Seminars
The CBCS seminars are held weekly on Tuesdays at 11am in Room 501 of the Goddard Building.
Morning tea is held before each seminar at 10:30am in the Level 5 tearoom in the Goddard Building.
Zoom links are available for upcoming weekly seminars by emailing cbcs-info@uq.edu.au
Videos of past seminars may be viewed at the CBCS YouTube channel.
Photo by Romina Castagnino Vera.
2025
DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
14 January | No seminar | No seminar |
21 January | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
28 January | Siddeswara Guru, TERN | Exploring TERN data services |
4 February | Earl Saxon (Forest Inform) and Brooke Williams (QUT) | Fauna at risk from rapid climate change: Refugia, protected areas and Key Biodiversity Areas |
11 February | Nao Kumada, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan | Avian responses to human activities: Insights from cormorants to Fukushima |
18 February | Dominic Andradi-Brown, WWF US | Integrating science-based approaches to advance mangrove conservation and restoration |
25 February | Vanessa Tomlinson and Ally Bisshop, Griffith University | Ecological conservation and artistic engagement |
4 March | Genevieve Deaconos, Australian Wildlife Conservancy | Bettongs and wombats: Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s work to protect Critically Endangered species in Queensland |
11 March | No seminar | No seminar |
18 March | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
25 March | Sarah Vollert, Queensland University of Technology | Modelling conservation decisions with limited data: Can theoretical ecology help? |
1 April | Hannah Thomas, Yi Fei Chung and Rosa Mar Dominguez-Martinez, CBCS | EPBC Act reform |
8 April | Alice Twomey, CBCS | Impact and success are not the same: Navigating transdisciplinary conservation research for early career researchers |
15 April | Rob Stuebing | Farming with bulldozers and biodiversity conservation In East Kalimantan |
22 April | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
29 April | WildObs | TBA |
6 May | Helen Mayfield, CBCS and UQ Centre for Clinical Research | TBA |
13 May | Andres Felipe Suarez Castro, Griffith University | TBA |
20 May | Matthijs Hollanders, Quantecol | TBA |
27 May | Michelle Ward, Griffith University | Costs of conserving Australia's threatened species |
3 June | Wilma Blaser Hart, CBCS | TBA |
10 June | Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, Colorado State University | TBC |
17 June | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
27 June (Fri) | Special seminar: Ben Halpern, NCEAS, University of California Santa Barbara | TBC |
1 July | Nicholas Clark, UQ School of Veterinary Science | TBC |
8 July | Victoria Duthil, UQ | TBC |
15 July | Patrick Fahey, DESI | The use of genetic data to inform applied conservation management of flora |
22 July | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
29 July | Pepe Clarke (WWF) | TBC |
5 August | Jaramar Villarreal-Rosas, Griffith University | TBC |
12 August | Ryan Turner, Reef Catchments Science Partnership | TBC |
19 August | Ammarr Aripin, UQ School of Economics | TBC |
26 August | ||
2 September | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
9 September | Patricio Palacio Benitez, School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability | TBC |
16 September | Claire Mason, the University of Tasmania | Climate adaptation planning and implementation for Australia's iconic World Heritage Areas |
23 September | ||
30 September | ||
7 October | ||
14 October | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
21 October | ||
28 October | ||
4 November | ||
11 November | ||
18 November | ||
25 November | ||
2 December |
2024
DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
9 January | ||
16 January | ||
23 January | ||
30 January | Sreekar Rachakonda, CBCS | Conservation opportunities through effective protected area management |
6 February | Matthew Holden, CBCS | The value of information paradox in conservation, fisheries, and environmental management |
13 February | Earl Saxon, CBCS | Co-location of bioclimatic refugia, conservation targets and conservation areas |
20 February | Emma Gray, QUT | Detection, ecology and conservation of the Julia Creek Dunnart, Sminthopsis douglasi |
27 February | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn | No seminar |
5 March | Yan Holtz, Data Analyst and Software Engineer | Elevating data analysis: A roadmap for researchers |
12 March | Hugh Possingham, CBCS | Does science ever impact conservation policy? Stories of success and failure |
13 March | David Lindenmayer, ANU | Biodiversity responses to successive landscape transformations |
19 March | Michael Bode, Queensland University of Technology | Strategic variations to conservation decision theory |
26 March | No seminar | No seminar |
2 April | Claire Mason, CSIRO/CBCS | Climate-effective management for threatened species and protected places |
9 April | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn | No seminar |
16 April | Edward Narayan, AgFS | Applications of conservation physiology tools for the conservation and management of wildlife species |
23 April | Andrew Marshall and Rodrigo Minici de Oliveira, University of the Sunshine Coast | Developing a conservation monitoring plan |
24 April | CBCS Panel discussion: Martine Maron, Justine Bell-James and James Watson, moderated by Emily Massingham | Australia's nature law reforms: what's the verdict so far? |
30 April | Frankie Cho, CBCS | Meeting climate and biodiversity commitments through risk-sensitive planning |
7 May | Naoki Katayama, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Japan | The importance of rice ecosystems in global biodiversity conservation |
14 May | Paul Elton, ANU/CBCS | Framework features enabling faster establishment and better management of privately protected areas in New South Wales |
21 May | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn | No seminar |
28 May | Faculty of Science All Staff Forum | No seminar |
4 June | Janice Chanson, Re:wild | The Global Amphibian Assessment project |
11 June | Sebastian Lopez Marcano, EcoCommons, QCIF Data Science | National-scale data infrastructure for earth and environmental research and decision-making |
18 June | Alvise Dabala, CBCS | Optimising mangroves conservation considering ecosystem services and climate change |
25 June | Lian Pin Koh, National University of SIngapore | Realizing the potential of nature-based solutions for biodiversity and carbon conservation |
2 July | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn | No seminar |
9 July | Mark John Costello, Nord Universitet, Norway | Marine Protected Areas: Misunderstandings and planning ecologically representative networks |
16 July | Hannah Fraser, CBCS | Same data, different analysts: Variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology |
23 July | Zachary Amir, CBCS | Exploring complex tropical forest food webs with camera trapping and data science |
30 July | Sarah McGrath, TERN TSX | The impacts of logging and hunting pressure on the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon (Nomascus annamensis) in Veun Sai-Siem Pang National Park, Cambodia |
6 August | Christina Buelow, Griffith University | Theories of change for a sustainable future |
13 August | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn | No seminar |
20 August | CBCS Small Grant Scheme recipients | Multiple short presentations |
27 August | Jeff Doser, University of Michigan | Frontiers in occupancy modelling |
3 September | Nicki Shumway, CBCS | The role of policy in marine restoration |
10 September | Tom Bruce, CBCS | Do dingos suppress foxes or cats? A continental-scale assessment |
17 September | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn | No seminar |
24 September | Eamonn Wooster, Charles Sturt University | Does human disturbance disrupt predator-prey interactions? |
1 October | Eduardo Gallo-Caijao, Colorado State University | The governance of migratory shorebird conservation in the Americas |
8 October | Siddeswara Guru, TERN | EcoPlots, a data integration platform for systematic survey data |
15 October | Josh Wilson, CBCS | Big bird: Harnessing big data and AI for bird identification in drone imagery |
22 October | No seminar | No seminar |
29 October | Justine Bell-James and James Watson (CBCS) | Forecast for COP-16: What do National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans tell us about the prospects of achieving the Global Biodiversity Framework targets? |
5 November | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn | No seminar |
12 November | Viviana Gonzalez Astudillo, School of Veterinary Science | From microscope to megafauna: Veterinary pathology’s role in wildlife conservation |
19 November | Luke Emerson, Deakin University | TBC |
26 November | Jaramar Villarreal Rosas, Griffith University | TBC |
27 November | Sohini Dudhat, St Andrews University, UK | TBC - note: afternoon seminar |
3 December | Special seminar and panel discussion: Madeleine McKinnon | Radical collaboration: Effective ways to integrate conservation science with philanthropy, technology & communities |
10 December | No seminar | No seminar |
2023
Date | Speaker | Talk title |
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17 January | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
24 January | Jake Rendle-Worthington, eleCREW | elephantCREW: pioneering new techniques in animal welfare and wildlife conservation |
31 January | Earl Saxon and Hugh Possingham, CBCS | Which 30%: Where does climate change make a difference to regional conservation portfolios? |
7 February | Katharina-Victoria Perez-Hammerle, CBCS | Lost in wilderness, found on Country: a PhD journey from mapping intact ecosystems for biodiversity conservation to navigating |
14 February | Shayan Barmand, Noosa Council | Conservation in practice: Priorities and challenges in the Noosa Biosphere Reserve |
21 February | Pablo Negret Torres, CBCS | Maximizing key habitat retention under limited budgets: Expansion of the protected area network in Colombia to maximise forest bird habitat persistence |
28 February | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
7 March | Alex Braczkowski, Griffith University | Setting up international monitoring programs for the wildlife we love most |
14 March | Bill Sutherland, The University of Cambridge | Transforming conservation using evidence – what needs to be done next? |
21 March | Megan Evans, UNSW Canberra | "Don't let the bare minimum be the enemy of the grossly inadequate": Australia's nature positive and net zero "journey" so far |
28 March | Anna Metaxas, Dalhousie University, Canada | Bridging the science–policy interface: An ocean of possibiliites and responsibilities |
4 April | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
11 April | Derek Manzello, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US | NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch: Three decades of providing decision support tools for coral reef management in a warming world |
18 April | Assaf Shwartz, Israel institute of Technology | Conserving urban biodiversity, why, how and for whom? Rethinking the complex relationship between biodiversity, well-being and support in conservation |
25 April | No seminar | ANZAC Day |
2 May | Tori Seydel, Griffith University | Koala conservation: Engaging and empowering communities to protect an Australian icon |
9 May | Jaana Dielenberg, Biodiversity Council | Ecologists be heard! How to get your science in the media and reaching the public |
16 May | Assaf Shwartz, Israel Institute of Technology | Conservation outside protected areas: Designing effective multi-functional landscapes and ecological corridors in agro-ecosystems |
23 May | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
30 May | Yanxu Liu, Beijing Normal University | Global assessment of nature's contribution to people |
6 June | CBCS Small Grants Scheme presentations | Short presentations by the project leads of the 7 successful recipients in the 2023 CBCS Small Grants Scheme |
13 June | Akira Terui, UNC Greensboro | Emergent biodiversity in complex habitat networks |
20 June | Aurora Torres, University of Alicante | Sand sustainability in the Anthropocene |
27 June | Diana Kleine | UQ CoralWatch citizen science program: 20 years of coral monitoring, education and outreach to help protect reefs globally |
4 July | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
11 July | CSIRO-UQ funding recipients | Emer Cunningham: Detecting novelty in modern coral reef communities; and Nan Ye: Bayes, brain and fish |
18 July | Nur Arafeh Dalmau, UCLA and Stanford, USA | Remote sensing can help address gaps in kelp conservation and inform climate adaptation |
19 July, 2pm | Mizuki Takahashi, Bucknell University | Special seminar: Giant salamander biology |
25 July | Brett Gardner, The University of Melbourne | The ecology of abortion: Infectious reproductive loss in Australian fur seal breeding colonies |
1 August | Jason Everett, SENV/CBCS | Building tools for stakeholder engagement in conservation planning |
8 August | Alejandro de la Fuente Pinero, James Cook University | Crisis in the tropics: Signs of an imminent collapse |
15 August | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
22 August | Steph Brodie, CSIRO | Ecological forecasts for marine management during climate extremes |
29 August | Rich Cottrell, CBCS | Optimising aquaculture feeds to support sustainable seafood |
5 September | Nick Leseberg, CBCS | What do we actually know about Australia’s rarest birds? |
12 September | Joshua WIlson, CBCS | Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles and Endangered shorebirds: fight or flight? |
19 September | David Poulton, CBCS and Alberta Land Institute, Canada | What do Canadian resource regulators think of the mitigation hierarchy? |
26 September | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
3 October | Yiwen Zeng, National University of Singapore | Promises and pitfalls of scaling up biodiversity conservation post-COP15 |
10 October | Angela Dean, CBCS | Building community participation in nature stewardship: Insights from social science in diverse Australian communities |
17 October | Michal Belcik, CBCS | How can social information alter the effect of habitat fragmentation on bird diversity? |
24 October | Special session: Policy discussion with Sarah Legge, Charles Darwin University | DCCEEW feral cat Threat Abatement Plan - CBCS submission |
31 October | Tong Mu, Princeton University, US | Challenges in conserving migratory shorebirds at multiple scales |
7 November | No seminar | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
14 November | Jeff Hanson, Carleton University, Canada | Making better coservation decisions |
21 November | Zoe Stone, Massey University, New Zealand | Improving reintroduction success to get more birds in the bush |
28 November | CSIRO-UQ funding recipients | Short talks by reps of the successful teams about their projects |
29 November, 2pm | Maximilian Kotz, Potsdam Institue for Climate Impact Research | Attributable impacts of climate change on vertebrate species abundance |
5 December | Brendan Wintle (Biodiversity Council/UniMelb): Special seminar | Rearranging the deck chairs to get a comfortable view of the Anthropocene extinction |
12 December | No seminar | No seminar |
2022
DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
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11 January | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
18 January | Shu Chen, Zoological Society of London | China, wildlife, and the way forward |
25 January | Cooper Smout, IGDORE | Open Heart + Mind (OHM): Creating radically open and reliable knowledge systems imbued with compassionate values |
1 February | Tom Bruce, James Cook University | Feral cats in the rainforest: Occupancy, interactions and management |
8 February | Matthew Rees, University of Melbourne | Foxes, cats and conservation in Australian dry forests |
15 February | Cynthia Riginos and Maria Beger | How can evolutionary genetics contribute to spatial planning? |
22 February | NO SEMINAR | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
1 March | Rajeev Pillay, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada | The global importance of intact tropical rainforests for biodiversity |
8 March | Sangay Dorji | Setting conservation and research priorities under future climate change in the eastern Himalayan hotspot of Bhutan |
15 March | Jed Brodie, University of Montana | Habitat change, hunting, and their synergies |
22 March | Bill Laurance, James Cook University | Environmental synergisms and the future of tropical nature |
29 March | NO SEMINAR | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
5 April | Ryan Schoenbaum, The University of Melbourne | Climate change and integrated cross-realm conservation planning in the Great Barrier Reef region |
12 April | Jeffrey Hanson, Carleton University, Canada | Making better conservation decisions |
19 April | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR - Easter break |
26 April | Zoe Stone, Massey University, New Zealand | Inferences from post-release monitoring of mainland reintroductions in New Zealand |
3 May | Noam Levin, CBCS | Remote sensing analysis on the Black Summer fires in Australia 2019–20 |
10 May | NO SEMINAR | CANCELLED - Zoom morning tea only |
17 May | Geoff Heard, Threatened Species Index, TERN, UQ | Twenty years of worrying about threatened frogs |
24 May | NO SEMINAR | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
31 May | Austin Green, University of Utah | Wasatch Wildlife Watch: How camera traps and community members make large-scale conservation possible |
7 June | Zena Dinesen, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | Policy making in government: Reflections on my career as a principal policy officer |
14 June | Short presentations by CBCS Small Grants Scheme recipients | Various |
21 June | Justine Cawley and Amberyn Pearson, UQ Library | Open Access publishing and resources |
28 June | NO SEMINAR | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
5 July | John Carr and Tema Milstein, University of New South Wales | Spaces of ecocultural invisibility: The human barriers to Sirenia habitat and species protection |
12 July | CBCS ECR speed talks | CBCS ECR speed talks |
19 July | Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, University of Washington, Seattle | Pandemic prevention and the wildlife trade |
26 July | Jason Flower, University of California, Santa Barbara | Designing protected areas for offshore waters |
2 August | Rogelio Luque Lora, University of Cambridge | What conservation is: A contemporary inquiry |
9 August | Hannah Wauchope, University of Exeter | Do protected areas work? Adventures in impact evaluation |
16 August | NO SEMINAR | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
23 August | April Reside, CBCS | How do we plan for species conservation considering climate change? A case study of cockatoos |
30 August | Genevieve Deaconos, Australian Wildlife Conservancy | Australian Wildlife Conservancy: Practical conservation across 12.9 million hectares |
6 September | Carla Archibald, Deakin University | Food for thought: Conserving biodiversity on private and agricultural land against a backdrop of climate and societal change |
13 September | Maria Jose Martinez Harms, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Chile | The constitutional pathway toward the “Rights of Nature” in Chile |
20 September | Allison Binley, Carleton University, Canada | From better monitoring to better decisions: Improving conservation using community science data |
27 September | NO SEMINAR | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
4 October | Jun Zhou, Griffith University | Analysing koala road crossing behaviours using AI-powered observation networks |
11 October | Martine Maron, CBCS | Countering the collapse of a bird community |
18 October | Craig Bohm, The Nature Conservancy | Reef Builder – Restoring lost oyster reefs in Australia: With special focus on the Noosa Oyster Ecosystem Restoration Project |
25 October | Jonathan Rhodes, CBCS | Flexible conservation for climate adaptation |
1 November | Yolanda Lee Waters, Queensland University of Technology | Raising awareness for coral reefs: What does it mean and does it lead to action? |
2 November | Joseph Bennett, Carleton University, Canada | Three very intimidating conservation problems |
8 November | Louis Backstrom, CBCS | Citizen science in ornithology and conservation: Challenges, successes and opportunities |
15 November | NO SEMINAR | CBCS Lunch on the Lawn |
22 November | Julien Louys, Griffith University | Orangutans in the past, now, and in the future |
29 November | Sebastian Luckeneder, Vienna University of Economics and Business | The global trade flows of energy transition minerals and their impacts on forest environments |
6 December | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
13 December | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
20 December | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
2021
DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
12 January | Tatsuya Amano, CBCS | translatE project: Our aims and progress so far in overcoming language barriers in conservation science |
19 January | Ana Benitez Lopez, Estación Biológica de Doñana | Defaunation and trophic cascading in the Anthropocene: Ecological erosion in the tropics |
26 January | NO SEMINAR | Australia Day/Survival Day public holiday |
2 February | Katie Ann Peterson, University of Maryland | Using ensemble modelling for conservation decisions |
9 February | Listening session | Hosted by CBCS Director Dr Daniel Dunn |
16 February | Simon Griffith, Macquarie University | Speciation in finches and conservation |
23 February | Chris Roelfsema, UQ | Advancing our capabilities to map and monitor coral reefs: Global information with local detail |
2 March | Alexa Fredston, Rutgers University | Understanding, predicting, and managing marine species on the move |
9 March | Ben James and Madonna Duffy, University of Queensland Press | Taking research to readers: Pathways to book publication |
16 March | Rich Fuller, CBCS | Conserving migratory species |
23 March | Cathy Robinson, CSIRO | Empowering Indigenous-led AI and digital technology to care for Country |
30 March | No seminar | No seminar |
6 April | Hugh Possingham, CBCS | Why do science? What is the point of monitoring and science for delivering conservation outcomes? |
13 April | No seminar | CBCS lunch in the Great Court |
20 April | Dolors Armenteras, Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Advances in fire science and policy in Colombia |
27 April | No seminar | CBCS lunch in the Great Court |
4 May | Sofía López-Cubillos, CBCS | Using ecosystem services for spatial planning in agricultural landscapes |
11 May | Jaramar Villarreal Rosas, CBCS | Managing ecosystem services for multiple beneficiaries |
18 May | Elisa Bayraktarov, EcoCommons Australia | EcoCommons Australia: The platform for ecological and environmental modelling |
25 May | No seminar | CBCS lunch in the Great Court |
1 June | Helen Mayfield, CBCS/QUT | Bayesian networks in environmental science and public health |
8 June | Geoff Pegg, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | Introduction to myrtle rust and impacts on Australian Myrtaceae |
15 June | Felipe Suarez Castro, CBCS | Managing landscape structure for biodiversity and ecosystem services conservation in human-dominated areas |
22 June | Jayden Engert, James Cook University | Ghost roads and the future of tropical forests |
29 June | Jez Bird, CBCS | The conservation ecology of threatened petrels on Macquarie Island |
6 July | No seminar | CBCS lunch in the Great Court |
13 July | Claudia Benham, CBCS | Change, opportunity, grief and hope? Using public deliberation to envision community futures in the Great Barrier Reef |
20 July | Vicki Martin, CBCS | Understanding human behaviours to foster environmental stewardship |
27 July | Andrea Fullagar, Birdlife Australia | 10 years of being Green(ish): A snapshot of my experience working in the environmental sector |
3 August | Duan Biggs, Griffith University | The role of conservation science and scientists in a COVID 19 world |
10 August | No seminar | Zoom morning tea only |
17 August | Richard Cottrell, U Tasmania | Time to rethink trophic levels in aquaculture policy |
24 August | Clint Cameron, Charles Darwin University/UQ | Impact of an extreme monsoon on CO2 and CH4 fluxes from mangrove soils of the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar, and implications for forest carbon projects |
31 August | CBCS Small Grants Scheme winners | Joint presentations about projects |
7 September | No seminar | CBCS lunch in the Great Court |
14 September | Kimberly Riskas, CBCS | Creating impact through science journalism |
21 September | Nathalie Butt, CBCS | Using traits to inform marine species’ vulnerability |
28 September | Alec Christie, University of Cambridge | From Covid-19 to conservation: How can we save the planet using evidence? |
5 October | No seminar | CBCS lunch in the Great Court |
12 October | Liliana Davalos, Stony Brook U, USA | Sensing in the dark: Molecular ecology of #BatSenses |
19 October | Annabel Smith, UQ (School of Agriculture and Food Science) | The impact of roadside burning on genetic diversity in a high-biomass invasive grass |
26 October | Sheridan Rabbitt, Schools of Biological and Social Sciences, UQ | A framework for assessing women’s engagement in community-based fisheries management in the Pacific: A case study from Marovo Lagoon |
2 November | Micha Jackson, University of Adelaide | Measuring waterbird habitat quality in an atypical and degraded wetland system |
9 November | Gloeta Massie, CBCS | Wildlife rescue and implications for conservation and welfare |
16 November | Lenn Isidore, CBCS | Does acoustic monitoring make cents? A framework for cost-effective monitoring of vocal species |
23 November | Tida Nou, CBCS | Communicating about cats – beyond the conservation sector |
30 November | No seminar | CBCS lunch in the Great Court |
7 December | Masayuki Senzaki, Hokkaido University, Japan | TBC
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14 December | No seminar | No seminar |
21 December | Masters in Conservation Biology students | Final student presentations |
2020
DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
14 January | Luis Sánchez, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil | Evidence of no net loss of biodiversity in mining projects: Is it possible to find a common ground? |
21 January | Jeremy de Valck, Central Queensland University | How to estimate the economic value of biodiversity in the Great Barrier Reef? A close look on a complex challenge |
28 January | Rochelle Steven, CBCS | Citizen science for threatened species: Experiential tips for building relationships in challenging socio-political settings |
4 February | Pedro Fidelman, Centre for Policy Futures, UQ | Biodiversity and conservation science and policy scholarship: Exploring opportunities for collaboration |
11 February | David Watson, Charles Sturt University | Mistletoes: New insights into their ecology, evolution and ecosystem-wide impacts |
18 February | Earl Saxon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Convenor) | Anthropocene refugia: Habitat persistence and species dispersal sources in 2040 |
25 February | Daniel Dunn, CBCS | Conserving the "other" half of our planet |
3 March | Micha Jackson, CBCS | Finding rest for the weary: Conserving shorebirds in human-dominated landscapes |
10 March | Patrick Crist, PlanIt Forward/University of Idaho | Applying an integrated land-sea planning framework for addressing the current and accelerating coastal crisis |
17 March | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
24 March | Host Hugh Possingham, CBCS | Zoom listening session |
31 March | Matthew Luskin, CBCS | Ecological cascades in Asian rainforests: Opportunities to collaborate |
7 April | Pablo Negret Torres, CBCS | Ecology and conservation of tropical forest ecosystems |
14 April | Host Hugh Possingham, CBCS | Prioritisation puzzle |
21 April | Elisa Bayraktarov, CBCS | A Threatened Mammal Index for Australia |
28 April | Justine Shaw, CBCS | Island restoration and monitoring: Ecosystem responses to eradication |
5 May | Karlina Indraswari, QUT | It's in the news: Characterising Indonesia's wild bird trade network from media-reported seizure incidents |
12 May | Justine Bell-James, CBCS/TC Beirne School of Law | Queensland's Human Rights Act: A new frontier for Australian climate change litigation? |
19 May | Peter Baxter, CBCS | A national database of threatened species on Australian islands |
26 May | Noam Levin, CBCS | World Heritage in danger: Big data and remote sensing can help protect sites in conflict zones |
2 June | Leanne Fernandes, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority policy and planning: Focus upon the draft Intervention Policy |
9 June | Nathalie Butt, CBCS | Using species traits to understand vulnerability |
16 June | Holly Jones, Northern Illinois University | Potential for restoring Earth's damaged ecosystems |
23 June | Catherine Lovelock, UQ | Linking-up blue carbon and restoration of coastal wetlands |
30 June | Daniel Harris, UQ | How will the capacity of coral reefs to protect the coast change under rising sea levels? |
7 July | Julia van Velden, Griffith University | Bushmeat hunting in Malawi: A multi-faceted approach to find solutions to complex social-ecological problems |
14 July | Anastazia Banaszak, UNAM, Mexico | Upscaling coral restoration in a changing climate: Lessons from Mexico |
21 July | Megan Saunders, CSIRO | Restoring our coasts |
28 July | Dave Poulton, CBCS | Biodiversity offsetting in Canada: Two programs and a possibility |
4 August | Amelia Wenger, CBCS | Can sustainable logging activities protect downstream ecosystem services? |
11 August | Christine Beveridge, Mark Cooper and Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos, UQ, and Ian Wright, Macquarie University | Overview of ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture |
18 August | Bradley Moggridge, Uni of Canberra & TSR Hub | Indigenous Research Methodologies in science |
25 August | Sarah Bekessy, UM | Nature-based opportunities for resilient cities |
1 September | Sean Maxwell, CBCS | Area-based conservation in the 21st century |
8 September | Jutta Beher, UM | Using decision-science in conservation planning |
15 September | Oded Berger-Tal, Ben Gurion University, Israel | The rules of attraction: The necessary role of animal cognition in explaining conservation failures and successes |
22 September | Daniel Beaver, Conservation Geography | Private sector science advocacy: The Centre for Conservation Geography experience |
29 September | Hernan Caceres Escobar, CBCS/IUCN | Bottom-up conservation: Engaging with the local community to develop better conservation actions |
6 October | NO SEMINAR | Get-together in the Great Court 10:30am, BYO coffee |
13 October | Eric Ash, Oxford University | Environmental factors, human presence and prey interact to explain patterns of tiger presence in Eastern Thailand |
20 October | Helen Bostock Lyman, UQ | Review of deep sea corals from New Zealand |
27 October | Robyn Gulliver, UQ | The characteristics and outcomes of Australian environmental advocacy |
3 November | Ross Thompson, University of Canberra | Sustainability, certainty and reconciliation: Key challenges for water management in inland Australia |
10 November | Kaitlyn Gaynor, NCEAS, University of California, Santa Barbara | Sharing space on a crowded planet: Temporal responses of large mammals to human disturbance |
17 November | Steve Wilson, CBCS | Factors shaping the conservation of the Critically Endangered Javan Rhinoceros |
24 November | Eduardo Gallo Caijao, CBCS/University of Washington | The governance and politics of migratory species conservation |
1 December | Chris Gordon, Aarhus University, Denmark | Megafauna restoration, trophic rewilding and conservation management |
8 December | Chris Jolly, The University of Melbourne | The consequences of island arks for endangered species and recipient communities
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15 December | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
2019
DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
23 July | Paul Dennis, UQ | Microorganisms and the management of ecosystems |
30 July | Richard Cottrell, University of Tasmania | Bridging the land-sea divide for food security and sustainability |
6 August | Sophus zu Ermgassen, University of Kent | We need to talk about offsets: No Net Loss and the global infrastructure |
13 August | Jeremy Simmonds, UQ | A crash course through the EPBC Act referral and approvals process |
20 August | Dibesh Karmacharya, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal | Novel approaches to the conservation and management of the Bengal tiger in Nepal |
27 August | Paula Prist, Universidade de São Paulo | Forest conservation, human health and politics in Brazil |
3 September | Jaana Dielenberg, UQ | Getting media coverage for your research |
10 September | Tim Seelig, DES | Making policy for the environment: Lifting the bonnet on policy processes and the role of research |
17 September | Duan Biggs, Griffith University | Navigating conservation's cultural divides on iconic wildlife in a fast-changing, uncertain world |
24 September | Angela Salim, UQ | Cane toad challenge |
1 October | Kaline de Mello, Universidade de São Paulo | The challenge of environmental policies implementation: The case of the Forest Code in Brazil |
8 October | Jacqueline Beggs, University of Auckland | Challenges for New Zealand conservation: From social wasps to kākāpo |
15 October | Martin Stringer, Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation | The world’s energy crisis, its solutions, and their consequences |
22 October | James Allan, UQ | How much of Earth's terrestrial area must be conserved to safeguard biodiversity? |
29 October | Andrew Baker, QUT | What are the best detection methods for conserving threatened antechinuses? |
5 November | Paul Dennis, UQ | Microorganisms and the management of ecosystems |
12 November | April Reside, UQ | Bringing ecology into Australia’s environmental law reform |
19 November | Alison Johnston, Cornell/eBird | Big data analytics for avian ecology and conservation |
26 November | Ian Tibbetts, UQ | Respecting Traditional Owners in Solomon Islands and Moreton Bay |
3 December | Michael Noad, UQ | The songs of humpback whales, and why they matter for conservation |
10 December | Leah Burns, Griffith University | Tourism and conservation in Iceland: Boom and doom? |
17 December | Selina Ward, UQ | The problematic early period of coral lives: Battles for successful recruitment |
24 December | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |