulation of flow and Fungi and mycological success using a Kimseed citizen science program – adequately considered nutrient loadings in the research in South Camel Pitter and taking it from the masses; with the expansion of Onkaparinga catchment Australia; Pam Catcheside Rangeland Contour Sylvia Clarke (DEWNR) the south-east beach- by the eco-hydrological (SH/DEWNR) Seeder in the central cast macroalgal fishery?; model SWAT; Manoj Flinders Ranges; Nerissa James Brook (CCSA) Shrestha (UoA) Haby (DEWNR) 3:15 Afternoon tea – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
8 | NRM Science Conference 2016 Day 2 - Session 6 Thursday 14 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Science for NRM SE Water Urban Water planning 1 management management
3:35 Bringing participatory Managing and Adapting Parsimonious simulation planning workshops to Secondary Salinity and of daily rainfall fields; together with spatial Altered Hydrology in a Bree Bennett (UoA) conservation planning: Ramsar Listed Lake Suite- a case study from the Lake Warden Wetland Eyre Peninsula; Paul Koch System Case Study; (Greening Australia) John Lizamore (DPAW) 3:50 Planning NRM The investigation of the Rainfall-Based flash flood conservation projects confined unconfined forecasting systems for in coastal and terrestrial aquifer interaction in the Adelaide; Christopher ecosystems; Annelise SA-VIC border sharing Wright (UniSA) Wiebkin (DEWNR) zones; Managing a single or two separate aquifer systems?; Saad Mustafa (DEWNR) 4:05 More’s the MERI-er: Reviewing Groundwater Managed aquifer Application of the MERI Target Management recharge to support framework to describing Levels in the South East of economic development in and managing the South Australia: Kingston South Australia; Joanne CLLMM region; Paul Confined Aquifer Study; Vanderzalm (CSIRO) McEvoy (DEWNR) Cameron Wood (DEWNR) 4:20 Hey Dad, money does Investigations of low Multi-objective grow on trees: a new salinity confined aquifer optimization of distributed model to track changes groundwater for use as stormwater harvesting in the extent of native a potential replacement systems; Michael Di vegetation across SA; town water supply Matteo (UoA) Brad Page (PIRSA) for Naracoorte; Jeff Lawson (DEWNR) 4:35 How to get higher Controlling risk of Adelaide’s Managed precision in ecological regime shift in clear Aquifer Recharge Story – field surveys (and a freshwater wetlands success, complexity and comparison of formulas of national importance continuing innovation; for estimating confidence in SA; Margaret Peter Kretschmer and intervals for the systematic Shanafield (FUSA) Donna-Lee Edwards survey sample mean); Rick McGarvey (SARDI) 4:50 Regional engagement Nullarbor to Naracoorte: Practical guidance on and spatial modelling DEWNR’s extensive representing uncertainty for natural resource limestone and coastal in hydrological predictions; management planning karst assets – DEWNR Dave McInerney (UoA) - Eyre Peninsula as science informing an exemplar; Wayne natural heritage; Ian Meyer (UoA) Lewis (DEWNR) 5:05 Launch of the Centre for Conservation Science and Technology and the Australian Bioactive Compounds Centre - Braggs Lecture Theatre
NRM Science Conference 2016 | 9 Day 3 - opening session Friday 15 April
Opening session
9:00 Keynote 6 - The Braggs Theatre, Dave Emmett (Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific Division, Conservation International)
9:30 Keynote 7 - The Braggs Theatre, Prof Michelle Waycott (University of Adelaide and DEWNR) The grander view for ‘our’ science - where, how, why and what?
10:00 Keynote 8 - The Braggs Theatre, Prof Bob Hill Executive (Exec Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Adelaide) and Sandy Carruthers (Director of Science, Monitoring and Knowledge, DEWNR): Strange bedfellows: Dating rules for research partnerships
10:30 Morning tea – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
Notes
10 | NRM Science Conference 2016 Day 3 - Session 7 Friday 15 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Environmental Biodiversity 2 Sustainable soil Groundwater Botany 2016 — Past, management of the management management present and future Murray River 3 11:00 Palaeolimnology demonstrates Impact of Mineral Overcoming constraints on Science Model Mapping South how European impacts have Exploration on Ecosystem sandy soils – amelioration Warehouse – Supporting Australia’s Pre-European fundamentally changed Characters and strategies to improve Robust Water Resource vegetation cover; Tim the ecology of the Lower Mallee Vegetation of resource condition and Management in South Croft (SH/DEWNR) Lakes and Coorong; Pinkawillinie Conservation boost crop production; Australia; Daniel Deborah Haynes (UoA) Park, South Australia; Brett Bartel (PIRSA) Pierce (DEWNR) Lindy Scott (UoA)
11:15 Ecological response Evaluating the landscape Preventing Soil Cracking, Groundwater The vascular flora to Commonwealth structure for hydrological Acidification and management and of South Australia; environmental water delivered restoration efforts - Salinisation through mining development Jürgen Kellermann to the Lower Murray River; Using airborne Lidar and Improved Irrigation in South Australia; (SH/DEWNR, UoA) Qifeng Ye (SARDI) high resolution aerial Efficiency and Strategies; Rohan Baird (DEWNR) imaging to assess the Michael Cutting (DEWNR) Fleurieu Swamps; Cacilia Ewenz (ARA / FUSA)
11:30 A comparison of conventional A top down approach to Improving subsoil Groundwater Resource The next generation and environmental DNA- habitat restoration using constraints through Capacity Estimates in the of molecular botany based fish survey methods in key structural species; innovative amelioration Barossa PWRA: Approach in South Australia; Ed a complex and ecologically- James Thiessen (DEWNR) to sequester carbon on to Risk and Uncertainty; Biffin (SH/DEWNR) sensitive river system: the River Eyre Peninsula; David Roger Cranswick (DEWNR) Murray; Jennifer Shaw (CSIRO) Davenport (PIRSA)
11:45 Oh no not you again? Assessing herbivore How South Australian Effect of aquifer Population Exploring drought impact to inform farmers saved our soils sediment mineralogy and genetic analysis preparedness to manage herbivore management from the brink of extinction stormwater chemistry and conservation SA Murray-Darling-Basin programs – a rapid - a success story; Tim on transport and implications for threatened fishes during method for managers Herrmann (DEWNR) removal of viruses; Salini Eucalyptus paludicola another diminishing of grassy and chenopod Sasidharan (CSIRO) using genome wide river flow period; Nick shrub dominated markers; Korjent Whiterod (Aquasave – vegetation communities; van Dijk (UoA) Nature Glenelg Trust) Rob Brandle (DEWNR)
12:00 Distribution of and Putting a price on What are we doing to Wastewater tracers: How best do we sample observations on gut content stocking rates conducive combat soil acidification using artificial a region’s vascular of the oriental weatherloach to Eucalyptus coolabah in South Australia? sweeteners to track plant diversity and (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) in recruitment; Nerissa Brian Hughes (PIRSA) contamination sources; how representative of the South Australian Murray- Haby (DEWNR) Rai Kookana (CSIRO) a region is the State Darling Basin region: From Herbarium collection?; specimens captured by Natural Bill Barker (SH/DEWNR) Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin; Irene Wegener (DEWNR)
12:15 Deriving hydro-ecological The use of Next Mallee Seeps – An Integrated Remote Restoring South relationships for temporary Generation Sequencing to opportunity or land Sensing and GIS in Australia’s native rivers: a trait-based approach; examine the diet of native degradation; James Hall Linear Features Mapping vegetation; Andy Sally Maxwell (DEWNR) and introduced herbivores For Water Resources Lowe (UoA) in grassy ecosystems Study in Central Flinders of the Murraylands; Ranges, South Australia; Dave Taggart (UoA) Alaa Ahmed (UniSA)
12:30 Cross-border cooperation to Small mammal and Monitoring soil erosion Writing a WAP and Q&A streamline recovery actions reptile response to a risk in the agricultural winning over irate sections for the endangered Murray 15-year old integrated landscapes of South of the community; Simone hardyhead (Craterocephalus management program in Australia using MODIS Stewart (DEWNR) fluviatilis) in the southern a semi-arid environment; satellite data; Giles Murray-Darling Basin; Nerissa Haby (DEWNR) Forward (DEWNR) Lara Suitor (DEWNR)
12:30 Lunch – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
NRM Science Conference 2016 | 11 Day 3 - Session 8 Friday 15 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre The bigger picture Water management Environmental New technologies Botany 2016 — Past, in NRM science in the Far North of SA management of the present and future Murray River 4 1:30 Individual versus state: The ecology of Lake Freshwater benefits a Imaging submerged Conservation status of choice and scarcity with Eyre basin fishes: marine fish: evidence for structures along the plants in South Australia: a native vegetation twist; Hydro-climatic drivers providing environmental Adelaide coast line using Challenges and trends; Russell Seaman (DEWNR) and fish assemblage flows to the Coorong an airborne small footprint Peter Copley (DEWNR) dynamics in Australia’s for productivity benefits; bathymetric laser scanner; desert river basin; David Chris Bice (SARDI) Wolfgang Lieff (Airborne Schmarr (SARDI) Research Australia/FUSA) 1:45 Ecological Literacy in Dealing safely with leaky, Sharing Learnings Build it, they will come Seed conservation for South Australia: How hot, high pressure wells in on Environmental – Seabird use of an South Australia; Jenny much do we know the Great Artesian Basin; Watering – the ‘frog artificial sand island off Guerin (BGSA/DEWNR) about nature … and Kent Inverarity (DEWNR) effect’; Anne Jensen metropolitan Adelaide; who knows? Sheryn Tony Flaherty (DEWNR) Pitman (SA Museum) 2:00 The Nature of SA: Dalhousie Springs wetland Just add water? Frog Response of Adelaide City Weird and wonderful Thinking differently about composition, function breeding response to electricity consumption plants of South Australia; nature conservation; Anna and dynamics revealed environmental watering to outdoor weather John Conran (UoA) Dutkiewicz (DEWNR) by remote sensing; of temporary wetlands in in summer; Huade Megan Lewis (UoA) the lower Murray region, Guan (FUSA) South Australia; Emily Hoffman (DEWNR) 2:15 What's the Role of A hydrochemical Birds in Black Box: Avian A continental and Algal advocacy; Bob Science in the political characterisation of community drivers in consistent water mapping Baldock (SH/DEWNR) process and how do springs in the vicinity of floodplain woodlands; product from Geoscience we use the political Lake Blanche, Lake Eyre Thomas Hunt (UoA) Australia: South process to get scientific Basin, South Australia; Australian applications outcomes; Greg Ogle Mark Keppell (DEWNR) of WOfS; Ramesh (Fmr South Australian Raja Segaran (UoA) Campaign Manager, The Wilderness Society SA.) 2:30 DEWNR’s Big Science: Who needs drugs when Artificial floodplain Satellite imagery - a Bryological research in multi-year, cross-discipline you’ve got geology? The inundation promotes tool to improve South Australia; Graham investigation programs epic tale of the Finke River common carp; Brenton productivity; Bernadette Bell (SH/DEWNR) delivering targeted advice; and the Pedirka Basin; Zampatti (SARDI) Lawson (DEWNR) Tom Carrangis (DEWNR) Megan Hancock (DEWNR) 2:45 Integration of Mound Spring Getting the ‘wet’ into Technological Advances Boolean logic and plant ecosystem service Conceptualisation and wetlands: delivering to Sustaining Irrigation names; David Cooke metrics into product Holistic Models; Travis environmental water to Dependent Communities (Biosecurity SA) based environmental Gotch (DEWNR) wetlands and floodplains – A Partnership Approach studies; Jodie Bricout of the Riverland in in the SA MDB Region; (Life Cycle Strategies) South Australia; Callie Brenton Fenwick (DEWNR) Nickolai (DEWNR) 3:00 From scrawny to brawny; Challenges targeting The waterbird response Remote sensing of shallow Q&A Beefing up natural potable groundwater to the environmental groundwater dependent resource reporting; Craig in the APY Lands, SA; watering of Tolderol ecosystems in the Meakin (DEWNR) Michael Gogoll (DEWNR) Game Reserve; Gareth western Lake Eyre Basin; Oerman (DEWNR) Dorothy Turner (UoA)
3:15 Afternoon tea – Maths Lawns next to The Braggs Theatre
12 | NRM Science Conference 2016 Day 3 - Session 9 Friday 15 April The Braggs Horace Lamb Flentje Chapman Mawson Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Threatened species 2 Science for NRM Murray River planning 2 groundwater systems
3:35 Factors influencing the use The effects of permanent Quantitative modelling of of artificial nest hollows netting enclosures spatio-temporal changes by the endangered SA on fruit production in floodplain settings using glossy black-cockatoo and water efficiency; airborne geophysical data (Kangaroo Island ssp);; Mark May (DEWNR) – an example from the Karleah Berris (DEWNR) Riverland South Australia; Tim Munday (CSIRO) 3:50 Translocation to save Protecting groundwater- Understanding SA River the endangered pygmy dependent ecosystems Murray floodplains: bluetongue lizard; through innovative policies hydrology and Michael Bull (FUSA) on Eyre Peninsula; Kerri hydrogeology; Juliette Muller (Kerri Muller NRM) Woods (DEWNR / FUSA) 4:05 Implications of uncertain A heritage of innovation: Controlling mechanisms taxonomy for conservation biocultural narratives for freshwater lenses management: case in the McLaren Vale, beside gaining reaches studies on bandicoots South Australia; Douglas of the Murray River; and gliders; Steve Bardsley (UoA) Adrian Werner (FUSA) Cooper (SA Museum) 4:20 Rapid Recovery of Adelaide International How can managed Endangered Flora on Bird Sanctuary – Collective inundation and the Fleurieu Peninsula; Impact, the power of groundwater manipulation Rick Davies (DEWNR) story and using data to affect River Murray drive systemic change; floodplain soil salinity Arkellah Irving (DEWNR) and vegetation health? An insight provided by numerical modelling; Chris Li (DEWNR) 4:35 Fire management Carbon turnover in Groundwater model for Red-tails; David Mallee – implications for for managing a saline McKenna (DEWNR) carbon sequestration floodplain at Pike, and NRM planning; South Australia; Carl Qiaoqi Sun (UoA) Purczel (DEWNR) 4:50 Event close
NRM Science Conference 2016 | 13 Notes
14 | NRM Science Conference 2016 Glossary of Terms
ARA Airborne Research Australia BGSA Botanic Gardens of South Australia BIGG Barossa Improved Grazing Group BOM Bureau of Meteorology CCSA Conservation Council of South Australia CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation DEWNR Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources DPAW Department of Parks and Wildlife FUSA Flinders University South Australia NGT Nature Glenelg Trust NRM Natural Resource Management PIRSA Primary Industries and Regions South Australia SAM South Australian Museum SARDI South Australian Research and Development Institute SH State Herbarium UniSA University of South Australia UoA University of Adelaide WDC Whale and Dolphin Conservation
The event is presented by the Natural Resources Management Research and Innovation Network, a partnership between the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, the SA Natural Resources Management Boards, SA Natural Resources Management Council, the Department of Primary Industries and Regions SA, SA Water, the University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia. NRM Science Conference 2016 | 15