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Displaying from Tuesday, August 16, 2016
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August 2016
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Tuesday 16 |
7:30 - PUBLIC TALK - 2016 Women in Agriculture Breakfast : Each year UWA SNAGS host a women in agriculture breakfast to introduce readily involved and influential women of the industry to those studying in the natural and agricultural sciences
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Each year UWA SNAGS host a women in agriculture breakfast to introduce readily involved and influential women of the industry to those studying in the natural and agricultural sciences.
This year the event will be on the 16th August at 7:30am. This event has been a great success in (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Are Plant Barcodes the Future of Conservation? : Join Dr Ellen Jorgensen for this free talk
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Join Dr Ellen Jorgensen for a free talk during National Science Week. Hear about Ellen’s fascinating project to barcode native plant species in a remote area of Alaska for their future conservation. Dr Jorgensen is visiting from New York, where she is co-founder of Genspace – the world’s (...)
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Friday 19 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south-west of Western Australia
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This study aims provide a framework through which the trade-offs between prescribed burning, wildfire suppression and wildfire damages can be brought to light and evaluated. It uses an economic model in conjunction with a wildfire simulator to test different prescribed-burning strategies and (...)
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Thursday 25 |
11:00 - EVENT - To tweet or not to tweet? Social media for Scientists (Thursday August 25th 11am-1pm)
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UWA scientists are invited to meet with Dr Melanie Bagg from the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC). Melanie will share tips and advice on the best use of social media to communicate your research with the media and the communities you want to reach.
Melanie has a PhD in Medicine (...)
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Friday 26 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south-west of Western Australia
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This study aims provide a framework through which the trade-offs between prescribed burning, wildfire suppression and wildfire damages can be brought to light and evaluated. It uses an economic model in conjunction with a wildfire simulator to test different prescribed-burning strategies and (...)
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September 2016
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Thursday 01 |
17:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Nitrogen crises in agriculture and potential solutions : In this public lecture, Dr Udvardi will discuss basic and applied research and development approaches that aim to reduce the use and environmental impact of industrial N-fertlizers, while maintaining or even increasing plant productivity.
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Low concentrations of mineral- and organic-nitrogen compounds in many soils limit plant growth and productivity. Industrial production and use of N-fertilizers relieved this constraint in many agricultural systems and fuelled the Green Revolution of the 20th century. Without N-fertilizers there (...)
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Thursday 08 |
The incidence of armed conflict, forced displacement and natural disasters is increasing, with tremendous impacts for local communities.
There are concerning consequences of trauma for mental and physical health, community cohesion and economic stability, yet growing evidence suggests (...)
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Thursday 15 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Importance of Marine Protected Areas for Our Oceans : A public lecture - part of the 2016 Our Ocean conference
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This satellite event is part of the 2016 Our Ocean Conference. Held in Washington, D.C. on September 15-16 and hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the conference focuses on the key ocean issues of our time – marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate-rel (...)
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Friday 16 |
Increasing income brings about a decline in the relative importance of food consumption, a wider spread of spending patterns and a demand for higher-quality goods. Using an index-number approach, this paper analyses these three closely related tendencies. Stripping out the impact of prices from (...)
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Saturday 17 |
UWA Farm Ridgefield and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are hosting a community based festival event to celebrate astronomy and Australian science on Saturday, 17 September 2016.
The event will feature fun and engaging activities in a beautiful rural setting, at UWA (...)
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Monday 19 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Bayliss Seminar Series : The biochemist stripped bare: fundamental issues around data analysis and presentation that have taken about 20 years of doing science to sink in
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As practising scientists, we all know that every measurement we make is subject to uncertainty - and we also all know that there are a whole set of protocols that have been developed to help you quantify that uncertainty and help you make decisions about and present your data. These tools are (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
8:00 - STAFF EVENT - mLEARNING SUMMIT : Explore the use of mobile and in-context learning in Higher Education
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Join us for the mLEARNING SUMMIT, the main event for the mLearning Month (September 2016) hosted by the Centre for Education Futures.
The mLearning Summit will be featuring our own Professor Gilly Salmon addressing the role of mobile learning in blended education.
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October 2016
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Friday 07 |
11:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: Natural resource management
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Australian and New Zealand research on the economics of natural resource management (NRM) has a relatively short history. Defining NRM as including water, agricultural land, marine renewable resources, nature conservation and forestry, 65% of all Australasian journal articles in the area have been (...)
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Monday 10 |
UWA Staff are invited to join Mark Bailye (Blackboard) and Centre for Education Futures staff for this active workshop to explore how technological tools can support the UWA Policy on Assessment, and enhance good assessment and feedback practice. This session will help you get the most out of (...)
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Friday 14 |
11:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Non-Market Valuation of Loss: Values, Places, and Experiences with Climate Change
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is seeking to prepare for losses arising from climate change. This is an emerging issue that challenges climate science and policy to engage more deeply with values, places, and people’s experiences. Drawing on a collaborative WUN (...)
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Friday 21 |
11:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Uncertainty of modelling Uncertainty in an Uncertain World: Bane or Boon?
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The debates around the 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate change have been shifting their focus in conjunction with a renewed flurry of activity in the area of decision-making under uncertainty. New ideas are influencing the design of economic experiments as well as the interpretation of (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Induction of fertile ovulation and puberty advancement by a new kisspeptin analog : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The neuropeptide kisspeptin and its receptor, KiSS1R, govern the reproductive timeline of mammals. Previous studies pointed to their central role to maintain fertility by triggering puberty onset and promoting ovulation by stimulating gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - UN World Food Day and SDG2 free event : Wed26 October 5:30pm @ Rio Tinto Theatrette, Perth, WA:https://www.facebook.com/events/627188600785729/
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Next Wed26 October at 5:30pm we will be having a free wonderful event focused on promoting UN World Food Day and UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 to ' End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition plus promoting sustainable agriculture' from a WA perspective.
Here is the (...)
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Friday 28 |
11:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Assessing the performance of �comparative agriculture� methods to assess regional diversity in Australian farming systems
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13:00 - EVENT - Video Feedback: Engage students & enhance their learning experience : Helping provide a higher quality of feedback in the same amount of time.
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Research indicates the provision of video feedback on student assessments results in an overwhelmingly positive impact on engagement, performance and overall perception of the unit and its coordinator. Join Learning Technologists Liberty Cramer and Michelle Bunting from the Centre for Education (...)
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