Ongoing news & highlights from the lab
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08.04.2022: Corey Bradshaw interviewed by Cosmos Magazine
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23.03.2022: Rupert Mathwin speaks about his frog research in Victor Harbour: ‘What is a frog?’
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25.02.2022: Frédérik Saltré gives a seminar to the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre at the University of New South Wales: ‘The ecological context of the peopling of Australia’
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22.12.2021: Corey Bradshaw‘s and Fred Saltré‘s co-authored paper ‘Landscape rules predict optimal super-highways for the first peopling of Sahul‘ in Nature Human Behaviour this year awarded a HPC (High-Performance Computing) User Forum 2021 HPC Innovation Award
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22.12.2021: Corey Bradshaw and Fred Saltré awarded $770K from the Australian Research Council for their koala genetic-rescue Linkage Project
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09.12.2021: Kathi Peters wins a Flinders University Early Career Alumnus Award. Congratulations!
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16.11.2021: Corey Bradshaw a Chief Investigator on successful $10M National Health and Medical Research Council Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change grant: Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) — National Research Network on Human Health and Environmental Change (see Flinders blog announcement)
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20.10.2021: Farzin Shabani guest-lectured in Flinders University ‘Introduction to Geographical Information Systems’ (STEM8002)
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16.10.2021: Corey Bradshaw, along with colleague Eileen Crist, presented ‘How to save the Earth us’ in the Global Village Speakers Series (online)
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01.10.2021: Corey Bradshaw interviewed by Robyn Williams on ABC Radio National‘s The Science Show ‘Avoiding a ghastly future‘
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29.09.2021: Corey Bradshaw presented ‘Episode 6: Environment & Sustainability’ for the Flinders Fearless Conversations series
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24.09.2021: Corey Bradshaw presented ‘Pathways to a less-ghastly future’ (online) to the current students of Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific
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15.09.2021: Corey Bradshaw‘s blog ConservationBytes.com hits the 2.5 million-view mark
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20.08.2021: Corey Bradshaw listed as one of South Australia’s most influential people in the environment sector
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18.08.2021: Corey Bradshaw speaks at the Flinders Archaeological Science Network ‘Pimp My Profile’ with Alice Gorman & John Long
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07.08.2021: Three Global Ecology papers highlighted in Nature Index:
- Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul’s megafauna
- Combining agent-based, trait-based and demographic approaches to model coral-community dynamics
- Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns
06.08.2021: Corey Bradshaw spoke at Science in the Pub Adelaide‘s ‘The Science of Statistics’ event on human demographic projections
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18.05.2021: Sofie Costin receives the Max Clark Prize in Science & Engineering (1 of 5 top students) at the Flinders University, College of Science and Engineering Annual Prizes & Awards Ceremony
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25.04.2021: Corey Bradshaw listed in the Reuters Hot List of Top Climate Scientists
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19.04.2021: CABAH features our latest paper in eLife: Megafauna mysteries — plotting unpredictable and complex extinction cascades
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19.04.2021: Our January 2021 paper in Frontiers in Conservation Science promoted in the Chief Scientist for South Australia‘s ‘Best of the Best’ series
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01.04.2021: New paper in Nature co-authored by Corey Bradshaw published (High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide)
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03.03.2021: Corey Bradshaw presents the first CABAH Seminar of 2021: Rapid early peopling of late Pleistocene Sahul
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01.02.2021: Sofie Costin and Pete Hamnett officially start their Honours projects in the Global Ecology Laboratory
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13.01.2021: Corey Bradshaw‘s and Frédérik Saltré‘s paper in the new journal Frontiers in Conservation Science goes a bit viral, with ~ 140,000 views and an Altmetric score of ~ 2300 (as of 27.01.2021). The accompanying The Conversation article has > 450,000 views so far. The paper was featured in > 170 news outlets and blogs around the world (see some examples on our Media page).
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13.10.2020: Corey Bradshaw featured in CABAH #QandARC promotional video
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28.09.2020: Seamus Doherty interviewed about the Great Southern Bioblitz (ABC, Adelaide Advertiser, Flinders Blog)
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17.09.2020: Fiona Laviano gives her ‘Pecha Kucha’ presentation at the 2020 Virtual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
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01.09.2020: Kathryn ‘KV’ Venning appeared on ABC 7.30 Report talking about koalas (view full piece here). Well done, KV!
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01.08.2020: We welcome Kealyn Madden as a new Honours student in the lab.
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30.07.2020: New PhD student, Seamus Doherty wins prestigious College of Science and Engineering Scholarship. Congratulations!
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27.07.2020: Corey Bradshaw publishes his article ‘The only constant is change‘ in the Flinders University Encounter alumnus magazine
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05.06.2020: Corey Bradshaw featured in the Flinders University ‘In touch with …‘ series
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24.05.2020: Corey Bradshaw presented ‘Australia’s place in the global loss of biodiversity: inevitability of a degraded future for our children‘ (view recorded version here) to Doctors for the Environment Australia
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14.03.2020: Corey Bradshaw‘s & Enrico Di Minin‘s Scientific Reports article ‘Socio-economic predictors of environmental performance among African nations‘ among the top 100 most-downloaded in 2019
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05.03.2020: Corey Bradshaw speaks at the Flinders Archaeological Science Network ‘Modelling the ecology of the first anatomically modern humans using archaeological data’
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05.03.2020: Frédérik Saltré & Corey Bradshaw participate in the 1.5 Degrees Live! event at Flinders University (reading parts of the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of Global Warming of 1.5 °C)
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25-27.02.2020: Corey Bradshaw attends the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Recovery Planning Workshop in American River, Kangaroos Island
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06.02.2020: Antoine Champreux and Lisa Nink (Flinders Palaeontology) present ‘Giant animal extinctions of South America” at Trott Park Neighbourhood Centre
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04.02.2020: Corey Bradshaw presents at the National Shark Bite Mitigation Measures Workshop, Flinders University Marine and Coastal Research Consortium
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04.02.2020: Corey Bradshaw presents ‘There’s no plan(et) B‘ to the University of the Third Age in Adelaide
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12.12.2019: Corey Bradshaw presents at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference 2019 in Surfers Paradise
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03-05.12.2019: Corey Bradshaw attends and speaks at the ‘Climate Change and Future Child Health‘ Symposium sponsored by the Western Australian Health Transition Network and the University of Western Australia in Perth
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27.11.2019: Farzin Shabani wins a Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early-Career Research. Congratulations!
18-22.11.2019: Frédérik Saltré and Corey Bradshaw attend ‘Coupling archaeological and ecological/demographic modelling approaches to understand early human migration and mitigate modern disasters‘ at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico
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15.11.2019: Corey Bradshaw appointed to the Australian Research Council College of Experts
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13.11.2019: The Global Ecology Lab jointly organises the Flinders Public Event, ‘The Politics of Environmental Destruction‘ by Professor Paul Ehrlich
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12.11.2019: Corey Bradshaw presents at Science Meets Parliament with colleague Professor Paul Ehrlich at the Parliament of South Australia
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04-08.11.2019: Many of the Global Ecology team are in Melbourne for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Heritage‘s Annual Symposium
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29.10-01.11.2019: Corey Bradshaw co-delivers Making Science Matter PhD short course (run by Helsingin Yliopisto and Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet) in Ekenäs Herrgård, Sweden
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25.10.2019: Corey Bradshaw presents ‘Dealing with negative feedback’ at the Research Centre for Ecological Change‘s Annual Meeting, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki
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25.09.2019: Corey Bradshaw presents at the Australian Science and Mathematics School Sustainable Futures ‘Earth Summit‘
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24.09.2019: Frédérik Saltré has just had accepted in Nature Communications a paper with other GEL (Kathi Peters, Corey Bradshaw) and CABAH co-authors. Congratulations!
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24.09.2019: Corey Bradshaw participates in the Royal Society of New Zealand‘s Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour Assessment Panel for the 2019 Marsden Fund grants (Full Proposal Phase)
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31.08.2019: Corey Bradshaw takes part in the Adelaide SciFight ‘Scientists should rule the world‘ comedy debate at the Science Exchange
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30.08.2019: Frédérik Saltré visits gives a talk at the EGU Galileo Conference ‘Complex causes of Australian megafauna extinctions during the Late Pleistocene’ in Utrecht, Netherlands
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29.08.2019: Corey Bradshaw presents ‘There’s no plan(et) B‘ to the University of the Third Age in Port Adelaide
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26.08.2019: Frédérik Saltré visits colleagues in the ‘Modelling of the Terrestrial Biosphere’ group at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Centre in Frankfurt, Germany
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15.08.2019: Antoine Champreux successfully competes in the Flinders University Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) semi-finals. He’s now off to the finals in September! Congratulations!
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13.08.2019: Science event at Cowandilla Primary School: Frédérik Saltré works with year 6/7 students of both Cowandilla and Richmond Primary Schools on understanding the impact of climate change and human activities on ecosystem functioning.
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06.08.2019: Corey Bradshaw gives lecture at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford ‘Modelling the rapid expansion of anatomically modern humans in Late Pleistocene Sahul’
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25.07.2019: Corey Bradshaw gives seminar at INQUA2019 ‘Modelling sixty millennia of human expansion throughout Sahul‘ in Dublin, Ireland
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19.07.2019: Corey Bradshaw gives CABAH workshop ‘Becoming an Effective Scientist’ at the University of Wollongong
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17.07.2019: Congratulations to PhD candidate, Kathryn Venning, for receiving a scholarship today from Flinders! Doesn’t she looked pleased with herself (as she should)?
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16.07.2019: Postdoctoral Fellow, Kathi Peters, featured in the Flinders University ‘In Touch’ magazine
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05.07.2019: PhD students Fiona Laviano & Antoine Champreux compete in the first heat of the 3-Minute Thesis competition. Antoine successfully won the heat, and Fiona also gave a great pitch. Congratulations!
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18.06.2019: Lab Director, Corey Bradshaw, featured in the Flinders University ‘In Touch’ magazine — “Hectic mid-year keeps Corey up to his neck and on his toes“
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21-22.05.2019: Corey Bradshaw speaks at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan (China): ‘More than 50,000 years of ecological change by humans‘ & ‘Becoming and effective scientist’
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16.05.2019: Corey Bradshaw speaks at the ECNU-UAlberta Joint Lab for Biodiversity Study, East China Normal University, Shanghai (China): ‘Ecosystem consequences of the peopling of Australia: 50,000+ years of change‘
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13.05.2019: Corey Bradshaw speaks to South Australia Department for Environment and Water staff: ‘Opportunities to improve the future of South Australia’s terrestrial biodiversity’ (Adelaide Botanic Gardens)
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29.04.2019: Dr Giovanni Strona from the EU Joint Research Centre delivers a Flinders University/CABAH day-long workshop on ecological network modelling
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24.04.2019: Fred Saltré gives a public lecture — ‘The origin and ecological aftermath of the peopling of Sahul’ — at the Center for the Study of Origins, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
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18.04.2019: Corey Bradshaw participates in the Royal Society of New Zealand‘s Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour Assessment Panel for the 2019 Marsden Fund grants (EoI phase)
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16.04.2019: Corey Bradshaw gives the Flinders BRAVE Lecture ‘There is no plan(et) B‘ in Adelaide
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14.04.2019: Corey Bradshaw is on the panel of the Climate Election Candidates Forum in Adelaide
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10.04.2019: Dr Giovanni Strona of the EU Joint Research Centre in Italy visits the lab for the next three weeks
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04.04.2019: Frédérik Saltré gives a seminar at the Center for the Study of Origins at the University of Colorado Boulder
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22.03.2019: Corey Bradshaw addresses the Extinction Rebellion of South Australia during the delivery of their declaration to Parliament
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21.03.2019: Corey Bradshaw talks to the SA Chapter of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand about the 2018 SA State of the Environment Report
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15.03.2019: Frédérik Saltré gives a seminar at the Department of Anthropology at University of Colorado
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11-12.03.2019: Corey Bradshaw attends the CABAH Masterclass ‘The Filling of the Continent”: Modelling the Peopling of Sahul’ in Cairns
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09-10.03.2019: Corey Bradshaw & John Llewelyn run the Modelling Roadshow in Cairns for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH)
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05-06.03.2019: PhD students Fiona Laviano and Antoine Champreux successfully complete their candidature confirmations. Congratulations to you both.
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27.02.2019: Frédérik Saltré visits the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Colorado Boulder and gives a seminar
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21.02.2019: Corey Bradshaw presents at the SA Environment Protection Authority 2018 State of the Environment Public Forum
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14.02.2019: Frédérik Saltré gives a seminar at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
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10.02.2019: John Llewelyn officially named the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) Early-Career Research Representative. Congratulations, John!
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06.02.2019: Corey Bradshaw appointed Head of Faculty for Ecology in Faculty of 1000.
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11.01.2019: Fred Saltré‘s last day before heading off for several months on Tuesday to the Center for the Study of Origins in Colorado. Bon voyage!
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07.01.2019: Welcome back! People are now starting to get back to work in the Lab
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21.12.2018: Have a pleasant break. The Global Ecology Laboratory will reopen on 07.01.2019
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09.12.2018: End-of-year BBQ at Fred Saltré‘s place
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15.12.2018: Congratulations to Kathryn Venning for finishing First Class for her Honours dissertation in December 2018. She will be rejoining the Lab mid-2019 to start a PhD
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06.12.2018: Corey Bradshaw was awarded a Flinders International Visiting Fellowship to fund collaborator, Dr Giovanni Strona, to visit the Lab in April 2019
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28.11.2018: Fred Saltré, Corey Bradshaw & Farzin Shabani attend the ESA 2018 Annual Conference in Brisbane
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27.11.2018: Fiona Laviano and Antoine Champreux present their PhD projects at the Second College of Science and Engineering Higher Degree Research Conference
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20-21.11.2018: Corey Bradshaw gives three invited seminars at the BRAES Institute at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada
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03.11.2018: Fred Saltré, Corey Bradshaw & Farzin Shabani run the first CABAH Modelling Workshop at Flinders
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02.11.2018: Collaborator, A/Prof Daniel Stouffer, visits the Lab and gives a great seminar
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18.10.2018: Collaborator, Prof Mary Droser, visits the Lab and gives a cracker of a seminar
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15.10.2018: Dr John Llewelyn joins the Lab!
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27.09.2018: Fred Saltré presents to Cowandilla Primary School the ecosystem links between the carbon and water cycles
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25.09.2018: Corey Bradshaw is assessing Marsden Fund grants (Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour Panel) at the Royal Society of New Zealand in Wellington
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18.09.2018: Corey Bradshaw introduces Dr Justin Chalker for the Flinders BRAVE Research and Innovation public lecture series
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17.09.2018: Antoine Champreux presents ‘Shazza and the Time Machine’ for the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) finals for Flinders
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06.09.2018: Fred Saltré visits Thomas Hickler‘s group and give a seminar at the Senkenberg Biodiversity and Climate Centre, Frankfurt, Germany
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05.09.2018: Fred Saltré is giving a seminar at Jens Svenning‘s lab at Aarhus University in Denmark today
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27.08.2018: Fred Saltré and Fiona Laviano visit Tom Higham and his team at Keble College/School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
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27.07.2018: Corey Bradshaw visits Professors Hal Mooney (left) and Paul Ehrlich (right) at Stanford University in California
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03.07.2018: Corey Bradshaw presents at the Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Conference in Adelaide
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25.06.2018: Corey Bradshaw visits Franck Courchamp‘s Écologie Systématique et Évolution lab in Paris, France and gives a few seminars
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23.06.2018: Fred Saltré was awarded a four-month Visiting Scholarship starting in January 2019 at the Center for the Study of Origins, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
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21.06.2018: Corey Bradshaw visits the University of Helsinki lab of Dr Enrico Di Minin and colleagues and gives a few seminars
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15.06.2018: Corey Bradshaw attends the European Congress of Conservation Biology in Jyväskylä, Finland and gives a few talks
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05.06.2018: Fred Saltré and Corey Bradshaw travel to NSW for a CABAH ‘Time Team’ Masterclass
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18.04.2018: Corey Bradshaw‘s edited book (led by Katherine Yates) — Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning‘ — is released
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17.04.2018: Corey Bradshaw & illustrator René Campbell launch their new book, The Effective Scientist
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20.01.2018: Fred Saltré and Corey Bradshaw attend the US National Science Foundation Synthesis Meeting for the Research Cooperation Network: Using metamodels to enable transdisciplinary research for the study of dynamic biological systems under global change at WhiteOak Conservation near Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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