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Perth Laboratory – Public Seminar Series

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CSIRO Land and Water, Perth, presents a regular free public seminar series.
Free on-site parking is provided.

Venue: Auditorium, Floreat Laboratories, Underwood Avenue, Floreat. Location Map
Time: 3.30pm
Day: Thursday
*unless otherwise indicated

For further details email Perth Seminars or phone (08) 9333 6221

Public Seminars 2009

*Monday 16 November 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Professor Chunmiao Zheng – 2009 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, Geological Society of America
Will China Run Out of Water?

Thursday 29 October 2009 at 3.30pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Professor Marco Dentz – Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spanish Council of Scientific Research
Effective Non-Local Reaction Kinetics for Transport in Physically and Chemically Heterogeneous Media

Thursday 22 October 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium (National Water Week event)
Dr Laura Wendling – CSIRO Land and Water
Suitability of Industrial By-Products for Water Treatment in the Swan-Canning Catchment

Thursday 8 October 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Mr Luk Peeters – Katholieke Universteit Leuven, Belgium
Geochemical characterisation of saturated groundwater of the Middle Eocene Brussels aquifer in the Dijle Basin, Belgium

Thursday 1 October 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Mark Summerton – Planning Analyst, Umgeni Water, South Africa
Potential Impacts of a Changing Climate on Water Supply in the Mgeni Catchment, South Africa

*Friday 4 September 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Professor Roland Schulze – University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Climate Change and the Agriculture Sector in South Africa: To Stress or not to Stress? . . . That is the Question

Thursday 27 August 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Dr Kayley Usher – CSIRO Land and Water
Microbial oxidation of metal sulphide crystals: fundamentals of the microbe-mineral surface interaction

Thursday 23 July 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Kevin Petrone – CSIRO Land and Water
Streamflow Decline in South-west Western Australia: Groundwater and Surface Water Threshold Response in a Changing Climate

Tuesday 7 July 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Professor R. John Parkes – School of Earth and Ocean Science, Cardiff University, UK
The Prokaryotes and their activities and habitats in sub-seafloor sediments

Thursday 11 June 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Robin Smith – Western Australian Department of Water
Groundwater in a marginally saline water supply catchment

Thursday 21 May 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Dr Dan Neary – US Forest Service
Streamside Vegetation Function in Promoting Water Quality in Forested and Agricultural Catchments

Thursday 7 May 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Dr Anna Kaksonen – Tampere University of Technology
Development and optimization of unit processes for biomining of multi-metal black schist in Northern Finland

6th International Water Sensitive Urban Design Conference

*5-8 May 2009, Parmelia Hilton

Wednesday 6 May
11.15 am:
Use of high resolution water quality monitoring for impact assessment of urban development [PDF, 190 kB]
Michael Donn – CSIRO Land and Water
11.55 am: Keeping up with the Joneses: A peek over the fence at neighbourhood social norms as they influence water conservation and urban design [PDF, 190 kB]
Peta Dzidic – CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Thursday 7 May
10.05 am:
Building catchment scale decision support tools to assess the effect of urbanisation on catchment water resources and water quality [PDF, 190 kB]
Dr Olga Barron – CSIRO Land and Water
4.25 pm: Sustainability? The role of aesthetics in community acceptance of a non-potable water supply system [PDF, 190 kB]
Melissa Green – CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Friday 8 May
11.15 am:
The effect of urbanisation on water balance in shallow watertable areas in the Southern River catchment [PDF, 190 kB]
Anthony Barr– CSIRO Land and Water
11.35 am: Development of least-cost stormwater harvesting portfolio for Canberra [PDF, 190 kB]
Stephanie Ashbolt – CSIRO Land and Water

Wednesday 22 April 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Professor Steven Gorelick – Stanford University
Transition to Water Resources Sustainability in a Developing Nation

Greenhouse 2009

*Wednesday 25 March, Burswood Convention Centre
12:40 pm:
Urban water and energy futures [PDF, 3 MB]
Steven Kenway – CSIRO Land and Water
2:40 pm: Impact of climate and forest management on catchment yield (integrated hydrological modelling) [PDF, 3 MB]
Syed Mahtab Ali – CSIRO Land and Water
3:20 pm: Hydrological Sensor Webs: Achieving near real-time situation awareness in river operations [PDF, 3 MB]
Andrew Terhorst – CSIRO Information and Communication Technologies
4:30 pm: Assessing IPCC Fourth Assessment Report GCMs for statistical downscaling in southwest Western Australia [PDF, 3 MB]
Steve Charles – CSIRO Land and Water

*Thursday 26 March, Burswood Convention Centre
12:00 pm
: Observed water balance changes across Australia [PDF, 3 MB]
Albert van Dijk – CSIRO Land and Water

Thursday 5 March 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Dr James A. Davis – US Geological Survey
Case studies of uranium transport and retardation in unconsolidated aquifers

Thursday 19 February 2009 at 3.30 pm, CSIRO Auditorium
Jonathan F. Thomas – Resource Economics Unit
Water Futures for Western Australia 2008-2030


Previous seminars

2008
2007
2006
2005

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