Seminars

CSIRO Land and Water hosts free Public Seminars at a number of our sites across Australia.These free sessions are open to members of the public, presented by CSIRO Land and Water science and business leaders. We also host seminars for visiting fellows from our partner and collaborator organisations around the world.

This is an archive site only. Latest seminar information is now on CSIRO.au website.

Seminars/science achievements as webstreamed audio or video files

• Some of the following presentations may require Internet Explorer, some cannot be viewed in FireFox

17 October 2012
Koalas, drones and mobile phones. The Great Koala Count.
Dr Andrew Baker, Research Scientists, CSIRO Land and Water

18 August 2010
Modelling Forest Sector Illegality: The Case of Forest Concessions in Brazil
Dr Onil Banerjee, Post Doctoral Fellow, Natural Resource Economics Decision Science Group, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences

CSIRO South-West Western Australia Sustainable Yields Project

6 May 2010
Water yields and demands in south-west Western Australia
Dr Don McFarlane, CSIRO South-West Western Australia Sustainble Yields Project

29 April 2010
The impact of climate change on water dependent ecosystems in south-west Western Australia
Dr Olga Barron, CSIRO South-West Western Australia Sustainble Yields Project

22 April 2010
The effect of climate change on surface water runoff in south-west Western Australia
Dr Richard Silberstein, CSIRO South-West Western Australia Sustainble Yields Project

15 April 2010
Groundwater yields in south-west Western Australia under climate change and development
Dr Riasat Ali, CSIRO South-West Western Australia Sustainble Yields Project

2009
QJ Wang: A leader in water forecasting and prediction
Quan Jun (QJ) Wang leads the Water Prediction and Forecasting Stream of the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship’s Integrated Water Information Systems

Francis Chiew: Investigating how a changing climate is affecting our water resources
Francis Chiew, a lead researcher with the Flagship’s Regional Water Theme, has over 15 years experience in research, teaching and consulting in hydrology and water resources.

13 May 2009
Designing cost-effective, socially acceptable policy for managing water quality 44:49 (16 MB)
Dr Brett Bryan
Principal Research Scientist, Sustainable Regional Development, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

5 December 2008, Hobart, Tasmania
CSIRO's new remote sensing algorithms for coastal water quality assessment in Tasmania and the Great Barrier Reef 45:15 (206 MB)
Dr Thomas Shroeder
Research Scientist and Scientific Programmer, CSIRO Land and Water

24 October 2008
Taxation as an Instrument of Agri-Environmental Policy in the European Union
Prof. Rob Fraser
Professor in Agricultural Economics, University of Kent, UK

27 March 2008
Impacts of climate change on land and water resources – An integrated hydrological modelling approach
Dr Syed Mahtab Ali
CSIRO Land and Water and Water for a Healthy Country Flagship

21-22 November 2007
Keynote speakers from the "What’s in Our Water: The significance of trace organic compounds" symposium, Canberra. Some video, some audio.

6 September 2007
Myths about salinity management in the wheatbelt:
Experiences from the Catchment Demonstration Initiative in the Wallatin and O’Brien catchments, WA
Dr Michael Robertson
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Water for a Healthy Country Flagship

7 September 2006
Assessing the biodiversity benefits of farmland revegetation in the Western Australian wheatbelt
Dr Patrick Smith
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Water for a Healthy Country Flagship

21 June 2006
Frontiers in Water Policy
Professor Mike Young
Water for a Healthy Country Flagship

Wednesday April 2006
Getting the balance right – water policy and management implications
Wayne Meyer, Chief Scientist
Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures

Wednesday 22 March 2006
From Peds to Paradoxes: what Darwin and Banks didn't know, and why it matters (Soil ecology)
Professor David Coleman
CSIRO McMaster Fellow from the Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, USA

Wednesday 27 October 2004
A South Australian View on Climatic Issues in Agriculture
Chair: Rob Thomas
Presentations by Wayne Meyer (CRC for Irrigation Futures), Peter Hayman/Melissa Truscott (SARDI-PIRSA), Bill Bellotti (University of Adelaide), Victor Sadras/Jane Gillooly (CSIRO Land and Water

Wednesday 22 September 2004
Organic Wastewater Contaminants with Environmental Side Effects: Drawing on the U.S. Experience
Special guest speaker Dana Kolpin, Chair Rai Kookana

Monday 22 March 2004
*World Water Day
Turning the Tide: How Does Science Change Public Policy?
Peter Cullen