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March 2014
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Thursday 13 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Re-Visioning Field Stations, Marine Laboratories, and Research Centers to Address Global Environmental Change
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A public lecture by Dr Peggy Fiedler, Director of the Natural Reserve System at the University of California.
In this lecture Professor Fiedler will provide context for understanding the role of field stations, marine laboratories and other protected areas by discussing specific examples (...)
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Wednesday 19 |
7:30 - EVENT - UWA Nedlands Bike Breakfast : Celebrate cycling as a great way to travel to UWA.
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Cycle to UWA and enjoy a free, full breakfast. Get a free bike check with our bike doctor. See the State Minister for Sport and Recreation launch CycleWest's Strategic Framework for Cycling.
Registrations are essential and will go into the draw to win a $700 spending spree at the winner' (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - The Enchantment of Remote Islands and Their Peoples : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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In part, this seminar is a travelogue and, in part, it is an amateur study in comparative anthropology. While exploring many small, remote and near-isolated islands around the world I became fascinated by the history and sociology of the small human communities that occupied those corners of the (...)
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April 2014
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Tuesday 01 |
Celebrate sustainability at UWA's premier environmental event. Pat a koala and dingo and, if you're game, hold a wedge-tailed eagle and python. View up-close UWA's bees (in a safe, sealed hive panel) and sample their honey. Create beautiful flower sculptures from upcycled materials. Learn about (...)
11:30 - WORKSHOP - Creative workshop : Sculpture a flower from inspirational upcycled materials
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Sculpture a flower from a weird and wonderful array of upcycled materials, with a workshop facilitator from REmida Creative Reuse Centre.
Your creation will be displayed as part of an evolving 'flower bed' under the largest Oak Tree on Oak Lawn at UWA EnviroFest.
All flowers (...)
11:30 - EVENT - Bike Doctor on campus : Free bike maintenance and minor servicing with Dismantle's BikeDr
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Give your bike a free health check, thanks to BikeDr. They'll offer you fast, dependable and expert bike checks and minor servicing to make your life easy and keep your bike running smooth.
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Wednesday 09 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Using atmospheric eddy covariance measurements to estimate recharge through Banksia woodland over Gnangara groundwater mound : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Banksia woodland coves half the recharge area to the Gnangara Mound, Perth’s most important water resource. To help understand the water balance and carbon balance of this native woodland we have installed an eddy covariance system measuring the atmospheric turbulence and scalar fluxes above the (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Water Related Spatial Information. : this seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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The Department of Water has an extensive State-wide network of monitoring bores and gauging stations that has records going back to the early 1900’s. The types of projects that Department’s water information was used for in 2013 was wide ranging including: infrastructure proposals, foreshore (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Restoration in a Changing Environment: The Ridgefield Multiple Ecosystem Service Experiment : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Multiple environmental changes challenge traditional notions of ecological restoration. One option for the future may be to plant mixtures of native species to achieve desired ecosystem functions such as tightly cycling nutrients, carbon sequestration, resistance against weed invasion and (...)
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May 2014
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Wednesday 07 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Animal-like learning in plants : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Scientists have wondered for some time whether plants, like animals, can truly learn from the past and adjust their future behavior appropriately.
We adopted the same approach used in studies of animal learning and memory and put the sensitive plant Mimosa to the test.
We found that (...)
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Monday 19 |
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - In Conversation with UWA Alumni : Join Bruce Abbott, Managing Director of Replants.com and CEO of Cultural Corridors, for an intimate conversation on the business of saving grass trees and sharing culture
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Guild Volunteering is launching the first in a series of conversations with UWA Alumni who are leaders in the non-profit and community benefit sector.
Our first guest is Bruce Abbott, Managing Director of Replants.com and CEO of Cultural Corridors. Replants.com is a social enterprise (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Chemical and isotopic imaging at the sub-micron scale with NanoSIMS : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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To understand large-scale phenomena, such as ecosystem health or ore mineral deposition, researchers are increasingly looking at the chemical processes occurring at the nano-scale. Mass spectrometry traditionally requires material to be extracted in bulk from samples, at the expense of information (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
Dr Amanda Wheeler joined the School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science at Edith Cowan University as a Senior Research Fellow in August 2013. Prior to this, Dr Wheeler was a Research Scientist with Health Canada where her research included personal exposures to air (...)
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June 2014
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Wednesday 04 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Climate change adaptation: water conservation and crop production in south-western Australia and the Loess Plateau of China : this seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Climate simulation models suggest that mean temperatures on the Loess Plateau of China will increase by 2.5 to 3.75°C by 2050, while those in the cropping region of south-west Australia will increase by 1.25 to 1.75°C. The rainfall in south-west Australia rainfall is predicted to decrease by 20 (...)
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Thursday 05 |
13:30 - EVENT - IOA Postgraduate Showcase - Frontiers in Agriculture : 9 PhD students present their diverse agriculture-related research
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The Institute of Agriculture's annual Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their research.
This year, nine presentations covering a wide range of disciplines will highlight some of the research and progress underway at UWA in the area of (...)
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July 2014
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Wednesday 02 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Reconstructing ecosystems: the microbial ecology of bauxite residue rehabilitation. : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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One of the best strategies for long-term management and potential in situ remediation of bauxite residue held in storage facilities globally is through vegetation establishment (often termed phytostabilisation). Sustainable vegetation growth on bauxite processing residues involves the (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - PERTH PUBLIC TRANSPORT PATRONAGE: MID-TERM TRENDS AND CURRENT SITUATION : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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In the past months there have been several claims about the declining figures in the public transport patronage. This seminar envisages analysing public transport trends over the last decade using Perth Transport Authority (PTA) datasets. Through this analysis, the aim is to determine the validity (...)
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August 2014
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Tuesday 05 |
The 2014 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Anas Ghadouani, Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Australia.
Throughout the history of humanity there has always been a strong link between water and society. The most successful of our past civilisations are (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Can we decrease turbidity by constructing an artificial shallow area in a lake? : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Lake Shinji is a brackish shallow lake in Japan. Its surface area is 86.8 km2 and the average water depth is 4.5 m. In 2001 the Japanese government (MLIT) started a project to construct an artificial shallow area around the shoreline where concrete embankments had been constructed and the water (...)
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Friday 22 |
13:00 - EVENT - RESCHEDULED: �Making the Links� Roundtable: Building Research Teams and Partnerships in the Humanities and Social Sciences : Learn how to develop multi-partner projects and build collaborative relationships from some of UWA's leading ARC Linkage winners.
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Some of the University’s most successful ARC Linkage grant winners from the Faculties of Arts, Business, Education and Law will come together to discuss how they developed multi-partner projects and built collaborative relationships both within and outside academia. Members of the Research (...)
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