What's On at UWA

Cartilaginous fishes are comprised of approximately 1185 species worldwide and occupy a range of niches and primary habitats. It is a widely accepted view that neural development can reflect morphological adaptations and sensory specializations and it has been shown that similar patterns of brain (...)

Robert Humphries1, Tom Long1, Katrina Walton2 and David Allen3 Water Corporation of Western Australia1, Chemistry Centre of Western Australia2, MBS Environmental3

Most Australian water utilities strive to direct stabilized wastewater sludges, or biosolids, to beneficial uses. However (...)

Dr Johnathan Kool, Marine Ecologist, Geoscience Australia

Title: Bio-oceanographic dispersal models: where are we, and where do we need to go?

Abstract: Connectivity research involves investigating the presence, strength and characteristics of spatiotemporal relationships (...)

A public lecture by Professor Shaun P. Collin, WA Premier’s Research Fellow, and Winthrop Professor, The UWA Oceans Institute.

The eye, and ultimately the brain, mediates the detection of light by all organisms on earth. However, eyes are all different and the levels of light available (...)

Title: Little Penguin breeding and survival in Western Australia compromised by a “marine heat wave” in 2011.

Abstract The largest colony of Little Penguins in Western Australia is located on Penguin Island, 50 km south of Perth, and the breeding performance of a nestbox (...)

Title: Simulations and observations of large amplitude internal tides and solitons in the South China Sea

Abstract: The Luzon Strait separates the South China Sea from the Western Pacific. Strong tidal exchange generates internal tides that propagate into the South China Sea as large-amp (...)

The Three MInute Thesis (3MT) is a fun and challenging event that encourages the communication of research to a wide audience. The UWA 3MT competition finals will be held on 25th July and this presentation is a comprehensive guide to the preparation and presentation of a compelling 3MT talk. The (...)

Each year The UWA Institute of Agriculture hosts an annual Postgraduate Showcase where selected postgraduate students in the area of Agriculture and related Natural Resource Management present their research findings. The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s outstanding PhD (...)

A free public forum hosted by UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson.

Keynote Speakers:

The Hon Greg Combet AM, MP Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Minister for Industry and Innovation

and

Winthtop Professor Malcolm McCulloch, FAA (...)

Western Australia is undergoing a significant ‘mining boom’. The primary commodities driving that boom are iron-ore and oil and gas. These commodities are destined for export by sea and require the creation of new ports in green fields sites, and expansions of most of the existing ones.

Title: Watershed influences and potential climate change impacts to US fringing coral reefs. Abstract: While there are a number of threats to coral reefs around the globe, sediment run-off is either the greatest or one of the most serious stressors to U.S. fringing coral reefs. Unlike many global (...)

A public lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director, The UWA Oceans Institute.

In this lecture, Professor Duarte will develop a case for the existence of a long relationship, at the deepest possible level, between humans and the ocean and submit that the depth of this relationship (...)

Title: Canadian thaw ponds under a warming climate

Abstract: Permafrost soils store half of the global below ground organic carbon stock, which is now being mobilized as peat soils thaw and erode. Part of the mobilized C is emitted, stored and transformed by aquatic systems before it (...)

The size and complexity of exploration, development and production of oil and gas lends itself to numerous opportunities for environmental engineers to influence engineering design in order to minimise the impact on the environment. This presentation will discuss the lifecycle of a typical oil and (...)

Title: Will climate change alter susceptibility of Mediterranean seagrasses Posidonia oceanica and Cymodocea nodosa to infection by Labyrinthula?

Abstract: Vulnerability of seagrasses to pathogens may be greater under certain environmental conditions and infections may become detrimental (...)

Speakers: Burt Jones, Professor of Marine Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Ian Walsh, Senior Oceanographer, WET Labs, Inc.

Title: Ocean observing systems: challenges and opportunities

Abstract: Ocean observing systems are developing on a variety (...)

A public lecture by Michael Collins, Emeritus Professor, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton.

Michael Collins is Ikerbasque Fellow at the Plentzia Marine Station (PIE), the University of the Basque Country(UPV/EHU), Spain and Emeritus Professor in the School of (...)

The 3MT competition challenges research students to give a dynamic and engaging presentation about their research and its significance in a way that can be understood by everybody. The audience will select the "People's Choice" winner.

The Western Australian Marine Science Institution welcomes you to the first of a series of free seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley.

1st Speaker: Dr Barry Wilson (Murex Consultants), Patterns of life on Kimberley shores

The major controls of (...)

Title: Juvenile reef fish assemblages of Ningaloo.

Abstract: The abundance, species richness and assemblage structure of juvenile fishes was quantified in the summers of 2009-2012 along Australia’s largest fringing reef, Ningaloo in Western Australia. In total, over 50,000 juvenile (...)