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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>BRS SEMINAR
SERIES PRESENTS:</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Friday 14 July
2006</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b> </b></font><font face="Tahoma" size="+2"
color="#000000"><i><b>New insights into salinity in the Murray Darling
Basin</b></i></font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Mary Colreavy
-</b> Natural Resource Management, DAFF</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Scott Macaulay
and Margaret Allan -</b> Bureau of Rural Sciences, DAFF</font><br>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000">Salinity is an
important resource issue, with impacts on farm productivity and on the
quality of our environment and natural resources. More information on
the sources of salt and freshwater in catchments is needed to better
manage the problem. To gain a better understand of salinity in the
Murray Darling Basin (MDB), the Australian Government has provided $20
million for the Bureau of Rural Sciences to manage a series of
community stream sampling and salinity mapping projects across the
region. </font><br>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000">Community based
stream sampling investigations across 15 Catchment Management
Organisations in the MDB will build a snapshot of salinity across the
Basin, while detailed investigations using airborne geophysical
surveys will generate detailed three dimensional models of salinity
and water process at a small number of critical sites. These results
will be combined with an investigation of the social and environmental
history of land use practices which will identify the salinity trends
over time associated with land-use changes and map them against
current conditions.</font></div>
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<b>11.00am - 12:00noon (morning tea at 10:45am)</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Edmund Barton
Conference Centre (in the courtyard)</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Department of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Edmund Barton
Building<br>
Kings Avenue, Canberra</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000">Bookings not
required.</font></div>
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Parking can be a problem, we suggest taking public transport or a
taxi.<br>
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For further details, please call the BRS Seminar Coordinator on 6272
4011. For further information on BRS Seminars or to obtain
papers/presentations supplied by previous seminar presenters, please
visit our website at:
<http://www.brs.gov.au/brsseminars>www.brs.gov.au/brsseminars</font
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