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RESEARCH, ENGAGEMENT AND ACHIEVEMENTS 2017 l 2018 2 Research, Engagement and Achievements 2017/2018

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OUR MISSION Director's Report...... 1 “TO UNDERTAKE INTERNATIONALLY Context ...... 1 RECOGNISED INTEGRATED In Review...... 3 ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH FOR RURAL AND REGIONAL Research Themes AREAS.” • Biodiversity Conservation...... 7

• Environmental Water...... 12 OUR OBJECTIVES • Rural and Regional Communities...... 16 • Sustainable Development (International)...... 21 · TO MAINTAIN AND ENHANCE OUR PROFILE AS AN INTERNATIONALLY Engagement RECOGNISED PROVIDER OF • Regional...... 25 INTEGRATED QUALITY RESEARCH THAT ENHANCES ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL • National...... 30 AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN RURAL AND REGIONAL AREAS, IN AUSTRALIA • International...... 34 AND OVERSEAS • Internal ...... 40

· TO SUSTAIN OUR POSITION AS A • Media...... 42 RECOGNISED AND LEADING RESEARCH CENTRE IN AREAS RELEVANT TO OUR ILWS PhD scholarship recipients ...... 43 COMMUNITIES WITH AN ANNUAL RESEARCH INCOME OF $4M BY 2020 Publications ...... 45 Snapshots ...... 50 · TO REMAIN A PREFERRED PROVIDER F0R RESEARCH THAT INTEGRATES Appendix ...... 51 ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCIPLINES WITH PURE AND APPLIED RESEARCH THAT INFLUENCES AND INFORMS OUR COMMUNITY OF INTEREST, THE PROFESSIONS, GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS

· TO CONTINUE TO BE RECOGNISED FOR OUR UNIQUE ABILITY TO BRING ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCIPLINES TOGETHER TO ADDRESS ISSUES RELATING TO COMMUNITIES AND LANDSCAPES

2 3 Director’s Report: Professor Max Finlayson Given that ILWS has been in existence for more than a decade I’ve taken the opportunity to quickly examine our objectives against our activity.

There is no doubt that we have increased our research activity over the past decade. That increase has not been equal and there are some standout areas in terms of pro- jects and impact, in particular, the combined portfolio of water research exemplifies the successes. Other areas have also maintained their The Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS) is one of activity and some have not been as Charles Sturt University’s four Research Centres. These successful. We have been challenged to further support our “society” centres are designed to bring staff together around coherent research, but not in isolation of the “land” and “water” research. research themes, in line with CSU’s Mission and Research Equally it can be argued that our “land” and “water” research should Narrative. not be done in isolation of our “society” research. CSU is Australia's leading regional university with major campuses in the regional centres of Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Orange, Port That brings me back to the objectives that we have set, and which Macquarie and Wagga Wagga in New South Wales (NSW). It also has have largely remained much the same since ILWS formed. In this specialist campuses in the ACT in Canberra and in NSW in Goulburn, respect we have agreed to maintain and enhance our profile as an Manly and Parramatta, and study centres in Sydney (NSW), international provider of integrated quality research that enhances Melbourne and Wangaratta (Victoria) and Brisbane (Queensland). environmental, social and economic conditions in rural and re- gional areas. We certainly provide research that could enhance the Australia's biodiversity, ecosystem services, water and food security, environmental, social or economic conditions, although not equally, and ultimately the sustainability of Australia’s rural, regional and but how well do we integrate that research? Some of our research- remote communities are under threat. The Murray-Darling Basin, the ers are integrating across complex issues, but others seems to still 'food bowl of Australia' and geographic home for most of Charles largely operate within their disciplinary bounds, or undertake their Sturt University (CSU)'s campuses, is an example of the urgent disciplinary research with little regard to the other disciplines. That need for systemic research and governance. It faces pressing issues research can be of a high quality and be widely recognised, and that around water use and management if it is to maintain biodiversity, in itself should be applauded; however, where is the evidence of the agricultural productivity and rural social sustainability in the context of integration? climate change and globilisation. All of these issues are linked.

We have also set and had agreed in our last internal accreditation As the systemic nature of issues becomes more apparent, the search process financial income targets, and these are being met, but very for better ways to connect scientific and other knowledge, including unevenly across the disciplines. There are ample excuses for that. I that from local and Indigenous communities, with governance and acknowledge that others may say reasons rather than excuses, but policy becomes more pressing. ILWS researchers are addressing this given that these have been proffered for much of our existence I prof- need. fer instead that we need to move past the semantics and deliver or Formed in 2005, ILWS combines research strengths in biophysical, drop the areas that can meet the objectives. There may be a case for social and economic research and has well-established partnerships maintaining them within the university – my comment applies only to with state and federal government departments, agencies and other ILWS and our agreed objectives. tertiary institutions in Australia and overseas.

We have also agreed to undertake research and to influence and Since inception, ILWS has sought to facilitate trans and multi- inform our community of interest, government, professions and oth- disciplinary approaches, underpinned by integration of social, ers. Again we have some very good examples of our research being environmental and economic research aims and practices, to address used to inform our communities about the issues that they see as local, regional, national and global issues systemically. important. And it is uneven across individuals. Given the manner in It has substantial research and networking capacity to influence the which a university tends to operate that is not unsurprising to myself, governance and management of regional scale issues. As such it is it is whether this is what we want to see from ILWS. Keeping in mind an important contributor to policy-making and management decisions that we have agreed as an institution and as individuals to inform our that contribute to ensuring a sustainable future. communities etc, and that extends beyond informing the research communities that we know very well. Its focus on facilitating systemic research has positioned ILWS to address the issues that arise when managing social ecological As you read the information we have provided in this report I’d like systems that are characterised by uncertainty and complexity. you to keep these comments in mind as there is a commitment from During 2015 and 2016 the Institute was reviewed as part of CSU’s our university to undertake integrated and multi-disciplinary research, Centre Reaccreditation process. It was subsequently reaccredited for to inform our communities while maintaining or improving the quality another five years from 2017. of what we do. We are achieving a lot, and we have many ardent and dedicated researchers doing their best to meet the demands of Leadership research in an academic institution. I’d like to congratulate them and hope this report highlights both the research and the researchers, Since 2007, the Director of ILWS has been internationally-recognised and at the same time seek further commitment to our agreed objec- wetland ecologist Max Finlayson, Professor for Ecology and tives. The latter would benefit from greater discussion about how Biodiversity, and Ramsar Chair for Wise Use of Wetlands. The we have been doing this and how we can sustain these efforts in Associate Director in 2016 was environmental sociologist Associate the future, and how we evolve as the very world around us evolves. Professor Catherine Allan. Spatial scientist Associate Professor With that in mind please join me in congratulating all those that have Andrew Hall has been Associate Director since 2017. contributed to ILWS’s success, and to those that have recorded and compiled the information for this report. I am very comfortable with asking questions as we offer our congratulations. 1 1 Our Members • Sustainable Development Our members work in and across a range (International) of fields. They are involved in individual, collaborative and commissioned research These themes are broad, around Australia and globally which provides stable platforms upon opportunities to influence regional, national, which a number of projects international and academic communities. may be operating at any time. Members may In line with a broadening of our research undertake projects in one base in 2017, our members now or a number of themes, include accountants, creative designers, and may move between criminologists, consumer behaviourists, themes as they start and communication researchers, computer finish projects. scientists, ecological (aquatic and terrestrial) scientists, economists, engineers, This re-organization of environmental sociologists, environmental research has enabled ILWS chemists, ethicists, heritage futurists, HRM to continue to build on researchers, human health researchers, and expand its research information scientists, lawyers, marketers, strengths. It also provides modellers, nursing researchers, political a base for integration of scientists, producers, social scientists, social information from across accountants, spatial scientists, sociologists the many disciplines and and tourism researchers. fields of study represented within ILWS. The Institute's 'critical mass' comprises of around 90 researchers. While a number These include ageing, of researchers are employed by ILWS, the aquatic science and majority are staff members from CSU's three management, the arts, faculties - Faculty of Arts and Education, biodiversity, consumer Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural behaviour, communication, computer Sciences and Faculty of Science - including science, criminology, cultural heritage, 14 of CSU’s schools and centres. ecology, economics, eco-agriculture, environmental economics, environmental The Institute also has around 35 higher management, environmental chemistry, degree research (HDR) student members engineering, emergency management, whose research topics are congruent with ethics, law and criminal justice, information our mission. studies, marketing, political science, regional Our adjunct researchers, often based at other development and entrepreneurship, rural universities, institutions, and government health, social accountancy, social science, agencies or are privately-employed, have sociology, spatial science, tourism, and specific areas of expertise and research welfare economics. interest that add to our diverse research capacity and productivity. Strategic Principles* The Institute also employs project-based staff Research direction - four clearly defined research themes involving researchers across all such as research assistants and technical CSU Faculties staff. The ILWS Business Team includes a Research approach - pure and applied research that is, where possible, multi and trans- business manager, communications and disciplinary administrative staff. Research collaboration - networking with key researchers, government, industry and Our research community partners in our areas of strength Following reaccreditation, the Institute’s Research culture - fostering professional development, peer support and recognition former Strategic Research Areas were revised with research now arranged around Research skills - through mentoring and training four thematic areas: Communication - supporting engagement to increase community input into research and to • Biodiversity Conservation disseminate research outcomes • Environmental Water Integration - undertaken within and across research themes and disciplines • Rural and Regional Communities *As outlined in the ILWS Research Strategic Plan 2 IN REVIEW

Since its formation in 2005, the Institute rehabilitation sites in Lao PDR (2016- conjunction with the Institute. has consolidated its structure to 2020); improve sustainability of national • Associate Professor Dale Nimmo’s ARC facilitate efficient, effective, high quality infrastructure projects (Predicting redfin Discovery Early Career Researcher and influential research. survival through the Snowy 2.0 scheme. Award (2017-2020) project Can Assignment 2 (2018-2019); and balance As a result of CSU’s Centre Reaccreditation Indigenous land management hydropower and fisheries. (Assessing Review process in 2015 and 2016, changes forestall an extinction crisis? has fisheries mitigation measures at Xayaburi were made to the Institute’s organisational secured additional research funding Dam in Lao PDR (2017-2019)). structure, membership base, and research for projects, including PhD studies, agenda, with an increased focus on the • An example of cross-disciplinary around this topic. This includes funding ‘societal aspect’ of the Institute. research is a ground water project from the Hermon Slade Foundation in Pakistan. This four year project, for the project Can Indigenous fire In 2017/18 the number of new projects was which involves economists, social management restore declining nearly double that of the previous two years scientists, engineers and water resource mammal communities? (2016- and the Institute has further extended the managers, commenced in 2016. It is 2019), two Holsworth Wildlife Research diversity, depth and reach of its research. This seen as a step toward more effective Endowments for studies on the northern has consolidated its reputation as a leading groundwater use for social, economic quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) in the Pilbara research provider not only in Australia but and environmental benefits in Pakistan. and the impact of buffel grass invasion, also internationally, particularly in developing and funding from the WA Department countries. Its research is regarded as being of Building Capacity of Biodiversity, Conservation and high quality and impactful, recognised for its In 2017/2018 the Institute secured external Attractions for a project on the influence innovation and societal benefits. funding for 15 new major projects (more of invasive predators and fire regimes on The Institute is a key-player in ground- than $100,000 and up to $850,000) and 49 northern quolls. breaking research work in a number of areas smaller projects (less than $100,000). These Some major new projects for our aquatic including environmental water monitoring, projects include additional funding/contract ecologists researching freshwater fish in fish migration, and cross-disciplinary work variations for some of our major projects. Australia include a project funded by the addressing natural resource management This demonstrates the Institute’s continuing Recreational Fish Trust studying Australian challenges. Examples include: ability to build on its established partnerships native fish spawning; another looking at • Two large five year Long Term with funding bodies who now turn to the native and invasive fish dispersal, spawning Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) projects Institute for assistance in addressing issues and trophic dynamics during a managed for the Edward-Wakool river system that require its members' research expertise river-floodplain connection; research on the (led by Professor Robyn Watts) and to find solutions. Examples where ILWS influence of water flows on fish recruitment as the Murrumbidgee River system ecologists have secured additional funding to part of the Environmental Water Knowledge (led by Associate Professor Skye enhance and “value-add” to existing projects Research (EWKR) project; and a project on Wassens) continued in 2017/2018 include: developing design guidelines for diversion with the information generated screens that save native fish and enhance • In 2018 ILWS received an additional contributing to the day to day and agricultural productivity. $800,000 from the Australian Centre long term management and delivery of for International Agricultural Research Our terrestrial ecologists have new projects environmental water. (More on page 12) (ACIAR) and the United States Agency researching snakes, the impacts of feral • Research on fish migration being for International Development (USAID) livestock on savannah waterholes in the undertaken in Australia and the Lower to scale out existing work in Laos on Northern Territory, northern quolls, mistletoe Mekong Basin that aims to reduce the fish migration to include four additional in macadamia orchards, the effects of rodent threat of irrigation and hydro-power on countries in the Lower Mekong Basin erradicatrion on the threatened Lord Howe the long term-sustainability of fisheries – Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand currawong, conserving biodiversity in growing resources. The ILWS team, led by Dr and Vietnam. Smaller amounts were cities, and grassy woodland species. Lee Baumgartner is working across received from the National Geographic In line with the Institute's increased emphasis disciplines with Faculty of Science, Society and IHE Delft (around $30,000 on integrating social science and biophysical and Faculty of Business, Justice and each) for PhD research on the Mekong research, examples where ILWS social Behavioural Science, national and Salmon, and fish migration ecology in scientists have continued to secure funds for international governments and a the Mekong and Irrawaddy Rivers. new research projects include: range of local organisations to ensure • A further $200,000 from the NSW Office significant engineering projects consider • In the international arena, Dr Joanne of Environment and Heritage (OEH) fisheries resources in a sustainable Millar secured $528,703 funding for in 2018 for a project led by Associate manner. There are three major projects her second UK Darwin Initiative Fund Professor Peter Spooner to continue underway that seek to provide food project - Community reforestation river red gum floristics and vegetation security and sustainable rice production for biodiversity and livelihood monitoring of an ecological tree thinning in the Lower Mekong Basin (Quantifying diversification in Timor-Leste. (2017- experiment implemented by NSW OEH improved fisheries productivity at fish 2021). In 2017 $50,000 was secured in the Murray Valley National Park in 2 3 from ACIAR for a scoping project on funding bodies, government departments 2018 was also significantly up from 2015 and improving salinity and agricultural water and agencies, and industry groups. 2016; 16 as compared to six. management in the Indus Basin in Pakistan, building on the work being In 2017 and 2018 the Institute secured Funding partners in 2017/18 include: 65 externally funded new projects (which done for the ILWS groundwater project International in Pakistan. included contract variations to existing projects) as compared to 33 in 2015 and Darwin Initiative Fund; IHE-Delft Institute for • In Australia, Associate Professor Peter 2016. While the Institute continues to receive Water Education (The Netherlands); National Simmons secured further funding in the majority of its external income from Geographic Society; United States Agency 2017/18 from NSW Primary Industries federal and state government funding, in for International Development (USAID) through its Shark Management Strategy 2017 and 2018 it also secured significant to continue research on the "human international funding and funding from National side" of shark management. In 2018 industry. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Associate Professor Rachel Whitsed Research (ACIAR); Australian Research secured funding from NSW Family In 2016 it secured $2.46M in external research income, and in 2017, $2.66M. Council; Commonwealth Environmental and Community Services to continue Water Office; CSIRO; Fisheries Research research related to enhancing the well- This is an increase of more than $500,000 compared to the $1.95M it secured in 2014 & Development Corporation; Greening being of older Australians in regional Australia; High Performance Soils CRC; cities. and the $1.4M in 2015. Over the past five years (2013-2017) the Institute has secured a Murray Darling Basin Authority; National New members to the Institute with research total of $11.64M in external research income Mental Health Commission expertise in health, psychology and sociology to CSU, an increase of about $1M compared State have developed new projects:- on supporting to 2011-2015. isolated women in NSW; workforce well- Family & Community Services (FACS); being in Family and Community Services; and While the figures for the 2018 are yet to be Forestry Corporation of NSW; NSW Office mental health assessment. (See more detail finalised, the upward trajectory in external of Environment & Heritage (OEH); NSW on page 16) research income is expected to continue. Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI); The Institute has made deliberate efforts to NSW Police Force; NSW Environment Trust & Our economists are also involved in new WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation research projects for the High Performance attract funding for larger research projects with capacity for greater level of impact at & Attractions; NSW Trade & Investment; Soils CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) Parks Victoria; NSW Ministry of Health and community driven economic change. the policy and changed practice levels. This (See more detail on page 16) approach reflects the strategic goals of the Regional University. Ten major projects were completed in Albury City Council (NSW); Federation 2017/2018, four of which were funded Evidence of the success of these efforts Council (NSW); Goulburn Broken CMA; by the Australian Research Council with includes the significant research funding it Holbrook Landcare Network; Marathon CSU being the lead organisation for two - has secured from: Health; Mid North Coast Local Health District; one on ecosystem services, the other on • the Commonwealth Environmental Murray LLS & Murrumbidgee Primary Health empowering social workers. Another major Water Office (CEWO) for the two five District; Primary Health Network – Central completed project was the four year Farm year environmental water monitoring and Eastern Sydney Power and Conservation Agriculture for projects for the Edward-Wakool and Industry Sustainable Intensification project in sub- the Murrumbidgee River systems which Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania commenced in 2014. Combined the two Horticulture Innovation Australia Ltd; Karltek and Zimbabwe.) projects have a total value of over $7M. Pty Ltd; Murrumbidgee Irrigation Ltd & Snowy Hydro Ltd As well as the new major projects which Additional funding has been provided for began in 2017 and 2018, the Institute has contract variations/associated projects. Other five major on-going projects - the two LTIM • ACIAR for projects in Laos, (with Australian Academy of Science (WH environmental water and monitoring and research extended to include four other Gladstone’s Population & Environment evaluation projects; the ACIAR fish passage Lower Mekong Basin countries) as well Fund); Australian Academy of Technology rehabilitation project in Laos and four other as in Pakistan. and Engineering (Global Connections Fund); Mekong Basin countries; and a project in Australia and Pacific Science Foundation; Bhutan looking at protecting red panda and • The Darwin Initiative Fund for projects in ANZ Trustees Foundation (Holsworth Wildlife herder livelihoods. Bhutan and Timor. Research Endowment); Birdlife Australia; • Snowy Hydro Ltd for species tolerance Hermon Slade Foundation; Ian Potter EXTERNAL FUNDING experiments in a new purpose-built Foundation; Lake Cowal Foundation; Monash hydropower simulation laboratory at University; Recreational Fishing Trust; Society The research work undertaken by the CSU's Albury-Wodonga campus. of Trust and Estate Practitioners & Wildlife Institute is made possible by significant Preservation Society of Australia financial and in-kind investment from CSU, The number of new major (over $100,000) projects which commenced in 2017 and 4 MAJOR PROJECTS Equally well implementation committee. Powering Down: an energy efficiency Roberts, R., Hyde, S., Banks, S., Cobb, L., education project. Masterman-Smith, H., On-going new projects (over Burmeister, O., Nayeem, T., Mehmet, M. Rafferty, J. & Sheahan, M. and Albury City $100,000) commencing in 2017/18: & Maylea, C. (2017-2019) National Mental Council. (2017) NSW Environment Trust, Predicting redfin survival through Health Commission, $154,160 $100,000 the Snowy 2.0 scheme. Assignment Fishing for answers: Unlocking spawning On-going projects which commenced 2. Baumgartner, L., Silva, L., Ning, N. & secrets of Australian native fish. before 2017/2018: McPherson, J. (2018-2019) Snowy Hydro Baumgartner, L., Silva, L. & Thiem, J. (2016- Ltd., $848,803 2020) Recreational Fishing Trust, $100,000 Long Term Intervention Monitoring project - Edward-Wakool Selected Area. Community reforestation for biodiversity Projects completed in 2017/18: Stage 2. Watts, R., McCasker, N., Howitt, and livelihood diversification in Timor- J., Kopf, R.K. & Scott, N. Partners NSW Farm Power and Conservation Leste. Millar, J. (2017-2021) UK Darwin DPI (Fisheries), Monash University, Griffith Agriculture for Sustainable Initiative Fund, $528,703 University, NSW OEH, and Murray LLS. Intensification. Finlayson, M., Blackwell, (2014-2019) CEWO, $3.36M Can Indigenous land management J. & Krivokapic-Skoko, B. (2013-17) ACIAR, forestall an extinction crisis? Nimmo, D. via CIMMY (International Maize and Wheat Long Term Intervention Monitoring (2017-2020) ARC Discovery Early Career Improvement Centre), $544,573 project-Murrumbidgee Selected Area. Researcher Award, $372,000 Stage 2. Wassens, S., Hall, A., Wolfenden, Predicting the delivery of ecosystem B. Partners NSW Department of Primary Assessing fisheries mitigation services in agriculture landscapes. Industries (Fisheries), University of NSW, measures at Xayaburi Dam in Lao PDR. Luck, G. (2014-2017) ARC Discovery grant, Riverina LLS, and NSW OEH, (2014-2019) Baumgartner, L. & Silva, L. (2017-2019) $360,000 ACIAR, $320,000 (MOU – Xayaburi Power CEWO, $3.5M Virtuous Practitioners: Empowering Company Limited) Quantifying improved fisheries Social Workers. Pawar, M. (2014-2017) productivity at fish passage Developing design guidelines for ARC Discovery grant, $220,130 diversion screens that save native fish rehabilitation sites in Lao PDR. and enhance agricultural productivity. Humanitarian immigrant entrepreneurs Ning, N., Horta, A., Conallin, J. with Baumgartner, L., Ning, N. & Silva, L. (2018- in private and social enterprises. Collins, Thorncraft, G. (National University of Laos), 2020) Ian Potter Foundation, $299,331 J. (UTS) & Krivokapic-Skoko, B. (2015-2017) Phonekhampheng, O. (National University of ARC Discovery grant, $200,124 Laos), Singhanouvong, D. (Living Aquatic Research activities for the Fish theme Resources Research Centre), Cooper, B. of the Environmental Water Knowledge River red gum floristics and vegetation (UniSA) & Marsden,T. (Australasian Fish Research (EWKR) project. (Contract monitoring 2017. Spooner, P. (2017-2018) Passage Services), (2016-2020) ACIAR) & variation). Humphries, P. in collaboration with DECCW $186,471 USAID, $2.6M (Initial funding of $1.8M plus MDRFC (2017-2019) CEWO via MDRFC, Bio-Acoustic Observatory: Engaging an additional $800,000 in 2018) $206,587 Birdwatchers to Monitor Biodiversity by Improving groundwater management Workforce Wellbeing in Family and Collaboratively Collecting and Analysing to enhance agriculture and farming Community Services. Roberts, R., Big Audio Data. Watson, D.M. (2014-2017) livelihoods in Pakistan. Finlayson, M., Bamberry, L., Ceric, A., Hodgins, G. & ARC Discovery grant, Total value $477,000. Punthakey, J., Allan, C. & Mitchell, M. (2016- Cumming, T. (2018-2019) FACS, $204,394 Led by QUT. ILWS subcontract $152,940 2020) ACIAR & CSU ($100,000), Total value of the project $2.15M Native and invasive fish dispersal, 2016-2017 Murrumbidgee Bird Breeding spawning and trophic dynamics during Event. Brandis, K. (UNSW), Spencer, J. Sustainable rangeland management to a managed river-floodplain connection. (NSW OEH), & Wassens, S. (2016-2017) protect red panda and herder livelihoods. Kopf, R.K., Wassens, S. & McPhan, L. CEWO, $142,191 (Contract variation for the Millar, J., Finlayson, M. & Tenzing, K. (2016- (2018-2019) CEWO, $236,787 LTIM project) 2019) Darwin Initiative Fund, $540,000 River Red Gum floristics and vegetation Conceptualisation of flow-recruitment monitoring 2018-2019. Spooner, P. (2018- relationships for riverine fisheries. INTERNAL FUNDING 2019) NSW OEH, $199,700 Foundation activities for the Fish Theme of Environmental Water Knowledge Internal funding (from ILWS) is available to Supporting isolated women in New Research (EWKR). Humphries, P., members to initiate new integrated research South Wales via an eHealth CBT McCasker, N. & Kopf, R.K. (2016) MDFRC, projects that have a high probability of program. De Haan, K. (Murrumbidgee LHD), $117,732 generating external funding with an emphasis Bernoth, M., Hunt, C. (Western NSW LHD), on forming new research teams. Milgrom, J. (Parent Infant Research Institute), Macca's in the Mannus, Macquarie Gemmil, A. (Parent Infant Research Institute), Perch Refuge in the Upper Murray. There are two types of funding schemes. Baumgartner, L., Silva, L. & Kopf, S. (2017) Carlisle, J. & Carey, A. (2018-2020) NSW Individual and team-based funding comes NSW Department of Primary Industries/ Ministry of Health Translational Research from ILWS’s annual allocated budget, which Murray LLS, $120,000 Grant Scheme $176,790 is its share of Federal Government Research 5 Block Grants. Member researchers can Our members have also secured other PUBLICATION PERFORMANCE apply for funds (during specific funding internal CSU funding to conduct research calls) to enable the development of new projects and activities including Faculty The Institute’s publication performance research projects and associated research grants, CSU Teaching and Learning Grants, remain good with 97.64 HERDC points in teams, whose work aligns with the Institute’s and CSU Sustainability Research Seed 2016; 140.36 points in 2017. (Numbers thematic research areas and current research grants. Some of these projects in 2017 and not available yet for 2018.) Over a five year priorities that has a strong probability of 2018 included: period (2013-2017) the Institute had a total of producing new external research funding 528.66 points, an increase of more than 70 • the development of a 3D walkthrough of streams. points compared to 2011-2015. the Bonegilla Migrant Experience near Leverage funding (introduced in 2018) Wodonga comes from a limited non-renewed pool that ENGAGEMENT • a project with landholders from the researchers are able to include in their project Corowa District Landcare Group and the grant submissions (to external research The Institute continued to raise its profile Holbrook Landcare Group to investigate funding bodies) as cash contributions from in 2017/2018 through engaging with the the soil habitats that burrowing frogs use the University; co-contributions for leverage community and stakeholders in a variety and the relationship between soil health funding from the researcher’s home faculty of ways including hosting or co-hosting and burrowing habitats and/or from the DVC-Research. events; engaging with the media; social media activity; publication of its quarterly • the Women in Regional Trades: 2017 newsletter Connections; the ILWS web Understanding Resilience project pages; members' engagement and research The Institute provided financial support which is investigating why some women activities, and awards for their contributions to 24 research projects and activities, the prosper in traditionally male-dominated to their fields of expertise nationally and larger amounts being $25,000 (the first occupations and industries while others internationally. instalment of $100,000 over four years) do not towards the ACIAR funded groundwater One highlight was the Fish Passage 2018 • a co-operative research enquiry which project in Pakistan; $21,093 for the ARC conference which the Institute and NSW resulted in the thematic analysis paper LIEF project Australian Acoustic Observatory: Department of Primary Industries hosted in “What does it mean to be part of the A Network to monitor Biodiversity, in which Albury in December 2018. The conference, gendered space(s) of social work?” CSU is a partner; and $41,660 to the ARC which certainly "put the Institute and Albury presented at an international conference Industrial Transformation Hub – International on the map" attracted over 350 delegates in London, July 2017 hydropower innovation, with CSU as the from over 30 countries. lead. MEMBERSHIP Our researchers are also engaging more It contributed $146,104 to individual with Indigenous stakeholders with three members for travel, conference attendance, The Institute's reaccreditation in 2017 saw new funded projects where Indigenous equipment, and project development, and the implementation of a new Membership engagement is a key component. $24,900 for team support (for team-based Policy, which included a realignment of post- Can Indigenous land management and integrated research activities) to 12 graduate student topics with the Institute's forestall an extinction crisis? (2017-2020) teams for project development, partnership research focus; and a broadening of our Nimmo, D. ARC Discovery Early Career meetings and collaboration. research base to include researchers from Researcher Award, $372,000 2018 additional disciplines. Environmental Monitoring and Training The impact on our overall membership The Institute provided committed leverage for Aboriginal Communities. Wassens, S., numbers has been minimal. However, there support for 16 research projects and Allan, C., Whitsed, R. & Bond, J. (2017-2018) has been a change in our membership activities, the larger amounts being $24,933 DECC, $20,000 towards the ACIAR funded groundwater composition. In 2017 our total number of project in Pakistan; $16,000 towards the members was 231, similar to the 226 in Evaluation of NewAccess for Aboriginal NSW Fisheries Threatened Species projects 2016. However in 2018 our membership and Torres Strait Islanders. Burmeister, O., with CSU as lead; and $16,053 towards dropped to 204 members, mostly because of Russell, R. & Stanton. S. (a Gamilaraay man the NSW OEH River Red Gum floristics and a decrease in student and adjunct members. from North West NSW) (2018-2019) Primary Health Network – Central and Eastern vegetation monitoring project with CSU the In 2017 membership comprised of 60 Full Sydney, $66,000 lead. Members, 23 Associate Members (including It contributed $119,632 to individual six post-doctoral fellows), 94 Adjuncts and More details our researchers' engagement at members mostly for travel, attendance 54 Higher Degree Research (HDR) Student the international, national and regional levels at conferences, equipment, project Members. In 2018 membership comprised and with the media commence on page 25. development, and training. It contributed of 64 Full Members, 25 Associate Members $93,007 for team support to 19 teams for (including seven post-doctoral fellows), 80 project development, partnership meetings Adjuncts and 35 HDR Student Members. and collaboration, workshops/conferences and travel. 6 RESEARCH THEMES: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

OVERVIEW There are a number of PhD research NEW PROJECTS students under this theme where supervisors The Biodiversity Conservation theme have secured research grants to help fund Acoustic Observatory: a network to is the platform for research projects expensive field work, travel costs and monitor biodiversity across Australia. undertaken by both the Institute's laboratory analysis. (2017-2020) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, terrestrial and aquatic ecologists working Equipment and Facilities project ($900,000) Major projects completed in 2017 and 2018 on one or more aspects of biodiversity led by Queensland University of Technology include: conservation including landscape ecology, with ILWS team members Watson, D., Luck, environmental history, vegetation and • an ARC Discovery project which looked G. & Nimmo, D. wildlife ecology, restoration ecology, at the ecosystem services provided by Can Indigenous land management plant-animal interactions, ecosystem birds in agricultural landscapes. For this forestall an extinction crisis? (2017-2020) services and native fish conservation. study the researchers conducted some Nimmo, D. ARC Discovery Early Career of the most comprehensive landscape- Not only was there a significant increase Researcher Award, $372,000 Project details scale experiments to date on ecosystem in the number of new projects in 2017 and service delivery by birds and insects Compact cities or sprawling suburbs? 2018 (31) compared to the two previous across different agricultural land uses. Optimal design of growing cities to years (13), studies undertaken and being conserve biodiversity, Nimmo, D. (2017- undertaken have also become more diverse • a second ARC Discovery project (led 2019) Australian Academy of Science-WH which reflects new expertise brought by by QUT) was the "springboard" for the Gladstones Population & Environment Fund, academics and researchers new to the establishment of a national “acoustic $24,000 Project details Institute. observatory” for environmental and ecological research which teams up Environmental drivers of disease risk New projects include research on threatened acoustic recorders with automated in relic Bell Frog populations in East or endangered species such as the southern call recognition. An ARC Linkage, Gippsland. Heard, G., Wassens, S. & Turner, bell frog, inland carpet python, the Lord Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities A. (PhD student) (2018-2019) Greening Howe currawong, northern quoll and small- (LIEF) grant (2017-2020) is providing Australia, $32,403 bodied native fish. the funding for development, purchase Fish investigations associated Other new projects include ground-breaking and siting of 400 acoustic recorders at with Snowy 2.0 - Snowy Hydro Ltd. research work being done for Snowy Hyrdo 100 sites across Australia. (Assignment 1). Baumgartner, L., Silva, L. Ltd for its Snowy 2.0 project; research on the • a project jointly funded by NSW & Ning, N. (2017-2020) Snowy Hydro Ltd. impact of feral ungulates on waterholes in the Department of Primary Industries $61,647 Project details Northern Territory; mistletoe management in and Murray Local Land Services on macadamia orchards; and the development How do sandalwoods (Santalum spp.) the threatened native fish species of design guidelines for diversion screens. affect desert communities: integrating Macquarie Perch in the Upper Murray The projects are providing valuable above-ground patterns with below- which correlated the presence/absence knowledge for NRM managers, industries ground processes. Watson, D., Price, of Macquarie perch with habitat and agencies for decisions on management J. & Frew, A. (2018-2021) Hermon Slade features. Recommendations from the options. Foundation, $89,522 Project details project helped to inform the National Many projects built on previous research Macquarie Perch Recovery Plan (2018). Overcoming barriers to intergenerational work and/or established partnerships. A similar project on Murray small-bodied recruitment in direct-seeded threatened species has presented a revegetation sites. Price, J. & Guja, L. An example is the project monitoring the management plan for Southern Pigmy (Australian National Botanic Gardens) (2019- effectiveness of an ecological thinning trial Perch recovery and conservation at 2020) Australia Flora Foundation, $18,181 of River Red Gum saplings, is part of an Coppabella-Jingellic Creek, NSW. Project details on-going research partnership between NSW OEH and the Institute. ILWS researchers In all 15 projects which sit under this research Phase 2: Ecological assessment of the have been involved in this work since 2012. theme (including four which also sit under status of the Southern bell frog and In 2015/16 they provided base-line data the Environmental Water research theme, Sloane’s froglet in Mywurlie Station, One prior to the ecological thinning treatments and one which also sits under the Rural Tree, NSW. Knight, A., Wassens, S. & Heard, of experimental plots in the Murray Valley and Regional Communities theme) were G. (2018-2019) Murrumbidgee Irrigation ltd, National Park and have been monitoring the completed in 2017 and 2018. $45,673 Project details effects of the thinning in 2017. Topics included native fish, frogs, the herpes PIT tag data analysis project. Huang, X., Research being done on indigenous land virus for carp control, ecosystem services, Baumgartner, L. & Li, J. (2018-2019) Karltek management, and in particular the use of acoustic recording, grassy woodland Pty Ltd., $25,000 Project details species, and landscape structure. fire, as a way of protecting Australian native Predicting redfin survival through species from extinction, is continuing to the Snowy 2.0 scheme. Assignment expand with three PhD studies, supported 2. Baumgartner, L., Silva, L., Ning, N. & by various research grants, contributing new McPherson, J. (2018-2019) Snowy Hydro knowledge around this topic. Ltd. $848,803 Project details 6 7 The introduction of four broad platforms or research themes in 2017 - Biodiversity Conservation, Environmental Water, Rural and Regional Communities, and Sustainable Development (International) - means that some of the Institute's projects may operate on more than one platform i.e. sit under more than one research theme. Such projects, which may be examples of cross-disciplinary or integrated research, are listed accordingly.

River Red Gum floristics and vegetation PIT tag data analysis project. Huang, X., Ecosystem services provided by birds monitoring 2018-2019. Spooner, P. (2018- Baumgartner, L., & Li, Z. (2018-2019) Karltek in agricultural landscapes. Luck, G., 2019) NSW OEH $199,700 Project details Pty Ltd., $25,000 Project details Saunders, M. & Peisley, R. (2015-2017) Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia, Spatial ecology of the endangered Inland Both Biodiversity Conservation $1000 Carpet Python. Heard, G. (2018-2019) and Sustainable Development Parks Victoria – Research Partners Panel, (International) themes Germination trials of grassy woodland $10,000 species. Price, J. (2017) Goulburn Broken Community reforestation for biodiversity CMA, $3000. Stuffed Murray Cod in Pubs. Humphries, and livelihood diversification in Timor- P., McCasker, N., Kopf, R.K. & O'Connell, Leste. Millar, J. (2017-2021) UK Darwin Macca's in the Mannus, Macquarie M. (PhD student), (2017-2020) MDBA Initiative Fund, $528,703 Project details Perch Refuge in the Upper Murray. Scholarship grant, $45,000 Project details Baumgartner, L., Silva, L. & Kopf, S. (2017) NSW Department of Primary Industries/ The impact of buffel grass invasion on ON-GOING PROJECTS Murray LLS, $120,000 Project details Indigenous food plants and animals in Australia’s Western Desert. Nimmo, D. & Can Indigenous fire management restore Murray Small-bodied threatened fish Greenwood, L. (PhD student) (2018-2019) mammal communities? Nimmo, D. Bird, project. Baumgartner, L., Silva, L. & Kopf, Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, R.B. (Pennsylvania State University), Bird, S. (2017) NSW Department of Primary $6750. Project details D. (Pennsylvania State University), & Ritchie, Industries/Murray LLS, $52,000 Project E. (Deakin University) (2016-2019) Hermon details The impact of feral ungulate visitation Slade Foundation, $85,971 Project details to ephemeral savannah waterholes and Predicting the delivery of ecosystem their flow on effects for native birds. Connectivity analyses for Slopes to services in agricultural landscapes. Luck, Mihailou, H. & Massaro, M. (2017-2018) Summit project. Spooner, P. & McDonald, G., Saunders, M. & Peisley, R. (PhD), (2014- Birdlife Australia, $3500 Project details S. (2016-2020) Holbrook Landcare and 17) ARC Discovery Grant, $360 000 Project NSW Environmental Trust (Bush Connects), details The impacts of feral livestock visitation $30,000 Project details to waterholes and their flow-on effects River Red Gum Ecological thinning trial for native birds and mammals. Massaro, Both Biodiversity Conservation and (Honours project). Spooner, P. (2017) NSW M. & Mihailou, H. (PhD student) (2018-2020) Environmental Water themes OEH, $8000 Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, Fishing for answers: Unlocking the River red gum floristics and vegetation $4705 secrets of spawning and recruitment monitoring 2017- 2018. Spooner, P. (2017- The influence of invasive predators and for Murray-Darling recreational species. 2018) DECCW $186,471 Project details fire regimes on northern quolls. Nimmo, Baumgartner, L., Doyle, K., Silva, L. & Thiem, D. & Moore, H. (PhD student) (2017-2020), J. (2016-2020) NSW DPI Recreational Fishing Both Biodiversity Conservation and WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation Trust. $100,000 Project details Environmental Water themes and Attractions, $78,000. Project details Recovery of native fish communities in COMPLETED PROJECTS What are the effects of the rodent the Murray-Darling Basin. Baumgartner, L. eradication on the threatened Lord (2017) Fisheries Research and Development Bio-Acoustic Observatory: Engaging Corporation, $18,948 Howe currawong and its diet? Massaro, birdwatchers to monitor biodiversity by M., Whitsed, R. & Segal, R. (PhD student) collaboratively collecting and analysing Complementary measures for native (2018-2021) Australia and Pacific Science Big Audio Data. Roe, P., Brereton, M.F., fish. Baumgartner, L. (2017) CSIRO/Murray- Foundation, $36,240 Project details Watson, D.M. & Watson, M. (post-doc Darling Basin Authority. $33,000 research fellow). (2014–17) ARC Discovery Both Biodiversity Conservation and Development of strategies to optimise grant. Total $477 000. Led by QUT. ILWS Environmental Water themes release and clean up strategies subcontract $152,940 Project details underpinning possible use of herpes Developing design guidelines for virus 3 (CyHV-3) for carp biocontrol diversion screens that save native fish Can landscape structure enhance the in Australia. Silva, L. & Baumgartner, L. and enhance agricultural productivity. resilience of biodiversity to climatic (2017) Fisheries Research & Development Baumgartner, L., Ning, N. & Silva, L. (2018- extremes? Insights from the Millennium Corporation. $39,000. Project details 2020) Ian Potter Foundation, $299,331 Drought. Nimmo, D., Bennett, A. (La Trobe Uni), Haslem, A. (LaTrobe Uni) & Radford, Project details Ecological assessment of the status J. (Bush Heritage Australia) (2015-2018) of the Southern Bell Frog and Sloane's Phase 2: Ecological assessment of the Hermon Slade Foundation, $86,210 Project froglet in Mywurlie station, One Tree status of the Southern bell frog and details NSW. Wassens, S., Knight, A., Walcott, A. Sloane’s froglet in Mywurlie Station, One & Heard, G. (2017-2018), Murrumbidgee Tree, NSW. Knight, A., Wassens, S. & Heard, Ecology of the northern quoll (Dasyurus Irrigation Ltd, $46,948. Project details G. (2018-2019) Murrumbidgee Irrigation Ltd., hallucatus) in the Pilbara. Nimmo, D. $45,673 Project details & Moore, H. (PhD student) (2017-2018), Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, $5500 8 Both Biodiversity Conservation and Harry Moore: Northern quolls in the Pilbara and diet affect folivorous mammals - the Rural and Regional Communities region of WA. Principal supervisor Associate ringtail possum themes Professor Dale Nimmo • the impact of chytrid on frogs (bell frogs) Reconnaissance and recommendations Dena Paris: Foraging behaviours, habitat in Australia on mistletoe management in macadamia use and density related reproductive • involvement in projects for the FAUNA orchards. Watson, D. & Watson, J. (2018- performance and dispersal in the endangered (Future-proofing Australasia's Unique 2019) Horticulture Innovation Australia Ltd, Chatham Island black robin. Principal Native Animals) Research Alliance, a $18,000 supervisor Dr Melanie Massaro network which connects researchers Dr Richard Segal: Investigating the effects and conservation "end user" HDR STUDENTS of rodent eradication on the threatened Lord practitioners from 47 organisations. Howe currawong. Principal supervisor Dr Projects include the Rewilding Little In 2017 and 2018 four PhD students Melanie Massaro Desert project in partnership with whose research topic sat under this Conservation Volunteers Australia theme graduated. They were: Sarah Talbot: An Investigation of Behaviour, Physiology, Morphology and Stability of • an investigation of "call playback", a tool Dr Clare Lawrence: Life history and Animal Personality, in order to Develop a Valid used by many birders to help identify behavioural responses to nest predation and Standardised Personality Assessment birds, and its impact on birds in Australian and New Zealand songbirds: Tool: A Case Study in the Domestic Ferret • assistance with processing and can naive birds adapt to exotic predators? (Mustela putorius furo). Principal supervisor analysing data sets for the NGO Principal supervisor Dr Melanie Massaro Associate Professor Skye Wassens Panthera, in Cali, Columbia, which is Dr Zsofia (Sophie) Palfi: The influence of Anna Turner: Chytrid fungus on southern working to save jaguars soil disturbance on seed dispersal by ants bell frogs in the Lowbidgee and Gippsland • an Artist In Residence project with in roadside environments in southern NSW, Lakes. Principal supervisor Associate Falls Creek Resort Management Australia. Principal supervisor Associate Professor Skye Wassens Professor Peter Spooner (FCRM) based on Bogong High Plains' Elizabeth Znidersic: Optimizing monitoring peatlands' research Dr Rebecca Peisley: The benefits and techniques for cryptic wetland birds. Principal costs of bird activity in agroecosystems. supervisor Professor David Watson In Focus Principal supervisor Professor Gary Luck Predicting the delivery of ecosystem Dr Cecile Van der Burgh: Connectivity RESEARCH ACTIVITIES services in agricultural landscapes, conservation: an exploration of practitioners' (2014-2017) experiences in Australia. Principal supervisor As well undertaking externally funded Associate Professor Peter Spooner research projects, ILWS members (including Funding Adjunct members) are also engaged in Current students whose research is research activities/projects that have either ARC Discovery grant, $360,000 aligned with this theme are: received internal funding from ILWS and/ Researchers/Investigators Pauline Andree: Determinants of vocal or CSU; are not managed by ILWS; or are Professor Gary Luck, Dr Manu Saunders variation in Australian cuckoos. (Masters) non-funded but aligned with their research (post-doc) and Dr Rebecca Peisley (PhD) Principal supervisor Professor David Watson interests. Description Celia Connor: Invasive woody plants in Examples under this theme include: linear habitats. Principal supervisor Associate • a long-term study of mistletoes The ecological sustainability of Australian Professor Peter Spooner agriculture relies on services (for example, • a world-first trial in which creeping pollination) provided by ecosystems. Service Leanne Greenwood: The interactions mistletoe seeds have been planted on provision is threatened by environmental between Indigenous burning, plant plane trees in inner Melbourne as a way change, but there is no established approach communities and fungal communities of increasing biodiversity for predicting the impact of change on in Australia's western deserts. Principal services. supervisor Associate Professor Dale Nimmo • research for a book on Travelling Stock Routes and Reserves This project undertook the most Joshua Hodges: Post-fire seedling comprehensive experimental examination of recruitment in grasslands of south-eastern • research on global scale patterns in ecosystem-service delivery ever conducted Australia. Principal supervisor Dr Jodi Price grassland community assemblies in Australia, testing the predictive capacity of Helenna Mihailou: The impacts of feral • an investigation of the relationship an approach that links environmental change ungulate visitation to ephemeral savanna between burrowing frogs and soil health with variation in service provision through waterholes and their flow-on effects for species' traits. • development of a conservation plan for native birds. Principal supervisor Dr Melanie declining turtle numbers The project consisted of three sub projects. Massaro • a three year study on how heat waves 9 1. Activities of birds and insects in to isolated paddock trees and within a Outputs apple orchards National Park. Bird activity was monitored using motion sensing cameras and insect Saunders, M.E. & Luck, G.W. (2018) For this activity, the researchers examined abundance (maggots) on the rabbit Interaction effects between local local flower the contribution of birds and insects to the carcasses was measured. richness and distance to natural woodland on biological control of pests, the contribution pest and beneficial insects in apple orchards. of insects to crop pollination, as well as Findings were: Agricultural & Forest Entomology 20, 279-87. the damage these organisms can cause • A number of raptors contributed to the Peisley, R.K., Saunders, M.E. & Luck, to the crop. Exclusion field experiments breakdown of carcasses, with common G.W. (2017) Providing perches for predatory were conducted over two growing seasons species being the Whistling Kite and and aggressive birds appears to reduce from September to March in 2014/2015, Brown Goshawk. Australian Ravens also the negative impact of frugivorous birds in and 2015/2016 in six apple orchards visited carcasses, but their numbers vineyards. Wildlife Research 44, 334-342 with two orchards each in Shepparton in varied greatly across years Northern Victoria; Batlow in the South West Peisley, R.K., Saunders, M.E., Robinson, Slopes region, NSW, and Harcourt in the • Foxes seemed to have a minor role in W.A. & Luck, G.W. (2017) The role of avian Central Highlands, Victoria. The orchards carcass disposal, visiting < 5 ground scavengers in the breakdown of carcasses were graded from the lowest intensity carcasses in pastoral landscapes. Emu: Austral management (the most organic) through Ornithology 117, 68-77 to the highest intensity management • Raptors preferred to feed on the (greater use of pesticides, clearing of carcasses when they were on the Peisley, R.K., Saunders, M.E. & Luck, understorey.) Findings were: ground rather than on platforms G.W. (2016) Cost-benefit trade-offs of bird activity in apple orchards. PeerJ. 4:e2179 • The highest rate of carcass disposal • There is a pattern related to regions https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2179 (landscape history and the level of occurred in paddocks where large management across an entire landscape isolated trees had been retained. Saunders, M.E. & Luck, G.W. (2016) Limitations of the ecosystem services vs. affects what is happening on individual • The retention of large paddock trees is disservices dichotomy. Conservation Biology farms) crucial in grazing landscapes to provide 30, 1363-65 • Insect damage to apples was higher in raptors and other birds with roosting netted branches (bird exclusion) which and nesting sites, and facilitating the Saunders, M.E. & Luck, G.W. (2016) suggested birds were providing some delivery of waste removal services Combining costs and benefits of animal service to growers by reducing pest activities to assess net yield outcomes in 3. Contribution of raptors to pest bird apple orchards. PLOS One. 11(7): e0158618 insect abundance control in vineyards Saunders, M. E., Peisley, R.K., Rader, R. • More services are generally provided in The researchers examined whether the & Luck, G.W. (2016) Pollinators, pests and orchards where there are more insect- provision of perches in vineyards for raptors predators: recognising ecological trade-offs eating birds altered pest bird behaviour to the point in agroecosystems. Ambio 45, 4-14. • There was very little damage to the where it reduces the damage being done to orchards, overall, from birds grapes. Twenty five perches were erected in Peisley, R.K., Saunders, M.E. & Luck, vineyards in North East Victoria in 2015/16 G.W. (2015) A systematic review of the • Earwigs have a potential role (as a and monitored with motion sensor cameras. benefits and costs of bird and insect activity predator of other insects) in controlling Raptor and pest bird activity was measured, in agroecosystems. Springer Science damage to fruit and grape damage was assessed at varying Reviews 3, 113-125. distances from perches and other landscape Outcomes 2. Carcass disposal in grazing features. landscapes The major outcome was a greater capacity Findings were: In grazing areas, the researchers investigated for agriculturalists to maximise ecosystem the contribution of scavenging birds • The perches were used mostly by benefits and increase economic returns, and and insects to the breakdown of animal Australian magpies rather than raptors improved biodiversity conservation through carcasses, how this might provide a service recognition of its contribution to agriculture. to farmers and the ecosystem, and how • Damage to grapes was less underneath landscape context influences the provision the perch sites, possibly because of this service. Seventy-two platforms, magpies, as a larger, aggressive about 2m off the ground, were erected in species, modified the behaviour of the autumn in 2014 and 2015 on a property at smaller pest bird species Docker Plains in North East Victoria with • Pest birds did not use the perches rabbit carcasses (wired down) placed on the and further research is required on platforms and also on the ground for eight the effectiveness of providing perches days. The platforms were placed in different for predatory and aggressive birds in landscape contexts –open paddocks, near reducing damage to grapes remnant vegetation along the river, next 10 1.

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1. Waterhole in Limmen National Park, Northern Territory 3. 2. PhD student Liz Znidersic setting up her recording equipment at Oak Ridge Reservation, East Tennessee, USA 3. Dr Melanie Massaro with an endangered Lord Howe currawong 4. New deployment for the Acoustic Observatory in the Sturt National Park 5. Professor Rebecca Bird, Associate Professor Dale Nimmo and PhD student Leanne Greenwood setting up a camera trap at one of the burn sites in the Western Desert 6. Dr Stacey Kopf and Dr Luiz Silva with threatened Macquarie perch which they caught in Mannus Creek in the Upper Murray 4.

5. 6. 11 ENVIRONMENTAL WATER

OVERVIEW • Commonwealth environmental water the Murrumbidgee River system. maintained longitudinal connectivity Key findings from this project indicate that While this theme is the platform for the and increased the extent and duration Commonwealth environmental watering Institute's two major environmental of lateral connectivity of flood runner actions is making a significant contribution water monitoring projects, and related and benches compared to periods of to improved ecological outcomes. These projects, in the Edward-Wakool and the operational flows include: Murrumbidgee river systems, it is also • Environmental water has helped home for the Institute-based Fish Ecology • Establishment of diverse aquatic maintain good water quality during low Collaborative Research Unit, and other communities through the Lowbidgee flows and poor water quality events fish ecology and irrigation technology floodplain projects. Past, current, emerging and • There has been an increase in the cover • Promotion of successful breeding and potential research areas include wetland and diversity of aquatic vegetation in recruitment of the southern bell frog inventory and assessment, ecological response to environmental watering indicators, ecology of aquatic biota, (and other species) • Winter environmental watering facilitated ecosystem response to dam and fishway • Inundation of floodplain wetlands movement of golden perch and silver management, aquatic chemistry, adaptive created habitat for a diverse assemblage perch throughout the system. Winter management and riverine ecosystem of waterbirds (including the nationally base flows assisted movement of process. Research projects on social, endangered Australasian Bitterns) Murray cod back into the system cultural and institutional arrangements despite the dry conditions across much following an hypoxic blackwater event for river and wetland management also of the Murrumbidgee Selected Area feature in this theme. in 2016 • The delivery of environmental water • Native fish diversity and condition was In 2017 and 2018 researchers involved in through the Mururmbidgee River maintained. the Institute's two major environmental water benefitted native fish species in the main projects continued to evaluate ecosystem Researchers work closely with and advise river channel. responses to environmental water in the stakeholders such as CEWO, the Edward- A number of shorter-term projects related to, Edward-Wakool River System, and the Wakool Environmental Water Reference or contract variations for, this project were Murrumbidgee River System; thereby Group and the Murray Dissolved Oxygen completed in 2017 and 2018. These include providing water managers with important Group. and timely information for the day to day targeted monitoring of hypoxic blackwater; and long term management and delivery of Projects completed in 2017 and 2018 monitoring a bird-breeding event in 2016- environmental water. aligned with this project include a vegetation 2017; and waterbird and prey responses to monitoring project in the Colligen Creek inundation of the Western Lakes in 2016- The projects are funded by the System, funded by Murray LLS; and a project 2017. Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, part-funded by the Forestry Corporation of through its Long Term Intervention Monitoring NSW which studied the effects of flows from Other projects (LTIM) Program. Both projects involve the Murray River through the Koondrook- While there has been a similar number working with partner organisations and Perricoota Forest on the productivity of the of new projects (11) under this theme in community stakeholders. Wakool River as a result of flooding in Spring, 2017 and 2018 compared to the number Edward-Wakool project 2016. of new projects (10) in 2015 and 2016 Murrumbidgee project when research was conducted under the For the project in the Edward-Wakool Sustainable Water Strategic Research Area, system, which is led by Professor Robyn For the project in the Murrumbidgee system, the new projects are more diverse with Watts, partners are the NSW Department which is led by Associate Professor Skye a number linked also to the Biodiversity of Primary Industries (Fisheries), Monash Wassens, partner organisations are NSW Conservation theme. University, Griffith University, the NSW Office Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries), Examples of these include: of Environment and Heritage (OEH), and University of NSW, and NSW OEH. The LaTrobe University. project utilises a highly integrated design, • a major project funded by the Ian The project's main focus is on the fish which enables the evaluation of ecological Potter Foundation which is developing community - its movement, breeding and responses to environmental watering in both guidelines for diversion screens (for recruitment - as well as on water quality, wetland and channel habitats at a range irrigation water) that will help protect primary production, and riverbank and of spatial and temporal scales and trophic native fish levels. aquatic vegetation. The long-term data • a project which commenced in 2017 is enabling researchers to use statistical The team communicate their findings and is funded by industry partner modelling to predict and evaluate the regularly to the Environmental Water Murrumbidgee Irrigation Ltd that is responses to Commonwealth environmental Allocation Reference Group (EWARG) and assessing the status of the Southern watering. work closely with State and Commonwealth Bell frog and Sloane's froglet in Mywurlie Key project findings are: water and land managers to design, station, One Tree, NSW. implement and assess water actions through 12 • a major project, funded by CEWO, ILWS researchers working with Indigenous Stage 2. Wassens, S., Hall, A., Wolfenden, looking at native and invasive fish communities across the Murrumbidgee, B. with NSW Department of Primary dispersal, spawning and trophic Edward and Murray rivers exploring Industries (Fisheries), University of NSW, dynamics during a managed river- environmental monitoring opportunities and Riverina LLS, and NSW OEH, (2014-2019) floodplain connection as the result of challenges. The research design included an CEWO, $3.5M Project webpage a delivery of environmental water to initial participatory mapping exercise which Research activities for the Fish theme the Tala and Yanga Lakes on the lower was then complemented by on-country of the Environmental Water Knowledge Murrumbidgee River in September meetings with relevant industry practitioners. Research (EWKR) project. Contract 2018. variation. Humphries, P. in collaboration with • a major project funded by the NSW NEW PROJECTS MDRFC (2017-2019) CEWO via MDRFC, DPI's Recreational Fishing Trust which $206,587. Project details aims to increase our understanding of EWKR food web fish community trophic native fish in the Murray-Darling Basin, dynamics. Kopf, R.K. (2018-2019) CEWO Both the Environmental Water and specifically golden perch, by identifying via MDFRC, $40,000 Project details Biodiversity Conservation themes and mapping their spawning and Native and invasive fish dispersal, Fishing for answers: Unlocking the recruitment zones. spawning and trophic dynamics during secrets of spawning and recruitment

ILWS fish ecologists continue to be involved a managed river-floodplain connection- for Murray-Darling recreational species. Baumgartner, L., Doyle, K., Silva, L. & Thiem, in the Murray-Darling Basin Environmental Yanga and Tala Lakes Monitoring 2018- J. (2016-2020) NSW DPI Recreational Fishing Water Knowledge and Research (EWKR) 19. Kopf, R., Wassens, S. & Mc Phan, L. Trust. $100,000 Project details project, a six year (2014-2019) $10 million (2018-2019) CEWO, $236,787 Project details project which aims to improve the science Optimising acoustic monitoring for frogs Both the Environmental Water available to support environmental water in the Koondrook-Perricoota. Walcott, A., and Sustainable Development management and thereby contribute to Hall, A., Wassens, S. & Nimmo, D. (2018) (International) themes achieving the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Forestry Corporation of NSW $29,623 In search of the elusive Mekong objectives. Project details salmon. Baumgartner, L. & Vu, V.A. (PhD The EWKR project is focussed around Both the Environmental Water and student), (2016-2018) National Geographic five research themes – vegetation, fish, Biodiversity Conservation themes Society Research Grant, $30,080 waterbirds, foodwebs and Queensland floodplain vegetation. Developing design guidelines for diversion screens that save native fish COMPLETED PROJECTS ILWS researchers are leading two EWKR and enhance agricultural productivity. ANDS Collection Enhancement projects: Baumgartner, L., Ning, N. & Silva, L. (2018- Project. Finlayson, M. (2017) Monash 2020) Ian Potter Foundation, $299,331 • one under the foodwebs theme that is University ($30,000) developing and testing a trophic position Project details Automated call records evaluate frog indicator for Murray-Darling basin fishes Phase 2: Ecological assessment of the responses to environmental watering. utilising the fish community sampling status of the Southern bell frog and Wassens, S., Hall, A., Nimmo, D. & Walcott, that is being done as part of the Basin- Sloane’s froglet in Mywurlie Station, One A. (2016-2017) Department of Environment & wide LTIM program Tree, NSW. Knight, A., Wassens, S. & Heard, Climate Change, $30,000 • another, under the fish theme, is being G. (2018-2019) Murrumbidgee Irrigation ltd, done in collaboration with researchers $45,673 Project details Billabong-Yanco Creek Wetland Monitoring Project. Wassens, S., Wilson, from the Centre for Freshwater PIT tag data analysis project. Huang, X., B., Walcott, A., Hall, A. & Wolfenden, B. Ecosystems (formerly Murray-Darling Baumgartner, L. & Li, Z. (2018-2019) Karltek (2017-2018) Murray LLS, $80,218 Project Basin Freshwater Research Centre). Pty Ltd., $25,000) Project details For this project researchers are testing details some of the hypotheses to come out ON-GOING PROJECTS Environmental Monitoring and Training of a conceptual synthesis on flow- for Aboriginal Communities. Wassens, S., recruitment relationships for riverine Long Term Intervention Monitoring Allan, C., Whitsed, R. & Bond, J. (2017-2018) fisheries done in 2016. A three year data project - Edward-Wakool Selected DECC, $20,000 Project details collection project is underway in the Area – stage 2. Watts, R., McCasker, N., Environmentally sustainable irrigation Ovens River, North-East Victoria. Howitt, J., Kopf, R.K. & Scott, N. Partners solutions for the Murray-Darling NSW DPI (Fisheries), Monash University, Included in the 12 projects completed in Basin. Baumgartner, L. (2017) Australian Griffith University, NSW OEH, and Murray 2017 and 2018 under this theme was the Academy of Technology and Engineering- LLS. (2014-2019) CEWO, $3.059M Project cross-disciplinary project (ecology, social Global Connections Fund – Bridging Grant, webpage science, spatial science) Environmental $49,966 Monitoring and Training for Aboriginal Long Term Intervention Monitoring Communities (2017-2018) which saw project-Murrumbidgee Selected Area. 12 13 Koondrook-Perricoota Floodplain Runoff Dr Carmen Amos: Response of frogs to Kendal Krause: Zooplankton in the project. Watts, R. & Howitt, J. (2016-2017) environmental factors at multiple scales in Murrumbidgee: the effects of native and Forestry Corporation of NSW ($49,501), the Lachlan catchment of NSW. Principal exotic fish species, density and behaviour ILWS and CSU's Faculty of Science. Project supervisor Associate Professor Skye on zooplankton community structure. details Wassens Principal supervisor Associate Professor Skye Wassens Monitoring ecosystem responses Dr Adrian Clements: The effect of water to Return Flows in the Koondrook- column nutrient enrichment and water Matt O'Connell: Exploring the potential of Pericoota Forest, Wolfenden, B., Jenkins, regime on vegetation in shallow, ephemeral, taxidermy Murray cod mounts to inform past K. & McCasker, N. (2016-2017) NSW DPI freshwater lakes. Principal supervisor environmental conditions. Principal supervisor (Fisheries), $36,908 Professor Max Finlayson Dr Paul Humphries Dr James Dyer: The role of flow regime and Short Term Intervention Monitoring- Michael Vanderzee: Socio-ecological movement in stream shrimp assemblages. waterbird and prey responses to impacts of water recovery for the Principal supervisor Dr Paul Humphries inundation of the Western Lakes. Jenkins, environment in the Murray-Darling Basin. K., Wolfenden, B. & Wassens, S. (2016- Dr Xiaoying Liu (Sha Sha): Applying a Principal supervisor Professor Max Finlayson 2017) CEWO, $52,983 Transdisciplinary Approach to Improve the Understanding of Current and Future States 2016-2017 Murrumbidgee Bird Breeding of Inland Ephemeral Wetlands: An Australian RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Event. Brandis, K. (UNSW), Spencer, J. Case Study. Principal supervisor Professor As well undertaking externally funded (NSW OEH) & Wassens, S. (2016-2017) Max Finlayson CEWO, $142,191 (Contract variation for the research projects, ILWS members (including Dr Jess Schoeman: Optimising water Murrumbidgee LTIM project) Adjunct members) are also engaged in management in the Anthropocene? A case research activities/projects that have either Vegetation Monitoring in the Colligen study of adaptive governance in a sub- received internal funding from ILWS and/ Creek System. Watts, R. & Healy, S. (OEH) catchment of the Murray-Darling Basin, or CSU; are not managed by ILWS; or are (2015-2018) Murray Local Land Services, Australia. Principal supervisor Associate non-funded but aligned with their research $70,000 Project details Professor Catherine Allan. interests. Dr Kylie Singh: Ecology of the Macquarie 2016-2017 Murrumbidgee Targeted Examples under this theme include: Hypoxic Blackwater Monitoring. Turtle (Emydura macquarii macquarii) Wassens, S., Wolfenden, B. & Walcott, in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin: Are • effects of flooding on black box A. (2016-2017) CEWO, $8,545 (Contract freshwater fish an effective 'umbrella taxa' woodlands in North West Victoria variation for the LTIM project) for turtle conservation? Principal supervisor Professor Robyn Watts • post-doc research on the historical Water, carbon & economics: resolving ecology of Murray Cod complex linkages for river health. Dr Abbie Spiers: An exploration of community perceptions about wetland • a glasshouse experiment to examine Finlayson, C.M. (co-chief investigator) (2013- carbon and nutrient release and effects 2017). ARC Linkage project led by Southern health in New Zealand. Principal supervisor Professor Max Finlayson on dissolved oxygen (DO) following the Cross University inundation of different types of soils, Dr Daniel Svozil: Trait Divergence in river Under the Biodiversity Conservation grasses and crops from the Edward- and reservoir populations of Australian smelt Wakool floodplain and Environmental Water themes (Retropinna semoni). Principal supervisor Recovery of native fish communities in Professor Robyn Watts. • a volunteer international research the Murray-Darling Basin. Baumgartner, L. Dr Amelia Walcott: The frog community collaboration investigating carbon (2017) Fisheries Research and Development responses to environmental change: a case emissions from dry wetlands and river Corporation, $18,948 study in the mid Lachlan. Principal supervisor sediments around the world Dr Andrew Hall. Complementary measures for native In Focus fish. Baumgartner, L. (2017) CSIRO/Murray- Current students whose research is Darling Basin Authority. $33,000 aligned with this theme are: Billabong-Yanco Creek Wetland Monitoring Project (2017-2018) Understanding historic fish populations Inam Ahmed: Modelling in-stream hydraulics: Investigating the impact of scale. in the Murray River. Humphries, P. Funding (2015-2018) Murray Darling Basin Authority, Principal supervisor Professor Robyn Watts Murray Local Land Services, $80,216 $27,273 Dale Campbell: Reconstructing past floodplain environments. Principal supervisor Researchers/Investigators HDR STUDENTS Dr Paul Humphries Dr Amelia Walcott, Associate Professor Skye In 2017 and 2018 nine PhD students Paul Kew: Adaptive Grid Refinement using Wassens, Dr Andrew Hall, Dr Ben Wolfenden whose research topic sat under this the Generalized Finite Difference Method. and Associate Professor Ben Wilson theme graduated. They were: Principal supervisor Dr Zhenquan Li (Jan) 14 Description to the Yanco-Billabong community to communicate the floodplain assets within their region and the benefits of flooding (natural and environmental) to maintaining these important Like other systems in the Murrumbidgee wetland systems. This included summary letters for the participating landholders following catchment, the hydrology of the Billabong- each trip and a summary of results. Community engagement activities included interactive Yanco creek has changed immensely due presentations to school groups at the ‘Creative Catchment Kids program: ‘Who lives in the to water extraction and regulation. While Water? Billabong-Yanco Creek Gala Event’ and to the general public at the ‘Wetland Wonders the delivery of environmental water to help of the Yanco, Billabong and Colombo Creeks information night’. Both events were organised maintain and improve the water-dependent by Murray Local Land Services. creek and wetland communities has been an objective for CEWO, very limited information Outcomes on the biota of the system is available to The high carbon storage estimated for key wetlands in the system, as well as identification of a guide such actions. small population of threatened frog species (the Southern bell frog) has important implications This ILWS project provided baseline for future water delivery to the Yanco-Billabong system. knowledge on a range of floodplain wetland characteristics with important implications for natural resource management of the system. Fifteen wetlands were selected across the system for their high conservation value. For each wetland: • wetland boundaries were delineated (via spatial analysis) • rapid habitat assessments described over and understorey vegetation 1. • wetland soil carbon stocks were estimated from a range of depths throughout the wetlands • frog species diversity was described from two surveys, and • call recorders monitored frog calling activity at a subset of the sites on an 2. 3. hourly schedule from October 2017 tol February 2018. Images

The key findings from the project include: 1. Dr Amelia Walcott taking a carbon sample at a Billabong-Yanco Creek wetland • wetland carbon stocks increased with 2. Southern bell frog depth meaning that soils which retained water for longer durations stored 3. Dr Julia Howitt checking measurements taken by the portable greenhouse gas analyzer comparatively higher levels of carbon 4. Dr Amina Price (MDFRC) and Dr Paul Humphries sampling in the Ovens River, Victoria. Pic: • a small population of Southern bell frogs J. Davison (a threatened species) were identified along the mid-Yanco creek system • the hourly call recorder data revealed multiple breeding attempts by Southern bell frogs between October 2017 and February 2018 at one of the sites • a higher diversity (and abundance) of frog species were observed in wetland habitats with a higher complexity and coverage of aquatic plants, as well as where water persisted during peak breeding times. Outputs Findings of this research were made available 4. 15 RURAL AND REGIONAL COMMUNITIES

OVERVIEW social workers, is nearly complete. NEW PROJECTS Our researchers are continuing to establish, This theme provides a platform for a A study of influences on preferences, maintain and build on partnerships. For wide range of research projects where tolerances and thresholds of example in 2017 and 2018 there were two the main focus is enhancing the well- acceptability for shark management more projects funded by Murray Local being and livelihoods of rural and options in NSW. Simmons, P. & Mehmet, Land Services (LLS) as a result of the long regional communities. Many past and M. (2018-2019) NSW Primary Industries term commitment by Murray LLS to social current projects include a strong social – NSW Shark Management Strategy, research and its associated investment. component. Past, current and emerging $50,000 Project details topics include safe domestic water, Another example is the series of "shark Activating markets to create incentives entrepreneurship, rural social services, studies". Sharks are prominent in the for improved soil management: human non-human coexistence, food Australian psyche and policy options Literature scoping study. Morrison, security, NRM governance, social justice, concerning coexistence and management of M. (2017-2018) High Performance Soils rural development, eco health, human sharks can divide communities. Since 2017, CRC, $49,254 Project details health (including mental health), and Institute researchers have been involved in a biocultural and Indigenous research. series of social research projects, including a Assessing and developing a walkability PhD study, funded by the NSW Department index targeted to older Australians in Evident in the following lists of projects that of Primary Industries through its Shark regional cities. Whitsed, R. & Horta, A. sit under this theme is the strong "societal" Management Strategy. (2018-2019) Family & Community Services aspect of the work that has been, and is – Liveable Communities Grants, $30,000 being undertaken with researchers coming Similarly researchers are now on their second Project details from a broad range of disciplines that Family and Community Services NSW includes economics, sociology, psychology, Liveable Communities project with studies Data sharing: Illuminating the drivers of criminology, communications, social science, seeking to enhance the well-being of older rural business failure. Horta, A. (2018- social technology, heritage and spatial Australians in regional cities. The project, 2020) Collaborative project with Latrobe science. again in partnership Albury City Council, University. builds on the work done for the previous As well as providing a "home" for the Better Parks for People project. Equally well implementation committee. research projects of a number of members Roberts,R., Hyde, S., Banks, S., Cobb, L., who have joined the Institute since its Our economists and social researchers are Burmeister, O., Nayeem,T., Mehmet, M. & reaccreditation, the theme also brings continuing to be involved in projects for the Maylea, C. (2017-2019) National Mental together much of the work previously CRC for High Performance Soils, under the Health Commission, $154,160 Project details conducted under six of the Institute's former Soil CRC's Program One - Investing in high Strategic Research Areas and Research performance soils. The goal of their current Evaluation of NewAccess for Aboriginal Themes - regional entrepreneurship and project on hedonic pricing, “How better soil and Torres Strait Islanders. Burmeister, development; environmental justice and management could affect property prices?”, O., Russell, R. & Steve Stanton (a Gamilaraay governance for social change; food security is to complete the first phase of a stream man from North West NSW) (2018-2019) and regional Australia; social research for of work that seeks to understand how soil Primary Health Network – Central and regional Natural Resource Management; management practices influence property Eastern Sydney, $66,000 Project details spatial research in environment, agriculture prices, so farmers can better understand the Headspace NewAccess Program and health; and climate change. pay-off from investments in improving soil Evaluation. Burmeister, O.M, Fox, R., Nic management. In 2017 and 2018 there were 24 new Giolla Easpaig, B. & Roberts, R. (2017- projects under this theme, 12 of which were There are also a number of other projects 2018) Murrumbidgee Primary Health District, completed within the two years. Again some around health and well-being including $75,000 Project details projects are aligned with more than one evaluations of NewAccess, a beyondblue Hedonic Pricing of On-farm Soil theme. early intervention program designed to Management – Phase 1. Morrison, M. & support people with mild to moderate anxiety There were 17 projects completed under Oczkowski, E. (2018) CRC High Performance and/or depression in Australia, for two this theme including an Australian Research Soils, $60,000 Project details different primary health Networks; a study Council Discovery project (led by UTS) on of workforce wellbeing in the NSW Family PIRCCO Evaluation. Burmeister, O. & humanitarian immigrant entrepreneurs in and Community Services department; and a Roberts, R. (2017-2018) Marathon Health, private and social enterprises; an energy project in partnership with the Murrumbidgee $50,000 (Program Evaluation Contract efficiency education project; and two and Western NSW Local Health Districts, and research) Project details projects with an economic focus - one the Parent Infant Research Institute, on the a literature scoping study funded by the Shark Sentiment Study. Simmons, P. & MumMoodBooster program, a new internet CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) for Mehmet, M. (2017-2020), NSW Department cognitive behavioural therapy program for High Performance Soils, and another on of Primary Industries, $91,000 isolated new mothers. community driven economic change. A second ARC Discovery project, led by CSU, Virtuous practitioners: empowering 16 Supporting isolated women in New Community driven economic change in Under Rural and Regional South Wales via an eHealth CBT small rural community local economic Communities and Environmental program. De Haan, K. (Murrumbidgee LHD), zones. Morrison, M. (2017-2018) Federation Water themes Bernoth, M., Hunt, C. (Western NSW LHD), Council, $50,000 Project details Milgrom, J (Parent Infant Research Institute), Environmental Monitoring and Training Conservation management plan Gemmil, A. (Parent Infant Research Institute), for Aboriginal Communities. Wassens, S., for Turks Head building, Albury. Carlisle, J. & Carey, A. (2018-2020) NSW Allan, C., Whitsed, R. & Bond, J. (2017-2018) Spennemann, D.H.R. (2017-18) Albury City Ministry of Health Translational Research NSW OEH, $20,000 Project details Council, $14,847 Grant Scheme $176,790 Project details Under Rural and Regional Evaluation of Women in Future Workforce Wellbeing in Family and Communities and Biodiversity Innovation Program. Black, R. (2017) Mid Community Services. Roberts, R., Conservation themes North Coast Local Health District, $5000 Bamberry, L., Ceric, A., Hodgins, G. & Reconnaissance and recommendations Cumming, T. (2018-2019) FACS, $204,394 Evaluation of the effectiveness of the on mistletoe management in macadamia Project details Lake Cowal Foundation. Allan, C. (2017) orchards. Watson, D. & Watson, J. (2018- Under Rural and Regional Lake Cowal Foundation Ltd. $25,000 2019) Horticulture Innovation Australia Ltd, $18,000 Communities and Biodiversity Group Capacity snapshot project. Allan, Conservation themes C. (2017-2018) Murray LLS, $10,000 HDR STUDENTS Compact cities or sprawling suburbs? Humanitarian immigrant entrepreneurs Optimal design of growing cities to in private and social enterprises. Collins, In 2017 and 2018 six PhD students conserve biodiversity. Nimmo, D. (2017- J. (UTS) & Krivokapic-Skoko, B. (2015-2018) whose research topic sits under this 2019) Australian Academy of Science-WH ARC Discovery grant, $200,124 Project theme graduated. They were: Gladstones Population & Environment Fund, details Dr Bronwyn Hyde: The lived experience $24,000 Project details Our Place-Corowa. Masterman-Smith, H., of acute mental health inpatient care: Sheahan, M. & Rafferty, J. (2015-2017) NSW What's recovery got to do with it? Principal ON-GOING PROJECTS Office of Environment & Heritage, $29,500 supervisor Professor Manohar Pawar Project details Virtuous Practitioners: Empowering Dr Moragh Mackay: Transforming Social Workers. Pawar, M., Hugman, Powering Down: an energy efficiency governance together: A co-inquiry into R. (UNSW), Alexandra, A. & Anscombe, education project. Masterman-Smith, H., practices for transitioning from top-down to A. (2014-2018) ARC Discovery grant, Rafferty, J. & Sheahan, M. and Albury City adaptive co-governance. Principal supervisor $220,130 Project details Council. (2017) NSW Environment Trust, Associate Professor Catherine Allan $100,000 Project details Optimised field delineation of Dr Arif Rohman: Voices from a Leper contaminated soils. Horta, A. (2015-2019) Review of the Murray Landcare Colony: A Critical Ethnography of the Impacts ARC Linkage Project led by University of Collective and Murray Regional of Community Empowerment and Social Sydney, with partners CSU & Environmental Landcare Facilitator project 2014-2018. Inclusion Program at the Sitanala Leprosy Earth Sciences International Pty Ltd. Project Allan, C. & Earl, G. (Murray LLS) (2018) Village, Indonesia. Principal supervisor details Holbrook Land Care Network, $5000 Professor Manohar Pawar Secure Safe Domestic Water (SSDW) Dr Samantha Strong: Exploring Paradoxes COMPLETED PROJECTS in the Central Darling Region: Regional of Native Vegetation Management in the stakeholder engagement action events. Context of Bushfire in South East Australia A Community Engagement Series: Finlayson, M. (2017) MDBA, $4546 in the 21st Century. Principal supervisor Regional Facilitator in the Albury LGA. Associate Professor Catherine Allan Masterman-Smith, H., Rafferty, J. & Sheahan, Shark deterrents and detection: M., (2016) NSW Office of Environment and Community perceptions, sentiment and Dr Buyani Thomy: The value of river health Heritage, $32,000 Project details preferences for shark management to the residential community of the Georges strategies. Simmons, P., Mehmet, M. & and Cook river catchments. Principal Assessment of the attitudes of beach Clarke, R. (UOW) (2017) A collaborative supervisor Professor Mark Morrison and ocean end-users to shark mitigation project between CSU (ILWS), UOW and Dr Jennifer Woods: Experiences of since trials of SMART Drumlines in NSW. NSW DPI with funding from the NSW Shark Community Spirit in Flood Recovery: Simmons, P. & Mehmet, M. (2018) NSW Management Strategy (SMS) Competitive Exploring the Meaning and the Opportunities DPI, $55,012 Project details Annual Grants Program. Project details for Community Development. Principal Better Parks for People. Whitsed, R., Succession and estate planning in supervisor Dr Jonathon Howard Black, R. & Harvey, R. (2016-2017) FACS Australia. Steen, A. & D'Alessandro, S. NSW Liveable Communities, $62,727 Project Current students whose research is (2016-2017) Society of Trust and Estate aligned with this theme are: details Practitioners, $25,700 Jose Abalo (DSW): Transitions issues 16 17 experienced by early school leavers: George Rafael (DSW): A social work eastern desert areas of WA. The project Implications for social work policy and approach to enabling young people at their is being funded through BHP's Heritage practice. Principal supervisor Professor work. Principal supervisor Professor Manohar Research Division, Perth Manohar Pawar Pawar • the Securing Safe Domestic Water Mark Adler: Understanding the role of Carla Simos (DSW): Stepmothers' life (SSDW) for Regional Australia creativity in university clean energy research. stories and self-identity. Principal supervisor project. This collaborative research Principal supervisor Dr Helen Masterman- Professor Manohar Pawar project, which commenced in 2016, Smith was initially focussed on the Gulf Region Georgia Tziros: An exploration of Greek of Far North Queensland but has since Kellie Bousfield: Educational testing and migrant experiences and later life emotional expanded to include the Central and social class. Principal supervisor Dr Angela well being: A qualitative study. Principal Lower Darling region of NSW Project Ragusa supervisor Associate Professor Maree details Bernoth Kane Callaghan: Social media • the on-going Reviving Regional citizensourcing for policy-making: The case Melissa Wales: Social norms and soil Railways project for which A/Prof Gray of sharks in NSW. Principal supervisor conservation practices. Principal supervisor a new documentary "Living Rail – In Associate Professor Peter Simmons Associate Professor Catherine Allan Junee and the Riverina" was launched Jeanette Carroll: Animal activism of Qudus Wazirzada: Sustainable Mobility at the Junee Roundhouse Museum's the poor in Australia - Is anyone paying for Road Users Using Intelligent Transport 70th birthday celebrations in 2017. attention? Principal supervisor Dr Helen Systems: The Australian Paradigm. Principal • research on community resilience in Masterman-Smith. supervisor Professor John Hicks disaster management Gael Evans-Barr: The post volunteering Sumedha Weerasekara: Analysis of the • on-going regional and gender labour impact among retirees; Organisational and impact of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem factors market research individual predictors. Principal supervisor on Enterprise Performance in Urban and non- Associate Professor Maree Bernoth urban NSW, Australia. Principal supervisor • an investigation of including older people Associate Professor Branka Krivokapic- in the teaching of ageing with industry Thiloka Kariyawasam: Bioremediation Skoko partners Nambucca Valley Care, of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) Navorina Nursing Home in Deniliquin, contaminated soils. Principal supervisor Dr Jillda Wright (DSW): An exploratory study Holy Spirit Nursing home in Dubbo and Greg Doran of the management of Dissociative Identity Riverina Institute of TAFE. Disorder in Australia. Principal supervisor Juana Katzer: Social Workers Decision Professor Manohar Pawar • a project in the mid North coast of NSW Making with Children with Problem looking at improving water supply to Sexualised Behaviours. Principal supervisor Lucia Wursch: Transactional analysis in various coastal communities. Professor Manohar Pawar organisations: A case study exploration of Berne’s theory with a focus on • the building of a digital library of CSU Karen Kime: Wise practice and Anglicare's communication. Principal supervisor and its precursor institutions' student foster care programs for Aboriginal children. Associate Professor Peter Simmons media publications Principal supervisor Dr Angela Ragusa • a collaboration with the Museum of Daniel Lander: The anti-vaccination RESEARCH ACTIVITIES the Riverina for a history project about movement and science communication. LBGT memory in Wagga Wagga and Principal supervisor Dr Angela Ragusa As well undertaking externally funded surrounding regions research projects, a considerable number of Sean Mack (Masters): The role of leadership ILWS members (including Adjuncts) whose • development of curriculum material in building, facilitating and sustaining a research interests are aligned with this theme and a 3D walkthrough of the Bonegilla person-centred approach to working with are engaged in research activities/projects Migrant Experience residents, in the residential aged care that have either received internal funding environment. Principal supervisor Associate • the Women in Regional Trades: from ILWS and/or CSU; are not managed by Professor Maree Bernoth Understanding Resilience project ILWS; or are non-funded. which has held industry consultations in Scott McManus: Assessment of uncertainty The topics of these various research Wagga Wagga; Bathurst and Albury in the creation of spatial domains from activities reflect the broadness of this theme portable X-ray fluorescence multi-element • a project on Free Trade Agreements and include engagement with Indigenous data using a Bayesian method. Principal and their implications for Australian communities. supervisor Dr Ana Horta agricultural products trade and regional Examples include: farm economies Bharat Poudel: Criteria for Sustainable Operation of Off-Grid Renewable Energy • a research project on an ethnography • involvement in a three year project Services. Principal supervisor Professor Kevin of standing stone Aboriginal heritage (2018-2020) administered by the Parton sites throughout the Pilbara and into the Graham Centre and funded by 18 Horticulture Innovation Australia In Focus looking at the economic impact of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) Powering Down: an energy efficiency Shark deterrents and detection: on Australian horticultural (fruits and education project (2017) Community perceptions, sentiment and vegetables) crops preferences for shark management strategies (2017) • an exploration of gender and indigenous Funding issues including the gender spaces of NSW Environment Trust, $100,000 social work Funding Researchers/Investigators • a research project funded by CenWest NSW DPI's Shark Management Strategy and WabiSabie, a company which gives Dr Helen Masterman-Smith, Dr John Rafferty, (SMS) Competitive Annual Grants Program, people the opportunity to customise Dr Marie Sheahan and partner Albury City $50,000 Council their message before they pass away Researchers/Investigators Description • two social media research projects, Associate Professor Peter Simmons, Dr one in relation to Australian audiences Being located in Climate Zone 7, Albury LGA Michael Mehmet and Associate Professor and service industries - customer experiences extreme temperatures and high Rod Clarke, (University of Wollongong) engagement for water businesses; and associated energy consumption and costs Description another on branding research for non- (ABS 2012). ‘Hard to reach’ households profit organisations often face these burdens on lower incomes This two stage project involved researchers • a project that aims to evaluate the and with limited housing options. For analysing community perceptions publicly customer engagement (CE) strategies example, public housing residents generally available in popular social media sites; of the 2018 Victorian water price review struggle with energy efficiency and thermal and conducting interviews/focus groups process. comfort issues (AIHW 2013). However, little with key social and economic stakeholder was known about local energy efficiency groups with an interest in the ocean or shark • the development of a new on-line practices and challenges or how best to management policy. platform Wayfinder, A Resilience Guide assist residents. for Navigating Towards Sustainable Discussions were held on the North coast; Futures. The platform was created As part of this project workshops were Mid-north coast; Central coast; South coast; in partnership with the Stockholm held to share valuable energy efficiency Sydney Metropolitan and Far south coast. knowledge and focussed on capacity Resilience Centre and the Resilience Their main findings were: Alliance. building within the community. There were many learning opportunities for local • people preferred to coexist with sharks • participation in an exhibition "The agencies about how to enhance community Habitat of Time", Casula Powerhouse, engagement and development strategies on • at populated sections of the coast they Sydney, April 19 to May 5, 2018 as this and other issues (e.g. water, waste). expect patrols, surveillance, and some part of part of an international research protection from sharks initiative between UNSW Art & Design in Local schools and households were offered • there was very strong support for trialing collaboration and the Foundation for Art opportunities to reinforce the importance of and developing technologies, devices and Creative Technology in the UK energy efficiency across these interconnected sections of the community and maximises and other innovations that are non-lethal • a photographic exhibition as part of the the potential of engaging hard to reach to sharks and other marine life Kiska Exhibit, Alaska Aviation Museum, households. The schools' component applied • the shark problem was real but small April 12, 2018 to January 27, 2019 STEM subjects to the real-world contexts of compared to the fear of sharks which • a project to extend Albury newspapers students’ homes and schools, targeting Year is exacerbated by traditional and social coverage on Trove, with the digitalising Five students. media -clearer communication and of papers back to 1881 and forward to Outputs education is needed for informed self- 1942 protection from sharks, perspectives of A community information display at Albury risk and about the Shark Management • development of spatial models of City's Sustainable Living Week Strategy noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Out comes Outputs Albury-Wodonga As a result of this research, members of Simmons, P. & Mehmet, M. (2018) Shark • an investigation into the lives and deaths Albury's low-income households have a management strategy policy considerations: of Indian hawkers in the Southern better understanding of energy efficiency and Community preferences, reasoning and Riverina and North East Victoria in the awareness of current government assistance. speculations. Marine Policy, 96, 111-119 late 1900s and early 2000s Simmons, P. & Mehmet, M. (2018) Feeding frenzy: public accuse the media of deliberately fuelling shark fear. The 19 Conversation Callaghan, K., Mehmet, M.I. & Simmons, P. (2018) Facebook and Twitter utility for policymakers. Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference. University of Adelaide, Adelaide (Dec 2018). Mehmet, M.I., Simmons, P. & Clarke, R. (2018) Sharks, Social Sentiment and Science. International Social Marketing Conference Singapore (July 2018). Simmons, P., Mehmet, M. & Clarke, R. (2017) Shark Sentiment Report: Executive Summary and Recommendations The Executive summary of the Shark Sentiment report pdf is here https://www. sharksmart.nsw.gov.au/technology-trials- and-research/social-research Outcomes The findings and final report help NSW DPI to consider trends in community sentiment when deciding policy and targeting communication about policy. 1.

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1. Dr Helen Masterman-Smith with Colin Young, the winner of the lowest energy consumption prize as part of the Powering Down project. 2. (From Left) Dr Ann Horta, Cr David Thurley, Adjunct Associate Professor Bruce Pennay 2.2. and Associate Professor Rachel Whitsed for the launch of the Walkability project. 3. Industry consultation for the Women in Regional Trades project. 4. Grave marker of Sundah Singh, an Indian hawker, at the Beechworth cemetery.

3. 4. 20 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (INTERNATIONAL)

OVERVIEW Basin - Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and A major ACIAR project completed in Vietnam. Part of that additional funding is 2017 was the Farm Power and This theme is the platform for the being used to do extensive GIS work in Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Institute's international research projects each country to determine the proportion of Intensification (FACASI) project which was being undertaken in the developing tributary streams being blocked by irrigation implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania countries of Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, infrastructure which impacts on fish migration and Zimbabwe. Its overall goal, which Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan, Pakistan, and productivity. it went a long way to achieving, was to Timor Leste and the sub-Sahara where, as improve access to mechanization, reducing Working in the additional countries has in other parts of the world, development labour drudgery, and minimizing biomass expanded collaborations to additional needs to be sustainable if livelihoods and trade-offs in Eastern and Southern Africa, in-country partners such as the Research the environment are to be protected and through accelerated delivery and adoption Institute for Aquaculture, Vietnam; Inland viable into the future. of Two Wheeled Tractor (2WT)-based Fisheries Research and Development technologies by smallholders. This project Research is aimed at understanding Institute, Cambodia; and the Department included the trialing of existing, and building complex social-environmental of Fisheries, University of Yangon, and of new seeders and other implements relationships and influencing outcomes Department of Irrigation, Myanmar. The team suitable for two wheeled tractors with the for rural and urban people. A major also welcomed a new Australia Award PhD aim of increasing service providers' and feature is its high level of impact in student from Indonesia in 2019. smallholders' income. community engagement, capacity The other is the Improving groundwater building and governance. Project topics The Institute currently has two projects management to enhance agriculture and include and have included community funded by the UK Darwin Initiative. One is farming livelihoods in Pakistan project forestry, groundwater and wetland looking at the protection of red panda habitat in Pakistan, the second of the Institute's management, agriculture and fisheries, and the livelihoods of yak herders in high ground-water projects in Pakistan. sustainable development and ecotourism. altitude rangelands of far eastern Bhutan. All of the projects are in partnership with At the core of the project are the capacity Partners include the Bhutan Departments of in-country collaborators. building partnerships and collaborations Livestock; Forests and Parks; World Wildlife to address the complexity of achieving Fund Bhutan; the Red Panda Network; and While the number of research projects groundwater management that can more Australian Landcare International. Dr Karma listed under this theme is less than under effectively and fairly improve farming family Tenzing, a former ILWS PhD student who other themes, most of the projects are large livelihoods. The transdisciplinary project, graduated in 2016, is employed as a post (valued at $500,000 plus) and run over a involving 13 other partner organisations, is doc to do the social research component number of years. part of a suite of Australia-Pakistan water- of the project and to liaise with partners. Nearly all projects, bar the two funded related research projects. There have been several "spin offs" from by the UK Darwin Initiative Fund and an this project including a Savings Scheme Partners in this project, which commenced in industry funded project, are funded by introduced in 2017 to the village of Merak; a 2016, are the Pakistan Council of Research ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Red Panda Junior Ranger club launched at in Water Resources (PCRWR); University of Agriculture Research). ILWS researchers Merak Primary School in 2018; the planned Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF); PMAS Arid have an impressive history of successfully installation of a wool processing centre in Agriculture University Rawalpindi (UAAR); completing ACIAR projects and building Merak; and a water piping project for herders Sindh Agriculture University (SAU); Mehran on their relationships with ACIAR to secure at Sheytemi. University of Engineering & Technology further funding. (MUET); NED University of Engineering & The other project, which commenced Currently there are two major projects where Technology (NED); Balochistan University in 2017, is a community reafforestation this is the case. of Information Technology, Engineering & project in Laclubuar and Soibada, within Management Sciences (BUITEMS); Punjab the Manatuto region of Timor-Leste. This One, the Quantifying improved Irrigation Department (PID); Sindh Irrigation is an integrated research project with fisheries productivity at fish passage Department (SID); Balochistan Irrigation environmental, social and educational rehabilitation sites in Lao PDR project, & Power Department (BID); International components. Partners include GroupTraining which began in 2016, is examining the Waterlogging & Salinity Research Institute Northern Territory, World Vision International biophysical and economic benefits of fish (IWASRI); and International Center for and Raebia, a local NGO. passageways in Laos where the team are Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas An exciting new project under this this is working with the Living Aquatic Resources (ICARDA). Research Centre, Laos; National University of with industry partner, the Xayaburi Power Laos; and the University of South Australia. In 2017 ACIAR provided further funding to Company Ltd in Laos. The company scope out another project in Pakistan to look has teamed with the Institute for a joint In 2018 the project, led by Dr Lee at Improving salinity and agricultural research project that will help determine Baumgartner, received an additional water management in the Indus Basin of the effectiveness of the fish passages it is $800,000 from ACIAR and the United Pakistan. installing as part of a multi-billion dollar hydro- States Department of Interior (USAID) to plant being built on the Lower Mekong River. scale out existing work to include four additional countries of the Lower Mekong 21 2019) Darwin Initiative Fund, $540,000 Project details NEW PROJECTS Both Sustainable Development RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (International) and Environmental Assessing fisheries mitigation Water themes As well undertaking externally funded measures at Xayaburi Dam in Lao PDR. research projects, ILWS members (including Baumgartner, L. & Silva, L. (2017-2019) In search of the elusive Mekong salmon. Adjuncts) whose research interests are ACIAR, $320,000 (MOU – Xayaburi Power Baumgartner, L. & Vu. V.A. (PhD student), aligned with this theme are engaged in Company Limited) (2016-2018), National Geographic Society various other research activities/projects. Research Grant, $30,080 Project details Examples of these include: Sustainable Hydropower and Multipurpose Storage to meet the Water, • a project which aims to offer small Food and Energy SDGs. Conallin, J. (2108) COMPLETED PROJECTS holder farmers across the Greater IHE Delft 32,000 Euros Project details Mekong Subregion (GMS) improved Farm Power and Conservation capacity to produce and market "clean The role that Deltas play in sustaining Agriculture for Sustainable and green" produce under the Core basin-scale fisheries in the Mekong Intensification (FACASI). Finlayson, M., Agriculture Support Program (CASP) and Irrawaddy Rivers. Baumgartner, L. Blackwell, J. & Krivokapic-Skoko, B. (2013- & Vu, V.A. (PhD student) (2017-2020) IHE 17) ACIAR, via CIMMY (International Maize • a project Urban Growth, Neo Liberal Delft. $30,127 Project details and Wheat Improvement Centre), $544,000 Failures and Water Scarcity in Accra Project details and Atlanta which is investigating water Both Sustainable Development governance regimes in Atlanta (USA) Improving salinity and agricultural water (International) and Biodiversity and Accra, (Ghana) two rapidly growing management in the Indus Basin of Conservation themes cities —one from the global North and Pakistan. Finlayson, M., Allan, C., Culas, R., Community reforestation for biodiversity the other from the global South—that Mitchell, M. & Punthakey, J. (2017) ACIAR, and livelihood diversification in Timor- share similar histories of neoliberal water $50,000 Leste. Millar, J. (2017-2021), UK Darwin governance failure Initiative Fund, $528,703 Project details HDR STUDENTS • a project looking at the costs and benefits of ecotourism in protected ON-GOING PROJECTS Current students whose research is areas in Ghana aligned with this theme are: Improving groundwater management • an ACIAR funded and Graham Centre to enhance agriculture and farming Phenden Gyamtsho: Community based administered project (2017-2020) livelihoods in Pakistan. Finlayson, M., ecotourism. Principal supervisor Associate looking at the economic impact of Punthakey, J., Allan, C. & Mitchell, M. (2016- Professor Rosemary Black Integrated Pest Management (IPM) on 2020) ACIAR & CSU $100,000 Total value of sweet potato production in Papua New Kim Nelson: Reimagining selves, liminal the project $2.15M Project details Guinea tourism spaces as sites for lifestyle migration. Quantifying improved fisheries An exploration of the reflexive narratives of • a bilateral project between the productivity at fish passage tourism business owners in Niseko, Japan. governments of Myanmar and Norway rehabilitation sites in Lao PDR. (2016- Principal supervisor Associate Professor on Conservation of Biodiversity and 2020) Baumgartner, L., Ning, N., Rosemary Black Management of Protected Areas Horta, A., Conallin, J. with Thorncraft, in Myanmar. A component of this Samir Thapa: Use of Clean Development G. (National University of Laos), project included developing a draft set Mechanism funding to convert from Phonekhampheng, O. (National University of of Guiding Principles for a systematic woodstoves to biogas cookers in western Laos), Singhanouvong, D. (Living Aquatic approach to Ramsar Site identification Nepal. Principal supervisor Professor Kevin Resources Research Centre), Cooper, B. and prioritisation for designation and Parton (UniSA) & Marsden, T. (Australasian Fish a Provisional working list of Myanmar Passage Services), Australian Centre for An Vi Vu: Diadromous fishes in the Lower wetlands potentially qualifying as International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Mekong Basin. Principal supervisor Dr Lee internationally important under the & USAID, $2.6M (initial funding of $1.8M Baumgartner Ramsar Convention on Wetlands plus an additional $800,000 in 2018) Project In Focus details Sangay Wangchuk: Why are villages in the eastern part of Bhutan dying, and Both Sustainable Development what are some of the social and ecological Farm Mechanization & Conservation (International) and Biodiversity implications of this trend? Principal supervisor Agriculture for Sustainable Conservation themes Dr Jennifer Bond Intensification (FACASI) (2013-2017) Sustainable rangeland management to Londari Yamarak: Effects of the mining Funding protect red panda and herder livelihoods. industry on poverty in PNG. Principal Millar, J., Finlayson, M. & Tenzing, K. (2016- supervisor Professor Kevin Parton Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), $544,574 via the 22 International Maize and Wheat Improvement Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and used a of the trailer/thresher/forage cutter concept. Centre (CIMMYT) range of methodologies including: The researchers have recommended that Researchers/Investigators • on-station and participatory on-farm continued testing and trialing of the chosen evaluation of small farm mechanization machines is necessary and innovative Professor Max Finlayson, Professor John such as 2WT (two-wheel tractor)-based improvements to overcome arising problems Blackwell & Associate Professor Branka technologies; must be encouraged as should dialogue on Krivokapic-Skoko all outcomes between the four countries. • business model development; Description Outputs • institution and policy analysis; The need for sustainable intensification A study trip to Australia in 2015 for in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is widely • establishment of a permanent eight visitors from four African countries recognized. While a lot of emphasis in current knowledge platform; (Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia) research work is on increasing the efficiency • establishment of an international hosted by the National Centre for Engineering with which land, water and nutrients are mentoring platform aimed at building in Agriculture (NCEA), University of Southern being used, farm power appears to be a research capacity in national research Queensland. 'forgotten resource'. stations and non-government The development of a FACASI designed However, farm power in SSA countries organisations by funding mentoring and Zimbabwe hybrid 2WT. is declining due to the collapse of most training visits from countries such as tractor hire schemes; the decline in number Australia and India, and exchange visits A review by Professor John Blackwell of the of draught animals; and the decline in between Africa and Australia/South FACASI project will be undertaken in 2019. human labour (e.g. stemming from rural- Asia. Outcomes urban migration and pandemics). A A common monitoring and evaluation system consequence of low farm mechanization is including gender disaggregated data was Progress is being made on adoption of small high labour drudgery, which affects women developed. farm mechanization in sub-Sahara Africa, disproportionally (in, e.g. weeding, threshing, with take-up of the technology varying from shelling and transport by head-loading). While the researchers encountered many country to country with the second phase Sustainable intensification in SSA requires obstacles in the procurement and/or building of the FACASI project (not involving ILWS an improvement of the farm power balance of seeders suitable for two wheeled tractors, researchers) now being implemented. through increased power supply - via they reported that great progress had and improved access to mechanization - and/or was being made in the quest for the selection In Ethiopia, from the purchase of only 2 two- reduced power demand via energy saving of the 'best bet' machines under the various wheel tractors from ACIAR funds, the country technologies such as conservation agriculture conditions experienced in the four countries. now has 59 service providers operating on (CA). Station and farm demonstration trials are a commercial basis, all with a minimum till continuing with the results being analysed by seed drill. In addition to those, the Ministry The overall goal of this project was to the countries themselves, with help from the of Agriculture and Natural Resources is improve access to small farm mechanization, International Wheat and Maize Improvement supporting 76 youth groups with two-wheel reduce labour drudgery, and minimize Centre (CIMMYT) in Nairobi and Ethiopia. tractors and ancillary equipment, and the biomass trade-offs in Eastern and Southern FACASI team is in charge of the training of all Africa.. Combining the experiences of all four these groups, on both technical and business countries from the agronomic and machinery aspects. A private company now imports The project had four principal objectives: trials and testing, the same machine stands the seed drill commercially. In 2017, a public • To evaluate and demonstrate small out in all countries for both row planting of sector importer sold 200 two-wheel tractors farm mechanisation that supports maize, the Fitarelli 2 row seeder and the (not as part of the 59 + 76 mentioned above). Conservation Agriculture systems, using Morrison, and for the planting of wheat, The Chinese 2BFG drill is becoming popular expertise and implements from Africa, the Chinese 2BFG drill. These seeders will in wheat, barley and teff areas. Using this drill South Asia and Australia be used in any future financial or business for these crops leads to a yield increase in analysis. Development of the other seeders almost 100% of the cases (because of row • To test site-specific commercial systems including the FACASI designed Zimbabwe seeding, precise placement of fertilizer, etc). to deliver small farm mechanization hybrid has been a bonus to the project. In Zimbabwe, progress is considered • To identify improvements in national Further work is being done to develop self- substantial. Last year, 15 farmers from one institutions and policies for wide lifting mechanisms and ride on seats for other of the demonstration sites used their own adoption of small farm mechanization seeders. In many cases the development resources to purchase two-wheel tractors • To improve capacity and create of ancillary equipment for attachment to and Fitarelli two-row seeders. Zimplow awareness of small farm mechanization has been seen as important as the seeder (the largest manufacturer and distributor of in the sub-region, and share knowledge approach. Of these, threshing and transport farming implements in sub-Saharan Africa) and information with other regions. are the most regularly reported to the FACASI have modified their conventional animal teams who are greatly assisting in the design, drawn planter and are manufacturing a The project was implemented in Ethiopia, manufacture, demonstration and promotion planter suitable for two-wheel tractors. 23 1.

Another manufacturer, Grownet, also has a planter commercially available as a result of FACASI intervention, and has sold 15 units last year in the east of the country. The FASCI team is working on a modification which will multiplying the field capacity of the machine (and thus reducing the time needed to plant a field). In Kenya while uptake of the two-wheel tractor was regarded as disappointing with local partners focussing on four-wheel tractors, gains are being made in terms of Conservation Agriculture. In Tanzania uptake of small farm mechanization was also minimal.

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1. Visit to the Renala Power Station in Punjab province, Pakistan. 2. Jorge Ramos teaching field staff for the community reafforestation project in Timor- Leste 2. PhD student Vu Vi An travelled the length of the Mekong River for his project 4. Launch of the red panda project in the village of Merak, Bhutan 5. A multi billion dollar hydro-power plant is being built on the Lower Mekong, Laos.

5. 24 ENGAGEMENT: REGIONAL

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT contribution to the delivery of the United group. He, together with Professor Rick Nations Sustainable Development Goals Spencer from Western Sydney University, Most of the Institute's community also gave a public seminar on turtle Dr Alexandra Knight gave a talk at the engagement activities are done at the conservation at Wonga Wetlands, near Albury Whitehead Street Wetland Open Day, regional level where members interact directly on May 11 to an audience of about 30. Corowa, December 4, 2017, as part of the with regional communities in a number of launch of the Corowa District Landcare Professor David Watson was a special ways. A popular means of interaction are Group's Sounding the Chorus for Frogs in guest speaker at a Trust for Nature’s talks, presentations or workshops given Corowa’s Wetlands project Dr Knight also “Mistletoe-friend or foe” field day, Grayton, by members on their areas of expertise or participated in a Frogs 'n Fish Workshop May 19, 2018 funded by the Goulburn on current research to the general public, for a Corowa District Landcare’s Junior Broken Catchment Management Authority specific interest groups, schools and other Landcare program in Corowa, August 16-17, through the National Landcare program tertiary institutions. 2018; ran a Frog ID and Arboreal Mammals As part of a City of Melbourne’s Urban Forest For example, in 2017 and 2018: dusk walk and talk, Sept 27, 2018, hosted and Ecology Team promotion encouraging by the Beechworth Urban Landcare and people in the city to appreciate nature in the Institute Adjunct Professor Kathleen Sustainability Group; and ran a community city, Professor David Watson spoke on Bowmer presented a series of eight sessions frog event, Mitta Mitta, October 27, 2018 (January to April 2017) on "Critical issues in mistletoe at a public event held at the Donkey water" for the University of the Third Age in Luke Pearce, from NSW DPI Fisheries, and Wheel House in Bourke Street, Melbourne, Wagga Wagga. Dr Luiz Silva ran an information evening to on July 16, 2018. inform the local community on the results of a Dr Geoff Heard took part in revegetation In April 2017 Dr Lee Baumgartner and research project looking at Macquarie Perch efforts (planting native grasses to provide Matt Barwick from the Fisheries Research numbers in the Mannus Creek in the Upper cover for a small population of the and Development Corporation presented at a Murray at Tooma, December 7, 2017. community forum in Albury on the proposed vulnerable Sloane’s froglet) with about 10 carp virus release. The event was organised The evening was presented by ILWS PhD helpers participating in the School Leaver by the South West Anglers Association and student Liz Znidersic did a presentation/ Employment Support package (administered attended by 120 people. Dr Baumgartner field day on “The secretive birds at Big by Job Centre Australia with funding from the gave another talk on the carp virus to the Waterhouse Lake” based on her research to NDIS Finding & Keeping a Job program) at Upper Murray Landcare Group in Corryong, the North-East Tasmanian Field Naturalists CSU’s Albury-Wodonga campus on August October 26, 2017. Club Inc. on December 9, 2017. Liz also 7, 2018. had a morning at St Helens Primary School Dr Kath McFarlane presented a public Professor Linda Shields, a nurse talking about birds in early December. researcher, was the guest lecturer at the lecture on “Nagle to Now 40 Years of Prison inaugural Nell Riordan lecture series held at Dr Travis Holland presented a talk on ‘The Reform and Rehabilitation” on Thursday, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Politics and Promise of the NBN; the first in a August 23, 2018, at CSU Bathurst. Sept 8, 2017. series of eight talks for Bathurst University of As part of fundraising for the 2019 Third Age (U3A)'s Monday Morning Show, on Bathurst Writers’ and Readers’ Festival, Institute Adjunct Richard Loyn gave a talk Monday, February 5, 2018. on “Birds, people, despots and conservation: Associate Professor Alison Gerard was windows on the world” to the Warby Ranges Dr Jessie Lymn gave a talk "HALF + HALF" in-conversation with Australian author and Landcare group at Hamilton Park, October at the ‘Halfway Print Fest (HPF), a celebration broadcaster Clementine Ford at a fund- 20, 2017, and another, to the Friends of the of independent publishing, at the Museum raising evening at the Bathurst Memorial Royal Botanic Gardens, in Cranbourne on of the Riverina in Wagga Wagga, March 3, Centre, October 2, 2018. October 29, 2017 on “Birds and why they 2018. Dr Alexandra Knight and Dr Rachel matter: windows on the world.” He also led Associate Professor Maree Bernoth Whitsed ran two public workshops, teaching a "Birds and gardens" event for the Stanley presented an education session to people how to find, identify and record Landcare group on October 16, 2018, and the Clinical Nurse Consultants and plants and animals. The workshops were: gave a presentation on despotic birds and Clinical Midwifery Consultants from the Field Observations – the How of observing their effects on the ecosystem structure in Murrumbidgee Local Health District to and recording nature, Oct 6, 2018, Ryans flood-prone Black Box woodlands, to the encourage them to engage with research on Lagoon, Bonegilla, and Mapping change Swamps, Rivers & Ranges local NRM group April 14, 2018 with another presentation in over time - October 14, 2018, CSU Albury- in Wangarratta, Oct 16. June, 2018 Wodonga campus. Dr Jonathon Howard, together with Dr James Van Dyke gave a talk on Institute Adjunct Professor Bruce Pennay Dr Tim Clune from La Trobe University’s "Reducing the Impacts of Foxes on Turtles gave a talk on the stories of the migrants Business School, organised and facilitated at Winton Wetlands" at a "Sticking our that came through the camp as part of the a community workshop- Celebrating Our necks out for turtle conservation" community activities for the Bonegilla Migrant Camp Region’s Contribution to the UN Sustainable engagement event at Winton Wetlands on reunion, November 2-3. Development Goals- in Wodonga on April 14, 2018. The event was organised by November 29, 2017, to raise awareness of the Friends of Winton Wetlands community and to celebrate the Border Region’s current 25 25 Institute members engage with a wide range of external stakeholders at the regional, national and international levels. Its external stakeholders include Federally funded research agencies, departments & agencies; State Government departments & agencies; international organisations, NGOs, government departments, agencies and tertiary organisations; industry; Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) and Local Land Services (LLSs); Federal and State MPs; Australian NGOs and lobby groups; editorial boards and editors of academic journals; the general public, community groups and networks; local shires and councils; local businesses, national tertiary institutions & research organisations; statutory bodies and associations; and the media. Engagement activities include media coverage; social media activity; public lectures, presentations, workshops, seminars; Open Days; school visits; consultations with community groups, professional/practice organisations and government bodies; serving on external advisory boards; contributing to government inquiries and reviews; Institute organised events; prizes, awards and other distinctions; and interactions with visitors to the Institute. In the following pages we highlight some of our members' engagement activities. A more complete list for 2017 and 2018 is accessible from our web pages at https://www.csu.edu.au/research/ilws/engagement

CenWest Innovate • Public Relations Stakeholder Analysis NSW DPI Fisheries, CSU and the National Masterclass, Sept 6, 2018, Bathurst. Landcare Program. CenWest Innovate is a collaboration between CSU and the NSW Department of Industry • Winning Negotiations Masterclass, in Dr Rachel Whitsed gave a talk on the which aims to support the development Lithgow, Bathurst, October 10; Parkes, Better Parks for People project at the of entrepreneurship, innovation and small Dubbo, October 11,2018 Developing age-friendly rural communities: business management capacity in Central sharing international and localo learnings • Next Stage Growth Program West NSW. Professor Mark Morrison is forum at LaTrobe University, February 14, presentation for The Power of its director. It hosted a variety of activities in 2017. Connection – Celebrating Small 2017 and 2018 which included: Business Month, Blayney Council Professor David Watson was part of the • 'Starting a Business' boot camp, March Business Networking forum, October "The Wings on King Seminar and launch – a 24 and 25, 2017 Bathurst; with another 16, 2018 celebration of the birds on King Island and Business boot camp in Bathurst, May 4 why we need them" event, April 27-30, • Next Stage Growth Program expo to 5, 2018 2017, King Island. He gave a presentation for Forbes Council Celebrating Small on "Boosting biodiversity AND the bottom- • Developing Regional Entrepreneurial Business Month - Business Networking, line—achieving win-win outcomes with Ecosystems forum, at Bathurst, April 28, October 16, 2018 conservation farming: The benefits of 2017. Speakers included University of managing both simultaneously" and led a Canterbury's Professor Morgan Miles, STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT workshop on "Defragging King Island: How Troy Haines from the Space, Professor to maintain/increase biodiversity and improve Mark Morrison and Professor John Our members engage with the Institute's land management while sustaining a strong Hicks stakeholders as a way of building agricultural industry". partnerships, sourcing funding for research • Digital Marketing Masterclass: Move projects, networking, determining market In May 2017, Dr Lee Baumgartner your business forward, at Bathurst, needs, identifying issues that they can assist participated in a sustainable diversion limit May 4, 2017. Speakers were Dr Paul with, and feeding back research findings. project design workshop with the North Harrigan UWA, Dr Michael Mehmet, Central CMA. and Peter Sutton Kai Ming Consulting Some of the ways in which they do this is by meeting with stakeholders, attending Dr Alexandra Knight, Dr Mariagrazia • Branding and Target Marketing for meetings and workshops where they can Bellio, Dr James Dan Dyke, PhD student Business Success seminar - Bathurst, contribute their knowledge and expertise, Daniel Svozil, Dr Ana Horta and Margrit Orange in July, 2017 being on advisory panels or boards, Beemster took part in a "New Horizons • Pricing Your Products Masterclass - or presenting at forums, seminars and – exploring linkages and opportunities Parkes, Orange, Bathurst in September, conferences. For example: between health and the environment in 2017 North East Victoria" workshop organised Dr Julia Howitt gave a presentation to the by the North East Catchment Management • Cyber Security for Small to Medium Murray and Lower Darling Environmental Authority in Wodonga, Victoria, on July 6, Sized Enterprises – Dubbo, Orange, Water Advisory Group on February 7, 2017 in 2017. The workshop explored ways that Bathurst in November, 2017 Deniliquin which focussed on the algal bloom the regional health sector could collaborate and hypoxic blackwater events that occurred and partner with organisations involved in • a six month Next Stage Growth in the system in 2016. Program, July to Dec., 2017 with a managing the North East region's natural second program in 2018 Professor Robyn Watts and Dr Julia resources. A second workshop, to expand Howitt gave a presentation on the on and flesh out specific opportunities and • hosting a visit by Professor Peter Kelly Koondrook-Perricoota Floodplain Runoff priorities identified in the July workshop, was from Aalto University, Finland, who project with a focus on carbon, blackwater held on December 7, 2017 in Beechworth. gave two talks on “How do successful and hypoxia, at a symposium on February Attendees included representatives from both entrepreneurs operate? and “The Design 8, 2017, at Moama, NSW, as part of the health and the NRM sector including of Entrepreneurship Education” at CSU the 'Connecting the dots at Koondrook- private landholders, ILWS, Department of Bathurst, June 28, 2018 Perricoota Forest' 2017 Gathering. Environment, Land, Water & Planning. • Next Stage Growth Program Three members of the Edward-Wakool Institute Adjunct Associate Professor Ian presentation to Bathurst’s Inspiring LTIM team, Dr Julia Howitt, Dr Niciole Gray attended a meeting of regional rail user Women, August 17, 2018 McCasker and Institute Adjunct Dr Jason groups in Goulburn on July 19, 2017 which discussed how they could work together to • Recruitment Masterclass: Modern Thiem, gave presentations on water quality further improve passenger train services in practices to secure your business future, issues, fish populations, and fish movement NSW. presented by Dr Stacey Jenkins (CSU) at the annual Edward-Wakool Fish Forum and Tamara James (Pulse HR) at Young held at the Barham and District Services Associate Professor Rosemary Black is and Cowra, August 29, and Orange, Club, Barham on the evening of February 16, collaborating with the Mid North Coast Local August 30, 2018 2017. Around 80 people attended the forum Health Distract (MNCLHD) on a number of which was a collaboration of Murray LLS, fronts. 26 Since August 2016, she has been provide valuable input to Slopes to Summit 18, 2018. coordinating monthly research seminars (S2S) partnership, something they have Associate Professor Maree Bernoth was at the Port Macquarie campus attended done since its inception in 2007. S2S is an co-convenor of the Australasian Association by both CSU staff and other regional important part of the Great Eastern Ranges of Gerontology Regional Symposium, researchers, practitioners and postgraduate initiative which aims to restore and connect held in Wagga, August 8 to 10, 2018. The students, including MNCLHD staff. She is the landscape and communities along the symposium attracted 111 delegates from also a member of a team of researchers Great Dividing Range and Great Escarpment across NSW, Victoria and the ACT including based at MNCLHD assessing research of eastern Australia. The current focus of S2S a large contingent from Catholic Healthcare. applications. She was invited to present a is to continue to develop opportunities for workshop on Mixed Methods Research, on-ground evidence-informed connectivity On August 14, 2018 Professor Max October 4, 2017. Workshop participants conservation actions. With members Finlayson attended a workshop at WBT included practitioners in occupational health, including OEH, Landcare, LLS and Parks Consulting Group in Brisbane which looked dietetics and medical imaging. Albury Wodonga, the group provides an at closure criteria for the Ranger Uranium important natural resource management Mine in the Northern Territory On July 27, 2017, Dr Lee Baumgartner, Dr forum for exchanging ideas and developing Nathan Ning and Annette Davies, CSU's projects across the South-west slopes On August 20, 2018, Professor Max Research Partnership Manager, went to and Riverina regions. In January 2018, Dr Finlayson met with the CEO of the Murray Mullumbimby in northern NSW to tour the Alexandra Knight was appointed Chair of Darling Association (MDA), Emma Bradbury, Mullumbimby community-owned renewable the Slopes to Summit (S2S) partnership. at CSU’s Albury-Wodonga campus to energy project which aims to reinstate the discuss collaboration between MDA, ILWS Mullumbimby Hydropower Plant and to As a member of the Sydney Olympic Park and SEGRA. discuss fish issues associated with that. Authority’s WET (Wetland Education and Training) Technical Advisory Panel, Professor On August 21, 2018, Dr Lee Baumgartner Professor Max Finlayson is chair of the Max Finlayson together with Institute and Professor Max Finlayson met with Winton Wetlands Environmental Strategy Adjust Dr Swapan Paul help plan its Professor Nick Bond, Director of the new Advisory Panel and attends regular planning wetland courses. Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems, LaTrobe meetings which include planning annual University (formerly the Murray Darling forums. The aims of the forums are to provide Community meetings were held at the Freshwater Research Centre) where they support for research on the Winton Wetlands Jindera Community Hub and the Federation had a discussion about strategic research restoration program; assist in gaining data for Council Chambers at Corowa on May 15, opportunities and agreed to follow up on the management and progression of the site; 2018 where the results of a joint study on areas of mutual interest. and help progress the science of wetland the economic health of the Murray region restoration in Australia and elsewhere. were presented. Dr Rachel Whitsed, Dr Alexander Knight Professor Finlayson spoke at a special and Associate Professor Rosemary Professor David Watson gave a session at the third annual Winton Wetlands Black have been initiating a project with keynote presentation on “The secret life of Restoration Science Forum, August 17- 18, Yarra Ranges Council to assess and model mistletoe: Advances in understanding their 2017, on the potential listing of the Winton playspace usage, based on the methodology ecological role and ecosystem function”at Wetlands as an internationally-recognised of their Better Parks for People project. the Conservation in Action Conference: wetland. He also attended the 4th annual Research to Reality, held in Bathurst, May 16 As members of the North East Catchment Winton Wetlands Science Forum ‘Risks and to 17. The conference was organised as a Management Authority’s Science Panel, Drivers of Change in Wetland Management’, partnership between Central Tablelands Local Professor Max Finlayson and Associate August 16 - 17, 2018 and summarised the Land Services, Central Tablelands Landcare Professor Catherine Allan attended a forum at the end. and Central West Council’s Environment & meeting of the panel in Wodonga, August 10, In his role as an Independent Scientist with Waterway Alliance. 2018. the Lake Cowal Foundation, Professor On June 1, 2018 Dr Lee Baumgartner Dr Helen Masterman-Smith spoke on the Max Finlayson continued to attend regular and Jarrod McPherson visited farmer Paul nature and causes of the housing affordability meetings of the foundation in 2017 and Trevethan’s property “Tara” at Howlong to crisis in Australia at the Sustainability Activity 2018 as well community consultative and learn more about “best practice plumbing in Centre, Wodonga, September 27, 2018. The engagement committee meetings. sheds” as part of the background research event was organised by Tiny Houses Albury- Associate Professor Dirk Spennemann for the new shed that is being built as part of Wodonga. was one of the speakers at the International their Snowy 2.0 project. Professor Robyn Watts and Institute Earth Building Conference, held at CSU’s Dr Lee Baumgartner, a board member Adjunct Dr Geoff Vietz spoke at the Wise Albury-Wodonga campus, Thurgoona, Nov 2 of the North East Catchment Management Water Ways workshop, held in Beechworth, to 6, 2017. Authority, attended a meeting with the North East Victoria, October 29 to November During 2017 and 2018 ILWS members CMA on June 20, 2018 to help identify key 2, 2018. The workshop was presented (Associate Professor Peter Spooner, indicators of catchment health that could be by the North East CMA, Department of Professor David Watson and Associate fed into the CMAs new corporate plan. He Land, Water & Planning, Jacobs, Centre Professor Catherine Allan) continued to also attended a board meeting on September for Freshwater Ecology-La Trobe University, River Basin Management Society. Professor 27 Watts spoke on on water resource allocation, La Trobe University. In attendance was Dr The Institute also held a brainstorming environmental flows importance and Jennifer Bond and Professor Max Finlayson. session to further develop partnerships assessment methodology, and streamflow and explore potential collaborative projects management; Dr Vietz on geomorphic North East CMA events with the North East CMA. Sixteen ILWS principles for working with waterways, For the second year in a row, the Institute researchers and five North East CMA and practical applications of geomorphic teamed with partners – North East CMA, staff attended the session held at the knowledge, as well as on stream hydraulics Trust for Nature, Department of Environment, Albury-Wodonga campus on June 5, 2018. and sediment movement in another session. Land, Water and Planning, and Parks Outcomes included assisting the CMA with analysing soil test data; and developing Indigenous engagement Victoria – to present the annual North East Environment Forum held May 25, 2017 at deer management projects. As a follow-up Professor Max Finlayson attended a CSU's Wangaratta study centre. The forum's Professor Max Finlayson then met with the meeting in Kerang, Victoria, October 4, 2017, theme was "Connecting People with Nature" CMA’s new CEO, Katie Warner, together with to discuss potential projects on indigenous and was attended by 76 people. Professor the head of the Albury campus, Dr Jenni values of lakes and rivers. The meeting, with Max Finlayson was the MC. Munday and Dr Wes Ward, on September local indigenous people, was facilitated by 6, 2018, to discuss increasing collaboration One outcome was a workshop organised Mike Nurse from the Federation of Victorian between CSU, ILWS and North East CMA. by the North East CMA on "New Horizons- Traditional Owner Corporation. exploring linkages and opportunities between health and the environment in AWARDS EVENTS North East Victoria" held July 30, 2017 in Our members continue to be recognised for Wodonga which saw 30 people from the their contributions to their fields of expertise During 2017 and 2018 the Institute has been two sectors come together including six and the community. For example: directly involved in the organisation and Institute members - ecologists Dr Alexandra sponsoring of regional events with regional Knight, Dr Mariagrazia Bellio, Dr James Van On June 8, 2018 Adjunct Dr Swapan Paul partners. These include: Dyke, PhD student Daniel Svozil, spacial received a City of Parramatta Sustainability North East Regional Water Forum scientist Dr Ana Horta, and communications Award - Environmental Citizen 2018 - for coordinator Margrit Beemster. organising Clean-up Australia Day events The North East Regional Water Forum was annually over the past 20 years. held on March 21, 2018 to coincide with A further workshop which built on the Images World Water Day, March 22. The event, outcomes of the first one was held in held at the North East Water auditorium Beechworth, December 7, 2017. It was 1. Professor David Watson engages in many in Wodonga, attracted agency staff, attended by 23 people representing the community engagement activities. landholders and academics. ILWS was one health and NRM sectors including private of the event organisers along with North landholders, ILWS, the Department of 2. 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STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT Exploring the Impact of (Im)mobilities in Rural Environment Trust’s Aquatic sub-committee, and Regional Communities, organised by Dr Lee Baumgartner attended the At the national level, our members engage the University of South Australia - Mount committee’s inaugural meeting on Feb 26, with the Institute's stakeholders to build Gambier Campus, on September 26, 2017. 2018, in Sydney. partnerships, establish relationships that Professor Max Finlayson and Dr Lee Dr Kath McFarlane’s research into the can lead to securing funding for research Baumgartner attended the launch of the involvement of children in out-of-home care projects, to determine government, industry ACIAR 10 year research strategy at ANU in in the NSW criminal justice system was cited and market needs, to feed back research Canberra, December 11-12, 2017. by the Australian Law Reform Commission findings and results, and to provide advice in in 2018 to support a recommendation for their area of expertise. In December, 2017, Associate Professor a national child protection - child welfare Maree Bernoth was invited to take part Ways in which they do this is include being inquiry. in the Federal Government’s Aged Care on advisory and technical reference groups, Workforce Strategy Taskforce, which has Dr Rachel Whitsed gave a presentation attending meetings and networking activities, been put together by the Minister for Ageing, under the theme of mapping, measuring and meeting with Government ministers, Ken Wyatt. She spoke first to a peak industry clarifying rural health metrics, at the 6th Rural departmental staff, current and potential body, Leading Age Solutions Australia Ltd, and Remote Health Scientific Symposium, project partners, and presenting at forums, in Sydney to aged care providers about the held April 11 and 12, 2018, in Canberra. The seminars and conferences. Some examples evidence researchers have about staffing for symposium was run by the National Rural include: ageing. She was then invited by the head of Health Alliance. Dr Lee Baumgartner attended the "Doing the ageing task force Professor John Pollaers Professor Robyn Watts was a member well by doing good –Queensland's Impacts & to a summit in Melbourne. In October 2018, of an invited panel of experts that spoke Benefits in Agricultural Research", a Crawford Associate Professor Bernoth, at the request at a public hearing of the House of Fund Queensland Forum and Networking of the Senate Standing Committee on Representatives Standing Committee on the Reception, at Queensland's Parliament Community Affairs, Legislation Committee, Environment and Energy’s inquiry into the House, February 14, 2017 provided a report to the Inquiry into the Aged management and use of Commonwealth Care Quality and Safety Commission Bill. In June, 2017 Professor Max Finlayson environmental water in Albury, April 30. had a meeting in Canberra with the former Dr Wayne Robinson has assisted the Dr James Van Dyke gave a seminar Australian Governor General Major General South Australia Government’s revised on applying reproductive biology to the The Hon. Michael Jeffery and Ashley description of the ecological character of conservation of declining animal species at Bland, from SkillSet in Bathurst, and others the Coorong, Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Flinders University, South Australia on May to develop a national level Sustainability Ramsar site with his report: Robinson, W. A. 11, 2018. Indicator. (2017) Setting refined waterbird LAC [Limits if Acceptable Change] for the Coorong, Lakes Concerns over the uncertainty regarding the Dr Lee Baumgartner attended a project Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar site. Technical release of a herpes virus to control common planning meeting on fish protection in Report to DEWNR. November 2017 carp, as outlined in the paper Marshall, J., irrigation systems in September, 2017, in Davison, A. J., Kopf, R. K., Boutier, M., Canberra with representatives from the Dr Julia Howitt attended and gave a Stevenson, P., & Vanderplasschen, A. (2018) Department of Primary Industries, Arthur presentation at a two day workshop, Biocontrol of invasive carp: Risks abound. Rylah Institute, the South Australian Research organised by CSIRO on the hypoxic Science, 359: 877-877 were presented and Development Institute (SARDI) Aquatic blackwater risk in the Murray-Darling Basin by one of the papers’ authors in a Senate Sciences, NSW Agriculture and Tenure and the processes leading to hypoxic Committee Proceedings in the Australian Chasers. blackwater events, their impacts and Parliament, June 25. management options, Jan 30 and 31, 2018. Dr Luis Silva attended the National Carp On June 26 and 27, 2018 Dr Lee Control Program's Science Advisory group On World Wetlands Day, February 2, 2018, Baumgartner, Jarrod McPherson, Dr workshop in Canberra in July, 2017. Professor Max Finlayson, gave a keynote Nathan Ning, Dr Luiz Silva, Cameron presentation, by video to the 2018 WA McGregor and Institute Adjunct Dr Dr Alexandra Knight is a member of Wetland Management Conference, held at Craig Boys (NSW DPI)– went to Talbingo the Technical Reference Group which has the Cockburn Wetlands Education Centre, to participate in a Snowy Hydro project provided specialist input in 2017 to the WA. His presentation was on "Policy failure or induction in preparation for their research for Victorian Government’s “Protection of Alpine success in managing wetlands under climate the Snowy 2.0 project. Dr Lee Baumgartner National Park – Feral Horse Strategic Action change? Plan”. also had a design meeting with Pure Dr Lee Baumgartner attended the ACIAR Aquatics, who are supplying equipment for Associate Professor Branka Krivokapic- fisheries project leaders’ meeting in Brisbane, the new laboratory for the Snowy 2.0 project Skoko gave a presentation on 'From February 18 and 19, 2018 where project in Port Macquarie in July. 'attraction points' towards retention: What do leaders were briefed on ACIAR's new 10 year Institute Adjunct Dr Justin Watson we know about international immigrants who plan. come to stay in non-metropolitan Australia' attended a Torres Strait Terrestrial Island at a Rural and Regional Mobilities Workshop: In his role as a member of the NSW Ecosystems Workshop in Cairns, June 26 to 27, 2018. 30 The aim of the workshop was to better ecological context. with Department of Foreign Affairs and understand the importance of the islands' Trade's Director of Innovation Exchange As part of Dr Alexandra Knight’s 2017 Early vegetation, fauna, wetlands and mangroves; Sarah Pearson on September 24, 2018 Career Seed Grant, Alex has been involved and to identify the key threats to ecosystems in Canberra. The meeting was to discuss in a collaborative research program into and species. how to better integrate DFAT’s development research impact, knowledge exchange and activities into ACIAR research projects to Drs Joanne Millar and Jennifer Bond co-production together with researchers from help bridge the gap between development attended the Asian Studies Association ANU, CSIRO, Monash, Oxford and Auckland outcomes and strategic research. of Australia conference in Sydney, July 3 University of Technology. Co-funded by to 5, 2018, University of Sydney where Dr ANU’s Fenner School the group gathered Institute Adjunct Dr Mary Rosengreen Millar presented a paper on her Darwin in Canberra for four days in August, 2018, chaired a session on "Visualisation" at the Initiative project in Timor Leste; and Dr together with 31 invited guests (including SPECTRA 2018 symposium and festival held Bond her research results from previous NGOs, research and government agencies, in Adelaide, Oct 10-12, 2018. The theme of work in Vietnam on rice policy and climate and consultancies) with facilitation provided the symposium was research collaboration adaptation. The two have joined the Timor by an international expert on impact research between artists and scientists. The Leste Studies Association. Mark Read, Professor of Socio-Technical symposium was presented by the Australian Innovation at Newcastle University, UK. Network for Art and Technology, University of On July 4, 2018 Professor Max Finlayson, along with other invited international experts. South Australia and Experimenta Media Arts. Associate Professor Catherine Allan The group commenced development Professor Manohar Pawar attended a and Dr Michael Mitchell took part in an of a professional network of knowledge public lecture on A New Age of Sustainable ACIAR Impact Pathways in Monitoring and exchange researchers and practitioners, Development – Australia, Asia, and the Evaluation discussion with Ted Rowley, a as well as research into processes and World, delivered by Professor Jeffrey consultant to ACIAR, held at the Albury- evaluation of knowledge exchange, and post- Sachs and organised by the The Monash Wodonga campus. colonial perspectives. One outcome of this Sustainable Development Institute, on Oct. collaboration was a public lecture on “When Two ILWS members were involved in the 15, 2018. Cyber Security Symposium 2018, held July Science Changes Society: When and How 5 to 8, held at the International Hotel, Wagga Research has Impact” presented at ANU, Associate Professor Russell Roberts was Wagga. The symposium covered the latest August 8, 2018. The event was supported the chair of the Australian Rural & Remote development in cyber security. They were by the Fenner School of Environment and Mental Health Symposium 2018 held in Professor Mark Morrison who spoke Society and the Faculty of Science, Charles Hobart, Tasmania, October 15 to 17, 2018 about the Faculty’s Research, and Professor Sturt University. where he gave a presentation on ‘Rural mental health workforce, a policy imperative: Stephen D’Alessandro, Cybersecurity CRC On August 22, 2018 Dr Lee Baumgartner Yes or No?’; and chaired a session on ‘Let’s – Theme Leader- who spoke on ‘Privacy and Dr Nathan Ning held a workshop to discuss stigma’. He also did considerable preserving data sharing in a hyper connected develop an economic cost benefit tool at media around the event including the launch world Cyber’. CSU Albury-Wodonga with Professor Lin of the revised Equally Well web-page. On July 12, 2018 Professor Max Crase and Dr Bethany Cooper, economists Finlayson, together with Associate from the University of South Australia, and Associate Professor Maree Bernoth Professor Dr Skye Wassens, Dr Keller partners in the Fish Passage project in Laos. was an invited speaker at the NSW Nursing Association Aged Care Nurses’ Forum, Kopf, Dr Paul Humphries and Dr Luiz Dr Lee Baumgartner went to Canberra, Quality Matters, in Sydney, October 24, 2018 Silva, attended a workshop on the ‘Medium August 29, 2018 for a meeting with ACIAR’s where she spoke on nutrition and hydration to long term effects of carp reductions’ at Research Program Manager Ann Fleming, as indicators of quality care. the North East Catchment Management and Geoff O’Keefe, 2IC of ACIAR’s new Authority’s offices in Wodonga. The Capacity Building branch, to discuss how Conference Papers workshop, hosted by North East CMA, was to better align ILWS research efforts and run by the National Carp Control Plan. institutional capacity building into its ACIAR Additionally our members present papers On July 16, 2018 Dr Lee Baumgartner projects. and posters at the various national academic conferences they attend. In 2017 and 2018 went to Goondiwindi to meet with a potential Dr Katie Doyle and Dr Lee Baumgartner project partner who owns a research farm. these included the Australian Mangrove and met with representatives from the South Saltmarsh Network Conference; 2017 The farm has the potential to be used as a Australian Research and Development test site for a possible ARC project. NSW Rural Health and Research Congress; Institute (SARDI), Arthur Rylah Institute, and 2017 Australian Regional Development From July 20 to 27, 2018, Professor Max NSW DPI in Melbourne, September 6, 2018 Conference; Australian Conference on Finlayson was in the Northern Territory to give a preliminary project update for the Science and Mathematics Education; to attend the 40th anniversary of the Fishing for Answers project and to map out Australian Campuses Towards Sustainability Environmental Research Institute of the their approach to Basin-scale analysis of fish Conference; 27th National VET (Vocational Supervising Scientist in Darwin. He gave a recruitment. Education and Training) Research presentation on reframing the concepts that Dr Lee Baumgartner and ACIAR’s Chief Conference; Asian Studies Association of led to the establishment of Kakadu National Scientist, Dr Daniel Walker, had a meeting Australia conference; Feral Horse Impacts: Park and uranium mining in a modern socio- The Kosciuszko Science Conference; and the 30 31 Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Mulwala on October 9-10, 2018. The paper Other conferences Conference. is being co-authored by ILWS members Professor Max Finlayson, Dr Wes Ward, Dr Alexandra Knight and Institute Adjunct Associate Professor Ian Lunt were active EVENTS Dr Jen Bond, Dr John Conallin, Dr Michael Mitchell, PhD student Michael Vanderzee participants in the Victorian Biodiversity Conference, held February 6 and 7, 2018, During 2017 and 2018 the Institute has been and representatives from NAPREC, Adam at La Trobe University’s Melbourne campus. directly involved in the planning of, and in Wettenhall, Shelley Scoullar and Louise The annual conference, which is supported some cases organisation of and sponsoring Burge. In addition, NAPREC is seeking by the Institute and is aimed at Early Career of national events. These included: funding for a pilot project - Winter Wetland Refuge project - with ILWS helping researchers, attracted about 280 people. NAPREC events provide academic and scientific resources. Institute Adjunct Dr Swapan Paul and One partner that the Institute has been The project will connect communities, Professor Max Finlayson were on the involved with since its inception in 2017 is landholders, education and science in the organising committee of the 6th National the National Agricultural Productivity and Murray Valley. Conference of the Australian Mangrove Reconciliation Ecology Centre (NAPREC), a SEGRA and Saltmarsh Network, held Sydney, April community-driven research and education 17 to 20, 2018. Dr Paul presented at the initiative for the Murray Valley, based Institute members continued to be involved conference which was jointly hosted by in Deniliquin, NSW. The involvement in the annual SEGRA (Sustainable Economic the Sydney Olympic Park Authority and commenced with a pre-conference planning Growth for Regional Australia) conferences. Macquarie University. meeting with NAPREC representatives at Professor Max Finlayson, Professor Mark the Albury-Wodonga campus in March 2017 Morrison and Institute Adjunct Professor VISITORS attended by Professor Max Finlayson, Dr Lee Peter Waterman attended the 21st Baumgartner and Dr Jennifer Bond. annual SEGRA conference in Port August, The Institute has a number of visitors SA, October 23-27, 2017 where Professor which, at the national level, includes project The inaugural NAPREC conference was Finlayson facilitated a Group Focus Session partners and members of research tems, held in Deniliquin, October 4 & 5, 2017. on getting science and evidence back visiting academics and special invited guest The theme of the conference was 'Positive into policy and decision making; chaired speakers. In 2017 and 2018 some of these Partnerships for Pathways to Sustainable a workshop session on sustaining coastal visitors were: Agriculture and Biodiversity'. The conference regions; was a panel member of a discussion introduced the concept of 'reconciliation on National Conservation for Regional Policy; Associate Professor Martine Maron ecology' and highlighted the value of the presented a challenge topic on regional from the University of Queensland's School human side of natural resource management Australians informing strategies for education of Earth and Environmental Sciences, who (NRM.) The conference attracted farmers, to employment; and together with Professor visited the Albury-Wodonga campus in March researchers (nine members from ILWS), Peter Waterman further developed the 2017. While here she presented a seminar industry and government representatives. Safe and Secure Domestic Water project. on "Biodiversity offsetting and no net loss in dynamic landscapes" attended by about A NAPREC progress meeting was then held Professor Morrison gave a presentation on 30 people including staff and NRM agency in Denilquin on December 19, 2017. Five CenWest Innovate. representatives from the NSW Office of ILWS members met with NAPREC leaders The 22nd annual SEGRA conference was Environment & Heritage, and Department of and interested stakeholders in Deniliquin to held in Mackay, Queensland, October 22-25, Environment, Land, Water and Planning. discuss how the centre can best forward 2018. At the conference Professor Mark its core values of understanding, trust, Morrison announced CSU’s research support In August, 2017, researchers - Dr Lee ownership and partnership to encourage ($100,000) for the Education Challenge Baumgartner, Brett Pflugrath (NSW sustainable agricultural production in from 2017. The funding will be used to build Fisheries), Dr Luiz Silva, Dr Craig Boys southern Australia. The morning workshop on initial research jointly led by Professor (ILWS Adjunct and NSW Fisheries), Jason was followed by an afternoon field trip and John Hicks and Associate Professor Thiem (ILWS adjunct – NSW Fisheries), discussions around the Frogs in Rice project Tom Murphy from the Western Research Gavin Butler (NSW Fisheries), Cameron funded by Rice Growers Australia. Institute to identify where and what the skills Westaway (NSW Fisheries) - involved in the Fishing for Answers project, met at In 2018, a NAPREC planning workshop was shortages are in regional areas, and to work the Albury-Wodonga campus to plan their held in Deniliquin, June 26-28. Professor with local governments, education providers experimental approach and develop a Max Finlayson was joined by Dr Jen Bond, and schools to understand the drivers and workplan for the coming 12 months. PhD student Mike Vanderzee and Dr Wes mechanisms to create regions with a supply of potential employees. Ward and a group of local landholders. The Dr Judy Dunlop, co-supervisor of ILWS purpose of the workshop was to commence ILWS members who spoke at the conference PhD student Harry Moore, visited the Institute compiling a collaborative concept paper on included Dr Rui Bi, Professor Mark in March, 2018. Dr Dunlop from the WA NAPREC and the concept of reconciliation Morrison, and Institute Adjunct Professor Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and ecology, its significance, and the role it Peter Waterman. Professor Mark Morrison Attractions, gave a presentation on 'quolls can play in the Murray Valley. A second was also involved in pre-conference and rockholes in the Pilbara region' at the NAPREC writing workshop was held at sessions. Albury-Wodonga campus. 32 Special guest at a one day workshop Adjunct Dr Penny Davidson was awarded "Engaging with Sustainable Development the Frank Stewart Distinguished Service Goals" at Albury-Wodonga campus on Award at the 2017 National Parks and October 18, 2018 convened by Professor Leisure Australia Conference on the Gold Manohar Pawar, was Ms Patricia Garcia, Coast, October 2017. The Frank Stewart AO, National Program Manager UN Award recognises an individual who has Sustainable Development Goals, United provided distinguished contribution to Nations Association of Australia (UNAA). the parks and leisure industry over many years. Dr Davidson, a regular presenter at AWARDS national conferences, was recognised for the extensive contribution she has made 3. Our members continue to be recognised for through her National Board representation, 1. their contributions to their fields of expertise. as well as her ongoing contributions to the Awards at the national level in 2017 and industry journal - especially in the areas 2018 included: of academic and practitioner research. In addition, Penny has been Chair of the PLA PhD student Kim Nelson was the Advisory committee which advises on policy lead author of the paper, Nelson, K., development and research agendas for Parks Ragusa, A., Black, R. (2018) Qualitative and Leisure. narrative methodology as a framework for understanding self-identity in Niseko, Japan. Dr Lee Baumgartner, Dr Wayne The paper, which was presented at the Robinson, Dr Joanne Millar, Adjunct 2018 Council for Australasian Tourism and Dr Craig Boys, Jarrod McPherson, Dr Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) conference, John Conallin and Dr Nathan Ning, as Newcastle, Feb 5-8 was awarded 'Best members of the "Quantifying biophysical and Qualitative Paper' at the conference. Kim was community impacts of improved fish passage 2. also awarded one of three CAUTHE 2018 in Lao PDR and Myanmar" project, received PhD Scholar Bursary Awards. a CSU Excellence Award on July 18, 2018. Associate Professor Maree Bernoth and Dr Denise Winkler's book Healthy Ageing and Aged Care was awarded the 2017 Educational Publishing Awards Australia for the best Tertiary Student Resource at the awards ceremony in Melbourne, September 2017. Maree and Denise are editors of the book, published by Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand, which features chapters written by a number of ILWS members. The judges commended the publication for the richness of the videos and the quality of the case studies which linked the content to the real world and elevated and humanised the publication. The book also won an Australasian Association of Gerontology Highly Commended Award. Associate Professor Rachel Whitsed, Dr Alexandra Knight, Associate Professor Rosemary Black and CSU's Robin Harvey, were co-authors of a paper 'Better rural city 3. park planning to improve older people's health and well- being" which took out the Images best rural public/population health research presentation at the 2017 NSW Rural Health 1. Field trip as part of the NAPREC collaboration. & Research Congress, Wagga Wagga, September 27-29, 2017. The paper was 2. Visitor Dr Judy Dunlop from the WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and based on their Better Parks for People Attractions. project. 3. Associate Professor Rachel Whitsed (left) and Dr Alexandra Knight (and Associate Professor Rosemary Black) had an award winning paper. 33 ENGAGEMENT: INTERNATIONAL

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT of off-grid renewable energy services" at the climate change and recognises the role that World Renewable Energy Congress XVI in wetlands play in the carbon cycle. Our members' engagement with Perth in February, 2017. Professor Max Finlayson is a member stakeholders at the international level has Associate Professor Rosemary Black of the Global Mangrove Watch, an Alliance been crucial in securing funding for our was invited to present a keynote on whose purpose is to provide an update large international projects, maintaining and "Researching tour guides and guiding: on the change in global mangrove cover building on our existing relationships and Mapping the past, charting the future" as since 1995. He participates in regular video partnerships, and in achieving the Institute the International Research Forum for Guided conference meetings, and in 2017, attended objective: To maintain and enhance our Tours, held in March, 2018, at Roskilde the 37th International Symposium on Remote profile as an internationally recognised University, near Copenhagen, Denmark. This Sensing of Environment in Tshwane, South provider of integrated quality research conference, held bi-annually, brings together Africa, May 8-12, where, as a joint author that enhances environmental, social and researchers, students and practitioners he presented a paper on mangrove decline economic conditions in rural and regional interested in tour guides and guiding. in Kakadu National Park; and June 5-9 areas, in Australia and overseas. attended the Society of Wetland Scientists Institute researchers, working in Laos on Ways in which our members engage at annual meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico fish passage research in the Mekong River the international level include being on where he gave a presentation on the die- Basin, have worked with the Australian advisory, technical reference and academic back of mangroves in Kakadu National Park. Embassy to produce a Policy Brief on groups; meeting with in-country government Research Findings at the request of the Dr Wayne Robinson worked at the ministers and departmental staff; partnering Laos government to determine how research Panthera office in Cali, Columbia for five with international academic and research outcomes could be translated into new weeks in April and May, 2017, helping to institutions to deliver research projects; policy. The brief Incorporating fish passage process and analysing numerous data sets representing Australia and the Institute in in sustainable development practices and the NGO, which is working to save jaguars, the international academic arena; presenting policy in Lao PDR outlines the potential has accumulated over the past several years. at workshops, forums, seminars and policy implications on sustainable fisheries conferences; supervising international Dr Lee Baumgartner and Institute Adjunct and irrigation expansion in that country. students and hosting international visitors. Professor Martin Mallen-Cooper The brief was presented by the Australian participated in a scoping tour in June 2017 Some examples during 2017 and 2018 Ambassador to Lao PDR, Mr John Williams, of Xayaburi Dam, the first mainstem dam to include: and discussed at a special meeting with the be constructed on the Lower Mekong River, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry in Laos northern Laos. The trip was a collaborative As the treasurer of Guiding Organisations in March, 2017. Australia, Associate Professor Rosemary effort between Australian and USA scientists Black represented Australia at the 17th Professor David Watson spent a month to advise on a monitoring program that will International Convention of the World in Colombia in Latin America mid-2017 be implemented when the dam becomes Federation of Tourist Guide Associations where he gave a presentation at the 28th operational in 2019. The visit occurred by (WFTGA) with the convention theme of International Congress for Conservation invitation of the Xayaburi Power Company "Iran: Friendly faces, open arms, ancient Biology, July 23-27, at Cartagena Colombia Limited. In November 2017 Dr Baumgartner cultures, timeless charms" held January 28 to on WA's Great Western Woodlands project, then participated in a country consultation February 1, 2017, in Tehran, Iran. and began research on "call playback", the between Department of Foreign Affairs and use of a phone App to help identify birds, Trade and Australian Centre for International Professor Max Finlayson, as a member with colleague Dr Mike Craig, from the Agricultural Research. The aim was to of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands University of WA. The two spent time out in present the new Xayaburi Dam research Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP), the field in Colombia with birding guides in program to a wide-range of stakeholders was highly involved in its planning meetings, the foothills of the Andes. including the Ministry of Natural Resources workshops, publications, conventions and and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture as a representative at various international In June, 2017, Professor Max Finlayson and Forestry, the Ministry of Energy and conferences. During 2017, he attended participated in a workshop at the Society Mines and the Mekong River Commission. two meetings of the STRP at Ramsar's of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting in Since then the Institute has secured funding headquarters in Gland, Switzerland where San Juan, Puerto Rico, South America on from the power company for a project to his main tasks (with colleagues) were to the complexity of managing wetlands in the monitor the effectiveness of the fish passages plan and draft a report on the state of Caribbean related to efforts by Ramsar to that have been installed. the world's wetlands (presented at the develop a project in a number of Caribbean Ramsar Convention in Paris, late 2018) and countries on the vulnerability of coastal Professor Max Finlayson took part in a contribute to a Ramsar report reviewing the wetlands. Professor Max Finlayson was also webinar on the United Nations Sustainable application of Earth Observation, for wetland one of the contributors to, and among the Development Goal 6.6 which is about management. He attended his last meeting 200 signatories of, the San Juan Statement determining change in wetlands at the global as a STRP panel member in January, 2018. on Climate Change posted by the Society scale, June 2017. of Wetland Scientists in June, 2017. The Professor Manohar Pawar is the new PhD student Bharat Poudel presented a Statement supports the importance of president of the International Consortium for paper on "Criteria for sustainable operation international frameworks for addressing 34 Social Development (ICSD), an international Finlayson went to The Netherlands in A group of water managers from Talanga and organisation dedicated to creating peaceful September, 2017 to meet with researchers Andhra Pradesh, India visited Australia on a solutions to the problems of humanity's from IHE Delft to discuss collaboration, future ICEWaRM technical tour in January, 2018. survival at the local, national and global activities, and again in September 2018. The NSW leg, led by Dr Kelvin Montagu, levels. He gave his incoming presidential focussed on water management along the Professor Manohar Pawar was invited address at the ICSD's 20th International Murrumbidgee River. On January 25, the by the Council on Social Work Education to Scientific Conference in Zagreb, Croatia, July group met up with ILWS member Dr Julia present the 2017 Hokenstad International 7-11, 2017. Howitt and CEWO’s Madeline Gorham Lecture at the CSWE Annual Program at CSU's Wagga campus. The pair gave In July, 2017 Dr Lee Baumgartner Meeting in Dallas, Texas, October 19-22. presentations that provided greater insight and ILWS PhD student Vu Vi An (who In November 2017 Professor Max into the management and complexities of represented the Vietnamese government) Finlayson was in Florida, U.S. where he environmental water. attended a planning meeting in Bangkok gave an invited presentation on “Climate on extending the outcomes of the ACIAR As a member of Scientific Committee of the Change Impacts on Coastal Ecosytems Fish Passage project in Laos to Cambodia, International Lake Environment Committee – Evidence from Australia’s Great Barrier Myanmar and Vietnam. The meeting was (ILEC) Professor Max Finlayson was in Reef and Mangroves” for the Edward and with people from Myanmar Department of Kusatsu City in Japan, January 2018, for a Bonnie Foreman Biodiversity Lecture Series Fisheries, ACIAR, US Geological Survey meeting to plan the 2018 International Lake at Stetson University College of Law, on and fisheries agencies in Laos, Vietnam and conference. Tampa Bay in Florida, U.S.; and took part in Cambodia. The Cambodian Secretary of a ELI-Stetson Wetlands Workshop and panel Dr James Van Dyke gave a presentation on Fisheries His Excellency Nao Thuok, who discussion on the state of the Caribbean "Integrating animal reproduction: applications was at the meeting, has taken a personal reefs, Florida mangroves and salt marshes, from evolution to conservation" to the interest in seeing this work extended to and Tampa Bay’s seagrass beds. Department of Ecology, James Madison Cambodia and briefed the Cambodian prime University in Virginia, U.S. on January 26, minister on the workshop. Dr Kim Thompson gave a keynote 2018. presentation on A theoretical model for While in Lahore in Pakistan August 21-25, digital inclusion: Policy and practice. Plenary Institute Adjunct Dr Swapan Paul gave 2017 to progress and set future actions session for the Symposium on Theories of a presentation at a special symposium at for the ACIAR funded project Improving Information Disparity in Tianjin, People’s Nanjing University, China, organised with groundwater management to enhance Republic of China, Oct 26, 2017. the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Feb agriculture and farming livelihoods 2-4, 2018 on the successful marriage in Pakistan, Professor Max Finlayson In November 2017, Associate Professor between urban development and wetland took part in a meeting with that country's Maree Bernoth went to Malaysia at the conservation within Sydney Olympic Park. Department of Environmental Protection to invitation of Nambucca Valley Care, an aged discuss water pollution and wetland issues. care organisation that CSU has an MOU with. Dr Michael Mitchell, Dr Richard Culas While in Malaysia she looked at that country's and Institute Adjunct Dr Jay Punthakey On September 7, 2017 Dr Lee existing aged care facilities and liaised with were part of an ACIAR delegation that Baumgartner gave a presentation to the Malaysian universities and talked about their met with Mr Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary US State Department in Washington on the education programs. Agriculture, Supply & Prices Government ACIAR Fish Passage project and sustainable of Sindh and his team in Karachi, Pakistan, river development. This followed an informal In November 2017 Dr Wayne Robinson February 7, 2018. The meeting was to further meeting on the previous day with staff from and Dr Lee Baumgartner attended a scope the ACIAR project Improving Salinity the US Embassy who specialise in Mekong meeting with Mr Khamhou Phanthavong and Agricultural Water Management in the issues. from LAO’s Department of Irrigation, Ministry Indus Basin of Pakistan. Dr Michael Mitchell, of Agriculture and Forestry, (MAF) and Dr Lee Baumgartner, Dr Wayne Dr Jay Punthakey and Dr Richard Culas also representatives from the World Bank in Robinson, Dr Luiz Silva and PhD student attended a meeting at the IUCN (International Vientiane, LAO. The meeting was to discuss Vu Vi An attended the American Fisheries Union for the Conservation of Nature) office in a MOU between CSU (and in country Society's 147th Annual Meeting at Tampa, Karachi, Pakistan on February 10, 2018. partners), the WB and MAF to oversee a Florida, U.S., August 20-24, 2017 where monitoring program to evaluate the efficacy The Red Panda Conservation Workshop: they ran a symposium on the impact of river of a number of MAF works that have been Ensuring the future of red panda development on tropical fisheries. An also installed on irrigation structures with an aim landscapes through national and regional gave a presentation on diadromous fish in the to improve fish migration. collaboration, was held May 1-3, 2018, in Mekong River. Bhutan. The workshop was organised by Professor Manohar Pawar was invited to Institute Adjunct Professor Nick Davidson ILWS researchers (Dr Joanna Millar and deliver a special guest lecture at University attended a National Climate Change Dr Kuenga Tenzing), Sakteng Wildlife of Mysore, Mysore, India, on January 8, Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) Sanctuary, Department of Forest & Park 2018. He presented some of the findings workshop in Brisbane in August 2017. Services, and WWF Bhutan. of his ARC Discovery project, Virtuous In his capacity as the Ramsar Chair for the practitioners: empowering social Dr Rachel Whitsed presented a paper, Wise Use of Wetlands, Professor Max workers. Whitsed, R., Horta, A., Soares, A. & Jelinek, 34 35 H. (2018) An Uncertainty-Based Approach International Conference on the Theory of institutional research group which met to Quantify the Spatial Representativeness Information Retrieval; and 2018 Council in Seymour, Victoria, October 1-3 to of Local Health Datasets, at the 13th for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality continue work on its project "Reflecting on International Symposium of Spatial Accuracy Education (CAUTHE) conference. Practice: Exploring the effects of education in Beijing, China (21-25 May) for sustainability in teacher education, EVENTS professional development, and community Conference papers engagement." The group of which Dr John Our members regularly present papers During 2017 and 2018 the Institute organised Rafferty is a member, included academics at the various international academic and sponsored a number of events with an from Manhattan College and the University conferences and . In 2017 and 2018 some an international focus and partners. These of Vermont, in the USA, and other Australian of these were the American Society for the include: tertiary institutions. Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Fish Passage 2018 (ALSO) 2018 Summer Meeting; ANZSOC Opportunities in Myanmar workshop 2018 Conference; Australian New Zealand In February, 2017, ILWS hosted a workshop Hailed as a resounding success, the 2018 Marketing Academy Conference; Australasian focused on project partnership opportunities International Conference in River Connectivity, Ornithological Conference; Australasian in Myanmar. The three-day workshop, which incorporated the First Symposium on Animal Studies Conference; Eco TAS 2017 held in Albury, brought together experts Hydropower and Fish Management, attracted The Ecological Society of Australia and with specialities in economic development, over 350 delegates from over 30 countries the New Zealand Ecological Society joint fisheries, sediment, river flow, wetlands, around the world to the Albury Entertainment conference; EcoCity World Summit; DYUTI sustainable development, to consider Centre, Albury, NSW, December 10-14. 2019 Global Social Work Conference on opportunities for Basin scale planning for It was the first time the conference, co- Multi-sectoral and Interdisciplinary Responses Myanmar. to Health and Well-being; European hosted by NSW Department of Primary Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Fourteen people attended the workshop Industries- Fisheries and the Institute for General conference; 28th Australasian which was organised and facilitated by Dr Land, Water and Society, was held in the Conference on Information Systems; Fish Lee Baumgartner and Dr John Conallin under Southern Hemisphere. Australia put up Passage International Conference on River the direction of Institute Director Professor its hand in 2016 to hold the conference Connectivity; Gender, Work and Organisation Max Finlayson, also the Ramsar Chair for the here as conference co-convenor Dr Lee 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Wise Use of Wetlands with IHE-Delft. Baumgartner, was keen to show the latest advances made in Australia and South East Conference; International Astacology Attendees included international visitors, Conference; International Social Marketing Asia in fish passage technologies. Fellow co- Professor Ken Irvine from Delft-IHE, The convenor was Matthew Gordos, NSW DPI. Conference 2018; International Conference Netherlands, and Prof Doug Shaw from The on Computational and Mathematical Nature Conservancy, Minnesota, USA (whom Other than the many and varied conference Methods in Science Engineering CMMSE and Institute Adjuncts Dr Martin Mallen- presentations, other highlights of the 2018; International Communication and Cooper, from Fishway Consulting Services conference were the welcome reception and Media Conference; International Research and Dr Tim Marsden from Australasian Fish cultural evening which included a traditional Forum for Guided Tours Conference; Passage Services. smoking ceremony and welcome to country; International Metropolis Conference; the announcement of the 2018 Distinguished Society of Environmental Toxicology and The team spent three days in detailed Project Award which went to a research team Chemistry (SETAC) Australasia conference; discussions regarding potential research led by Dr Lee Baumgartner; the launch of the International Association for Society and priorities on water and land development Wetland Book 1 and 2, of which Professor the Commons Conference; International issues in Myanmar. They settled on four Max Finlayson is the lead editor; launch Ornithological Congress; 3rd International thematic areas for further development: of a Special Issue of Marine & Freshwater Compassionate Conservation Conference; • Migratory fish ecology and connectivity Research "Fish Passage 2018 & Hydropower International Bioacoustic Congress; Symposium" produced specifically for the Joint World Conference on Social Work, • Sustainable hydro-power conference; the public lecture by National Education and Social Development 2018 Geographic Channel presenter and University • Irrigation systems and off-channel ; The Migration Conference,Greece; XXVII of Nevada academic Dr Zeb Hogan; habitats European Society for Rural Sociology the announcement of the 2018 Career Congress; 24th Biannual Asia Pacific • Integrated water resource management Achievement Award which went to Institute Joint Regional Social Work Conference; in Inle Lake Adjunct Professor Mallen-Cooper; and the 20th Biennial International Symposium First Symposium on Hydropower and Fish of the International Consortium for The meeting was very productive and set the Management, organised by Dr Luis Silva. Social Development (ICSD) conference; scene for future international collaboration 2017 International Conference Applied which has since eventuated. A number of pre-conference workshops were held at CSU Albury-Wodonga campus Mathematics, Computational Science and Reflecting on Practice workshop Systems Engineering; 14th International including an ILWS organised workshop Conference on Environmental, Cultural, The Institute hosted a meeting of an "SDGs, fisheries production and irrigation Economic & Social Sustainability; 8th international, cross discipline and multi- modernisation", which sought to link the 36 Sustainable Development Goals concept CindyI Blackstock from Canada visited world's wetlands. The volunteer project was to global inland fisheries production. The CSU Bathurst as a Visiting Scholar, August launched in May 2017 and is a collaboration workshop was attended by 26 participants 27 to 31, 2018. While here Professor between ILWS; the Society of Wetland from countries including the USA, Lao Blackstock, whose visit was funded by the Scientists, (particularly its Ramsar section PDR, Romania, Germany, Indonesia, The Faculty of Arts & Education, gave a public of which Mr McInnes is a past chair and Netherlands, South Africa, Myanmar, lecture on “Indigenous ways of doing moral Professor Davidson the current chair); the Vietnam, Cambodia, the UK, Italy, Brazil and and respectful courage” on August 28. World Wetland Network, a network facilitating Australia and New Zealand. Her visit also provided an opportunity for engagement with local (mostly community CSU researchers to engage with Professor based) wetland related NGOs world-wide; The conference attracted not only financial Blackstock to develop an “Indigenous and the UK based Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. support from ACIAR, sponsors Hydro Knowledges Stream” at CSU. Tasmania, the NSW Government, the In 2017 a PhD student from Brazil André Fisheries Research and Development Associate Professor Doug Bird, from Vieira Galuch was based at CSU's Albury- Corporation, and various agencies, but Pennsylvania State University, U.S visited the Wodonga campus for a couple of months extensive media coverage, regionally and Institute in May, 2017. While here he gave as a visiting scholar. While here, André, a nationally. a seminar at the Albury-Wodonga campus student of the course of Freshwater Biology on May 17 on 'Livelihoods, fire regimes and and Inland Fisheries (BADPI) at the National Some of the many international visitors/ novel ecosystems in Indigenous Australia.' Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), in partners with whom the Institute has He is an Associate Professor of ecological Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, worked on his connections and who attended the anthropology, with broad interests in how PhD "Larval fish and the impact of dams on conference included: social and ecological factors interact to the Madeira River," and with fish ecologist • a team from Myanmar including influence patterns of resource use and their Dr Paul Humphries on their mutual study the Director General of Myanmar's archaeological expressions. He and his wife area – the dispersal of larval drift in relation Department of Fisheries, Khin Maung Professor Rebecca Bird are collaborators on to flow. His visit was sponsored by Brazilian Maw, international Relations project Dr Dale Nimmo's ARC Discovery Early Career Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of OfficerNyunt Win, Fisheries Director Researcher Award project Can Indigenous Graduate Education. land management forestall an extinction (Kachin State) Maung Maung In December 2017, Dr Lee Baumgartner, crisis? (2017-2020) which builds on the Lwin, and Irrigation engieer with the Dr Luiz Silva and Mr Vu Vi An hosted a team's Hermon Slade Foundation funded Department of Irrigation, Kyi Wai. delegation of scientists from Indonesia project Can Indigenous fire management who were interested in learning about fish • Dr Arif Wibowo, Director of the restore mammal communities? (2016- passage and potential applications in tropical research Institute for Inland Fisheries 2019) and Chiedf of the Inland Fishery systems. The delegation included Dr Arif Resources Development and Apart from those who came for the Fish Wibowo and Dr Vipen Adisanh who were Management Department - South East Passage 2018 conference other international treated to a tour of Southern NSW and Asian Fisheries Development Centre, visitors included: the ACT. The delegation stopped at the Indonesia Yarrawonga fishlift, various fishway sites Professor Ken Irvine, Chair of the Aquatic in Deniliquin, Narrandera Fisheries Centre, • Professor Jürgen Geist, chair Ecosystems Group, IHE-Delft's Water Charles Sturt University in Wagga and ACIAR professor of the Aquatic Systems Science and Engineering Department, and in Canberra. Biology and director of the Limnological Dr Doug Shaw, the Associate State Director Research Station, Technical University of for The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota, Five economists from the Institute's Munich, Germany North Dakota and South Dakota. The two groundwater project in Pakistan were in attend the "Myanmar Project Partnership Australia May 26 to June 3, 2018, to attend • Institute Adjunct Dr Matthew Opportunities" workshop, held on CSU's a training program in Sydney where they McCartney, Principal Researcher Albury campus, February 7-9. learnt how to use MAD (Mobile Acquired Hydrology & Water Resources, Data) applications for collecting survey International Water Management Dr Gordon O'Brien a principal scientist from data. While here they met with project team Institute. the University of Kwazulu-Natal, in South members Associate Professor Catherine Africa, who specialises in fish ecology, visited Allan, Dr Michael Mitchell, Dr Jay Punthakey VISITORS Australia in September, 2017. While here Dr and Dr Richard Culas. O'Brien visited the Yarrawonga Fish Lift, for The Institute always seems to get lots of the first lift of the season. He also attended Jan du Preez, from JAD Systems, was in international visitors and 2017 and 2018 the Fish Passage 2018 conference. Australia in June for a week in 2018 to work were no exception. closely with ILWS staff to install, commission Institute Adjuncts Professor Nick and train researchers to use his Fast transient Two of our visitors have research interests Davidson and Mr Rob McInnes, both Hyperbaric Chamber. This special piece of aligned with Indigenous knowledge and from the UK, were in Australia in October laboratory equipment, which Jan designed communities. They were: for a week in 2017 to work with other and built overseas (in the U.S. and South Institute researchers on an international Africa) is being used for Snowy Hydro International academic scholar and First citizen-science project on the state of the project, Predicting redfin survival through Nations Human Rights activist Professor 37 the Snowy 2.0 scheme. Assignment 2. Social Workers in India (NAPSWI)'s Lifetime Adjunct Professor Martin Mallen-Cooper Achievement Award for 2017. NAPSWI is was awarded the 2018 Career Achievement Eduardo Brambilla, a PhD student at one of the largest organisations of social Award at the international Fish Passage 2018 Brazil’s São Paulo State University (UNESP), workers in India. The annual award is given conference held December 2018 in Albury for was in Australia for six months (August to a professional social work educator his decades of contributions to the field. 2018 to February 2019). While here he was who has made a significant contribution by The research project Fish passage involved in the Institute’s research work for enriching the knowledge base of the social research and development at low- the Snowy 2.0 project, and other fish related work profession at the global level. The head barriers in Southeast Asia led research projects both in Australia and award was presented at the 5th Indian Social by Dr Lee Baumgartner was awarded overseas, working with Dr Lee Baumgartner, Work Congress, November 10-12, 2017, at the Distinguished Project Award at the Dr Luiz Silva and other members of that Shree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, international Fish Passage 2018 conference ILWS team. Eduardo was on a scholarship Kalady, Kerala, India. from the Brazilian Council of Higher Degree in Albury, December 2018. The award Programs (CAPES) via a program of the Adjunct Rob McInnes received an recognised the collaborative efforts of the Brazilian Federal Government to provide International Fellow of the Society of Wetland National University of Laos, the Lao Living for international exchange of higher degree Scientists at the Society's annual meeting in Aquatic Resources Centre, ILWS and the students. Denver, Colorado, May 29 to June 1, 2018. NSW Department of Primary Industries in developing effective fish passage criteria Visiting the Institute twice in November, Associate Professor Dominic O’Sullivan’s at low-head barriers in the Mekong River 2018, was PhD student Sam Perrin from book Beyond Bioculturalism: the politics of catchment in Lao PDR. the Norwegian University of Science and an indigenous minority (2007) was selected Technology. Sam, whose PhD is looking at by The Royal Society of New Zealand in 2018 An ILWS team (Associate Professor Dale the effect of climate change on freshwater as one of the 150 most important scholarly Nimmo, Dr James Turner, Dr James Van fish communities, particularly invasive books by a Maori author since the first Dyke, Dr Maggie Watson, PhD student species, was here to write a collaborative published work in 1815. Another book on the Harry Moore) together with Karen Retra and paper with Dr Keller Kopf and to do some list, Terror in Our Midst, includes a chapter Dr Damian Michael competed in the first field work for a project Keller leadsNative written by Associate Professor O'Sullivan. annual QuestaGame University bioQuest, an and invasive fish dispersal, spawning app-based game that lets users all over the Professor Manohar Pawar was one of and trophic dynamics during a managed world win points by spotting, photographing the three Charles Sturt University (CSU) river-floodplain connection. and identifying wildlife. Over the month the social work academics named ‘Social Work team found 224 different species, more Conservation biologist Dr Alex Bond, who is Educator of the Year’ at the 2018 Australia than half of which were on CSU's Albury- the Senior Curator in Charge of Birds at the and NZ Social Work and Welfare Education Wodonga campus. The team won the Most Natural History Museum in London, visited and Research symposium in September. Valuable Team Ribbon, or the team with the the Institute and CSU's Albury-Wodonga The award was won by Professor Pawar, highest average number of points per player. campus in December 20918 where he Professor Wendy Bowles and Associate Additionally our players were in the top 10 in gave a talk on "Trash Talk; The story of the Professor Karen Bell for their new book, five of the six game categories, including Top Shearwater and the Bottle Cap." Social work: Innovations and insights, that Spotters - Universities, Correct Identifications compiled presentations and issues covered - Top Teams and Top Spotters (Individuals). AWARDS at a 2017 symposium celebrating 25 years of social work education at CSU. Dr Julia Howitt was the winner of the #Chem4Life Outreach Competition (which Our members also continue to be recognised ILWS members won two of the four for their contributions to their fields of ran November 12-18,2018) sponsored by best paper awards at the International open access publisher Hindawi for her tweets expertise in the international arena. In 2017 Communication and Media Conference and 2018 these included: on carbon and nutrient dynamics in rivers/ (ICome) in Penang, Malaysia, October 20- floodplains. Professor Max Finlayson was elected 21, 2018. PhD student Lucia Würsch and by the Board of the Society of Wetland Associate Professor Peter Simmons Scientists as a Fellow of the Society. His won best paper for a study based on Lucia’s award was presented at the society's annual doctoral studies: Würsch, L. & Simmons, P. meeting in June 2017 in San Juan, Puerto (2018) Human and strategic benefits arising Rico. from embedding Transactional Analysis in an organisation; and Associate Professor In October 2017 Dr Luiz Silva (pictured Peter Simmons and Dr Michael Mehmet right) received the Odebrecht Award for won best paper for a paper based on their Sustainable Development, a Brazilian national research examining shark management: sustainability award for his work on a project Simmons, P. & Mehmet, M. (2018) Respect that aims to mitigate the impact of hydro- for marine life, hope for technology, and turbines (hydropower) on fish mortality. anger at the media: A focus group and social Professor Manohar Pawar was awarded media study of ocean user attitudes to shark the National Association of Professional management. 38 Images

1. Members of the research project team that won the Distinguished Project Award receive their award at Fish Passage 2018 conference in Albury, NSW. 2. Professor Max Finlayson with Fish Passage 2018 speaker Professor Jürgen Geist from Germany. 3. Associate Professor Maree Bernoth was in Malaysia to look at that country's existing aged care facilities and liaise with Malaysian universities. 4. Jan du Preez, from JAD Systems, was in Australia working to install, commission and train researchers to use his Fast transient Hyperbaric Chamber. 5. ILWS researchers were part of an ACIAR delegation that met with Mr Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Agriculture, Supply 1. & Prices, Government of Sindh, and his team in Karachi, Pakistan.

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The Institute promotes internal engagement Directions in Social Development, for which chapters. Other ILWS authors include Dr Lee amongst its members and with the wider Professor Pawar wrote four chapters, came Baumgartner, Dr Luiz Silva, Dr Jamin Forbes, CSU community by organising activities and out of the 4th International Consortium for and Institute Adjuncts Randy Milton, Dr Rob events, training courses, special morning Social Development (ISCD) – Asia Pacific McInnes, Professor Nick Davidson, Dr Ritesh teas to welcome visitors and new members, conference, “Envisioning New Social Kumar and Dr Jason Thiem. and internal communications which include Development Strategies Beyond Millennium the fortnightly email bulletin ILWS Updates; Development Goals,” held in Yogyakarta, SDGS WORKSHOP and the quarterly Institute newsletter Indonesia, in 2012. As well as presenting Connections which has both an internal and the historical context and progress of social Eleven people had the opportunity to hear external audience. Internal events in 2017 development, the book, by reflecting on the an enthusiastic presentation on October 18, and 2018 included: Millennium and Sustainable Development 2018, on the current state of the world’s Goals, discusses the increasing global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, ILWS BOOK LAUNCH relevance of several critical themes and in particular, how Australia is faring (or not issues such as human rights and good faring as is the case) at an ILWS “Engaging ILWS hosted a special morning tea for 38 governance, participation, peace, gender, with Sustainable Development Goals” guests on February 27, 2018 to launch environment, religion and spirituality, ageing, workshop at the Albury-Wodonga campus. six books by ILWS authors/editors. The social protection and partnership. The aim of the one-day workshop was to books show the diversity of our research Empowering Social Workers: Virtuous brainstorm potential engagement with the expertise and include chapters by other Practitioners, is an outcome of the first stage SDGs in terms of research and grants and ILWS members.Of special note is Community of an ARC Discovery project - Virtuous interdisciplinary perspectives. Forestry in Nepal, edited by Dr Rik Thwaites, Practitioners: Empowering Social Robert Fisher and Dr Mohan Poudel. This Workers. (2014-2017). It contains in-depth Special guest at the workshop, which was book is the culmination of 10 years work biographies of 10 social workers, chosen convened by Professor Manohar Pawar, was and includes research which resulted in four because they are well-regarded in their field Ms Patricia Garcia AO, National Program PhDs. The books are: and representative of gender and the various Manager UN Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Association of Associate Professor Maree Bernoth and Dr social work agencies. Australia (UNAA). Professor Pawar said he Denise Winkler are co-editors/authors of Dr Rik Thwaites is the lead editor of the book was motivated to organise the workshop Healthy Ageing and Aged Care, published by Community Forestry in Nepal: Adapting to because of the members’ interest in Oxford University Press. The book has won a Changing World, published by Routledge, discussing the SDGs. The workshop two national awards – the 2017 Educational along with Robert Fisher and former ILWS generated practical ideas of how ILWS can Publishing Awards for the best Tertiary PhD student Dr Mohan Poudel. Dr Thwaites contribute to achieving the SDGs. Student Resource, and an Australasian is a co-author of nine of the book’s 10 Association of Gerontology Highly chapters, a number of which are based on Commended Award. The book contains a the research findings of four previous ILWS CREATING VIDEO WORKSHOPS combination of stories about older people, PhD students – Dr Mohan Poudel, Dr Binod The Institute ran two workshops to introduce pictures and videos...and very few stats. Devkota, Dr Popular Gentle and Dr Eak ILWS members who contributed chapters to members to the basic steps involved in Rana. Former ILWS member Dr Digby Race creating and editing videos at workshops the book include Associate Professors Oliver has also co-authored two chapters. Burmeister, Rylee A. Dionigi, and Susan held on the Albury-Wodonga campus, May Mlcek. Professor Max Finlayson is the co-editor 18, 2017 and again June 26, 2018. of the book Freshwater Ecosystems Associate Professor Dominic O’Sullivan is the The workshops were run by Institute Adjunct in Protected Areas: Conversation and Professor Ian Gray who has been making author of Indigeneity: A politics of Potential, Management published by Routledge. The Australia, Fiji and New Zealand, published videos to support his reach on reviving book is part of the Earthscan Studies in regional railways, and ILWS social media by Policy Press. The book is a sequel to a Water Resource Management series and previous book he had published in 2007, co-ordinator Simone Engdahl. (Participants shows that, rather than being a marginal pictured below) Beyond Bioculturalism: the politics of an part of a protected area indigenous minority, which was a critical management, freshwater analysis of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori conservation is central to public policy. It is described as the first sustaining biodiversity. The book comprehensive integration of political theory is aimed at experts who need to explain indigenous politics. to manage or understand how Professor Manohar Pawar is a co-editor the systems work, those who of two books celebrated at the launch – train others who work in these Future Directions in Social Development, systems plus those who need to published by Palgrave Macmillan, and inform the policy makers. Empowering Social Workers: Virtuous Professor Finlayson is the co- Practitioners, published by Springer. Future author of eight of the book’s 14 40 2. 3.

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1. Participants in the Sustainable Development Goals workshop included Professor Manohar Pawar, Associate Pofessor Dominic O'Sullivan, Dr Ndungi Mungai, Dr John Rafferty, Dr Wes Ward, Dr Helen Masterman- Smith, Dr Belinda Cash, Patricia Garcia,AO, Dr Jamin Forbes, Dr Rik Thwaites and Dr Andrew Manning 2. ILWS PhD student Matt O'Connell talking to media 1. 3. Professor Max Finlayson being interviewed by 8 year old Max Whitsed 4. 2018 ILWS book launch. (From left) Dr Jennifer Munday, Dr Denise Winkler, Associate Professor Maree Bernoth, Associate Professor Dominic O'Sullivan, Professor Manohar Pawar, Dr Rik Thwaites, Dr Bill Anscombe and Professor Max Finlayson

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Our members engage regularly with • effects of fire and dingoes on fox SOCIAL MEDIA the media and are often called upon to numbers (Associate Professor Dale provide expert advice and commentary Nimmo) The Institute's social media channels, on important issues affecting rural and Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, have • Murray cods (PhD student Matt regional Australia. enabled a wider sharing of our news, O'Connell) research, events and researchers' new Engaging with the media also provides the • women in male dominated trades (Dr publications with an ever growing national opportunity for our researchers to engage Larissa Bamberry, Dr Donna Bridges) and international audience. Our Facebook with the wider community and to promote followers steadily increased and passed 500 and publicise their research and findings. • resignation from the NSW Government's by the end of 2018. Our Twitter audience also Threatened Species Scientific Our researchers engage with both traditional grew and achieved over 131,700 impressions Committee after the passing of the media (print, radio and TV) as well as social of our tweets in 2017/18 and we increased government's "brumby bill" (Professor and on-line media. our followers by 147 to finish at the end of David Watson) 2018 with 592. Our reach on our daily posts This engagement with the media or "media • media fuelling shark fear (Associate generally averages 150 people. hits" is recorded on the Institute's In the Professor Peter Simmons) News web pages on a daily basis using Our most popular posts on social media information for the University's media • release of the carp herpes virus (Dr continue to be celebrations of HDR student monitoring service. Keller Kopf, Institute Adjunct Dr Martin achievements (2018 graduation reached Mallen-Cooper) 959); visitors to the Institute including the All media releases featuring the views and/ post “Seven Fishy Amigos” about NSW or research work of our members are issued • recycling hospital waste (Professor Linda Fisheries staff visiting Dr Lee Baumgartner by CSU Media. In 2017 and 2018 there were Shields) to work on Fishing for Answers research a total of 91 media releases which covered • Global Wetland Outlook: State of the project on August 3, 2017 going out to covering a broad range of topics reflecting 1119 people and 296 engagements. Our the diversity of our members' research World's Wetlands and their services to people (Professor Max Finlayson and a frequent links to member’s articles in The expertise. All releases are accessible on our Conversation see them reach a wider web pages number of ILWS Adjuncts) Featured in more than 700 on-line articles around audience as well. Stories which got particularly high and the world The article “What the world needs now widespread media uptake included: • Fish Passage 2018 conference to fight climate change"by Professor Max • Professor Adam Steen's research Finlayson et al reached a combined audience project on Estate Planning Australia and Two of our members have regular radio of over 1800 and also over 50,000 reads on what happens to your digital assets segments: The Conversation making it one of the most popular articles that month. when you die • Dr John Rafferty's "The Science of Stuff" • Associate Professor Maree Bernoth's on ABC Goulburn-Murray mornings Interesting research finds are also popular including the discovery of river blackfish in research and views on the need for • Associate Professor Dominic Yallakool Creek, posted on May 31 2018 aged care reform O'Sullivan's "The Week in Politics" which reached 1166 readers and prompted airs on ABC Goulburn-Murray and • commentary from our aquatic ecologists 292 engagements. on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and ABC Shepparton, with another regular related issues (Associate Professor segment airing on ABC Central West On June 7, 2018 Prof Dave Watson resigned Skye Wassens, Dr Lee Baumgartner, and ABC Western Plains. from the NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee. His letter explaining his decision Professor Max Finlayson, Professor Our members also regularly write Opinion was posted on our Facebook page and Robyn Watts, Institute Adjunct Dr Martin Pieces and Articles for on-line news services Twitter feed. On Facebook it was our most Mallen-Cooper) such as The Conversation and Open Forum. engaging post for the year with a reach of • Associate Professor Dominic During 2017 there were 18 Opinion pieces 59,290 and 11,739 engagements. It also O'Sullivan's political commentary on a authored or co-authored by our members; generated a string of comments and shares. range of issues. On December 4, 2018 in 2018 that number increased to 29. By far The volume of posts has been increasing he did his 500th media interview for the most prolific writer is Associate Professor with our sources for posts coming from CSU public and commercial radio, television Dominic O'Sullivan who had a total of 21 media releases, re-posts from members and print, including more than 300 live opinion pieces published. 2018 also saw personal blogs and social media, member radio interviews. Associate Professor O'Sullivan publish his engagement activities and members 50th Opinion Piece. All Opinion Pieces by • the juvenile justice system and child publications. protection/out-of-home care (Dr Kath members are recorded on our web pages. McFarlane, Dr Emma Colvin) • benefits and costs of birds for agriculture (Dr Rebecca Peisley) 42 POSTGRADUATES

The Institute’s postgraduate students and their various research projects enhance and contribute to the body of research undertaken by the Institute. Students’ principal supervisors are generally members of the Institute while co-supervisors, often Adjunct Institute members, may come from other universities, natural resource management agencies, industry, government and non-government organisations, or other research institutions. In 2017 the Institute had 54 Higher Degree Research (HDR) Student Members, of which 13 graduated. In 2017, there were 35 HDR students, of which six graduated. The Institute offers two Government funded HDR scholarships each year to students whose research topic is aligned with one or more of the Institute’s Research Themes. 2017 ILWS scholarship recipients

Michael Vanderzee Harry Moore Topic: Socio-ecological impacts of water Topic: Northern quolls in the Pilbara Region recovery for the environment in the Murray- of WA Darling Basin Supervisors: Dr Dale Nimmo (Principal), Supervisors: Professor Max Finlayson Professor David Watson, Dr Euan Ritchie (Principal), Associate Professor Jamie Pittock (Deakin University), Dr Leonie Valentine (ANU) and Dr Jennifer Bond (University of Western Australia) and Dr Judy Dunlop (WA Department of Biodiversity, Research Theme: Environmental Water Conservation & Attractions) This study is focussed on three major Research Theme: Biodiversity Conservation water recovery programs undertaken in the Murray-Darling Basin since 2002 - the Snowy Water Initiative, the Living Murray Initiative This study, on the interactions between the Northern Quoll (an and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan - all of which had different endangered marsupial), predators and fire, and the dynamics of governance arrangements. It is investigating how they have been different habitats and landscapes, complements the Pilbara Region implemented, their success (or otherwise) in terms of water recovery Quoll Monitoring Program. Camera traps have been set up on 24 for environmental flows, and the socio-ecological implications of each landscapes over 6000 square km to monitor quolls and predators, program. It will look at lessons from the Australian experience and in the context of the fire history, composition and extent of the compare them to an international experience to see what lessons quoll's rocky habitat. The project aims to enhance understanding there may be for the future in terms of addressing environmental water of key habitat requirements for northern quolls and their habitat scarcity in the face of global change i.e. climate change, globalisation, use, and their key threats. It is supported by funding from WA corporate agriculture. Department of Biodiversity, Conservation & Attractions ($78,000) and a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment ($5500). 2018 ILWS scholarship recipients:

Joshua Hodges Dr Richard Segal Topic: Post-fire seedling recruitment in Topic: Investigating the effects of rodent grasslands of south-eastern Australia eradication on the threatened Lord Howe currawong Supervisors: Dr Jodi Price (Principal), Dr Lydia Guja (Australian National Botanical Supervisors: Dr Melanie Massaro, Dr Gardens) and Professor Adrienne Nicotra Rachel Whitsed and Nicholas Carlile (NSW (ANU) OEH) Research Theme: Biodiversity Conservation Research Theme: Biodiversity Conservation This study, which builds on Joshua's 2017 Honours project, is investigating further how The aim of this study is to investigate how a Australia’s grasslands and grassy woodlands respond to fire. Joshua rodent eradication program on Lord Howe Island during the 2019 is doing a mixture of field and laboratory experiments (at the Australian winter will impact the Lord Howe currawong and its diet; and how National Botanical Gardens) to assess factors which influence seedling a dietary shift by currawongs may influence the breeding success recruitment such as germination, dormancy and seed longevity at of white terns and the dispersal of invasive plants. The currawong the community level. His research is supported by funding from the is a known predator of white tern offspring. Pre-eradication data Australia Flora Foundation ($18,181) has already been collected. This research project is supported by funding from the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation ($36,240.)

42 43 Much of the important research carried out by the Institute is undertaken by post-graduate students under the supervision of Institute researchers. Graduation days are a big celebration of all the years' of work accomplished by our students.

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1. (From Left) Drs Zsofia Palfi, Jess Schoeman, James Dyer, Carmen Amos, Rebecca Peisley, Cécile van der Burgh, Samantha Strong, Xiaoying Liu (Sha Sha) 2. Supervisor Professor Mark Morrison with Dr Buyani Thomy 3. Vice Chancellor Professor Andy Vann and Dr Jennifer Woods. 3.

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4. Dr Adrian Clements congratulated by his Supervisor Professor Max Finlayson. 5. Supervisors Dr Keller Kopf, Professor Robyn Watts, with Drs Daniel Svozil, Adrian Clements and Supervisor Associate Professor Lee Baumgartner. 44 PUBLICATIONS

During 2017 and 2018 Institute members continued to produce Change, Journal of Psychology and Sport Exercise, Journal of Child numerous journal articles for an extensive range of national and Health Care, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Construction international academic journals. and Building Materials, Journal of Environmental Management, These include: Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Journal of Housing African Studies Review, Alternative Law Journal, Annals of Leisure and the Built Environment, Journal of Sikh and Punjab Studies, Research, Analytical Methods, Animal Conservation, Animal Studies Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Journal, Applied Energy, Applied Ocean Research, APT Bulletin, Tourism, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Australian Bulletin of Labour, Australian Critical Care, Australian Vegetation Science, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Pacific Journal of Botany, Austral Ecology, Australian and International History, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Social Sustainability in Journal of Rural Education, The Australasian Journal of Popular Economic, Social & Cultural Contexts, Journal of Medical Biography, Culture, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, Australian Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Land Use Policy, Mammalogy, Australian Social Work, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Forensic Practice, Journal of Sports Sciences, Journal Journal of Criminology, Australian Planner, Australian Journal of of Water Resources Planning and Management, Landscape and Environmental Education, Australian Journal of Zoology, Conservation Urban Planning, Local Environment, Marine Policy, Mammal Review, Biology of Australian Freshwater Turtles, Austral Ecology, Biodiversity Marine and Freshwater Research, MethodX, Mortality, Mountain and Conservation, Biological Conservation, Biological Reviews, Bird Research and Development, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nordic Conservation International, Biological Conservation, Canadian Journal Journal of Nursing Research, Nursing Open, Nursing Children and of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, BMC Genomics, Cities:The Young People, Ocean & Coastal Management, Palms, Psychology International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, Chemometrics of Sport and Exercise, Qualitative Social Work, Restoration Ecology, and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Climatic Change, Computational Restoration of Buildings and Monuments, Remote Sensing, Thermal Sciences, Conservation Biology, Conservation Genetics, Science, River Research and Applications, Royal Society Open Conservation and Society, Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Science, Small Business Economics, Small Enterprise Research, Nursing, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Current Opinion in Social Development Issues, Space and Culture, Sustainability, The Environmental Sustainability, Diversity and Distribution, Ecohydrology, Ecological Citizen, The Rangeland Journal, The Solutions Journal, Ecological Management and Restoration, Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research, The Ecological Economics, Ecological Engineering, Ecosphere, Electronic Journal of Comparative Politics, The International Journal of Civic, Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, Emu - Austral Ornithology, Political, and Community Studies, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Environmental Development, Environmental Management, Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, Transactions of the Royal Society Environment, Development and Sustainability, Ecological Management of South Australia, Planning Practice & Research, PLOS ONE, Polar and Restoration, Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Biology, Restoration Ecology, Rural Society, Rural and Remote Health, Science and Pollution Research, Equine Veterinary Journal, European Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Waterbirds, Wetlands, Journal of Lipid Science Technology, European Journal of Ecology, Journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists, Wetland Science and Evidence Based Nursing, Fish and Fisheries, Fisheries Management Practice, Wildlife Research, Wine & Viticulture Journal, Zeitschrift für and Ecology, Fisheries Research, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Unternehmensgeschichte, Zoology in the Middle East. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Food chemistry, Forensic Science International, Futures, Geoforum, GeoJournal, Global Environmental They also edited and produced books, book chapters (including for Change, Hystrix, Holistic Nursing Practice, Howard Journal of books they have edited), technical reports, ILWS reports and papers Crime and Justice, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, Integrative Food, for conference proceedings. Nutrition and Metabolism, Integrative Zoology, International Journal of A highlight would have to be the publication of the two-volume Educational Technology in Higher Education, International Journal of The Wetland Book, Springer Publishers, Dordrecht. Essentially an Engineering Education, International Journal of Innovation, Creativity encyclopedia of the world's wetlands, it was more than eight years and Change, International Journal of the Commons, International in the making. Book 1 has 292 chapters and 2238 pages; Book 2 Journal of Mental Health Nursing, International Journal of Military has 170 chapters and 2142 pages. Professor Max Finlayson is the History and Historiography, International Journal of Environmental lead author of both volumes. Fellow editors include Institute Adjuncts Research and Public Health, International Planning Studies, Professor Nick Davidson, Rob McInnes, Randy Milton and Dr Anne International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, International van Dam. Journal of Safety and Security Engineering, International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, International Journal of Orthopaedic and A selection of publications follows. A more detailed publication list can Trauma, International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, be found on the Institute’s web site. International Journal for Parasitology, International Social Work, Insect Conservation and Diversity, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, JOURNAL ARTICLES Journal of Amateur Sport, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Child Health Care, Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Journal of Allan. C., Watts, R.J. (2017) Revealing adaptive management of Australian Indigenous Studies, Journal of Ecoacoustics, Journal of environmental flows. Environmental Management Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales , Bamberry, L. (2017) Examining the gendered impact of economic Journal of Medical Biography, Journal of Ageing and Physical Activity, restructuring on regional labour markets. Australian Bulletin of Labour Journal of Ageing and Mental Health, Journal of Ageing and Social Baumgartner, L.J., Boys, C.A., Barlow, C. & Roy, M. (2017) Lower 45 Mekong Fish Passage Conference: Applying innovation to secure Colvin, E. McFarlane, K., Gerard, A. & McGrath, A. (2018) fisheries productivity. Ecological Management and Restoration ‘We Don’t do Measure and Quotes’: How Agency Responses Criminalise and Endanger the Safety of Children Missing in Care in Baumgartner, L.J., Wooden, I., Conallin, J., Robinson, W. New South Wales, Australia. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice & Thiem, J.D. (2017) Informing water delivery to sustain native fish communities during a long-term drought: Management Mehmet, I.M., D’Alessandro, S., Pawsey, N. & Nayeem, T. recommendations for dryland streams in Southern Australia. (2018) The national, regional and city divide: Social media analysis Ecohydrology of stakeholder views regarding biological controls. The public reaction to the carp control herpes virus in Australia. Journal of Baumgartner, L. J., Boys, C. A., Marsden, T., McPherson, J., Environmental Management Ning, N., Phonekhampheng, O., Robinson, W.A., Sinhanouvong, D., Stuart, I.G. & Thorncraft, G. (2018) Comparing fishway designs for Dionigi, R. A. (2017) I would rather die than live sedentary: Is application in a large tropical river system. Ecological Engineering the demonization of passive leisure creating a future generation of older people who will not accept inactivity? Topics in Geriatric Grieve, B., Baumgartner, L.J., Robinson, W., Silva, L., Pomorin, Rehabilitation K., Thorncraft, G. & Ning, N. (2018) Flexible and non-invasive passive integrated transponder (PIT) tagging protocols for tropical Davidson, N.C. & Finlayson, C.M. (2018) Extent, regional freshwater fish species. MethodX distribution and changes in area of different classes of wetlands. Marine Freshwater Research Pearce-Higgins, J., Brown, D., Douglas, D., Alves, J., Bellio, M., Bocher, P., . . . Verkuil, Y. (2017) A global threats overview for Finlayson, C.M., Davies, G.T., Moomaw, W.R., Chmura, G.L., Numeniini populations: Synthesising expert knowledge for a group of Natali, S.M., Perry, J.E., Roulet, N. & Sutton-Grier, A.E. (2018) The declining migratory birds. Bird Conservation International Second Warning to Humanity – providing a context for wetland management and policy. Wetlands Bailey, A., Bailey, S. & Bernoth, M. (2017) "I'd rather die happy": Residents' experiences with food regulations, risk and food choice in Finlayson, C.M., Capon, S.J., Rissik, D., Pittock, J., Fisk, G., residential aged care. Contemporary Nurse Davidson, N.C., Bodmin, K.A., Papas, P., Robertson, H.A., Schallenberg, M., Saintilan, N., Edyvane, M. & Bino, G. (2017) Bi, R. (2017) E-Supply Chain Coordination and SME Performance: Policy considerations for managing wetlands under a changing An Empirical Investigation. Electronic Journal of Information Systems climate. Marine and Freshwater Research Evaluation KC, B., Wang, T. & Gentle, P. (2017) Internal migration and land Kennedy, M. & Birch, P. (2018) Changing the perception of police use and land cover changes in the middle mountains of Nepal, culture: Recognising masculinity diversity and difference in a 'dirty Mountain Research and Development hands' vocation. Journal of Forensic Practice Heard, G.W., Scroggie, M.P., Ramsey, D.S.L., Clemann, N., Bond, J. & Mkutu, K. (2018) Exploring the Hidden Costs of Human– Hodgson, J.A. & Thomas, C.D. (2018) Can Habitat Management Wildlife Conflict in Northern Kenya. African Studies Review Mitigate Disease Impacts on Threatened Amphibians? Roberts, S.H., Foran, B.D., Axon, C. J., Warr, B.S. & Goddard, N.H. Conservation Letters (2018) Consequences of selecting technology pathways on cumulative Howard, J. (2018) Routledge Handbook of Higher Education carbon dioxide emissions for the United Kingdom. Applied Energy for Sustainable Development Edited by Matthias Barth, Gerd Sayers, J.M., Cleary, M., Hunt, G. & Burmeister, O.K. (2017) Service Michelsen, Marco Rieckmann, and Ian Thomas, New York, and infrastructure needs to support recovery programs for Indigenous Routledge, 2016. Australian Journal of Environmental Education community mental health consumers. International Journal of Mental Doran, G.S., Deans, R., De Filippis, C., Kostakis, C. & Howitt,J. Health Nursing (2017) Work place drug testing of police officers after THC Black, R. & Cobbinah, P.B. (2017) On the rim of inspiration: exposure during large volume cannabis seizures, Forensic Science performance of AWF tourism enterprises in Botswana and Rwanda. International Journal of Sustainable Tourism Huang, X. & Huang, C. (2018) NGD: Filtering Graphs for Visual Jones, M., Healy, J., Bridges, D. & Mlcek, S. (2018) Gender Analysis. IEEE transactions on Big Data Dynamics in Social Work Practice and Education: A Critical Literature Ingham, V. & Redshaw, S. (2017) Connecting Community Review. Australian Social Work Organisations for Disaster Preparedness, International Journal of Cash, B., Hodgkin, S. & Warburton, J. (2017) A transformative Safety and Security Engineering approach to systems theory in caregiving research. Qualitative Social Islam, M.R., Ingham, V., Hicks, J. & Kelly, E. (2018) From Work coping to adaptation: Flooding and the role of local knowledge in Cobbinah, P.B., Poku-Boansi, M. & Peprah, C. (2017) Urban Bangladesh. Journal Disaster Risk Reduction environmental problems in Ghana. Environmental Development Colvin, E. (2017) “Perceptions of Bail Justices” Current Issues in Criminal Justice

46 Kopf, R.K., Nimmo, D.G., Humphries, P., Baumgartner, L., Bode, Differences in the Economic and Social Contributions of Private M., Bond, N., Byrom, A.E., Cucherousset, J., Keller, R.P, King, A.J., and Community-owned Australian Indigenous Businesses. Journal McGinness, H., Moyle, P.B. & Olden, J.D. (2017) Confronting the risks of Australian Indigenous Studies of large-scale invasive species control. Nature Ecology and Evolution Namgay, K., Millar, J. & Black, R. (2017) Dynamics of grazing Kopf, R.K., Shaw, C. & Humphries, P. (2017) Trait-based prediction of rights and their impact on migrating cattle herders in Bhutan. The extinction risk of small-bodied freshwater fishes. Conservation Biology. Rangeland Journal Knight, A., Black, R., Whitsed, R. & Harvey, R. (2018) Enhancing Dwivedi, A., Nayeem, T. & Murshed, F. (2018) Brand experience the usability and benefits of open space for older people in regional and consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) a price premium: Australia, Australian Planner Mediating role of brand credibility and perceived uniqueness. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services Marshall, J., Davison, A. J., Kopf, R. K., Boutier, M., Stevenson, P. & Vanderplasschen, A. (2018) Biocontrol of invasive carp: Risks abound. Bliege Bird, R. & Nimmo, D.G. (2018) Restore the lost ecological Science functions of people’ Nature Ecology and Evolution Krivokapic-Skoko, B., Reid, C. & Collins, J. (2018) Rural Ocock, J. F., Bino, G., Wassens, S., Spencer, J., Thomas, cosmopolitism in Australia. Journal of Rural Studies R.F. & Kingsford, R.T. (2018) Identifying Critical Habitat for Australian Freshwater Turtles in a Large Regulated Floodplain: Li, M., Zhang, H., Lemckert, C., Roiko, A. & Stratton, H. (2018) On the Implications for Environmental Water Management. Environmental hydrodynamics and treatment efficiency of waste stabilisation ponds: Management From a literature review to a strategic evaluation framework. Journal of Cleaner Production Oliver, M.M., Wilson, B. & Howard, J.L. (2017) Measuring Localisation Nationally to From a Global Index. Ecological Li, Z. (2017) Computational complexity of the algorithm for a 2D Economics adaptive mesh refinement method using lid-driven cavity flows. Computational Thermal Sciences Pawsey, N., Ananda, J. & Hoque, Z. (2018) Rationality, accounting and benchmarking water businesses: An analysis of Lymn, J. & Leah, S. (2017) What makes an object queer? Collecting measurement challenges. International Journal of Public Sector and exhibiting LGBT stories in regional museums and archives. Management Information Research Pawsey, N., Nayeem, T. & Huang, X. (2018) Use of Facebook Mahinroosta, R. & Poorjafar, A. (2017) Effect of stress state and to engage water customers: A comprehensive study of current particle-size distribution on the stress reduction of sandy soils during U.K. and Australian practices and trends. Journal of Environmental saturation. Journal of Construction and Building Materials Management Bice, C.M., Gibbs, M.S., Kilsby, N.N., Mallen-Cooper, M. & Zampatti, Palfi, Z., Spooner, P. & Robinson, W. (2017) Seed Dispersal B.P. (2017) Putting the “river” back into the Lower River Murray: Distances by Ants Increase in Response to Anthropogenic quantifying the hydraulic impact of river regulation to guide ecological Disturbances in Australian Roadside Environments. Frontiers in restoration. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Ecology and Evolution Massaro, M., Chick, A., Kennedy, E.S. & Whitsed, R. (2017) Post- Pawar, M. & Thomas, M.E. (2017) Social work education reintroduction distribution and habitat preferences of a spatially limited in Australia and the USA: Comparative perspectives and island birds species. Animal Conservation contemporary issues. Social Work Education: The international Webster, C., Massaro, M., Michael, D.R., Bambrick, D., Riley, J.L. & Journal Nimmo, D.G. (2018) Native reptiles alter their foraging in the presence Peisley, R.K., Saunders, M.E. & Luck, G.W. (2017) Providing of the olfactory cues of invasive mammalian predators. Royal Society perches for predatory and aggressive birds appears to reduce Open Science the negative impact of frugivorous birds in vineyards. Wildlife Michael, D., Blanchard, W., Scheele, B.C., Florance, D., Crane, M. Research & Lindenmayer, D. (2018) Comparative use of active searches and Price, J.N., Tamme, R., Gazol, A., de Bello, F., Takkis, K., artificial substrates to survey amphibians in terrestrial environments. Uria Diez, J., Kasari, L. & Pärtel, M. (2017) Within-community Austral Ecology environmental variability drives trait variability in species-rich Callaghajn, C.T., Slater, M., Major, R.E., Morrison, M., Martin, J.M. grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science & Kingsford, R. (2017) Travelling birds generate eco-travellers: The Pulla, V., Ahmed, Z,S. & Pawar, M. (2018) Water and economic potential of vagrant birdwatching. Human Dimensions of Communities in South Asia: A case for Regional Cooperation. Wildlife Space and Culture Mitchell, M., Moore, S. A., Clement, S., Lockwood, M., Anderson, Ragusa, A.T. & Crampton, A. (2017) Online learning: Cheap G., Gaynor, S. M., . . . Lefroy, E. C. (2017) Biodiversity on the brink: degrees or educational pluralisation?, British Journal of Evaluating a transdisciplinary research collaboration. Journal for Nature Educational Technology Conservation Rourke, M.L., Robinson, W., Baumgartner, L.J., Doyle, J., Morrison, M., Collins, J., Krivokapic-Skoko, B. & Basu, PK. (2017) 47 Growns, I. & Thiem, J.D. (2018) Sequential fishways reconnect a Conservation status of Australian freshwater turtles, Australian coastal river reflecting restored migratory pathways for an entire fish Journal of Zoology community. Restoration Ecology Ward, W. & Given, L. (2017) Assessing technologies for information Saunders, M.E. (2017) Insect pollinators collect pollen from wind- sharing in international research teams: Developing an intercultural pollinated plants: implications for pollination ecology and sustainable heuristic evaluation tool. Proceedings of the Association for agriculture. Insect Conservation and Diversity Information Science and Technology Shields, L. (2017) All is not well with family-centred care. Invited paper. Watson, D.M., Doerr, V.A.J., Banks, S.C., Driscoll, D.A., van Nursing Children and Young People. der Ree, R., Doerr, E.D. & Sunnucks, P. (2017) Monitoring ecological consequences of efforts to restore landscape-scale Shields, L. & Burmeister, O. (2018) Education needed to enhance connectivity. Biological Conservation inclusive, non-discriminatory nursing practice towards lesbian, gay and bisexual parents. Invited commentary on Andersen, A.E., Moberg, C., Watts, R.J., Kopf, R.K., McCasker, N., Howitt, J. A., Conallin, Bengtsson Tops, A., Garmy, P., Lesbian, gay and bisexual parents' J., Wooden, I. & Baumgartner, L. (2017) Adaptive Management experiences of nurses' attitudes in child health care-A qualitative study. of Environmental Flows: Using Irrigation Infrastructure to Deliver Journal Clinical Nursing Environmental Benefits During a Large Hypoxic Blackwater Event in the Southern Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. Environmental Silva, L.G.M., Baumgartner, L., Deng, Z.D. & Fjeldstad, H-P. (2018) Management Hydropower development and fish management: a food–water–energy nexus requiring international and multidisciplinary approach. Marine and Wolfenden, B.J., Wassens, S.M., Jenkins, K.M., Baldwin, D.S., Freshwater Research Kobayashi, T. & Maguire, J. (2018) Adaptive Management of Return Flows: Lessons from a Case Study in Environmental Water Delivery Spennemann, D.H.R. (2018) Patterns of late nineteenth and early to a Floodplain River. Environmental Management twentieth century land use by Punjabi hawkers in Southern New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Sikh and Punjab Studies Waudby, H.P. & Petit, S. (2016) Thermoregulatory value of soil-crack shelters for small vertebrates during extreme desert Spennemann, D.H.R. & Watson, M.J. (2018) The impact of bird conditions. Integrative Zoology excreta on the conservation of architectural metals. A review. APT Bulletin Williams, J. (2017) Water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin: a challenge in complexity in balancing social, economic and Stelling, F., Allan, C. & Thwaites, R. (2017) Nature strikes back environmental perspectives. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal or nature heals? Can perceptions of regrowth in a post-agricultural Society of New South Wales landscape in South-eastern Australia be used in management interventions for biodiversity outcomes? Landscape and Urban Znidersic, E. (2017) Camera traps are an Effective Tool for Planning Monitoring Lewin's Rail (Lewinia pectoralis brachipus). Waterbirds Svozil, D., Kopf, R.K., Watts, R.J. & Nichols N. (2018) Temperature- specific larval growth and survival differences among populations of BOOK CHAPTERS Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii). Marine and Freshwater Research Rice, B. & Baumgartner, L.J. (2018) Sharing international Tenzing, K., Millar, J. & Black. R. (2017) Changes in Property Rights knowledge of fish passage in the Lower Mekong. In Brink, K., and Management of High-Elevation Rangelands in Bhutan: Implications Gough, P., Royte, J. Schollema, P.P. & Wanningen, H. From Sea to for Sustainable Development of Herder Communities. Mountain Source 2.0. Protection and Restoration of fish migration in rivers Research and Development worldwide. World Fish Migration Foundation. pp 70-75 Thiem, J.D, Wooden, I.J., Baumgartner, L.J., Butler, G.L., Forbes, Birch, P., Ireland, J.L. & Ninaus, N. (2018) Treating Stalkers: A J.P. & Conallin, J. (2017) An assessment of the contribution of framework for understanding process components in Ireland, J.L., stocking to golden perch and Murray cod recovery in hypoxic Birch, P. & Ireland, C.A. (eds.), International Handbook on Human blackwater affected areas of the Edward-Wakool river system, Australia. Aggression: Current issues and perspectives, London: Routledge Austral Ecology Thomas, G., Low, G. & Burmeister, O.K. (2018), "Who was that Thomas, L.S., Teich, E., Dausmann, K.H., Reher, S. & Turner, J.M. Masked Man?: System Penetrations – Friend or Foe?,” in Prunckun, (2018) Degree of urbanisation affects Eurasian red squirrel activity H. (ed.), Cyber Weaponry – Issues and Implications for Digital Arms, patterns. Hystrix Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer International Antonopoulos, P., Villar, O., Cottle, D. & Ahmed, A. (2017) Somalia: Conallin, J.C., Dickens, C., Hearne, D. & Allan, C. (2017) Turkey's Pivot to Africa in the Context of Growing Inter-imperialist Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Water Management. Rivalries. The Journal of Comparative Politics In Horne, A.C., O’Donnell, E.L., Webb, J.A., Stewardson, M.J., Acreman, M. & Richter, B.D. (Eds) Water for the Environment: from Vanderzee, M., Bond, J., Finlayson, C.M. & Ward, W. (2018) Policy and Science to Implementation and Management. London, National Agricultural Productivity & Reconciliation Ecology Centre UK: Elsevier Academic Press. pp 129-151 Conference. Ecological Management and Restoration Van Dyke, J.U., Ferronato, B.deO. & Spencer, R-J. (2018) Current 48 Onodu, B. C. & Culas, R.J. (2017) The Role of Cassava Production Finlayson, C.M., Milton, R., Prentice, C. & Davidson, N.C. in Improving Food Security in Delta State of Nigeria - Chapter 1, In: (Eds) (2018) The Wetland Book II: Distribution, Description, and Jonathan, W (edited) Food Security: Threat Factors, Policies and Conservation. Springer Publishers, Dordrecht Challenges, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, USA. pp 1-33 Vecchio, F. & Gerard, A. (Eds) (2018) The Entrapment of Asylum Dionigi R.A. (2018) Being older, female and athletic: Personal and Seekers: Social, Legal and Economic Precariousness. Palgrave cultural notions of resistance and conformity. In Fogel, C. (Ed). Critical MacMillan, London perspectives on gender and sport. Common Ground Publishing O'Sullivan, D. (2017) Indigeneity: A politics of potential – Australia, Stone, R.C., Dionigi, R.A. & Baker, J. (2018) The role of sport in Fiji and New Zealand. PolicyPress, University of Bristol promoting physical activity among older people. In Nyman, S.R., et al Pawar, M., Hugman, R., Alexandra, A. & Anscombe, A.W.B. (Eds) (Eds.) The Palgrave handbook of ageing and physical activity promotion (2017) Empowering Social workers: Virtuous practitioners. Springer (pp. 673-691). Palgrave Macmillan, UK Midgley, J. & Pawar, M. (Eds) (2017) Future Directions in Social Gerard, A. (2017) Contesting entrapment: women asylum seekers in Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Hong Kong in Vecchio, F. & Gerard A., Entrapping Asylum Seekers, Palgrave MacMillan, London Pawar, M. Bowles, W., & Bell, K. (2018) Social Work: innovations and insights. Australia: Australian Scholarly Pub. Pawar, M. (2017) The Need for Enhanced Community Participation. In Midgley, J. and Pawar, M., Future Directions in Social Development Thwaites, R., Fisher, R. & Poudel, M. (Eds) (2018) Community (ed). New York: Palgrave Macmillan Forestry in Nepal: Adapting to a Changing World. Routledge Ragusa, A.T. (2018) Beyond the Fringe? Market desirability and alternative sexuality in advertising news. In Golombisky, K. and Kreshel, P. (Eds). Feminist perspectives on advertising: What’s the big idea? Lexington Books, USA Villar, O. (2017) Foreword in Antonopoulos, P. & Cottle, D. (Eds) Syria: The Hegemonic Flashpoint Between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Vij Books, New Delhi Webb, J.A., Watts, R.J., Allan, C. & Warner, A.T. (2017) Principles for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Adaptive Management of Environmental Water Regimes. In Horne, A.C., Webb, J.A., Stewardson, M.J., Richter, B., Acreman, M. (Eds) Water for the environment: From policy and science to implementation and management. Elsevier, London. pp 599-623 1. Waudby, H.P., Cameron, M., Robertson, G., Caynes, R., & Reiter, N. (2018) Wild orchids: saving three Endangered orchid species in southern New South Wales. In Garnett,S., Latch, P., Lindenmayer,L., Woinarski,J. (Eds) (2018) Recovering Australian Threatened Species. CSIRO Publishing

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Bernoth, M. & Winkler, D. (Eds) (2017) Healthy ageing and aged care. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press Ireland, J.L., Birch, P. & Ireland, C.A. (Eds) (2018) International Handbook on Human Aggression: Current issues and perspectives London: Routledge 2. Dionigi, R. & Gard, M. (Eds) (2018) Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan: Critical Perspectives. Palgrave, Macmillan Images

Finlayson, C.M., Arthington, A.H. & Pittock, J. (Eds) (2017) Freshwater 1. Associate Professor Rylee Dionigi at the launch of her book Ecosystems in Protected Areas, Conservation and Management. Dionigi, R. & Gard, M. (Eds) (2018) Sport and Physical Activity Routledge across the Lifespan: Critical Perspectives. Palgrave, Macmillan Finlayson, C.M, Everard, M., Irvine, K., McInnes, R.J., Middleton, 2. Professor Max Finlayson at the launch of The Wetland Book B.A., van Dam A.A., & Davidson, N.C. (Eds) (2018) The Wetland 1: Structure and Function, Management and Methods and The Book I: Structure and Function, Management and Methods. Springer Wetland Book 11: Distribution, Description and Conservation at the Publishers, Dordrecht Fish Passage 2018 conference. 49 SNAPSHOTS

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1.( left to right) Visiting PhD student from Brazil Eduardo Brambilla, Dr Katie Doyle, Dr Nathan Ning and Jarrod McPherson 2. PhD student Helenna Mihailou with a masked finch 3. (left to right) Associate Professor Dale Nimmo, Dr James Van Dyke, Dr Damian Michael, Dr Maggie Watson and Dr James Turner 4. Associate Professor Rosemary Black in Myanmar

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2017 115. Mitchell, M., Allan, C. Murray Region Community-based Groups Capacity Needs Assessment: Results of the 2016-2017 100. Spennemann, D.H.R. Hawkers in the Southern Riverina and baseline survey for Murray Local Land Services North-Eastern Victoria 1890–1930. A survey of newspapers and archival data 116. Vella, S., Fuller, G., Mitchell, M., Allan. C. Burmeister, O. Automated process to create snapshot reports based on the 2016 101. Spennemann, D.H.R. Advertisements for Stanislas Sorel's Murray Community-based Groups Capacity Survey: User Guide portable stove 'Le Cordon Bleu' (1833–1849). A visual data set 117. Spennemann, D.H.R. Nineteenth Century depictions 102. Gonzalez, P., Spennemann, D.H.R., Allan, C. Itinerant of American Fan Palms (Washingtonia spp). A visual dataset Workers in nineteenth-century Australia. A Survey of their Attributes 118. Spennemann, D.H.R., Kent, K. & Cook, R. Uninvited guests: 103. Spennemann, D.H.R. Feeding the pigeons. Documenting a Mass emergence of Scolytinid beetles in a seed germination cosmopolitan meme on contemporary postcards experiment and its management

104. Spennemmann, D.H.R. The Japanese short-barrelled 12cm 119. Spennemann, D.H.R. Documentation of a naturalised and 20cm dual purpose naval guns. Their technical details, war- Washingtonia robusta growing in Albury (NSW). Herbarium time distribution and surviving examples Specimens CSU5200–5202.

105. Strong, S., Allan, C., Finlayson, M. Biocultural knowledge 120. Spennemann, D.H.R. An experimental evaluation of food of aquatic resources in the Murray River Region: Developing a draft preferences and associated hatching times of the date stone inventory. A report for Murray Local Land Services beetle, Coccotrypes dactyliperda (Scolytinae, Coleoptera).

106. Spennemann, D.H.R. Inventing, innovating and investing: 121. Silva, L., Boys, C., Ning, N., Doyle, K., McPherson, Biographical notes on the French inventor of galvanised iron, J., Folwer, A., McGregor, C., Brambilla, E., Thiebaud, I., du Preez, Stanislas Tranquille Modeste Sorel (1798–1876) J.,Robinson, W., Baumgartner, L. Predicting invasive fish survival through the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme: Results Summary. 107. Baumgartner, L.J,. Boys, C.A., Gilligan, D.M., Silva, L.G., Research commissioned by Snowy Hydro. Pflugrath, B.,Ning, N. Fish transfer risk associated with Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme 122. Mehment, M., Nayeem, T. Equally Well Digital and Social Media Marketing Communication Plan 108. Minato, W., Allan, C. An evaluation of the Lake Cowal Foundation. A report prepared for The Lake Cowal Foundation. 123. Silva, L., Boys, C., Ning, N., Doyle, K., McPherson, J., Folwer, A., McGregor, C., Brambilla, E., Thiebaud, I., du Preez, 109. Ollerton, J., Black, R. Planning for social inclusion in J., Robinson, W., Baumgartner, L. Predicting invasive fish playspaces: An evaluation of Livvi's Place, Port Macquarie survival through the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme. Research commissioned by Snowy Hydro. 2018 * Electronic versions of most of these reports can be sourced from the Institute's Website. 110. Spennemann, D.H.R. Turk's Head at the Union Bridge - From licenced hotel to regional museum

111. Spennemann, D.H.R. Conservation management plan for the Turk’s Head building, Albury, NSW

112. Silva, L., Kopf, S., Mabon, S., Horta, A., Duffy, D., Ning, N. Finding forgotten fishes, the search for two endangered species in the NSW Murray Catchment

113. Spennemann, D.H.R. Nineteenth century depictions of the Canary Date Palm (Phoenix Canariensis). A visual dataset

114. Silva, L., Pearce, L., Mabon, S., Horta, A., Duffy, D., Kopf, S., Ning, N., Baumgartner, L. Macca's in the Manus, Macquarie perch refuge in the Upper Murray 5151 APPENDIX

Many of our members hold positions on advisory boards and committees, statutory panels and industry/professional/community organisations and, as such, contribute their knowledge and expertise to decisions and policy-making. Our members also have editorial roles on journals.

Members External Appointments & Editorial roles on journals Memberships Prof Max Finlayson Scientific and Technical Review Panel of the Ramsar Marine & Freshwater Research (Editor-in- Convention on Wetlands (2016-2018) (Scientific expert Chief) member); Ramsar Chair for the Wise Use of Wetlands, UNESCO-IHE, The Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands; 12th International Lake Environment Com- mittee (ILEC) Scientific Committee (member); Lake Cowal Foundation's Board of Directors (independent scientific member); IUCN Commission for Ecosystem Management (member); International Crane Foundation (member of Board of Advisors); Sydney Olympic Park Authority, Wetland Education and Training (WET) (panel member); Winton Wetlands Management Committee’s Environmental Strategy Advisory Panel (chair); Society of Wetland Scientists, Presi- dent Elect 2018-2019; Visiting Research Professor, Institute for Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China; Independent Scientist, Cowal Gold Opera- tion, Community Environmental Monitoring & Consultative Committee

A/Prof Catherine Allan Albury Conservation Company Ltd (Board member) Dr Lee Baumgartner Australian Society for Fish Biology (NSW Representative); Marine & Freshwater Research (Associate American Fisheries Society (member); Association of Power Editor) Biologists (member); Fish Passage Task Force (member); Murray Cod Fishery Management Group (member); International Energy Agency Fish and Hydropower Annexe (member); IUCN Freshwater Fish Specialists Group (member); North East Catchment Management Authority (board member); NSW Environmental Trust Aquatic Sub- Committee (member);International Conference on River Connectivity (Chair) A/Prof Maree Bernoth Executive Committee member of the NSW Division of the Australasian Association of Gerontology; Scientific Com- mittee of the 2019 AAG National Conference; NSW Nurses Association Aged Care Advisory Board; Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network Aged Care Consortium

Dr Philip Birch Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research (Editorial Board Member) Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Research (JCRPP) (Editor-in-chief)

A/Prof Rosemary Black The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, North Coast Journal of Ecotourism (Editorial Board Regional Advisory Committee, (Ministerial appointment); Member); Journal of Interpretation Research Global Sustainable Tourism Council (member of Board of (Editorial Board member) Directors); Guiding Organisations of Australia (GOA) (Inter- pretation Australia and Oceania World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations representative); NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service State Council (Ministerial appointment)

52 Members External Appointments & Editorial roles on journals Memberships Prof Oliver Burmeister Riverina Headspace Consortium, CSU representative; Journal of Information, Communication & Australian Computer Society (ACS), Committee on Comput- Ethics in Society (Editorial Advisory Board) er Ethics; International Federation of Information Processing, Australasian Journal of Information Systems Technical Committee 9 'ICT and Society' (TC9), Australian (Section Editor) (ACS) representative; Australian Computer Society (ACS) Australian Journal of Rural Health (Associate Ethics Committee, Member and immediate past Chair; ACS Editor) Profession Advisory Board, Member; Western Regional Advisory Council on Multiculturalism (Community Member) Dr Belinda Cash Australian Association of Gerontology Student and Early Career Group (President) Dr Emma Colvin Committee of Management, Australian and New Zealand Salus Journal (Co Deputy Editor) Society of Criminology, (Member and Newsletter Editor) Dr Andrea Crampton Rural Society (Associate Editor) Dr Richard Culas Qatar National Research Fund (expert reviewer) BUITEMS Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (Editorial Board member) A/Prof Alison Gerard Council of Australian Law Deans (Treasurer); West Bathurst Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Editorial Pre-school Inc Committee of Management (Secretary); and Board member) on the Council of Australian Law Deans Working Party on Indigenous Cultural Competence in Law Curriculum Professor John Hicks Agenda (Associate Editor); International Jour- nal of Sport and Society (Associate Editor); Energy Journal (Associate Editor); Economic Papers (Associate Editor) A/Prof Vaughan Higgins International Rural Sociological Association (Australasian International Journal of Sociology of and Pacific representative) Agriculture and Food (Co-editor); Rural Society (Editorial Board member) Dr Ana Horta Pedometrics Advisory Group 2014-2018, Pedometrics Geoderma (Editorial Board member) Commission of the International Union of Soil Sciences (member); Medal Committee of the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (member) Dr Jonathon Howard Inland Rivers Network (Board member since 2015); Albury City Council Sustainability Advisory Committee (Member) Dr Julia Howitt Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (CSU Council member) Dr Xiaodi Huang South China Normal University (Distinguished Professor) Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences (Editor); Journal of Com- munications and Information Sciences (Editor); International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems (Editorial Board member); CAAI Transactions on Intelligence (Editorial Board member); PLOS one (Editor) Dr Paul Humphries River Research and Applications (Editorial Board member) Dr Val Ingham NSW-ACT PEN (Promoting Excellence Network) funded by Salus Journal (Associate Editor) the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) (CSU representa- tive 2012/15); Generic Emergency & Disaster Manage- ment Standards (GEDMS) (steering committee member); Research Committee 39 - The Sociology of Disasters (RC39), and the International Sociological Association (member); International Association of Emergency Manag- ers (IAEM) (member)

Dr Keller Kopf American Association for the Advancement of Science (Member); Australian Society for Fish Biology (Executive council NSW Representative)

Dr Zhenquan Li Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Member); Australian Mathematical Society (Member); American Soci- ety of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (Member) Prof Gary Luck Ecological Society of Australia (Council member); Eco- Faculty 1000 Research (Editorial Board system Services Experts Directory (Member); Australian member); Nature Conservation Journal Research Council (Oz Reader) (Editorial Board member)

Dr Jessie Lymn Australian Society of Archivists (Council Member)

53 Members External Appointments & Editorial roles on Journals Memberships Dr Melanie Massaro Australasian Seabird Group (part of Birdlife Australia) (Treas- Austral Ecology (Associate Editor) urer); Australian Evolution Society (Member); International Society for Behavioural Ecology (Member); Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (Member); Yellow- eyes Penguin Trust, New Zealand (Member) Dr Dianne McGrath Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand; CPA Accounting Education (Associate Editor) Australia (Fellow); Australian Institute of Management (Member); Accounting & Finance Association Australia and New Zealand (Member and Treasurer of Education Spe- cial Interest group); Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (Member) Dr Joanne Millar International Association for Society and the Commons International Journal of Agricultural Sustain- (Member); Asian Studies Association (Member); Timor Leste ability (Editorial Board member); Mountain Studies Association (Member) Research and Development (Editorial Board member); Extension Farming Systems Jour- nal (Editorial Board member) Dr Michael Mitchell Friends of Nail Can Hill (Coordinator) Dr Dale Nimmo Ecology Society of Australia (Member) People and Nature (Associate Editor) ESA Jill Landsberg Trust Fund Scholarship (Panel Chair) ESA Hot Topics Editor Prof Kevin Parton Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector (Member) Marketing (Reviewer); British Food Journal (Reviewer); International Journal of Logistics (Reviewer); International Journal of Logistics Management (Reviewer) Prof Manohar Pawar International Consortium for Social Development Asia- International Journal of Community and Pacific Branch (President); International Consortium for Social Development (Editor-in-Chief); Interna- Social Development (President-Elect) tional Social Work (Editorial Board member); South Asian Journal of Participative Develop- ment (Editorial Board member); Prime University Journal of Multidisciplinary Quest (Editorial Board member); Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Editorial Board member)

Dr Jodi Price Ecology Society of Australia (Board member) Plant Ecology (Associate Editor); Journal of Vegetation Science (Associate Editor)

Dr John Rafferty Australian Association for Environmental Education (Vice Higher Education Studies (Reviewer); President) Australian Journal of Environmental Education (Reviewer)

Dr Angela Ragusa Rural Society (Editor-in-Chief); Information Resource Management Journal (Editorial Review Board member);Open Commu- nication Journal (Editorial Advisory Board member) Prof Linda Shields Australian College of Children and Young People’s Nurs- Journal of Child Health Care, Nurs- ing (Life member); Australian College of Nursing (Fellow); ing Children and Young People (Editorial Australian College of Nursing (Board of Directors); Associa- Board member); Nordic Journal of Nursing tion for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare (Board of Research (Editorial Board member); Com- Directors); TJ Ryan Foundation (Board of Directors) prehensive Children and Adolescent Nursing (Editorial Board member) Dr Luiz Silva International Energy Agency – Annex XIII Fish and Hydro- Marine and Freshwater Research (Associate power Committee (Member) Editor) A/Prof Peter Simmons Australia and New Zealand Communication Association (Member); International Society of Justice Researchers (Member); International Association Media Communication Research (Member); International Communication Associa- tion (Member); International Environmental Communication Association (Member)

54 Members External Appointments & Editorial roles on Journals Memberships A/Prof Dirk Spennemann Historic Preservation, Republic of the Marshall Islands Campus-wide Information Systems (Special Advisor to the Advisory Council ); The Historic (Associate Editor); Disaster Advances (Edito- Preservation Office, Republic of Palau (Technical Advisory rial Board member) Board Member); Australia ICOMOs (Member); Association of Professional Futurists (Member) Dr Peter Spooner Infra Eco Network of Europe) (Member); Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) (Member); Murray LLS Travelling Stock Reserve Steering Committee (Member); IALE Historic Ecol- ogy Working Group (Member); NSW Local Government Council Roadsides Reserves Advisory Committee (Member) Dr Rik Thwaites Indigo Shire Environmental Advisory Committee (Member); Cape Otway Conservation Ecology Centre (Board member) Dr Oliver Villar Latin America Social Forum (LASF), Sydney (Member); Latin Rural Society (Reviewer); Journal of Labor American House Inc. Sydney (Member) and Society (LANDS), (Reviewer)

Dr Skye Wassens River Red Gum Adaptive Management Science Advisory Committee (Member) (cross border NSW and Victoria), NSW OEH/DSE; Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) BHP Billi- ton’s Litoria aurea Compensatory Habitat Program (CHP) as part of the Hunter River Remediation project (Member) Prof David Watson New South Wales Scientific Committee (Ministerial appoint- Austral Ecology (Associate Editor) ment- resigned June 7, 2018); Technical Advisory Group (Member) for the Great Western Woodlands Project (jointly managed by Birdlife Australia and the Nature Conservancy); The National Threatened Bird List Committee (Member); Slopes to Summit Partnership (regional hub of the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative)( Founding member and senior ecologist); Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre (Member of the management committee) Dr Maggie Watson Board of Petaurus Education Group Inc. (Public officer); Book Reviews editor for Ecological Society Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre (Member of the Australia's journals Austral Ecology and Eco- management committee) logical Management and Restoration Prof Robyn Watts Edward-Wakool Environmental Water Group (Member); Guest Editor Environmental Management Murray and District Dissolved Oxygen Group (Member); special issue ‘Adaptive management of envi- Edward-Wakool Operations Advisory Group (Member); ronmental water’ (2018) Australian Society of Limnology (Member); Australian Ecological Society (Member); International Society of River Science (Member)

A/Prof Rachel Whitsed Australian College of Environmental Deans and Directors (Member); the Australasian Spatial Information Education and Research Association (Member); Spatial Accuracy (Steering Committee member)

*Thank you to the ILWS members, staff, staff, colleagues and partners who provided images used in this report.

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