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September 2012
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Monday 24 |
8:00 - WORKSHOP - Designing for Closure: Appropriate Design Criteria and Methods of Analysis Workshop : Workshop held prior to the Mine Closure Conference
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Review of ANCOLD guidelines on designing using risk-based methodology, choosing an appropriate design earthquake, characterising seismic design parameters for tailings, methods of analysis, field testing to determine liquefaction potential.
8:00 - WORKSHOP - Delivering Effective Rehabilitation: Monitoring and Manipulating the Soil Biota for Success Workshop : Workshop held prior to the Mine Closure Conference
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This is a one day workshop designed for environmental mangers, regulators and consultants who wish to
understand more about how the biology of the soil functions and how it can be used in the monitoring and
management of mine site rehabilitation.
Workshop objectives:
On the successful completion of (...)
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October 2012
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Wednesday 03 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, Oct3: : "The Staples Economy and Regional Development in Western Australia”
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The next Soil&Water Seminar will be Prof. Matthew Tonts from SEE, at 12pm on Weds, Oct 3rd. All welcome!
Title: “The Staples Economy and Regional Development in Western Australia”
Abstract: In the 1930s, Canadian historian Harold Innis developed his 'staples thesis' to (...)
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Thursday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : Sliding Doors in Academe: Idiosyncrasies of autobiography and controversy in psychometrics
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***NOW RESCHEDULED TO 18 OCTOBER***
“Individual(s) ….embrace a new paradigm for all sorts of reasons ... . Some of these … lie outside the sphere of science entirely. Others depend upon idiosyncrasies of autobiography….” (Kuhn, 1970, p.l52). I will highlight some “idiosyncrasi (...)
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November 2012
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Monday 05 |
8:00 - WORKSHOP - WAIMOS Science Meeting : The Western Australian Integrated Marine Observing System - Science Meeting. For any enquiries and registration contact Agi Gedeon, Manager WAIMOS on [email protected] or x2022.
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The Western Australian Integrated Marine Observing System - Annual Science Meeting will present the collaborative and cross-disciplinary uptake of freely accessible coastal and open ocean datastreams. Marine scientists, modellers and engineers, oceanographers and biologists will find this meeting (...)
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Monday 12 |
11:00 - WORKSHOP - Unlocking soil's secrets to open the door to agricultural productivity gains : Soil Biology Workshop with international, national and local speakers
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As the world population grows and we are facing a 70% increase of food demand over the next four decades,the need to retain versatile and productive soils for food production and to maximise the output from the land is one of the most important issues of our time.
This symposium will bring together (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
This course will take you through the basics you need to do statistical analyses in R, a powerful freeware statistical package.
The course will cover basic statistics such as t-tests, regression and ANOVA as well as producing high quality graphics.
The course is hosted by the (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia Conference : An essential international forum for scientists and practitioners who look to restoration as a means to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity and failing ecosystems.
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Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia (SERA) meetings aim to provide an essential international forum for scientists and practitioners who look to restoration as a means to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity and failing ecosystems. These meetings provide a critical platform to (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Agricultural land management strategies to reduce phosphorus loads in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia.
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A target to reduce phosphorus flows into the Gippsland Lakes in south-eastern Australia by 40% in order to improve water quality has previously been established by stakeholders. This target, like many others worldwide, has been set mostly on the basis of environmental concerns, with limited (...)
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Thursday 29 |
The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about designing and analysing experiments.
It will cover material ranging from a review of simple one-way ANOVA, to more complex designs and analyses including crossed and nested factors with (...)
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December 2012
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Tuesday 04 |
9:00 - COURSE - Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling : A Short Course using AMOS and Mplus
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SEM is used widely by researchers to test complex relationships among observed (measured) and latent (unobserved) variables.
This course will introduce you to SEM and also covers issues relating to model specification, identification and estimation, assessing model fit (goodness-of-fit criteria) (...)
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Monday 10 |
The course is designed as a comprehensive coverage of applied SEM techniques using the Mplus statistical software package. Mplus offers a general modelling framework that allows both the modelling of cross-sectional and longitudinal data using observed variables that are a combination of continuous (...)
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February 2013
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Monday 18 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Subsidised rates are available for (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Turf Research Program Open Day : Managing turfgrass on a water allocation
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You are invited to an informal Open Day at the UWA Turf Research Facility to see how different water allocations, in combination with wetting-agents, have influenced the development of dry-patch.
A brief presentation will commence at 10:15am sharp. Please remember to wear sturdy footwear, as the (...)
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March 2013
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Monday 04 |
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Historical Society March 4th Convocation Centenary: Photo Shoot at 10am : All welcome on the steps of the old St George's Hall 500 Hay St Perth to celebrate 100 years to the day of the first meeting of UWA's Convocation.
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You are invited to join us mark the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the University of Western Australia’s Convocation.
The First meeting was held on March 4th 1913 in St George’s Hall, Hay St near the corner of Irwin Street. The historic façade including the portico (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
11:00 - EVENT - Enviro Fest '13 : UWA Enviro Fest aims to empower UWA students and staff to reduce their environmental impact, and increase their appreciation of the natural environment.
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UWA Enviro Fest aims to empower UWA students and staff to reduce their environmental impact, and increase their appreciation of the natural environment.
Each year Enviro Fest provides opportunities to indulge your interest in the natural environment and learn more about sustainable (...)
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Thursday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Physics-biology feedbacks in estuarine fine sediment dynamics : SESE Seminar
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An increase in human activities in river catchments is resulting in increased muddiness of estuaries in many regions of the world. This increased muddiness has management implications, such as
-increased turbidity and decreased quality of life for the human population,
-storing pollutants (e.g (...)
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April 2013
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Wednesday 03 |
9:00 - CANCELLED - COURSE - Introduction to statistics : A short course using Microsoft Excel
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
Due to unforeseen circumstances the presenter is no longer available to deliver this course.
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This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a (...)
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Thursday 04 |
9:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Unisuper Financial Advice : Unisuper Financial Adviser will be on campus at UWA
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Book your financial advice appointment on campus at the University of Western Australia with a Unisuper Financial Advisor.Whichever type of advice you choose, your first appointment with UniSuper Advice is complimentary. If you wish to proceed, a fixed quote will be provided at the conclusion of (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
13:00 - EVENT - Food 2050 - The UWA Institute of Agriculture 2013 Industry forum : Join us for an afternoon of discussion about arguably the biggest issue facing humanity: how to feed nine billion people in 2050 without destroying the planet.
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Building on the theme of the UWA Future Farm 2050 Project
The biggest issue facing humanity: how to feed 9 billion people in 2050 without destroying the planet.
What science and technology is needed to meet this challenge?
Time: 1:00pm – 5:15pm followed by refreshments < (...)
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