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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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