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Displaying from Wednesday, November 17, 2010
 November 2010
Wednesday 17
16:00 - SEMINAR - Centre for Water Research Seminar : Water Resource Management: Connecting With Nature and Community Website | More Information
Historically water resource management has been concerned with water supply, sometimes waste water disposal and in some instances with flood control; in brief the domain of the civil and sanitary engineer. Then in the 1960's, water resource managers and planners had to include the concept of "e (...)
Friday 19
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Listening at the Nanoscale . . . : Speaker: SymbioticA masters student Joel Ong Website | More Information
SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Speaker: Joel Ong; Title: Listening at the Nanoscale . . . Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;

In the leadup to his final project, SymbioticA Masters student Joel Ong will present the developments and foregrounding ideas of his sound installation “N (...)

18:30 - EXHIBITION OPENING - Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts (ALVA) End of Year Exhibition More Information
The official opening of the End of Year Exhibition featuring the works of ALVA Faculty Architecture and Landscape Architecture students.

This event is open to the public - please RSVP for catering purposes.
Monday 22
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Merchants of Doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming Website | More Information
In this lecture, Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, will discuss her book Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury 2010, co-authored by Erik M. Conway).

In Merchants of Doubt, Oreskes and Conway roll back the rug on the dark corner (...)
Tuesday 23
12:00 - SEMINAR - Where the big ones are : Body size patterns in fish, birds and humans More Information
Professor Michael A. Huston is an Adjunct Professor at the UWA School of Earth & Environment. He has been an IAS Professor-at-Large in 2008 and 2009, and this is his third visit in this capacity at UWA.

Professor Hustons research is focused on understanding the causes of observed (...)

17:00 - SEMINAR - Soil carbon and the development of international carbon footprinting protocols More Information
Carbon gives life to soil. It acts to sustain the soil functioning which enables soil to provide the ecosystem services which are essential for human well-being. Beyond this role there is growing interest in soil carbon because of its ability to sequester, or emit carbon, and the impact of these (...)
Wednesday 24
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - School of Earth & Environment Symposium on Sustainability : The Geography of sustainability: global patterns of success and failure More Information
Some people are rich and others are poor. Some countries are rich and others are poor. Explaining the unequal global distribution of economic wealth has been a major goal of economists since the eighteenth century or earlier, yet there is still no generally accepted explanation. Are most of the (...)

9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - School of Earth & Environment Symposium on Sustainability : Sustainability: Reducing the production footprint of agriculture More Information
Carbon and water are critical natural capital stocks. Climate-change concerns are focussing public attention on them through the development of footprinting protocols to alert consumers of the emissions of carbon and the consumption of water in the production systems of products they eat and wear (...)

16:00 - SEMINAR - Centre for Water Research Seminar : Intrusions generated by the benthic boundary layer flux in a stratified deep alpine lake Website | More Information
Intrusions generated by boundary mixing may be an important mechanism to redistribute mixed fluid away from the boundaries and into the lake interior. Much of our understating of the Benthic Boundary Layer (BBL) dynamics, and consequences of near - boundary mixing for the rest of the (...)
Friday 26
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Dissecting Australian Biodiversity: Surprising Patterns? or Not? : The Biodiversity, Socioeconomics, and Culture of Australia Website | More Information
Dissecting Australian Biodiversity: Surprising Patterns? or Not? or could we change it to...The Biodiversity, Socioeconomics, and Culture of Australia - Exceptional? or a Mirror for the Rest of the World?

As the Flattest, driest continent, with a bizarre assortment of plants and animals (...)

13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Curator's Talk with John Barrett-Lennard : Getting off the boat - the impact and influence of an Australian art collection Website | More Information
Alan Edwards, Professor of English at UWA and a key figure in the Tom Collins Bequest acquisitions, suggested in the early 1950s that 'it would be a very good idea if this University had a really good contemporary Australian painting. Then people would get off the boat to have a look at it when (...)

16:00 - SYMPOSIUM - unruly ecologies: biodiversity and art symposium : Exploring the possibilities and difficulties of the diversity of life through critical investigations in art, ecology and action Website | More Information
A SymbioticA Art and Science symposium exploring biodiversity and art with speakers from the sciences, humanities and arts from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 November 2010 in Perth and Lake Clifton, Mandurah.

The ecology of biodiversity is based upon an uncertain definition, incomplete (...)
Monday 29
0:00 - COURSE - China Study Tour : An intensive study of Chinese language in Zhejiang University and Beijing Institute of Education Website | More Information
The China Study Tour 2010/2011 is an intensive nine-week course of study in Chinese language which includes eight weeks of classes and one week of independent travel. The study tour is opened to adults aged 18 and above regardless of Chinese Mandarin background (from absolute beginner to native (...)

12:00 - SEMINAR - Health within the West Australian prison system. Findings of the 2010 Department of Corrective Services Report. : Light lunch from 12noon with a 12.30pm start. Website | More Information
In 2009, Dr Stevens was seconded to the Department of Corrective Services by the Director General of Health to undertake a review of the Prison Health Service. This Service sits within the DCS and provides clinical care to a population of around 5,000 prisoners located in 15 adult prisons and two (...)
Tuesday 30
8:05 - LAUNCH - NEW Chinese Culture Experience Centre at Confucius Institute Website | More Information
On 15 November 2010, Confucius Institute (CI) at The University of Western Australia (UWA) officially unveiled its Chinese Culture Experience Centre. Confucius Institute Headquarters in Beijing (aka Hanban) provided generous funding to support this particular project. The Centre provides a sound (...)

 December 2010
Wednesday 01
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Towards a better understanding of the dynamics of oscillatory bottom boundary layers on a slope Website | More Information
Velocity structure and mixing within oscillatory bottom boundary layers (BBLs) are important for parameterization of bottom friction in numerical models, loading on near-seabed structures, sediment transport, and mass transfer of nutrients and pollutants between water column and sediment. Despite (...)

17:30 - EVENT - Raine Visiting Professor Lecture Series : "In Sickness and in Health: The Future of Medicine" by Professor Marc Noppen, Belgium More Information
Professor Noppen’s leadership and strategic vision for the University Hospital in Brussels and his interest in the provision of quality public healthcare will bring a European perspective on these aspects for Australian healthcare providers and underpins his lecture.

This lecture is (...)
Monday 06
10:00 - SEMINAR - Molecular labeling technologies for fluorescence microscopy - 6 December Website | More Information
Dr Iain Johnson, Principal Scientist, Cell Systems - Immunology Services at Life Technologies will visit the CMCA to provide a comparative overview of the major fluorescent labeling technologies - organic dyes, fluorescent proteins and quantum dot nanocrystals.

These technologies are (...)
Tuesday 07
9:30 - WORKSHOP - Systems Biology Graphical Notation and SBGN-ED : Falk Schreiber hails from both Bioinformatics at Leibniz Inst Plant Research and also Institute of Computer Science at Martin Luther University, Germany. He believes his talk will be of interest to both Biologists and Medicos. More Information
SBGN is an ongoing international collaboration to provide standard graphical/visual representations of biochemical and cellular processes in an unambiguous way. SBGN has three types notation: process description, entity relationship, and activity flow. The standard defines a comprehensive set of (...)
Wednesday 08
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Human Rights and Justice for All...the Global Agenda : UNAA (WA) 2010 Human Rights Day Address Website | More Information
This year's United Nations Association of Australia (WA) Human Rights Day Address will be given by The Honourable Robert Hill BA LLB LLM.

The Honorable Robert Hill was a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 2006, representing South Australia and was Leader of the Government in (...)


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