Geography and Environmental Studies Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2009 Wednesdays 1:00 pmLecture Theatre 2, 221 Bouverie St, CarltonAll Welcome
| 25th February | Sabine Spohn, PhD completion seminar | Embedding microfinance – potential for sustainable delivery of microfinance services in rural areas of PNG |
| 11 March | Hoang Pham Duc, PhD completion seminar | Urban Spatial Restructuring in a Transitional Economy: A Case Study of Hanoi City, Vietnam |
| 18 March | Assoc Prof Barbara Downes, RMG | Back to the future: over-looked tools and scientific principles that can disentangle effects of multiple stressors on freshwater ecosystems |
| 25 March | Stephanie Lavau, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne | Sustainable management of the Goulburn River as ontological work |
| 1 April | Assoc Professor Chris Walsh, RMG | Alternative ecological scenarios for the Yarra River and its tributaries as Melbourne grows |
| 8 April | Professor Barry Hart, Water Studies Centre, Monash | Use of Bayesian Network models to assist environmental flows decision-making |
| 15 April | Jeremy Milsom, PhD completion seminar | Drugs, development and security in the Wa Special Region of Myanmar (Burma) |
| 22 April | Dr Joelle Gergis, Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne | Reconstructing past climates using annually resolved palaoarchives: a case study on ENSO and its potential for developing temperature and rainfall histories for south-eastern Australia |
| 29 April | Dr Rebecca Ford, RMG | Value conflict in the forest: what does it mean for policy and management? |
| 6 May | Dr Peter Christoff, RMG | Climate Policy under Rudd |
| 13 May | Ward Goldthorpe, Msc completion seminar | Carbon capture and storage and the Australian Climate Policy Framework |
| 20 May | Dr Phillip Marren, RMG | From the Arctic to the Desert: Fluvial Research on Three Continents |
| 27 May | Dr Kath Williams, RMG | Title to be announced |
Enquiries: Angus Webb, 8344-9347, angus.webb at unimelb.edu.au, Fraser MacDonald, 8344-9318, fraserm at unimelb.edu.au face=”Times New Roman”>Would be nice to have a seminar website here.