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Conference Program 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
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