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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.

Venue: Christian Lab, Clunies Ross St, Canberra City. MAP.   (unless indicated otherwise)

For further details please contact Peter Hairsine (02) 6246 5924.
Subscribe to the Canberra Seminar Series email list to be notified of upcoming seminars or changes to our seminar schedule. Past Seminars: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

Upcoming Land and Water and Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Seminars

Friday 10 September - 11am
A catchment sediment budget for the Mitchell River, Queensland
Dr Paul Rustomji

Wednesday 8 September - 11am
SCaRPA: A status report on adoption
Dr Greg Summerell and Dr Alastair Grieve


Past 2010 Seminars

Monday 1 August - 11am
The Condamine-Balonne project: Flood volume and continuous flow forecasting
Speakers: Ben Gouweleeuw, CSIRO Land and Water; Dr Julien Lerat, CSIRO Land and Water; Mr Peter Thew, CSIRO Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Centre

Wednesday 14 July - 11am
Adapting to Drought in the San Joaquin Valley of California
Dr Jim Ayars

Thursday 15 July - 11am
Using bias-adjustment to run dynamically downscaled GCM projections directly through hydrological models: A case study from Tasmania
James Bennett

Thursday 8 July - 11am ICT Centre, Acton
Sustainable information model management - issues, ideas and progress
Rob Atkinson

Wednesday 7 July - 11am
Shared semantics – a sustainable approach to allowing information systems to be linked
Rob Atkinson

Wednesday 2 June - 11am
Characterisation and Agronomic Benefits of Wine and Citrus Industry Derived Biochars
Dr Wendy Quayle, CSIRO Land and Water, Griffith laboratory

Tuesday 6 April - 10am
NASA's strategy on calibration and validation activities for ocean colour
Dr Stanford Hooker, Director, Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Calibration and Validation Office, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Wednesday 31 March
Geographic Information Systems-based Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Dr Yun Chen, CSIRO Land and Water

Wednesday 24 March
Understanding and modelling flow, nutrients and benthic plants in a perennial tropical river
Dr Barbara Robson, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water

Monday 22 March
1. Overview of the International Sediment Initiative as part of the UNESCO-International Hydrological Programme
2. Integrated flood protection management and the impact of climate change - A view of Switzerland and of the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Basin
Prof. Manfred Spreafico, Professor in Hydrology, University of Berne, Switzerland

Friday 5 February
Modelling carbon and nitrogen dynamics in agro-ecosystems with a process-based model Denitrification-Decomposition (DNDC) model
Professor Changsheng Li, Complex Systems Research Center, Institute for the Studies of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

17 February 2010
NOTE: 2.30PM start time
Mapping Australian soil using visible-near infrared reflectance spectra
Dr Raphael Viscarra Rossel, Soil & Landscape Science, Pedometrics – Proximal Soil Sensing, CSIRO Land and Water

Monday 22 February - NOTE: 3pm at Discovery Centre, Black Mountain [Map and parking suggestions]
Frontiers in community based transdisciplinary water science to solve wicked water problems
Professor Shahbaz Khan (UNESCO, Paris)

Wednesday 24 February
Impacts of climate change and catchment development on surface water availability in Tasmania (The Tasmania Sustainable Yields Project)
Dr David Post, CSIRO Land and Water

SEMINAR CANCELLED Wednesday 3 March
Understanding and modelling flow, nutrients and benthic plants in a perennial tropical river
Dr Barbara Robson, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water

Friday 5 March
Global Drought in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Historic Reconstructions, Realtime Monitoring and Future Climate Projections
Prof Eric Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Monday 15 March
Flood and drought monitoring - research from the Netherlands
Rogier Westerhoff, Deltares, Netherlands

Thursday 11 March
Water yields and demands in South-west Western Australia in a drying climate
Dr Don McFarlane, South-west Western Australia Sustainable Yields Project Leader, CSIRO Land and Water

Wednesday 10 March
The Condamine-Balonne project: Flood volume and continuous flow forecasting
Dr Ben Gouweleeuw, Dr Julien Lerat (CSIRO Land and Water) & Mr Peter Thew (CSIRO Information & Communication Technologies Centre)

 

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