Seminar Archive 2010
Friday 8 October 2010, 2-5 PM (AAD Theatrette)
Hobart-RUG – a group for R users
Guest speaker: Mark Bravington
Using mvbutils for organising and documenting your R work
Thursday 30 September 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Ben Raymond
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Qualitative modelling of invasive species eradication on subantarctic Macquarie Island
Thursday 23 September 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Dr Keith Finlayson
Senior advisor on climate change, Norwegian Central Bank
Climate change and main-stream financial investment
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Science in the Spotlight - 15 min showcase presentation from three science programs
John McKinlay [Presenation.pdf] [video recording]
Southern Ocean Ecosystems
A bootstrap method for adjusting Adélie penguin counts to correct for estimated sampling biases and uncertainty
Arko Lucier [video recording]
(University of Tasmania), Environmental Protection and Change
Using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for ultra-high resolution mapping of Antarctic moss beds
Barbara Frankel [Presentation.pdf] [video recording]
Ice Ocean Atmosphere and Climate
Antarctic Scientist visits NT Schools
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Martin Solan; Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen [Presentation PDF]
Australian National Network in Marine Science visiting scholar for 2010
a) Bioturbation intensity as an ecosystem process: the elephant in the dark and reconciling contrarieties with imaging
b) On the contribution of benthic biodiversity to ecosystem process and functioning
Tuesday 17 August 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Policy in the Spotlight
Shelley Landmark
AAD Policy Branch
1) Implementing Changes to the Madrid Protocol
Bruce Hull
AAD Policy Branch
2) The Home of Hunters, Collectors and Picklers – Cape Denison 1912 to 2012
Thursday 5 August 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Science in the Spotlight - 15 min showcase presentation from three science programs
Graham Hosie
Environmental Protection and Change
The SCAR Southern Ocean Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey: Achievements, current status and future directions
Philippe Ziegler
Southern Ocean Ecosystems
Assessing data-poor fisheries in the Southern Indian Ocean
Neal Young
Ice Ocean Atmosphere and Climate
Winds on Antarctica - We feel it but how can we see the wind from afar?
Thursday 22 July 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Antarctic Support Centre Projects
Showcase overview of three Antarctic Support Centre projects - presented by members of the Asset Management, Antarctic Infrastructure Group.
Michele Thums
Environment and Safety Project Officer [Presentation.pdf]
Dave Waterhouse
Innovations Engineer [Presentation.pdf]
Jeremy Bonnice
Infrastructure Engineer [Presentation.pdf]
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 2:30 PM (AAD Theatrette)
Stefan Vogel
Northern Illinois University, Dept of Geology and Environmental Geosciences [Presentation.pdf]
There is more to climate – ice sheet ocean interactions, subglacial environments and their role in the Earth's System
Thursday 1 July 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Science in the Spotlight - 15 min showcase presentation from three science programs
Jonny Stark
Environmental Protection and Change [Presentation.pdf]
Diving at Davis – The EPIC field season of 2009/10 and sewage treatment project
Alex Fraser
Ice, Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate and ACE CRC [Presentation.pdf]
High-resolution East Antarctic landfast sea-ice extent and variability from 2000-2008
Steve Nicol
Southern Ocean Ecosystems [Presentation.pdf]
The Broken End
Thursday 24 June 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Rob Stephenson
The Antarctic Circle coordinator, New Hampshire, USA [Presentation.pdf]
A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer; Antarctic Sites outside the Antarctic — memorials, statues, houses, graves and the occasional pub.
Thursday 17 June 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Takeshi Tamura
ACE CRC, University of Tasmania.Previous Affiliation: Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
Global mapping of sea ice production
Thursday 10 June 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Tom Maggs, Ian Hay, Phil Tracey and Ewan McIvor
AAD Policy Branch
Bringing home a different kind of bacon: Advancing Australia's Antarctic and Southern Ocean objectives on the international stage
Thursday 3 June 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Science in the Spotlight - 15 min showcase presentation from three science programs
Adam Treverrow and Shavawn Donoghue
Ice, Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate [Presentation.pdf]
Hot water drilling on the Amery Ice Shelf - an overview of the 2009-2010 AMISOR field season
Roland Warner
AAD (IOAC) and ACE CRC
Unveiling the Antarctic subglacial landscape – Roland Warner and Jason Roberts
Colin Southwell
Southern Ocean Ecosystems
Penguin cams: new technology for broad-scale, cost-effective monitoring
Thursday 20 May 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Ben Raymond
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Shearwater foraging in the Southern Ocean: the roles of prey availability and winds
Thursday 13 May 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Roger Stevens
University of Tasmania
Untangling processes of ice-edge movements in the Southern Ocean
Thursday 6 May 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Science in the Spotlight - 15 min showcase presentation from three science programs
Kim Finney & Miles Jordan
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Locating data gems with Data Navigator
Karen Miller
Environmental Protection and Change/UTAS
The Gel Jockeys of EPiC - who we are, what we're doing and why it matters
So Kawaguchi, Robbie Kilpatrick, Rob King and Steve Nicol
Southern Ocean Ecosystems
The krill romance
Thursday 29 April 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Dr Phil O'Brien
Geosciences Australia
Insights into sea floor habitats, processes and geology on a rocky Antarctic coast from multibeam bathymetry: Davis sea bed mapping survey 2009/2010
Thursday 22 April 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Natalia Galin
2009 visiting Fulbright scholar at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Thickness Estimation Over Antarctic Sea Ice Using Helicopter Borne 2-8 GHz FMCW Radar
Thursday 1 April 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Science in the Spotlight - 15 min showcase presentation from three science programs
Andrew Davidson
Environmental Protection and Change
Effects of ocean acidification on microbes in Antarctic coastal waters
Steve Nicol
Southern Ocean Ecosystems
Elysium: Shackleton's Antarctic Visual Epic
Simon Alexander
Ice Ocean Atmosphere & Climate
The stratosphere: Quantifying wave energy, nacreous cloud and trace gas distribution
Friday 5 March 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Science in the Spotlight - 15 min showcase presentation from three science programs
Neal Young
Ice Ocean Atmosphere and Climate
CRAC(K) went the Mertz Glacier Tongue
Graeme Ewing
Southern Ocean Ecosystems
Impacts of demersal fishing on benthic habitats in antarctic and sub antarctic waters – an AAD Southern Oceans Ecosystems project update
Piotr Kuklinski
Environmental Protection and Change
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences and Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Patterns in skeletal minerology of Bryozoans
Thursday 25 February 2010, 11:30 AM (AAD Theatrette)
Ezio Rosato and Ozge Ozkaya
Leicester University, Department of Genetics, UK
The Molecular basis of circadian rhythms in Krill
