Assessing Indirect Impacts of Developments and Activities: Conference Program

Monday 6th September 2010

8:30 - 9:00 am - Registration

9.00 – 9.15 - Conference Introduction

9.15 – 9:30 am - Dr Martin Denny - Update on the Industry Accreditation for Ecological Consultants

9:30 - 10:00 am – Jonathan Sanders - (Area Manager Cumberland North NPWS / DECCW ) – Adding Insult to Injury: Indirect and Cumulative Impacts on the Cumberland Plain.

10:00 – 10:30 am – Judie Rawling, Belinda Pellow and Cameron Radford - (UBM) - Attempting to Minimise the Impacts of Fragmentation and Edge Effects in the Urban and Peri-urban Environments

10.30 – 11.00 am Morning Tea

Indirect Impacts and Fire

11:00 - 11:30 am – Bruce Hansen - (NSW Rural Fire Service) - Indirect Effects of Planning for Bush Fire Protection Finding a Balance.

11:30am – 12: 00pm – Dr Trent Penman - (NSW Government, Department of Industry and Investment) - Fire and the Soil Stored Seed Bank.

12.00 – 13.00pm Annual General Meeting – Members

13.00 – 13.30pm Lunch

Assessing Indirect Impacts of Developments

13:30 – 14.00 pm – Ian Drinnan - (Sutherland Shire Council) - Indirect Impacts that Consultants Overlook / Miss in their Assessments – a Council’s Perspective. 

14.00 - 14:30 pm – Ian Smales - (Team Leader Natural Heritage for the Melbourne Resource Group of Biosis Research Pty. Ltd) - Windfarm Assessment and Collision Risk.

14.30 – 15.00 pm – Kevin Roberts - (Environmental Officer, NSW RTA) – Assessing the Indirect Impacts of Roads.

15.00 – 15.15 pm Afternoon Tea

Fragmentation Impacts on Fauna Groups or Fauna Movements

15:15 - 15:45 pm - Brad Law – Bats and Indirect impacts - what do we know?.

15:45 – 16:15 pm – Rod Kavanah, – Indirect Impacts of Development on Gliders and the Large Forest Owls.

16.15 – 16.45 pm - Questions and Conference Summary

16.45 pm Conference Close