Seminar Series
Each week the IAE hosts a seminar on a broad range of topics, such as environmental management, genetics, water science, ecotoxicology and conservation ecology. Speakers are drawn from external organisations and research institutions, as well as IAE researchers and students.
The seminars are open to the public, and are held most Friday's at 11:30am - 12:30pm and you can watch via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 261 937 0043
See below for a list of seminar speakers and topics for Semester 1, 2021. You can see more details about each seminar closer to the presentation date under Upcoming Events on our homepage or on UC Events.
All Welcome!
Date | Speaker | Title |
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12 February | Sarah Bates, UC | The role of plant-soil interaction in plant invasion. |
19 February | Emeritus Prof Jim Hone, UC | Inferring cause and effect: the stairway to heaven or the highway to hell? |
26 February | Prof Eric Warrant, Lund University | Australian Bogong moths use a true stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night |
5 March | Dr Michael Frese, UC | Discovery and characterisation of a new Miocene fossil Lagerstättenear Gulgong, NSW. |
12 March | Prof Ross Thompson, UC | TBA.
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19 March | Dr Joanne Bennett, UC | TBA. Joanne's work is on the evolution of thermal tolerance. |
26 March | Dr Francisco (Paco) Sanchez-Bayo, University of Sydney | TBA. Dr Francisco (Paco) Sánchez-Bayo's talk will be speaking on the loss of insects. |
9 April | Dr Simon Clulow, UC | TBA. |
16 April | Sarah Whiteley, UC | TBA. This will be Sarah's final PhD Seminar. |
23 April | Duminda Dissanayake, UC | TBA. This will be Duminda's final PhD Seminar. |
| 30 April | Dr Xavier Pochon, Cawthorn Institute, New Zealand | TBA. Xavier’s research is focussed on eDNA tools across a variety of areas (paleolimnology, fish farms monitoring, biosecurity, and citizen science on sailing boats, etc.) |
| 7 May | Dr Kara Youngentob & Dr Karen Ford, ANU Research School of Biology | TBA. Both Kara and Karen have been working on several research projects including determining the effects of regeneration harvesting on habitat nutritional quality for koalas. |
The information above will be updated with relevant speakers and talk titles as we recieve confirmation.