Mr David Butt Chief Executive Officer of National Rural Health Alliance The National Mental Health Commission’s Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services – Contributing Lives, Thriving Communities – highlighted the existing complexity, inefficiency and fragmentation of Australia’s mental health...
- June 16, 2016
Chris McCann Clinical Lead Orthotist/ Prosthetist, Orthotics/Prosthetics Services, Country Health SA local Health Network, Whyalla Hospital & Health Services This presentation outlines the developing story of Trenna, a 26 year old woman who underwent a high trans-femoral amputation to her right leg as...
- June 16, 2016
Morgan W. Tingley 1 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Rd Unit 3043, Storrs CT 06103 USA, morgan.tingley@uconn.edu, @mwtingley Long-‐term, large-‐scale environmental change necessitates empirical studies that span time frames from decades to...
- February 5, 2016
Danait Ghebrezgabhier(1) and Giulia Porro (2) (1)Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), PO Box 7051, ACT 2610, Danait.Ghebrezgabhier@afma.gov.au, @azmarinae (2) Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), PO Box 7051, ACT 2610, Giulia.Porro@afma.gov.au, @loveateverybite This presentation explores whether tools utilised to manage Commonwealth fisheries...
- January 27, 2016
Prof Stephen Williams The primary aim of the National Adaptation Research Plan for Terrestrial Biodiversity (NARP-TB) is to identify the research required to assist managers and policy makers of Australia’s terrestrial biodiversity systems to prepare for, and adapt to, climate...
- January 25, 2016
Simon Ferrier (1), Thomas D Harwood (1), Kristen J Williams (1), Andrew Hoskins (1), Karel Mokany (1), Alex Bush (1), Chris Ware (1), Glenn Manion (2) 1 CSIRO Land and Water, PO Box 1600, ACT 2601, Australia 2 NSW Office of Environment and...
- January 13, 2016
Torie Baker 1, Paula Cullenberg 2 1 Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program University of Alaska Fairbanks, Box 814, Cordova, Alaska, 99574, torie.baker@alaska.edu, @toriealaska1 2 Alaska Sea Grant University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1007 West Third, Suite 100, Anchorage, Alaska 99501, paula.cullenberg@alaska.edu ,...
- January 6, 2016
Shih-fan Chan Climate change is known to modify both climatic mean and variability. Environmental variability has long been considered an important regulator of species interactions, particularly interspecific competition. However, although increasing studies have focused on the biological impacts of changing climatic mean and variability, their interacting effects on species interaction, and ...
- January 6, 2016
John M Pandolfi 1, Brigitte Sommer 2, Maria Beger 3, Eugenia M. Sampayo 4, Sun Wook Kim 1 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia, j.pandolfi@uq.edu.au, @JohnPandolfi 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia, brigitte.sommer@optusnet.com.au 3 Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, m.beger@uq.edu.au, @mariabeger 4 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia, e.sampayo@uq.edu.au, 5 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia, sun.w.kim@uq.edu.au, The capability of species to move across biogeographic transition zones depends on the magnitude and rate of environmental change, species traits and life histories, dispersal limitation, evolutionary response, and ...
- January 6, 2016
JG Hiddink 1, MT Burrows 2, J Garcia Molinos 3 1 School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, LL59 5AB, UK, J.Hiddink@bangor.ac.uk, @Macomabalthica 2 Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute Oban, Argyll PA37 1QA, UK 3 Scottish Association for...
- January 6, 2016
