| Semester 1 |
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| Seminars are on Thursdays at 1.10pm in LifeSci2 unless otherwise specified |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
8 March |
Hugh Forehead, School of Zoology University of Tasmania |
Sand and waves: the effects of physical disturbance on benthic microbial ecology |
15 March |
Hamish McCallum, School of Zoology University of Tasmania |
When can infectious disease lead to extinction? Insights from frogs and devils |
22 March |
Sean Tracy, School of Zoology University of Tasmania |
Final PhD seminar: Assessing the population dynamics and stock viability of striped trumpeter Latris lineata in a data limited situation |
29 March |
Stewart Nicol, School of Zoology University of Tasmania |
Studies on echidna hibernation |
5 April |
Easter/Mid-Semester Break |
12 April |
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19 April |
Chris Wilcox
CSIRO Marine Science |
Beyond static MPAs: spatial management and incentives for controlling human impacts in marine systems |
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 |
3 May |
Andrew Constable (ACE CRC) |
Options for managing krill fisheries to account for the requirements of krill predators: the utility of exploring different plausible ecosystem scenarios for evaluating management options
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10 May |
Dr Michael Jones
Professor and Co-Director, Quantitative Fisheries Center, Michigan State University |
Management of the invasive sea lamprey in North America's Great Lakes: Integrated Pest Management, the importance of uncertainty and an application of Management Strategy Evaluation |
17 May |
TBA |
TBA |
24 May |
Jean-Benoit Charassin, Natural history Museum of Paris |
Marine predators and oceanographic conditions: foraging ecology and use as autonomous samplers |
31 May |
Kathryn Wheatley, School of Zoology University of Tasmania |
Reach into Research Session
Final PhD seminar: Reproductive strategies of adult female Weddell seals and implications for pup survival.
Kathryn's talk will be followed by a student-only discussion, in which you will be able to ask her more about her study, and why she has chosen a career as an antarctic biologist |
| 7 June |
Chris Brown, Final Honours seminar
NOTE: 3.10pm, Life Sci 2 |
Does it matter which one got away? Selective harvesting and evolution in fisherie s |
