[Sres-postdocs] Seminars of interest

[Zosha Smith]

Seminar notices just received :

Environmental Biology Seminar Series
  When:              Wednesday, 2 August 3:30pm, - NOTE THE EARLIER TIME
		   OR CATCH THIS SEMINAR AT 11am at CSIRO L&W - see below

Where:              Robertson Seminar Room
                     Research School of Biological Sciences

Who:                Dr. Kate Holland
                     CSIRO Land and Water, Urrbrae, SA

Discussing:        The Floodplain Risk Methodology (FRM): A rapid 
assessment method for assessing salinisation risk and benefits of 
improved flooding regime and groundwater management for the 
floodplains of the highly regulated lower River Murray, South 
Australia.

Synopsis:           Dieback of floodplain vegetation, associated with 
the salinisation of floodplain soils by groundwater discharge, is a 
commonly observed consequence of changes in flooding regimes and 
groundwater depths due to regulation of rivers. In this talk, I will 
describe the development of the GIS-based Floodplain Risk Methodology 
(FRM) and its application to ~100,000 ha of floodplain in the highly 
regulated lower River Murray in South Australia.

The FRM was able to separate areas of the floodplain into three 
management scenarios where:
1) Salt Interception Schemes (SIS) to control groundwater inflows was required;
2) Protection from future salinisation risks was necessary; and
3) Limited groundwater management options were available

The FRM outputs are informing the development of floodplain 
protection, prioritisation and planning processes by the 
environmental flows and salinity policy makers in South Australia. 
This approach has potential applications in other areas where salt 
accumulation from groundwater discharge threatens floodplain 
vegetation health.

For information regarding future EB seminars, contact Mike Hobbins
on 6125-2406 or <mailto:Michael.Hobbins at anu.edu.au>Michael.Hobbins at anu.edu.au


Please note the following seminars this week at CSIRO Land and Water 
in Canberra.
Venue: Christian Lab, Clunies Ross St, Canberra City. 
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/division/canberra/location.html>MAP.

Wednesday 2 August at 11.00am
Title:        
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/division/canberra/seminars/abstracts06.html#Aug2>The 
Floodplain Risk Methodology (FRM): A rapid assessment method for
                assessing salinisation risk and benefits of improved 
flooding regime and
                groundwater management for the floodplains of the 
highly regulated lower
                River Murray, South Australia  See Abstract above
Speaker: Kate Holland - CSIRO Land and Water Urrbrae


Friday 4 August at 11.00am
Title:         
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/division/canberra/seminars/abstracts06.html#july19>Can 
trees really desalinise 
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/division/canberra/seminars/abstracts06.html#july19>Adelaide's 
water?
Speakers: Jorge Pena and Albert van Dijk - CSIRO Land and Water
Abstract:   Land use changes such as tree planting have been promoted 
as a means of reducing stream salinity. The joint CSIRO-Natural 
Heritage Trust project 'Commercial and Environmental Forestry' tested 
whether forestry in medium rainfall areas of the Murray-Darling Basin 
can help achieve the salinity reduction targets set for the lower 
Murray River. We give an overview of the results of this project as 
well as recent developments in the salinity debate, and present the 
results of field work and modelling to understand how afforestation 
changes the processes involved in upland salt mobilisation.
Presented in association with the 
<http://www.healthycountry.com/>Water for a Healthy Country Flagship

Note in your diaries for the following seminars at CLW labs throughout August

Wednesday 9 August 2006 at 11.00am
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/division/canberra/seminars/abstracts06.html#aug9>Dryland 
Salinity in Queensland: How do we compare?
Richard Cresswell - CSIRO Land and Water, Indooroopilly &
CRC for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration (LEME)

Thursday 10 August 2006 at 11.00am
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/division/canberra/seminars/abstracts06.html#Aug10>Why 
water storage markets should be on the national reform agenda
Donna Brennan - CSIRO Land and Water, Perth

Friday 11 August 2006 at 11.00am
Water for a Healthy Country Research - How do people value the Murray 
River Significant Ecological Assets
Case Studies of Recreation use at the Barmah Forest and the Coorong
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/staff/DyackB/>Brenda Dyack - PERU, CSIRO 
Land and Water
Presented in association with the 
<http://www.healthycountry.com/>Water for a Healthy Country Flagship

Wednesday 16 August at 11.00am
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/division/canberra/seminars/abstracts06.html#Aug16>Simplifying 
Sustainability
Jean Chesson - <http://www.affa.gov.au/brs>Bureau of Rural Sciences

Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 11.00am
Land Surface Evaporation at Local and Regional Scales using Flux 
Towers and Remote Sensing
Helen Cleugh - CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Friday 25 August at 11.00am
John Sims - <http://www.affa.gov.au/brs>Bureau of Rural Sciences


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/sres-postdocs/attachments/20060801/ee5d07fa/attachment.html