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Contents President’S Report Issue 3 | Volume 42 | September 2012 Photo: Breeding pair of Superb Blue Fairy Wrens, Malurus cyaneus. Taken by Ben Twist, Ecology in Action 2010 Contents President’s Report .................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Wiley Fundamental Ecology Award ........................................................................................................................................ 3 2012 AERA Lecture: Prof Chris Johnson ............................................................................................................................... 4 The 2012 Jill Landsberg Trust Fund Scholarship Winners .................................................................................................... 5 Obituary of Ralph Owen Slatyer AC, FRS, FAA .................................................................................................................... 7 Sustaining the Australian Alps .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Ecology in Action Competition 2012 ..................................................................................................................................... 12 NCRIS partners work together to build Soils-to-Satellites tool ............................................................................................. 13 Data at your fingertips in the Atlas of Living Australia .......................................................................................................... 14 SEQ Fire and Biodiversity Consortium ................................................................................................................................. 15 Calling all critics! How to write a book review for the ESA ................................................................................................... 16 Future submissions to the ESA Bulletin ................................................................................................................................ 17 Ecological Society of Australia – 2012 Office Bearers ......................................................................................................... 18 Bulletin of the Ecological Society of Australia Issue 3 | Volume 42 | September 2012 President’s Report The road to ESA12 We approach the end of the year and it is timely to Chapters within the society are slowly getting off update you on some of the big things that have the ground. Given the growing size of the society, been happening. Gail and Liz Tasker have been these are meant to provide members with some working really hard with the website developer to closer networking possibilities which will facilitate get the new system ready to roll out. We are aiming collaborations and some good research. There are to have a more functional website by the a small number which are in various stages of conference. As usual, this task is taking up more development, and we are always looking for new time than planned for them but should enable ESA people to put a little effort into getting new ones to communicate better amongst members and operating. These are very effective in the ESA externally. (USA) and I encourage members to get involved. Chat with Glenda Wardle ([email protected]) The Financial Governance Working Group has if you are interested. been working to arrange our finances in a more transparent focused manner. In doing this, we We are also launching ‘Hot Topics’; which is managed to move funds from shares into a term designed to be a quick response mechanism for deposit the day before the share market had a ESA to put the science into social debates on significant drop a couple of months ago- this issues. Don Driscoll is leading this charge. The new protected us a little from the share market vagaries website will see the launch of these. that are currently happening. Nigel has been working with one of our fund managers, Perpetual, Next year’s conference will be hosted by the New who has given us an enormous amount of help Zealand Ecological Society and will be in Auckland. (free!) in managing our funds more strategically. We join with the NZES every few years and have a More recently they have been helping us get DGR joint conference. Our last was INTECOL – hosted status so that donations can be tax deductible in Australia. Bruce Burns will be organising this one for donors to ESA. The upshot of these at one of the big conference centres in Auckland. discussions has been to connect us with a lawyer Our contact will be Kerry Bridle (the Tasmanian who specialises in this for non-profit organisations Regional Councillor) who will be ESA’s link with and to provide us with some background information NZES to help with any organisation. They are on what we might need to do. We are likely to need planning it for 25th-29th November 2013. to set up a public fund with DGR status which We are also talking with NZES to set up some new probably means incorporating the society nationally, links. The basis of the discussion between the two rather than in the ACT which we currently have. societies is that members of one society will be able That public fund will be managed by a group of to get membership of the other at its concessionary members and can be used for appropriate ESA rate which includes electronic delivery of their activities that fit within its aims. While we work journal. We are finalising this agreement, but once through this, the chances of having a significant the signatures have been completed, then ESA constitutional change at the next AGM are high to members can join NZES for the student concession ensure that we can get this working as soon as rate and receive the NZ Journal of Ecology. possible. 2 Bulletin of the Ecological Society of Australia Issue 3 | Volume 42 | September 2012 There will be a number of other initiatives in this students take a more active part in ESA – there are agreement as well which should link our societies plenty of jobs that are far more appropriate for the more closely. skills that students have, compared to those who might not remember being a student. Developing We are seeing an increase in our capacity to help strong student networks is really important for the students with getting to the conference and also ESA and the future of ecology in Australia and some undertaking their research. A new Fundamental energy expended by younger ESA members in Ecology Prize will begin at this year’s conference developing this would be very healthy. Talk to me if and we are seeing an increasing number of you would like to be involved. students requesting money to help them attend the conference. Ian Williamson’s job just got a little Kris French bigger! Increasing involvement by students is very President healthy and pleasing. I would like some of the Wiley and the Ecological Society of Australia are very pleased to announce the inaugural Wiley Fundamental Ecology Award Closing Date: Sunday, September 30, 2012 $5000 postgraduate grant Plus funded registration, accommodation and travel costs to attend ESA13 in Auckland, NZ, for the “The Wiley Fundamental Ecology Award presentation”. The Ecological Society of Australia Inc, with sponsorship from Wiley, is offering a new postgraduate student research award in the field of fundamental ecology. The value of the award is $5000 which can be directed towards any research that advances the science of ecology. The grant is open to any student who is enrolled in postgraduate research at an Australian University and is a member of the Ecological Society of Australia. For more information on how to apply or to become a member of the Ecological Society of Australia, visit www.ecolsoc.org.au/prizes.htm and follow the links. Any queries on the award or the application process or criteria, please contact Gail Spina, [email protected] 3 Bulletin of the Ecological Society of Australia Issue 3 | Volume 42 | September 2012 2012 AERA Lecture: Professor Chris Johnson The ESA is delighted to announce that Professor Chris Johnson (University of Tasmania) will deliver the 2012 Australian Ecology Research Award (AERA) Lecture entitled, ‘Australian mammals: extinctions ancient and modern’ at ESA12 in Melbourne, December 3-7, 2012. The 2012 AERA recognises Chris Johnson's substantial contributions in understanding the causes of mammal declines and extinctions in Australia. In recent work, Chris and his colleagues used evidence from a novel high-resolution record to document that impacts caused by the arrival of humans were coincident with the decline and extinction of the Australian megafuana. In work exploring the reasons for contemporary mammal declines Chris has shown that top predators, such as dingoes, limit the abundance of mesopredators (cats and foxes) thereby reducing predation on native wildlife. As Australia has already witnessed record losses of mammal species, this work is of direct and on-going significance for the conservation of mammal biodiversity in Australia. To test management strategies to alleviate these pressures, Chris and his team are using large-scale manipulations to resolve the interacting factors For more information on Chris's research: contributing to the decline of native mammals in http://www.utas.edu.au/zoology/people/chris- northern Australia. johnson The AERA Lecture recognises excellence in research in Australian ecology,
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