Welcome
Peter Walsh, who is employed on the BlueNet project as the Marine Data facilitator for UTas. Peter is situated in Room 30, Level 3.
New postgrad students
Nick Beeton
Keisuke Itonaga
Michael Todd
Theses submitted
Congratulations are due to PhD student Scott Hardie who has submitted his thesis. We congratulate him on his achievement and look forward to following his future career.
The Seminar Program will commence this Thursday, 8 March , Lecture theatre 2, Life Sciences building
Thursday 8 March
Dr Hugh Forehead - Sand and waves: the effects of physical disturbance on benthic microbial ecology
Thursday 15 March
Professor Hamish McCallum - When can infectious disease lead to extinction? Insights from frogs and devils
Thursday 22 March
Sean Tracey, Final PhD seminar - Assessing the population dynamics and stock viability of striped trumpeter Latris lineata in a data limited situation
Thursday 29 March
Stewart Nicol - Studies on echidna hibernation
Thursday 5 April – Mid semester/Easter break
Thursday 12 April
Chris Wilcox, CSIRO Marine Science – TBA
Thursday 19 April
Scott Hardie Final PhD seminar - TBA
Thursday 26 April
Jason Gedemke, Australian Government Antarctic Division - Using song to study baleen whales: from acoustic tracking of individual singers on the Great Barrier Reef to monitoring of populations in the Antarctic
Cake Roster
- 14 March McCallum, Newland, McGowan
- 21 March J. White, Fielding, Kriegish
- 28 March Talbot, Cooper, Morrow
- 4 April Alexander, Cawthen, Bordogna
- 11 April Happy Easter (mid semester break)
- 18 April Newland, Richardson, Hamede
- 25 April Anzac Day
- 2 May While, J. Stuart-Smith, Wapstra
Publications – 2007
A total of 42 A1 journal articles, 2 C1 book chapters, 1 F1 conference publications as well as miscellaneous publications and 8 higher degree theses have been submitted to the Zoology's DEST and research publications.
Thank you Mark and Sherrin for checking and auditing these.
Recent Awards
- Dr Natasha Wiggins has been awarded the Claudio Alcorso Foundation Prize, valued at $5,000, for 2006 for her PhD thesis/work. Natasha's thesis is entitled ‘ Effects of plant secondary chemistry on foraging behaviour of mammalian herbivores'
- Jessica Melbourne-Thomas has been awarded the Joan Woodberry Postgraduate fellowship.
- Caitlin Vertigan recently won the Pacific Seabirds Group prize.
- Kat O'Connor and Lisa Cawthen are the 2007 winners of Zoology Honours scholarships.
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Teaching Merit certificates
have been awarded to Drs Ashley Edwards and Erik Wapstra
Grant Successes Geoff While has been successful with another grant This brings grants, during his candidature, to a total of$20,000. Congratulations Geoff.
Moving on
Louise Cromer (PhD candidate) and Jonathon Newman. also a Zoology graduate, are recently engaged.
Louise has also been successful in gaining a position as Science Communications Officer for PAGES (Past –specifically palaeoclimate – Global Changes) International Project Office, Bern , Switzerland . We wish her all the best in this exciting new challenge.
Fork and Talk seminars for March and April
The Folk and Talks Lunchtime seminars series is offered by the Office of Research Services to researchers, academic staff and research administrators.
The seminars are held at Meeting Room, Research House French Street , Sandy Bay Telephone 1759 (for information)
To register for these seminars, or to find out more information, please email the Office of Research Services: Timothy.sculthorpe@utas.edu.au
Wednesday 7 March – 1 pm
Understanding your research contract.
Presenter: Ms Andrea McAuliffe, Legal Officer
Wednesday 21 March – 1 pm
How to develop industry research partnerships
Presenter: Ted Lefroy, Director, Centre for Environment
Wednesday 4 April – 1 pm
How to get media attention for your research
Presenter: Robert Elliott and Ms Liz Bailes, Media Office
Wednesday 18 April – 1 pm
How to write winning grant applications in Humanities and Social Sciences
Presenters: Professor Lucy Frost ( School of English , Journalism & European Languages) and Professor Adrian Franklin ( School of Sociology and Social Work)
Staff meeting matters
RQF; keep up-to-date by checking the University's RQF website.
Valentine's Day Chocolate fudge
This will be a one-off recipe segment due to the fact that I have had so many people ask me for this recipe chocolate fudge
450g dark or milk chocolate
395g sweetened condensed milk
50 g butter
Lightly grease 20cm square pan. Line base and sides with baking paper
Combine all ingredients in large heatproof bowl over saucepan of simmering water. Cook stirring for 4-5 mins until smooth.
Spread chocolate mixture in prepared pan. Chill for 3 hours or overnight, until mixture is firm.
Using a hot knife, cut into small squares. (Or hearts if you have the time!)
Keep fudge chilled in an airtight container.
Don't forget to let me know of any newsworthy items for the next Tabula
(Publication date : 2 April)
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