Seminar Title: A practical approach to design a network of marine reserves in the Midriff Islands (Gulf of California) considering connectivity and climate change Where: James Cook University Building 19 (Kevin Stark Research Building) Room #106 (upstairs), JCU, Townsville; video-linked to the University of Queensland (GCI Boardroom, Level 7, Gehrmann Building 60 When: Thursday 31st … Continue reading SEMINAR: Jorge Alvarez-Romero – A practical approach to design a network of marine reserves in the Midriff Islands (Gulf of California) considering connectivity and climate change
SEMINAR: Maurice Knight – A Brief History of the Coral Triangle Initiative
Apologies - due to unforeseen circumstances, Maurice's seminar has been postponed to a later date. A Brief History of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security and Perspectives on the Role and Outcomes of the USAID Coral Triangle Support Program Maurice will provide a broad overview of the USAID Coral Triangle … Continue reading SEMINAR: Maurice Knight – A Brief History of the Coral Triangle Initiative
SEMINAR: Kartik Shanker – Hunting for herpetofauna in the Western Ghats: a Wallacean approach to discovering diversity
UPDATE: Kartik's seminar is now online. Describing diversity and its causes is a long-standing pursuit in ecology and evolutionary biology. Recent models have combined the effects of environment and species ranges to create null models of distribution, which can be compared with empirical patterns of diversity at large spatial scales, but these fail to take … Continue reading SEMINAR: Kartik Shanker – Hunting for herpetofauna in the Western Ghats: a Wallacean approach to discovering diversity
SEMINAR: Vera Horigue – Scaling up to form marine protected area networks: the role of coordination of initiatives and institutional collaborations in the Philippines
UPDATE: Vera’s seminar is now available online. Networks of marine protected areas (MPA) are believed, and to some extent have been proven, to provide higher ecological, social and economic benefits than small, isolated MPAs. However, MPA networks are more complex compared to single MPAs and this complexity includes spatial, ecological, socioeconomic and institutional considerations. Hence, … Continue reading SEMINAR: Vera Horigue – Scaling up to form marine protected area networks: the role of coordination of initiatives and institutional collaborations in the Philippines
SEMINAR: Jon Day – Planning and managing the Great Barrier Reef: lessons learnt for the future planning of the Reef and implications for MPAs elsewhere
UPDATE: Jon's seminar is now available online. Jon's PhD aims to utilise experience from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), in order to 1) assess the significant lessons learnt over 30+ years of conservation planning and management in the GBR, and in particular reflect on the lessons from the Representative Areas Program (RAP) and the consequent … Continue reading SEMINAR: Jon Day – Planning and managing the Great Barrier Reef: lessons learnt for the future planning of the Reef and implications for MPAs elsewhere
SEMINAR: Mariana Fuentes – Prioritising multiple management actions for marine turtle conservation
UPDATE: Mariana's seminar is now available online. Resources for conserving biodiversity are invariably insufficient. This situation creates the need for transparent systematic frameworks to help stakeholders prioritise the allocation of resources across multiple management actions. This issue is particularly important for threatened species, such as marine turtles that have complex life histories and are exposed … Continue reading SEMINAR: Mariana Fuentes – Prioritising multiple management actions for marine turtle conservation
SEMINAR: Jess Cheok – Co-management in Australia’s Marine Protected Areas
Jess Cheok will be presenting her MPhil confirmation seminar: “Developing a theoretical framework to evaluate the current status and progress of co-management in Australia's Marine Protected Areas.” Jess's project aims to amalgamate existing theories on co-management of protected areas into a cohesive theoretical framework (co-management matrix). Formulating this framework is important because existing theories on … Continue reading SEMINAR: Jess Cheok – Co-management in Australia’s Marine Protected Areas
SEMINAR: April Reside – Climate change refugia for terrestrial biodiversity
UPDATE: April's seminar is now available online, here. The most cost-effective solution for biodiversity conservation under climate change is to identify and protect those places in the landscape that will harbour many species from the worst impacts of climate change. Despite widespread recognition of this goal, little is known about how best to identify refugia … Continue reading SEMINAR: April Reside – Climate change refugia for terrestrial biodiversity
SEMINAR: Adriana Chacon – The contribution of the environment to wellbeing: a case study in Australia and Costa Rica.
Adriana Chacon will be presenting her MPhil confirmation seminar: “The contribution of the environment to wellbeing: a case study in Australia and Costa Rica.” The aim of this project is to investigate the contribution of the environment to wellbeing. To accomplish this she will be testing the extent to which subjective measures of wellbeing (specifically, … Continue reading SEMINAR: Adriana Chacon – The contribution of the environment to wellbeing: a case study in Australia and Costa Rica.