(Italicised entries indicate authorship but not present at the meeting)
August 2019: Protected areas as “worthless” lands – observations, consequences, reasons, and prospects (James Cook University, Cairns)
May 2017: From displacement activities to evidence-informed decisions in conservation science and policy (University of Melbourne, Creswick campus)
June 2016: Changing systematic conservation planning to make a difference (Museu Goeldi, Belém, Brazil)
May 2016: Changing systematic conservation planning to make a difference (Ministry of Environment, Brasilia, Brazil)
September 2015: Making parks make a difference: poor alignment of planning, management, and policy with protected-area impact, and ways forward (James Cook University, Cairns)
September 2015: Making parks make a difference: poor alignment of planning, management, and policy with protected-area impact, and ways forward (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville)
August 2015: Making parks make a difference: poor alignment of planning, management, and policy with protected-area impact, and ways forward (Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil)
July 2015: Making parks make a difference (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville)
May 2015: Understanding cumulative impacts with scenario modelling (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville)
May 2015: Optimising management actions on Great Barrier Reef islands (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Great Barrier Reef Operations Meeting, Townsville)
March 2015: Update on project to prioritise management actions on Western Australian islands (Department of Parks and Wildlife, Perth)
February 2015: Update on project to prioritise management actions on Great Barrier Reef islands (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Great Barrier Reef Operations Meeting, Townsville)
October 2014: Prioritising management actions on Great Barrier Reef islands (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Great Barrier Reef Operations Meeting, Townsville)
May 2014: Projects by JCU’s research group on conservation planning, and potential links to NRM (Queensland NRM Planners’ Network, Cairns)
March 2013: Systematic conservation planning: evolution towards social relevance (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, regional office, Darjeeling)
March 2013: Systematic conservation planning: evolution towards social relevance (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore)
March 2013: Conservation planning: why and how? (Andaman and Nicobar Islands Environment Team, Port Blair)
March 2013: Conservation planning in a changing world, full of people (Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
January 2013: Some challenges for MPA design in the Philippines and for the Coral Triangle Initiative (National CTI Coordinating Committee, Manila)
January 2013: Some challenges for MPA design in the Philippines and for the Coral Triangle Initiative (Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Manila)
January 2013: Some challenges for MPA design in the Philippines and for the Coral Triangle Initiative (Silliman University, Dumaguete)
December 2012: The mismeasure of conservation (University College London, Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research)
December 2012: The mismeasure of conservation (University of Kent, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology)
December 2012: The mismeasure of conservation (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge)
August 2012: Some partly thought out ideas on engagement for conservation (James Cook University)
February 2012: Marine coastal spatial planning: linking regional-scale conservation design to local-scale actions (Hasanuddin University, Research Center for Marine, Coasts and Small Islands, Makassar, Indonesia)
May 2011: Integrando prioridades de conservación marina y terrestre en el Golfo de California, by J.G. Álvarez-Romero, R.L. Pressey, N. Ban, J. Brodie and J. Kool. (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), México, D.F.)
May 2011: Integrated land-sea planning for conservation: from theory to implementation (Hatfield Marine Science Centre, Portland, Oregon)
May 2011: Integrated land-sea planning for conservation: from theory to implementation (Oregon State University)
February 2011: Coral reef planning – biodiversity and fisheries in the Coral Triangle (Australian Ambassador’s Speaker Series, Washington DC)
February 2011: Towards effective marine protected areas in the Coral Triangle: the imperative of linking regional-scale design and local-scale action (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington DC)
February 2011: Adaptive conservation planning – managing the dynamic transition from regional-scale design to local-scale action (WWF-US, Washington DC)
September 2010: The mismeasure of conservation – towards better reporting on protected areas (Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management)
May 2010: The plan of the day – managing the dynamic transition from regional-scale conservation design to local-scale conservation action (University of Rome)
March 2010: Bridging the gap between regional-scale conservation design and local-scale conservation actions (Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra)
February 2010: The plan of the day – managing the dynamic transition from regional-scale conservation design to local-scale conservation action (IUCN, the World Conservation Union, Suva)
December 2009: Applications of systematic conservation planning to real problems at regional and local scales (Far North Queensland Regional Organisation of Councils, Regional Landscape Repair and Resilience Working Group, Cairns)
August 2009: The mismeasure of conservation: how do we assess the real contribution of our decisions to the protection of nature? National Parks Association of Queensland Romeo Lahey Memorial Lecture (Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane)
March 2009: The mismeasure of conservation: how much difference do we really make? (James Cook University, Townsville)
July 2008: Conservation planning in a changing world: making spatial decisions to deal with natural and anthropogenic dynamics (CSIRO, Townsville)
June 2008: Estimating the cost of expanding a system of protected areas (Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane)
May 2008: Some future directions in systematic conservation planning (CSIRO Cleveland Marine Laboratory, Brisbane)
April 2008: Towards a strategic conservation plan for the Avon NRM region (Avon Natural Resource Management Board, Perth)
March 2008: Systematic conservation planning in Australia (University of California, Davis)
March 2008: Making spatial decisions to plan for dynamics: how good are we? (Imperial College London, Silwood Park)
February 2008: Early directions for the new conservation planning research program at JCU, Townsville (CSIRO & James Cook University, Cairns)
December 2007: Systematic conservation planning (WWF Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu)
October 2007: Conservation planning in a changing world (James Cook University)
October 2007: Conservation planning in a changing world (Griffith University)
May 2007: Conservation planning in a changing world (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
May 2007: Unresolved issues in systematic conservation planning and possible early directions for the new conservation program at James Cook University (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority)
January 2007: Science and politics in conservation planning (University of Virginia)
January 2007: Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Lecture: Conservation planning in a changing world (University of Virginia)
September 2006: Systematic conservation planning – some achievements and remaining challenges (University of Western Australia)
March 2006: Conservation planning with land use dynamics: some progress and unresolved issues (University of Guelph, Ontario)
September 2005: Systematic conservation planning – some achievements and unresolved problems (University of Canberra)
September 2005: Some frontiers of systematic conservation planning (Conservation International, Washington DC)
September 2005: Systematic conservation planning: achievement, limitations, and messages for practitioners (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
July 2005: Frontiers of conservation planning (World Wildlife Fund – Brazil, Brasilia)
March 2005: Targets, values and priorities: progress and potential in conservation planning (Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki)
March 2005: Targets, values and priorities: progress and potential in conservation planning (University of Helsinki, Helsinki)
December 2004: Targets, values and priorities: some recent developments in systematic conservation planning (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo)
December 2004: Targets, values and priorities: some recent developments in systematic conservation planning (World Wildlife Fund, Brazil, Brasilia)
November 2004: Targets, values and priorities: some recent developments in systematic conservation planning (INPA – Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus)
November 2004: Developing a conservation plan for the várzea floodplains of the Amazon Basin (University of California, Santa Barbara)
May 2004: Systematic conservation planning 20 years on: a summary of progress and immediate challenges (University of Queensland, Brisbane)
August 2003: Conservation planning in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa: overview, lessons, and future directions (National Parks and Wildlife Service, Coffs Harbour)
June 2003: Is maximizing protection the same as minimizing loss? – efficiency and retention as alternative measures of the effectiveness of proposed reserves (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara)
June 2003: Using irreplaceability analysis in conservation planning: progress and issues still to be resolved (Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil)
October 2002: Priority conservation areas: some issues to address in moving from planning to implementation (University of California, Berkeley)
July 2002: Towards a generic framework for conservation planning (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, England)
August 2001: The Service’s Systematic Conservation Planning Group – organisational context, areas of R&D, and current activities relevant to nature conservation in New South Wales (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Griffith)
October 2000: Systematic conservation planning – where is it all going? (University of Melbourne, Departments of Botany and Zoology)
October 1999: Potential applications of decision-support software in developing and monitoring Regional Vegetation Management Plans (Tenterfield Regional Vegetation Committee, Tenterfield)
March 1999: Application of the C-Plan conservation planning system in eastern New South Wales, and potential applications in the west of the State (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Zone, Dubbo)
September 1998: Methods for setting and negotiating conservation priorities in New South Wales: applicable in South Africa? (Department of Botany, University of Cape Town)
September 1998: Methods for setting and negotiating conservation priorities in New South Wales (Cape Nature Conservation, Stellenbosch, South Africa)
September 1998: Techniques for conservation planning that involve stakeholders and encourage community participation (West Coast Biosphere Reserve Management Committee, Cape Town, South Africa)
May 1998: Data layers and proposed analyses for the state-wide review of the protected area system (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
March 1998: Potential for establishing marine protected areas with concepts developed for terrestrial reserves (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
February 1998: Planning for nature conservation (Northern Tablelands Vegetation Committee, Glen Innes)
November 1997: Wrestling with conservation priority – progress in tying down a (dangerously) vague notion (Departments of Botany and Zoology and Centre for Biodiversity, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
September 1997: The use of the C-Plan conservation planning software in the Eden Regional Forest Agreement (Eden Management Area Regional Forest Forum, Merimbula)
August 1997: Identifying priority conservation areas – practice, pretension, principles, policy and progress … an Australian saga (University of Cape Town, Fitzpatrick Institute for African Ornithology)
July 1997: Demonstration of the C-Plan conservation planning system for Comprehensive Regional Assessments in New South Wales (New South Wales Resource and Conservation Assessment Council, Sydney)
July 1997: Identifying strategic conservation priorities at regional and local scales (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney Zone, Sydney)
May 1997: Identifying priority areas for conservation – how do we know whether current criteria serve as signposts or diversions? (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
February 1997: Using biological data to identify priority areas for conservation: ideas and results from New South Wales (The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA)
February 1997: Algorithms, politics and money: research on conservation planning and the realities of land allocation in New South Wales (The Nature Conservancy, National Office, Arlington, Virginia, USA)
February 1997: Priority conservation areas – towards an operational definition (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, USA)
February 1997: Research on conservation planning and the realities of land allocation in New South Wales (University of California, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, California, USA)
November 1996: Politics, algorithms and timber: research on reserve selection and the State Forest Policy (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
May 1996: From reserve selection algorithms to new reserves on the ground: implementation of the State Forest Policy (Macquarie University Centre for Biodiversity and Bioresources, Sydney)
February 1996: Reserve selection – science, politics and the State Forest Policy (University of New England Department of Ecosystem Management, Armidale)
February 1996: Demonstration of the role of an interactive GIS in negotiations for the State Forest Policy (New South Wales Resource and Conservation Assessment Council, Sydney)
February 1996: Using the concept of irreplaceability in implementing the State Forest Policy (New South Wales Resource and Conservation Assessment Council, Sydney)
November 1995: Crown jewels or leftovers? – choosing conservation reserves in a fragmented landscape (National Parks Association of New South Wales, Northern Tablelands Branch, Armidale)
October 1995: Requirements for a representative reserve system: a case study in the Western Division of New South Wales (University of New South Wales, School of Geography, Sydney)
May 1995: How do we measure the adequacy of a system of protected areas and how do we make more effective decisions on the locations of new protected areas? (Southern Cross University, Lismore)
February 1995: The New South Wales reserve system: tactical successes, strategic disaster (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
February 1995: Conservation reserves in New South Wales: crown jewels of nature conservation or leftovers from other land uses? (World Wide Fund for Nature, Sydney)
October 1994: Progress with research on conservation planning techniques for western New South Wales (New South Wales Department of Conservation and Land Management, Dubbo)
September 1994: Where should nature reserves be? – the gaps between principles and practice (University of New England Department of Botany, Armidale)
September 1993: How should we decide where to put conservation reserves? (Macquarie University School of Biological Sciences, Sydney)
August 1993: New systematic approaches to conservation planning: what we could do if the world were logical (University of New England Department of Ecosystem Management, Armidale)
February 1993: From ad hocracy to irreplaceability: the theory and practice of reserve selection in 1993 (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
September 1992: Reserve selection approaches in New South Wales, Australia (United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon, USA)
August 1992: Strategies for the selection of nature reserves (University of Sydney School of Biological Sciences, Sydney)
May 1992: Where should reserves be and how many do we need? (National Parks Association of New South Wales 1992 lecture series – Conservation Futures for New South Wales, Sydney)
April 1992: Systematic approaches to reserve selection – how much do we know? (University of New South Wales School of Biological Science, Sydney)
March 1992: New developments with reserve selection procedures (Murray-Darling Basin Commission, Canberra)
November 1991: Progress with research on reserve selection in western New South Wales (Australian Museum, Sydney)
November 1991: Guidelines for the selection of new reserves in the Western Division of New South Wales (New South Wales National Parks Association Reserves Committee, Sydney)
October 1991: The development of data bases and systematic procedures for reserve selection in the Western Division of New South Wales (New South Wales Nature Conservation Council Annual Meeting, Sydney)
October 1991: Prospects for systematic conservation planning in the mallee region. (Murray Darling Basin Commission Mallee Vegetation Working Group, Sydney)
September 1991: Research on conservation planning: where are we and where do we go? (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Regional and District Managers Conference, Sydney)
May 1991: Development of systematic reserve selection procedures: progress and problems (New South Wales Fisheries Research Institute, Sydney)
April 1991: Proposed research project on the requirements of a fully representative reserve system in western New South Wales: progress and future objectives. (University of New South Wales, School of Geography, Sydney)
March 1991: Why the National Parks and Wildlife Service needs research on reserve selection (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Region OIC’s Meeting, Dubbo)
February 1990: Map units for conserving species and natural environments (Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville)
January 1990: Using map units as a basis for conserving species as well as environments (James Cook University, Townsville)
January 1990: Developing a reserve system which is representative of natural environments and species (Queensland Department of Environment and Conservation, Townsville)
August 1989: Progress towards a nature conservation strategy for the Western Division of New South Wales (Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra)
May 1989: Two issues for conservation planning: (1) Mapping the environment at different scales – costs and benefits for nature conservation; (2) Conservation of Australian mallee (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
May 1989: Progress towards a conservation strategy for the Western Division (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service Advisory Council, Sydney)
November 1988: New approaches to a conservation strategy (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Region OIC’s Meeting, Grafton)
November 1988: A systematic approach to the selection of reserves in the Western Division of New South Wales (CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Canberra)
June 1988: New approaches to wetland evaluation (Hunter Wetlands Trust, Newcastle)
May 1988: Towards a conservation strategy for the Western Division (New South Wales Western Lands Commission, Sydney)
March 1988: Selecting reserves in western New South Wales (University of Sydney, School of Biological Sciences, Sydney)
February 1988: Reserve selection: towards a conservation strategy for the Western Division (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
December 1987: A nature conservation strategy for the Western Division of New South Wales (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service Executive Management Group, Sydney)
March 1987: Developing a reserve selection process for western New South Wales (New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)