GES News as it was - April 2009
Mountain Ash Forest Symposium
Tuesday 31st March 2009 Monash University – Clayton Campus. E269 Conference Room, Level 2 east wing (Faculty of BusEco) Bldg 11E (Menzies Building).
ALL WELCOME. Please RSVP to jason.beringer@arts.monash.edu.au by Friday 20th March
Schedule
8:30 |
Coffee and intro |
|
9:00 |
Welcome |
Jason Beringer and Lindsay Hutley |
9:10 |
Sillett |
Structure of Eucalyptus regnans: Hierarchical sampling permits whole tree analyses |
10:10 |
Van Pelt |
Structural determinants of wood production in Eucalyptus regnans |
11:10 |
Tea |
|
11:30 |
Kilinc |
World’s tallest angiosperm acts as a carbon sink |
12:10 |
Clarke |
Patterns and determinants of macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams of the Wallaby Creek catchment |
12:30 |
Dargent |
Estimation of carbon stocks across a chronosequence of Mountain Ash stands: An assessment of Above Ground Net Primary Productivity |
12:50 |
Fest |
Soil based greenhouse gas fluxes at Wallaby Creek – magnitude, spatial and temporal variability |
13:10 |
Lunch |
|
14:00 |
kurioka |
Preliminary results of the C-stocks of the Mountain Ash forest at the Wallaby Creek |
14:20 |
Wood |
The use of sapflow to determine the impacts of fire on forest age and runoff in mountain ash forests |
14:40 |
Baker |
Dendroecology at Lake Mtn and the impacts of the 1939 fire on forest dynamics |
15:00 |
Tea |
|
15:20 |
Synergies |
Current synergies and opportunities |
15:40 |
Future research |
Catchment futures |
17:00 |
Close |
|
Mountain Ash Forest Symposium
Tuesday 31st March 2009 Monash University – Clayton Campus. E269 Conference Room, Level 2 east wing (Faculty of BusEco) Bldg 11E (Menzies Building).
ALL WELCOME. Please RSVP to jason.beringer@arts.monash.edu.au by Friday 20th March
Schedule
8:30 |
Coffee and intro |
|
9:00 |
Welcome |
Jason Beringer and Lindsay Hutley |
9:10 |
Sillett |
Structure of Eucalyptus regnans: Hierarchical sampling permits whole tree analyses |
10:10 |
Van Pelt |
Structural determinants of wood production in Eucalyptus regnans |
11:10 |
Tea |
|
11:30 |
Kilinc |
World’s tallest angiosperm acts as a carbon sink |
12:10 |
Clarke |
Patterns and determinants of macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams of the Wallaby Creek catchment |
12:30 |
Dargent |
Estimation of carbon stocks across a chronosequence of Mountain Ash stands: An assessment of Above Ground Net Primary Productivity |
12:50 |
Fest |
Soil based greenhouse gas fluxes at Wallaby Creek – magnitude, spatial and temporal variability |
13:10 |
Lunch |
|
14:00 |
kurioka |
Preliminary results of the C-stocks of the Mountain Ash forest at the Wallaby Creek |
14:20 |
Wood |
The use of sapflow to determine the impacts of fire on forest age and runoff in mountain ash forests |
14:40 |
Baker |
Dendroecology at Lake Mtn and the impacts of the 1939 fire on forest dynamics |
15:00 |
Tea |
|
15:20 |
Synergies |
Current synergies and opportunities |
15:40 |
Future research |
Catchment futures |
17:00 |
Close |
|
"Human health, weather extremes, and climate change"
Neville Nicholls, School of Geography and Environmental Science
Monash Future Council Public Lecture April 1 2009 1.00-2.00 Monash Council Chambers
Synopsis
The unprecedented Melbourne heat wave of late January - early February and the bushfires of Black Saturday have focused attention on the costs, human and economic, of extreme weather events. The question of whether such extremes are increasing in frequency or intensity because of anthropogenic climate change has also arisen. In this seminar an examination of the human costs of extreme weather and climate change will set the scene for a discussion of whether the climate is becoming more extreme or variable. The progress we have made in answering this question since the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be described, and the scientific questions still to be answered will be outlined.
Neville Nicholls is an Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of Geography and Environmental Science, where he is leading a five-year ARC funded research program to improve the scientific basis for climate predictions on seasonal and climate-change timescales. He was a Lead Author of Chapter 9 (Understanding and attributing climate change") of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment, a Lead Author of the Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary for the IPCC Working Group 1 assessment, and a member of the writing team for the IPCC Synthesis Report (all published in 2007). This lecture relates to Prof. Nicholls continuing involvement in epidemiological studies linking climate and health.