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SUMMARY:STEM and Society: SealSpotters
DESCRIPTION:Dr Rebecca McIntosh\nMr Ross Holmberg\nJoin Dr Rebecca McIntosh and Ross Holmberg from the Phillip Island Nature Parks team as they prepare to launch the annual SealSpotter Challenge\, when citizen scientists around the globe jump online to count Australian fur seals and contribute to vital conservation research. \nThe SealSpotter program allows anyone with a computer to help with the management and protection of our oceans by counting seals in images captured with a UAV drone. The count enables scientists to analyse seal population and marine debris entanglement data faster and more accurately\, leading to a greater understanding of the fur seal’s world and the threats they face. \nLast year citizen scientists participated from every continent on the planet – including Antarctica! By offering a taste of what scientists in the field see and experience\, Rebecca and Ross and the team at Phillip Island Nature Parks have started a movement\, bringing the wider community along with them to affect necessary behavioural change and achieve their conservation goals. \nHow many seals will you find? \n\n\nStreaming online via Facebook Live and the Victorian Parliament’s website.\n\n\nThis special series of online presentations explores the science and stories behind the game-changing work undertaken by Victoria’s scientific community. Our leading experts will talk about the work they’re doing to engage the community and affect meaningful change in their field of study and in our everyday lives. Presented by the Victorian Parliament\, with the Royal Society of Victoria and Victorian Parliamentarians for STEM. A part of the Inspiring Victoria program. \nImages courtesy of Phillip Island Nature Parks.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/sealspotters/
CATEGORIES:Citizen science,Lifelong learning
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SUMMARY:Why the World Needs Ecologists
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe are drowning in bad news. Two pages into the (1000pg) United Nations Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and you’ll be pleading for Tolstoy. Even David Attenborough is depressing these days. \nEcosystems collapse and species loss is being documented across the planet\, with profound existential ramifications. Habitat degradation and loss remains the key driver of biodiversity loss\, but climate change and invasive species promise to compound the damages we have wrought. \nTo save you days of morbid reading\, Professor Brendan Wintle will provide a short and cheerful summary of the global extinction crisis\, including Australia’s prominent and expanding role in species’ extirpation.  \n“To live without hope is to cease to live” (Dostoyevsky). So Brendan will celebrate the hopeful and crucial role that ecologists can play (and are playing) in co-designing and implementing solutions to the extinction crisis in partnership with private land conservation organisations\, Indigenous land managers\, developers\, and governments. Science\, civil society\, business and policy makers can work constructively to bring the transformative change needed to ‘bend the curve’.  \nBrendan will give positive examples of some great collaborations that seek to keep our unique species\, ecosystems and cultures intact\, and will finish with a suite of practical measures that society and individuals can pursue to bring benefits to nature and people. \nAbout the Speaker\n \nProfessor Brendan Wintle is the Director of the Threatened Species Recovery Hub\, based at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in modelling and dealing with uncertainty in environmental decisions\, and measuring cost-effectiveness of conservation programs. \nHe has served on Forest Stewardship Council reference committees\, and various Commonwealth and State science advisory bodies including the Regional Sustainability Planning Advisory Committee\, the Monitoring and Evaluation (MERI) advisory group\, and the ‘Save the Tasmanian Devil’ Science Advisory Group. \nBrendan completed a Forestry Degree in 1994 before working as a senior forest policy officer in the Queensland State Government. He completed his PhD in 2004 entitled “Characterizing and dealing with uncertainty in species distribution models” at the University of Melbourne. He won an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the design of wildlife monitoring programs before taking up a position with the University of Melbourne’s School of Botany as a lecturer in Conservation Ecology. \nHe holds an ARC Future Fellowship: “Climate adaptation strategies for conserving biodiversity in rapidly changing landscapes”. \nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite. Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket. Presented with the support of the Inspiring Victoria program. \n
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/ecologists/
CATEGORIES:Lifelong learning
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SUMMARY:Next-Gen Spatial Tech for Forest Management
DESCRIPTION:  \nNew spatial technologies – like remote sensing\, global positioning systems\, ground based sensors\, monitoring and other ICT interventions – are set to revolutionise our understanding of our forests and improve our capacity to manage and sustain them. Join three proponents of these powerful new systems for environmental monitoring to learn more about their potential applications for the management of water resources\, forest growth rates and bushfire risks\, enabling our forest estates to adapt and persist through rapidly changing conditions. \nKeynote:\nThe Democratisation of Remote Sensing\nProfessor Nicholas Coops\nCanada Research Chair in Remote Sensing\nHead pro tem\, Department of Forest Resources Management\, University of British Columbia \nIt’s hard to remember a time when we couldn’t experience our world through images produced by satellites and airplanes. These remote images have allowed us to see things as never before\, to gain insight and shift perspective. \nThe technology has exploded in the past five years – it’s everywhere\, with vast amounts of forestry data generated every day. Remote sensing – collecting imagery of the Earth’s surface – is cheaper and easier than ever before\, and is revolutionizing the way we measure and monitor our forests. We can now see everything from a single leaf to the entire planet. \nProfessor Nicholas Coops is a researcher investigating innovative ways to use these technologies to help understand the process occurring within out forests and developing tools and methods to manage them sustainably. He is the most recent co-recipient of the Wallenberg Prize (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Forest Science) for his work on the 3-PG model; the other two co-recipients were Australian Dr Joe Landsberg and American Dr Richard Waring. This groundbreaking work in developing forest growth models is based on tree ecophysiology\, further developed for large area application using geospatial forest analysis and remote sensing techniques. Nicholas completed his PhD at RMIT University. \nPresentation:\nNew\, Precise Positioning Technologies for CM Accuracy and Near Real Time Geostationary Satellite Monitoring of Bushfires\nProfessor Allison Kealy\nActing Chief Research Officer & Research Program Director\nAdvanced Satellite Systems\, Sensors and Intelligence\, SmartSat CRC\nProfessor\, Geospatial Science\, RMIT University \nAllison’s presentation will cover three new technologies: first\, the dedicated new Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) that Australia is in the process of acquiring and its role in improving positioning accuracies to within 3- 5 cm; second\, the operational introduction of Japan’s Himawari-8 geostationary remote sensing satellite in detecting and monitoring bushfires; and third\, the AquaWatch IoT satellite sensor system for monitoring water usage. \nProfessor Allison Kealy is President and Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy\, Commission 4 (Positioning and Applications) and co-chair of the International Federation of Surveying (FIG) Working Group 5.5 on Multi-Sensor Systems. Allison is a technical representative to the Institute of Navigation (US) and is the 2017 recipient of the US Institute of Navigation\, Captain PVH Weems award for sustained contributions to advancing the art and science of navigation\, and promoting and expanding the use of PNT among worldwide science and engineering communities. She is the most recent recipient of the Professional Eminence Award\, Asia Pacific from the Spatial Industries Business Association – Geospatial Information and Technology Association (for Australia and New Zealand). \nPresentation:\nSituational Awareness for a Rapid Response: Enabling Early Detection of Natural Disasters Through Intelligent\, Integrated Sensor Networks\nMr Rob Gell AM\nDirector\, Attentis Pty Ltd\nDirector\, ReThink Sustainability Pty Ltd\nPresident\, The Royal Society of Victoria \nAmong many roles\, Rob is a Director of Attentis. This Australian company designs and manufactures intelligent multi-sensors that incorporate fire\, flood and air composition detection with micro-climate weather\, noise\, vibration\, ground movement and specialised sensing to deliver early notification of fire ignition\, floods and airborne pathogens. Deployed across a regional network\, these provide instant first responder notification\, detailing the type of threat\, location\, images and live conditions to enable rapid investigation and the most effective deployment of resources\, including aerial response and ground crews. \nRob’s expertise is as a geographer and a coastal geomorphologist\, specialising in the environmental processes that continually shape our coastlines. Today he works as an environmental and communications consultant. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute\, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an Inaugural Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. \nChair:\n\nDr Peter Woodgate\nChair\, SmartSat CRC \nOur MC for the evening will be Dr Peter Woodgate\, Chair of the SmartSat CRC\, Chair of the Steering Committee for the 2030 Space and Spatial Industry Growth Roadmap\, which is building a growth roadmap for both industries\, and a member of the Australian Space Agency’s Space Industry Leaders Forum. Peter is also Chair of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network. Peter served as CEO of the Australia and New Zealand Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) from June 2003 to December 2017 and has held senior positions with the Victorian Government and RMIT University. \n \nPresented as a partnership between the Institute of Foresters of Australia\, the Royal Society of Victoria and the Inspiring Victoria initiative. \nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite. RSV and IFA Members are prompted to enter their promotional code to access a member’s ticket. Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket.\n
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/spatial-tech/
CATEGORIES:Lifelong learning
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SUMMARY:Location\, Location\, Location: Immune Protection by Tissue-Resident T-Cells
DESCRIPTION:T cells are specialised immune cells that are central to the complex\, adaptive immune response to infection and disease. T cells are “trained” to recognise specific fragments or components of viruses\, bacteria\, and other pathogens (e.g. a component of the influenza virus or tuberculosis bacterium). \nDuring an infection\, those T cells that recognise the infectious agent will be activated to respond – either killing infected cells or coordinating the attack. Following infection\, a pool of memory T cells remains in the body to provide better and faster responses upon re-encountering the same pathogen because they are already trained to recognise it. Some memory T cells permanently reside in the site of infection where they are poised to mediate local immune responses should the pathogen come back. They are hence regarded as “tissue-resident memory T cells” and reside in tissues that are common sites of infection\, including the skin\, intestine and liver\, where they elicit site-specific responses. \n Join Professor Laura Mackay from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity\, whose work has been instrumental in the discovery of these cells and their role\, to learn about recent advances in understanding the biological functions of these cells and their critical role in providing protection against infection and cancer. Laura’s work offers new insights to treatment and opportunities for the development of novel immunotherapies. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nProfessor Laura Mackay holds appointments at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne and A*STAR in Singapore. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Bill & Melinda Gates International Scholar\, a University of Melbourne Dame Kate Campbell Fellow\, a Sylvia & Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellow\, and an NHMRC Leadership Investigator. She is also the current President of The Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA). \nShe is the recipient of Awards including The 2019 Prime Minister’s Prize for The Frank Fenner Life Scientist of the Year\, The Gottschalk Medal (Australian Academy of Science)\, The Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher\, The Woodward Medal in Science and Technology\, The Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and The Victorian Young Tall Poppy Award. \nFor a number of years\, Laura has been at the forefront of research on immunological memory\, and how memory T cells protect the body against disease. Her work was instrumental in the discovery that a subset of immune cells called tissue-resident memory T cells are critical for the control of infection and cancer. The current focus of her Laboratory is on the molecular signals that govern tissue-resident memory T cell differentiation\, with a view to harness these cells for the development of new immunotherapeutic strategies against disease. \nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite. RSV Members are prompted to enter their promotional code to access a member’s ticket. Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket. \n
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/t-cells/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lifelong learning
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