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Canberra Laboratory - Public Seminar Series

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CSIRO Land and Water and the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship presents a regular public seminar series at the Canberra Black Mountain Laboratory. Free on-site parking and light refreshments are provided.

Upcoming 2009 Seminars | Past Seminars: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

Venue: Christian Lab, Clunies Ross St, Canberra City. MAP.   (unless indicated otherwise)
Time: 11.00am  (unless indicated otherwise)
Day: Alternate Wednesdays  (unless indicated otherwise)

For further details please contact Peter Hairsine (02) 6246 5924.
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Upcoming Land and Water and Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Seminars

Monday 16 November at 11am (Please note: Butler Lab Seminar Room)
The Use of Earth Observation in Enforcement of Laws
Dr Ray Purdy, Senior Research Fellow & Deputy Director, Centre for Law & the Environment, University College London


Past 2009 Seminars

Thursday 22 October at 11am
Eye on Australia
Fred Kamphues, Mill House Conslutancy, The Netherlands

Wednesday, 21 October at 11am
Tropical Rainforests; hydrology controls ecology or vice versa?
Dr Jim Wallace, CSIRO Land and Water

Thursday, 8 October at 10.45am
Declining water quality in a tropical coastal floodplain groundwater system
Mr Matthew Lenahan, CSIRO Land and Water

Monday, 28 September at 1.45pm
Experimental seasonal hydrological forecast system for western U.S.
Dr Dennis Lettenmaier, University of Washington

Thursday, 22 September 2009 at 11am
Eonfusion: 4D software for the integration, analysis and dynamic visualisation of ecological and environmental data
Dr Hugh Pederson, Technical Sales Manager Myriax Software P/L, Hobart, Tasmania

Thursday, 10 September 2009 at 11am
An Australian water resources assessment system: integrating hydrological models with on-ground and satellite observations
Dr Albert van Dijk, CSIRO Land and Water

Tuesday 25 August
2 pm: Projecting Impacts of Climate Change at the Local Scale is What Matters
3.15 pm: The Estimation of Daily Penman-Montieth Based Reference Crop Evapotranspiration
at One Arc Minute Resolution

Professor Roland Schulz, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Tuesday 25 August at 4 pm (Room N101, CSIT Building 108, Australian National University)*
Exploring Distributed Databases
Dr Henning Koehler, University of Queensland

Wednesday 5 August at 11am
Climate, turbulence and phytoplankton dynamics
Climate, turbulence and phytoplankton dynamics

Monday 3 August at 11am
Insights and perils encountered in three environmental modelling exercises: stormwater harvesting in Canberra, biogeochemical budgets in the Coorong, and human decision-making in complex systems
Dr Nicky Grigg - CSIRO Land and Water

Wednesday 29 July at 11am
Water quality monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef during extreme flood events: A challenge for remote sensing algorithms
Dr Thomas Schroeder- CSIRO Land and Water

Tuesday 28 July at 11am
Generalised terrain-based flow analysis of digital elevation models
David G. Tarboton, Utah State University
Venue: Christian Lab Conference Room, Black Mountain
Chair: Dr John Gallant

Thursday 23 July - seminar 2.30pm, workshop 3.30pm
Creating Futures Workshop
Dr Beat Huser- Project Leader of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) project, Creating Futures and Sustainability Projects Manager, Environment Waikato, Hamilton
CSIRO Black Mountain Discovery Centre Lecture Theatre

Tuesday 14 July at 11am
Soil hydrological and geomorphological effects of wildfire in SE Australian sandstone terrain: insights from a multi-method approach and comparison with impacts in contrasting terrain of the 2009 Victoria fires
Stefan Doerr- Professor of Geography at Swansea University (UK)

Wednesday 4 February at 11am - at CSIRO Discovery Centre
Soil mositure estimated in real-time every 3 hours over 1 million square kilometers in South Africa
Professor Geof Pegram- Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate, Civil Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Wednesday 25 February at 11am
Between River and Reef: Modelling the impact of estuarine processes on sediment and nutrient exports to the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon
Dr Barbara Robson - CSIRO Land and Water
CSIRO Black Mountain

Monday 23 March at 11 am
JESAT- A consistent toolset for integrated system assessment, analysis, modelling and management
Professor Wolfgang-Albert Fluegel- Head of the Department of Geoinformatics, Hydrology and Modelling, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Venue: Christian Laboratory Seminar Room, Black Mountain

Wednesday 6 May at 11am
Application of topological dynamics and fractal methods for extracting specific features from observations
Dr Irina Emelyanova- CSIRO Land and Water

Wednesday 27 May, 2:00 - 3:30pm
Land & Water Australia International Fellowship Seminar hosted by CSIRO Land and Water
Knowing the fate of contaminants from waste water treatment plants. The US experience - Australian implications
Dr Larry Barber- US Geological Survey

Friday 29 May at 11am
Celebrating the Australian Science Festival
Catchment Detox: Science in an online environment
Dr Stuart Minchin- CSIRO Land and Water
CSIRO Christian Laboratory, Black Mountain

 

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