Perth as a megadiverse city: from the Indian Ocean to Perth Hills
About this event
Friday 4th October
8.30 Opening and Welcome: Fiona Argyle, Mayor of the City of Nedlands
1. 8.45 David Haig, UWA: Keynote 1 – Perth: a four-dimensional view beneath our megadiverse city
2. 9.30 Ken McNamara, UWA: The Pleistocene Tamala Limestone in the Perth region – fossilised sand dunes, karst limestone and cycles of climate change
3. 10.00, Richard Harper, Murdoch Univ: A diversity of soils and their origin
10.30 Morning coffee
4. 11.00 Sally Thompson, UWA: Climate is changing the hydrology of the Swan Coastal Plain – what does it mean for Perth’s urban ecosystems?
5. 11.30 Jane Chambers, Murdoch Univ.: Wetlands under urbanisation and climate change: the way forward
6. 12.00, Steve Hopper, UWA: Where are all those plant species in megadiverse Perth?
12.30 Lunch & Poster session, open for all students undertaking projects concerning any aspect of science relevant to Western Australia
7. 13.30 Kingsley Dixon, Curtin Univ.: Keynote 2 – Conserving and restoring our biodiversity and why this is important
8. 14.15 Philip Jennings, Murdoch Univ.: Recognising and conserving Perth’s biodiversity
9. 14.45 Simon Kilbane, UWA: How to design cities to enhance biodiversity and to cope with climate change
15.15 Afternoon tea & Poster session, open for all students undertaking projects concerning any aspect of science relevant to Western Australia
10. 15.45 Grey Coupland, Murdoch Univ.: Miyawaki forests: providing rapid greening and enhancing urban biodiversity
11. 16.15 Geoff Barrett, DBCA: Protecting biodiversity assets in the Swan Region – a conservation manager’s perspective
12. 16.45 Poster Presentations.
Nibbles and drinks till 18.00
Saturday 5th October
13. 8.45 Marion Cambridge, UWA: Diversity of seagrasses
14. 9.30 Jess Beckerling, Conservation Council of WA: Threats to our biodiversity
15. 10.00 Cate Tauss, Tauss and Associates: The significant role of ‘Friends Groups’ in managing biodiversity in Perth
10.30 Morning coffee
14 Will Stock, Edith Cowan Univ: What do we need to do in Perth to look after our threatened Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo?
15 Greg Keighery, DBCA: Banksia woodlands as a threatened ecological community
16 Theo Evans, UWA: Is the polyphagous shot-hole borer a threat to the biodiversity in Perth?
12.30 Lunch & Poster session, open for all students undertaking projects concerning any aspect of science relevant to Western Australia
19. 13.30 Nick Cook, WATCA: The urgent need to protect, enhance and diversify Perth’s urban canopy
20. 14.00 Angela Rossen, Artist and Biodiversity Educator: Engaging the general community through a biodiversity survey of their own place
14.30 Announcement of the winners of the Poster Prizes, followed by afternoon tea & Poster session, open for all students undertaking projects concerning any aspect of the natural sciences relevant to Western Australia
21. 15.30 Erik Veneklaas, UWA: Plant water relations in Perth in view of our declining rainfal
22. 16.00 Paul Poliwka, Poliwka Legal: Tree canopy targets: punitive or prescient?
23. 16.30 John Bailey, The Leeuwin Group and Murdoch Univ.: Biodiversity: science and beyond – enough is enough!
17.00 Closing Remarks