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 January 2012
Monday 23
9:00 - EVENT - Rasch Conference : Fifth International conference on probabilistic models for Measurement Website | More Information
The Graduate School of Education at UWA is hosting the Fifth International conference on probabilistic models for Measurement in Education, Psychology, Social Science and Health from 23 to 25 January 2012. The emphasis of the conference is on the Rasch model, named after the Danish mathematician George Rasch. The Rasch model is widely used for data analysis in Education, for example the analysis of national and international proficiency assessments like PISA and NAPLAN. It is also used for analysis of data from questionnaires, for example Quality of Life questionnaires in Health. In marketing the Rasch model is used to analyse data from satisfaction surveys. UWA will also be running an introductory and advanced course in Rasch measurement in the immediate two weeks prior to the conference. For more information on either the conference or courses please see: http://www.education.uwa.edu.au/raschconference

18:30 - COURSE - Chinese Languages Courses-Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced & Business Chinese : 10 week course Website | More Information
The Confucius Institute will be running our 1st intake of our Chinese Language courses for the year. We offer an ongoing series of Chinese language classes from Beginners to Advanced levels and Business Chinese.

Our language courses are designed for those with an interest in travel, business and friendship. Our teachers are qualified Chinese language teaching professionals with many years of experience.

 February 2012
Thursday 02
2:00 - PRESENTATION - Dr Holly Kerr Forsyth : an afternoon public presentation from this popular garden columnist More Information
Intrepid traveller, distinguished author and passionate gardener Dr Holly Kerr Forsyth recalls the highs and lows of her journeys to gardens rarely visited, including those in Iran. Cost: $10 includes afternoon tea to be paid at the door. (Cash Only)

15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Beyond Humans: Art and the future evolution of the human species : Public talk with Ingeborg Reichle Website | More Information
In my paper I will present the exhibition "jenseits des menschen, beyond humans" I curated in 2010 for the Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité, putting new works by the Berlin based artist Reiner Maria Matysik as part of the Interventions series on show, which was initiated in 2009 by the Museum to offer contemporary art a space for experiment and to promote dialogue between the arts and the sciences. "jenseits des menschen" was the result of the productive collaboration of two Berlin science institutions: the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Charité's Medical History Museum. The pathological specimens collection of the renowned physician Rudolf Virchow and the ruin of his lecture hall were the points of departure for this artistic interrogation of medical science's image of man, which the museum's permanent exhibition "On the Trace of Life" charts in the history of medicine from the eighteenth century to the present day. In contrast to the museum's view of man which is historical, the intervention by Reiner Maria Matysik turned toward future evolutionary designs for humans in a human-made biotechnological future. His work became well known particularly through his models of post-evolutionary organisms, which are situated between Matysik's vision of "active" evolution, that is, evolution controlled by humans, and the future forms of living "biological sculptures" created by the artist.

The artist's motivation in creating these prototypes of future organisms stems from his conviction that the rapid advances in modern molecular biology and genetic engineering will have dramatic consequences for the process of biological evolution, as well as for art, that can hardly be assessed at present. The exhibition "jenseits des menschen" brought together three aspects of Reiner Maria Matysik's multi-layered oeuvre in a new synthesis. From his extensive series of post-evolutionary organisms three exhibits were selected for a very distinctive space, the museum's lecture hall ruin; they were suspended from the roof on steel cables and hang above the heads of visitors. In the second area of the exhibition the artist focused on the future of human evolution and for the first time worked with modelling wax. In the third section Matysik saw new ground: with the support of the Deutsches Institut für Zell- und Gewebeersatz and using the techniques of tissue engineering, the artist created for the first time a "living sculpture" from his own cells, which was exhibited in the museum as a specimen.

Ingeborg Reichle, born 1970, studied art history, archaeology, sociology, and philosophy in Freiburg i. Br., London, and Hamburg, working toward her 2004 Ph.D. dissertation on "Kunst aus dem Labor. Zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter der Technoscience". Between 1998-2005 she held a research position at the Art History Institute, Humboldt University Berlin and the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik and between 2005-2008 a research position at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in the interdisciplinary working group "Die Welt als Bild". Since 2008 she has been the scientific coordinator of the interdisciplinary working group "Bildkulturen". For over 10 years she has guest lectured at various international institutions including the School of Visual Arts, New York, the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and the Life-Science Lab, DeutschesKrebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg; 2007 guest professor at the Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.Publications (selection): Kunst aus dem Labor. Zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter der Technoscience (2005), Verwandte Bilder. Die Fragen der Bildwissenschaft (2007, ed. with S.Siegel and A. Spelten), Visuelle Modelle (2008, ed. with S. Siegel and A. Spelten), Maßlose Bilder. Visuelle Ästhetik der Transgression (2009, ed. with S. Siegel), Art in the Age of Technoscience. Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art (2009), Atlas der Weltbilder (2011, ed. with Christoph Markschies, Peter Deuflhard, and Jochen Brüning). In 2010 she curated the exhibition "jenseits des menschen - beyond humans" for the Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité.


18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Another India: Land, Water and Rural Poverty Website | More Information
Discussion of India in the public sphere in Australia often focuses on the growth of the Indian economy, trade relations, and the emergence of India as a powerful economic and political actor within the international system. Less present in media and public discourse on India is consideration of social and environmental challenges, or even what could be described as crises, that are experienced most acutely by citizens located in the urban periphery and in rural areas. Questions of access to land for maintaining livelihoods and the legitimacy of land acquisition for development projects have emerged as arenas of local political conflict in India.

Water resources and their distribution are also not just a question of policy but of politics in urban and rural India, and will be ever-more so in the context of global climate change. The long-standing social crisis of rural poverty in India also remains unresolved, as attested by the disturbing phenomena of farmer suicide.

Three speakers, each of them distinguished experts and public commentators in India, will discuss these questions in this special lecture.

About The Speakers:

*P. Sainath is India’s most highly-awarded journalist. He is the Rural Affairs Editor of 'The Hindu'. Sainath was the first Indian in 25 years to win the Ramon Magsaysay Prize in 2007 for his “passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India’s national consciousness.”

*Swapna Banerjee-Guha is Professor of Development Studies in the School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. From 1981-2006 she was Professor of Human Geography at the University of Mumbai. She is the author of six books and over a hundred academic articles.

*Dr Anjal Prakash is Senior Fellow and Director of the Peri Urban Water Security Project at the South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, Hyderabad, India. He has worked extensively on the issues of ground water management, gender, natural resource management and water supply and sanitation in India.

This lecture is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.
Monday 06
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - No more needles � Nanopatch technology for a healthier world More Information
The dynamic inventor of the vaccine Nanopatch, Prof. Mark Kendall, will talk about the development and enormous potential of this revolutionary technology for vaccine delivery. You can also explore the Incredible Inner Space exhibition, which includes an amazing microscope image of the Nanopatch.

The Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility is proud to present this public lecture and exhibition as part of the joint Australian Conference on Microscopy & Microanalysis, Asia-Pacific Microscopy Conference and the 2012 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Where: the Riverview Lecture Room at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre When: 6.00–7.30pm 6th Feb 2012.

It is free and booking is not required
Wednesday 22
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Where will the food come from in a hotter, more crowded world? Website | More Information
A Public Lecture by Dr Nina Fedoroff, Distinguished Professor, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology and Evan Pugh Professor, Penn State University.

The climate is warming. Water tables are falling around the world. Biodiversity is under ever-increasing pressure. The amount of arable land hasn’t changed in more than half a century - yet the human population continues to grow. Food prices remain near all-time highs.

How do we double the food supply while decreasing the ecological and water footprints of our agriculture? This is perhaps the most profound challenge of the 21st century. In this free public lecture, Dr Nina Fedoroff will discuss these challenges.

Nina V. Fedoroff received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Rockefeller University, and has served on the faculties of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Johns Hopkins University and the Pennsylvania State University, where she was the Director of the Biotechnology Institute and the founding Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

Dr Fedoroff was a recipient of the 2006 National Medal of Science, the highest honor awarded to US scientists. She served as the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State and to the Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2007 to 2010. She is also President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

This lecture is co-sponsored by The UWA Institute of Agriculture and the Institute of Advanced Studies.

Cost: Free, no RSVP required.
Monday 27
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Special Seminar : “Growing our future - the challenge and promise of the desert! Website | More Information
The coastal strip of Israel is densely populated and suffers from all the common drawbacks of densely populated areas: air, soil and groundwater pollution; high land prices; chronic traffic congestions; urban violence, etc. The Negev covers sixty per cent of Israel’s surface but is home to less than ten per cent of its population. Therefore it is clear that the future development of Israel will take place in the Negev. Ben-Gurion’s famous dictum that “In the Negev will the people of Israel be tested” has never been more appropriate and relevant than now.

The great challenge that faces the present generation is how to ensure that the development of the Negev is sustainable both in its physical and human dimensions. The scarcity of water in arid regions in general, and of the Negev in particular, results in a lack of readily available sources of food and conventional energy. These three core issues have therefore to be addressed. Ben Gurion University’s Blaustein Institute for Desert Research (BIDR) main efforts are geared to explore and provide new approaches that will ensure the provision of food and energy using marginal sources of water, designed for the future inhabitants of the Negev and of Israel. Of course, the three are intertwined. One cannot talk about one of them without mentioning at least one of the others. Energy is necessary to pump water and spread it, production of food requires water, and the production of biofuels for green energy often competes for the water and land necessary for food production. Research is therefore multidisciplinary by necessity.

The problems facing the development of the Negev are however not unique, but are shared by other countries in arid or semi-arid regions of our planet and therefore BIDR’s research efforts have global relevance. The high solar energy radiation common to desert-like areas is normally perceived negatively, but can be the main source of energy for the whole country. BIDR’s scientists have developed the concentrated photovoltaics approach and develop new and more efficient photovoltaic cells. Agriculture production in Israel is mainly based on irrigated crops and 50% of the water used is treated waste water. The coastal plain of Israel was the area in which there was a very intensive agricultural activity. The increase in urbanization of this area has led to a decrease of the former. In the National Master Plan for 2020, the northern part of Israel’s western desert (Negev) has been selected as the area in which agricultural development would take place using either treated wastewater or brackish water from the underlying aquifer. In both cases the water has to be treated prior to its use, the main treatment being filtration.

Thus the development of filters that minimize clogging, and therefore the need for their cleaning or replacement, is being addressed by another group of BIDR’s researchers. The interaction between the surface characteristics of filters and bacteria and viruses are studied in great detail and novel filters with surface characteristics that minimize bacterial colonization have been developed. The efficient use of water, this scarce and precious commodity, is as well the objective of other groups of BIDR that deal with different aspects of water use. These activities range from trying to unlock the genetic code of desert plants that could help improve the productivity of conventional crops, developing novel irrigation techniques that save water, studying the fate of irrigation water that is not absorbed by plants, rediscovering ancient techniques that use flood waters to produce fodder and firewood, and the use of brackish water to produce algae derived products with high market values or biofuels. The Negev is also home to a wide variety of plants and animals. Studying their behavioural patterns and defining the conditions under which this amazing biodiversity in flora and fauna can be maintained is the task of the world-renown Mitrani Center for Desert Ecology.

Developing minimum energy consuming dwellings and living quarters is the task of a group of architects that has made a mark in the region. Human relations between the various ethnic groups in the Negev are, needless to say, of crucial importance to the successful implementation of the techniques we develop, and are the subject of study of a group of anthropologists and social scientists.

At the core of all our research activities are our graduate students. They are drawn to the BIDR from all over the world and are keen to study with world-renowned experts. Most of them return to their home countries, located in areas that often suffer from a lack of fresh water, food and energy in order to implement the lessons of their studies. Israeli students become the wave of future scientists and policy-makers, keeping Israel at the forefront of desert research. Working closely with their advisers, the students of the BIDR conduct research with wide-ranging implications and achieve impressive breakthroughs.

short Bio.

Dr Pedro's main research interest is the efficient use of water in rainfed agricultural systems and planted forests in drylands. Drylands have been settled since time immemorial and in order to be able to do so desert-dwellers developed ingenious techniques. He have studied and developed the techniques that make use of flood waters for the irrigation of orchards and forests planted in arid zones, with a focus on the evaporation of water from the surface of bare soils and between the rows of crops. He is involved in the development, testing and modeling of agricultural techniques that increase the water use efficiency of crops and planted forests.



PS* This seminar is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****

Wednesday 29
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - A World of Opportunities: Social innovation in the international and Australian cultural sector Website | More Information
A Public Lecture by Vanessa Kredler, UNESCO.

This presentation will introduce the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in Cairo, which is being developed under the auspices of UNESCO. The NMEC is an ambitious new museum project that will look at Egyptian civilization from prehistory to the present day. There are huge opportunities for this emerging institution to become an agent of social change and deal with contemporary challenges.

Museums are well placed to deal with contemporary social issues, including climate change, health, and conflict resolution. The presentation will talk about opportunities at the NMEC and introduce good practice examples from other regions of the world before inviting an open exchange on opportunities for the Australian arts and cultural sector to lead in social innovation.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA, the Western Australian Museum and Museums Australia Western Australia.

 March 2012
Thursday 01
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert : Visiting Artist Adam Pinto (piano) More Information
A program of Impressionist Masterpieces including works by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel

18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Winthrop Singers Evensong : The Winthrop Singers perform evensong at St Thomas More College More Information
Our first evensong as guests in St Thomas More College. Come along to hear some quality choral music.

Responses: Rose Psalm 121 Canticles: Byrd Short Service Anthem: Mozart Ave verum corpus
Tuesday 06
17:30 - FREE LECTURE - Unsafe Haven, Hazaras In Afghanistan : Public Lecture by Mr. Abdul Karim Hekmat on Hazaras and their treatment in Afghanistan Website | More Information
Last November a 27 years old Hazara asylum seeker was about to be deported to Afghanistan. The Federal Magistrate Court put a temporary injunction against his forced removal because of ‘lack of procedural fairness.’ Now a legal challenge is underway in the High Court to determine the fate of all Afghan refugees listed for forced deportation under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Australian and Afghan governments in early 2011. Increasingly, the Hazara refugee applications have been rejected as the Australian government argues that the situation for Hazaras has improved in Afghanistan and thus have ‘no need of international protection.’ Abdul Hekmat will discuss this controversial deal against the background of continuing persecution and suffering of Hazara people in Afghanistan. He made a personal trip to Hazarajat, Afghanistan in 2010 to document Hazara lives. He has produced a striking photography exhibition touring around the country and a first-hand report detailing the current situation of Hazaras in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This will be a rare opportunity to see the ‘Unsafe haven’ exhibition at the University Club on a closing day and hear his talk on the exhibition and the Hazara situation in the context of Afghan politics in the post Taliban period.

Speaker Bio: Abdul Karim Hekmat arrived as a refugee from Afghanistan in 2001. He spent five months in Curtin detention centre in WA and then lived for over three years under Temporary Protection Visa. He has participated in many forums, conferences and media debates, the Sydney Writers’ Festival. He has articles published about refugees at The Australian, National Times, The Age and the Drum. He also writes short stories and his first short story will be published an anthology ‘Alien Shores’ in May, 2012. He lives and works in Sydney helping young people from refugee backgrounds with their settlement and capacity building.

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18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - America's Water Crisis and what to do about it : Trepidation and Inspiration for Western Australia Website | More Information
A public lecture by Robert J Glennon, The Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.

Australia and the United States are both facing a water crisis. Recent and severe droughts, especially in Western Australia and in Texas, have demanded an unprecedented response from governments and water users. Excessive groundwater pumping has lowered the water table in many aquifers as current uses are simply unsustainable. The economic costs to farmers and industry have been immense: fields fallowed, jobs lost, and projects cancelled. In both countries, there is a profound disconnect between supply and demand.

Using the National Water Commission’s September 2011 biennial report on the implementation of the National Water Initiative as a reference, this talk will offer a comparative look at how the United States is responding to the water crisis. The US has embarked on major reforms at the same time as it has pursued surreal “solutions,” including weather modification, and smugly assumed that business-as-usual will suffice.

Australia and the US share a need for more energy, but it takes a lot of water to produce energy and, conversely, a lot of energy to pump, treat, move and deliver water. Western Australia has made a major push to desalinate ocean water as has the US, but desalination is not a cure-all for the water crisis.

Glennon argues that neither the US nor Australia can engineer its way out of the problem with the usual fixes or zany—but very real—schemes. Both countries must make hard choices and Glennon’s answer is a provocative market-based system that values water as a commodity and a fundamental human right.

Professor Glennon serves as Water Policy Advisor to Pima County, Arizona; as a member of American Rivers’ Science and Technical Advisory Committee; and as a commentator and analyst for various television and radio programs as well as print and online media. His current book Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It (2009, Island Press), provides both a frightening and wickedly funny account of the tragedy—and irony—of water in America. In 2010, the Society of Environmental Journalists awarded it the Rachel Carson Book Award for Reporting on the Environment and Trout magazine gave it an Honorable Mention in its list of Must-Have Books published on the environment. 'Unquenchable' will be available for sale at the lecture.

Cost: Free, no RSVP required.
Wednesday 07
7:00 - EVENT - Breakfast by the Bay : Diversity - who benefits and does it matter? Website | More Information
Addressing true issues of diversity and employing leaders who are representative of an organisation's stakeholders can bring new voices, experiences and approaches to the decision making process, adding depth to existing skills and ideas.

Yet while the benefits of having diversity in an organisation are now widely accepted by the majority of ASX-listed companies and non-profit organisations, the focus remains on gender rather than other measures of diversity such as ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, and age. The panelists will discuss the importance of diversity, the costs of implementing diversity, and how to address the issues of building more inclusive and truly diverse organisations.

Price; Members $45 / Guests $55 / Table of Ten $450 Price includes two-course breakfast and panel discussion.

17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Arab Spring, Non-Arab reactions : Public Lecture by Professor Ehud Toledano on reactions by non-Arabs to the Arab Spring Website | More Information
Speaker Bio: Ehud Toledano is a Professor of Ottoman and Middle Eastern History, and the Director of the Graduate School of Historical Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Previously, he held the role as Head of the University’s History Department. He is a leading Israeli academic specializing in Turkey and the Ottoman legacy as well as contemporary Middle Eastern politics.

He holds a Princeton PhD (1979), and has occupied teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA. Among his books are The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression, 1840- 1890, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982 (also published in Turkish),State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998 and As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.

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18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Responding to Marine Disasters Website | More Information
Ocean disasters of the last decade have brought to public awareness the significant consequences and threat to life on earth posed by tsunamis, climate change and industry accidents. In this public lecture, three expert commentators will offer their expertise on the future of disaster management in our ocean:

**Larry Madin: “Scientific response to BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill: lessons learned” - Dr Laurence Madin, Vice President and Director for Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, will speak on the ongoing impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico, and possible solutions to the disaster. “While the Gulf spill has shocked and horrified us all, it also has energised the research community to understand the effects and find ways to minimise current and future impacts,” says Dr Madin.

**Robert Nicholls: “The role of science in managing the risks of coastal flooding” - Professor Robert Nicholls is an internationally renowned expert on sea-level rise based at the University of Southampton in England. His main research interests are long-term coastal engineering and management, especially the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level rise.

**Charitha Pattiaratchi: “History, successes and regrets of Tsunami alert systems” - Winthrop Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi is the Australian Coordinator of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System, and a Professor of Coastal Oceanography at The UWA Oceans Institute and School of Environmental Systems Engineering. His research interests are in coastal physical oceanography and coastal sediment transport, with emphasis on field experiments and numerical modelling.

This public lecture is presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Oceans Institute at UWA.
Friday 09
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Caring and Sharing Cultural Heritage : Indigenous Art Collections - Mark Stewart and Pauline Williams in conversation at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Website | More Information
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA Museums presents an informative lunchtime conversation this Friday 9 March, 1pm. This is a free public talk, all welcome.

University Art Collections play a vital role in the acquisition, presentation and interpretation of Indigenous art to a diverse Australian public. Pauline Williams, Exhibition Coordinator, John Curtin Gallery, and Mark Stewart, Art Curator, Murdoch University, will discuss this responsibility in relation to the curatorial premise of an exhibition they co-curated in 2011 titled 'Evolving Identities – Contemporary Indigenous Art'.

This talk is part of a series of Friday lunchtime conversations focusing on the role of collecting in the Indigenous art sector. For details on further Friday talks refer to the public program at www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions.

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost : Shakespeare's most literary comedy Website | More Information
‘These are barren tasks, too hard to keep, Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!’

The beautiful Elizabethan style New Fortune Theatre at the University of Western Australia with its resident peacocks is the perfect setting for Shakespeare’s most beautifully lyrical play, Love’s Labour’s Lost, an extravaganza of wordplay and wit, glowing with lush language and romantic tomfoolery.

The Graduate Dramatic Society’s Sixtieth Anniversary production is directed by Grant Malcolm, the Award-winning director of the inaugural GRADS’ Summer Shakespeare season.

Hilarious and highly entertaining, this boisterous comedy delights with its excruciating cross-purposes and impersonations, drunkenness, bust ups and pratfalls.

No sooner have the young king and his courtiers at the court of Navarre zealously vowed to give up good living and women for three years to focus on serious study, than temptation arrives in the form of the Princess of France and her very attractive, very intelligent, and very saucy entourage – and the young men find their pulse rates soaring!

Infatuation, adolescent pranks and playful confusion lead to more serious matters, revealing the cost of real love.

This, Shakespeare’s most intellectual comedy, is also a joyous celebration of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parodies.

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Tuesday 13
20:00 - EVENT - Visiting Speaker : Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations More Information
Illustrated story of the rise and fall of the Boans Department Store, from its beginnings in 1895 to the Myer takeover in 1984. Will show the Jewish influence underpinning the company's commercial success.
Wednesday 14
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Satellite Remote Sensing of Fire Website | More Information
Fire stick farming of hunter-gathers preceded the development of agriculture. Fire continues to be a major land management technique and contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In the last two decades satellites have provided at regional and global scales unprecedented amounts of data on active fires and burnt areas. Most anthropomorphic in origin, some from lightening.

Dr Richard Smith will present data on the satellite monitoring of fire in the agricultural areas of southern Australia, the Tropical Savannas of northern Australia and the Tropical Rainforests of Indonesia. He will discuss their application to the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions.

Bio 1961-present:

BSc (Agric) London University, Dip. Agricultural Economics (Oxford), PhD (Agronomy) UWA. Farm Management Consultant (Broomehill, WA), Senior Lecturer Agronomy (University of New England. NSW), Irrigation Research leader (CSIRO, Griffith, NSW), Research Associate Remote Sensing (NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre), Manager Satellite Remote Sensing Services, WA Government.

In retirement Rottnest Volunteer Guide and with the Floreat Uniting Church, Community and Economic Development of the Mowanjum Aboriginal Community, near Derby.



PS* This seminar is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****


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