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Symposium - "National Parks - can they take the heat?"

Starts: 07-May-2010
Ends: 08-May-2010

Flyer - Download here.

Media Release here.

Registration phone the organisers on 02 6251 1291 or come along to pay at the door.

Presenters Read Bios on our wonderful authors and presenters here

Location Discovery Centre, CSIRO Download Parking Map here.

Program

Friday 7 May 2010

12:00 – 13:00
Registration
Presenter
Title/Topic
13:00 – 13:10
VIP meets speakers and media
13:10 – 13:20
Welcome and acknowledgment of indigenous land owners
Christine Goonrey
13:20 – 13:30
Symposium opening
Mr Jon Stanhope Chief Minister ACT Government
Session 1
Chair:
Kevin McCue
13:30 – 14:00
 
Professor Brad Pillans
Climate change on geological timescales and some implications for present and future climate change
14:00 – 14:30
 
Roger Lembit
Climate change and the reserve system – where are we?
14:30 – 15:00
 
Meredith Wilson
The Namadgi rock art conservation project
15:00 – 15:30
Afternoon Tea and Photo Exhibition
Session 2
Chair:
Christine Goonrey
15:30 – 16:00
 
Professor Brendan Mackey
Is biodiversity doomed by climate change?
16:00 – 16:30
 
David Patmore
Parks Australia: Managing protected areas in a changing climate
16:30 – 17:00
 
Sally Hunt
Hotspots fire project participants - are they good neighbours?
17:00 - 17:30
Wrap up/Discussion
 
 
18:30 Friday Night Dinner at the Turkish Pide House – cnr Barry Dr and Moore St Civic
 

Saturday 8 May 2008

08:30 – 09:00
Registration
Session 3
Chair:
Max Lawrence
09:00 – 09:30
 
Dr Matthew Brookhouse
The role of dendochronology in charting past climate change
09:30 – 10:00
 
Tony O’Brien
Why are national parks yellow?
10:00 – 10:30
 
Phillip Ingamells
Climate change and national parks: a Victorian perspective
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Tea and Photo Exhibition
Session 4
Chair:
Beverley Hammond
11:00 – 11:30
 
Professor Geoff Hope
Now you see them: will the ephemeral lakes of Namadgi National Park be lost to climate change?
11:30 – 12:00
 
Robert Campbell
Tasmanian national parks and reserves and ongoing management issues – 2010
12:00 – 12:30
 
Roger Good
Predicted responses of alpine plant communities to increases in solar ultraviolet light in the Alps National Parks
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch and Photo Exhibition
Session 5
Chair:
Chris Emery
13:30 – 14:00
 
Dr Andrew Claridge
Clear and present danger: balancing present-day land management issues with the challenge of climate change
14:00 – 14:30
 
Annie Bond
Prized, pretermitted or plundered?  A synopsis of park management in South Australia
14:30 – 15:00
 
Alaya Spencer-Cotton and Stuart Blanch
National parks in WA and NT
15:00 – 15:30
 
Dr Margaret Kitchin
An overview of the development of the regional fire plans for ACT public lands
15:30 – 16:00
Afternoon Tea and Photo Exhibition
Session 6
Chair:
Judy Kelly
16:00 – 16:30
 
Sharon Lane
Connectivity conservation in the ACT
16:30 – 17:00
 
John Hibberd
Conservation vision for the ACT in 2050
17:00 – 17:30
 
Christine Goonrey
Valuing our national parks
17:30
Wrap up and close
Kevin McCue

 

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