Conference Programme – Friday 4 September 2009.

 

8:00 – 8:50am      Registration

Welcome and Introduction

9.00 – 9.10            Stephen Ambrose, ECA President

Keynote Address

9:10 – 9:40            Climate change and its implications for vegetation management, ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation into the future

                                Dr Michelle Leishman Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University

 

Urban Expansion and Bushfire Management

9:40 – 10:10          Managing the Bushfire Risk

                                Duncan Maughan, Terramatrix Pty Ltd, Victoria

10:10 – 10:40         Effects of Fire on Ecosystem Processes and Biodiversity

                                Dr. Alan York, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne

10:40 – 11:00         MORNING TEA

 

Urban Expansion and Endangered / Critically Endangered Ecological Communities

11:10 – 11:40           Plant population dynamics following vegetation fragmentation - implications for persistence and restoration

                                Dr. Linda Broadhurst, CSIRO

11:40 – 12:10           EECs and Urban Expansion along the Northern NSW Coast:  Issues and Challenges

Greg Elks, Idyll Spaces

12:10 – 12:40          DISCUSSION /QUESTION TIME FOR MORNING PRESENTATIONS

12:40 – 1:30           LUNCH

 

The Changing Landscape

1:35 – 2:05              Comments on the Accreditation of BioBanking Specialists

                                Danny Wotherspoon, Abel Ecology

2:05 -2:35               Community Advocacy Leading to Ecological Outcomes

                                Michael Osborne, Councillor, Newcastle City Council & Coordinator, Green Corridors Coalition

2:35 – 3:05             Implications of the Native Vegetation Act at the Rural/Urban Interface

                                David Russell from the Hunter / Central Rivers CMA

3:05 – 3:30            AFTERNOON TEA

 

Rural Landscapes:  The Farmland Interface.

3:35 – 4:05             Novel approaches to the assessment of impacts on aquatic ecology due to coal mining.

                                Peggy O’Donnell, The Ecology Lab.

4:05 - 4:35             Linking Urban Centres in Rural Landscapes: The Highway/Farmland Interface

                                Case Study: Widening the Hume Highway and its Impacts on Threatened Woodland Birds

                                Stephen Ambrose, Ambrose Ecological Services Pty Ltd 

4:35 – 4:50            DISCUSSION /QUESTION TIME FOR AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS

4:50 – 5:00           Summing Up (ECA President)

5:10 -6:30              ECA of NSW Inc. AGM