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Presenter:  Angela Sheedy NT Emergency Response Workforce Educator, Department of Health, Northern Territory Government

Date: Mar 04, 2021

Time: 10:30am to 11:30am

Contact person:  Northern Institute
T: +61 8 8946 7468
E: thenortherninstitute@cdu.edu.au

Location:  Online via Zoom - Zoom Registration is compulsory https://charlesdarwinuni.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V0kwsvPJT2-uVvVNcrtqGA

The NT COVID Emergency Response Workforce: Working to Keep the NT Safe

Angela Sheedy
NT Emergency Response Workforce Educator
Department of Health, Northern Territory Government

Abstract
The Northern Territory has proven to be one of the safest places in Australia and the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. This wasn’t just luck however, with over 100 cases moving across the NT’s airports, quarantine facilities, health services and pathology laboratories it has been a multidisciplinary and well-structured pandemic response keeping communities safe. In this seminar we meet Angela Sheedy who has been working as the COVID-19 Emergency Response Workforce Educator for the Department of Health. Angela presents an overview of the diverse and innovative core responses formed as part of the NT COVID-19 pandemic response.

About Angela Sheedy
Angela has lived and worked in the NT for over 20 years with a career which has spanned across the acute health sector, public health and tertiary health education, to now focusing on keeping communities COVID safe. As a registered nurse with qualifications in public health and education development, Angela currently works as the Emergency Response Educator for the NT Department of Health. This latest position keeps her busy educating across the NT ensuring we have a COVID-19 safe workforce.

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Presenter:  Dr Andrew Edwards Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research

Date: Mar 05, 2021

Time: 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Contact person:  RIEL admin
T: +61 8 8946 6413
E: riel.outreach@cdu.edu.au

Location:  Charles Darwin University, Yellow 1.1.39 & Charles Darwin University, Yellow 1.1.39

Where: Charles Darwin University, Yellow 1.1.39
20 people max || no late admissions

If you wish to attend this seminar via ZOOM
please email riel.outreach@cdu.edu.au for a linkThe Savanna Monitoring and Evaluation Reporting Framework (SMERF)Presented by: Dr Andrew EdwardsDarwin Centre for Bushfire ResearchScreen shot of the Savanna Monitoring and Evaluation Reporting Framework (SMERF). Photo credit Andrew Edwards.

The Savana Monitoring and Evaluation Reporting Framework (SMERF) has grown out of the need of fire managers, mostly Indigenous, across northern Australia, to remotely assess and score the effects of improved fire management in Australia's tropical savannas. SMERF uses the highly accurate moderate resolution burnt area mapping derived for the North Australia Fire Information (NAFI) web portal and the Commonwealth Government’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Abatement Program (known as Savanna Burning) to derive fire metrics that best assess the outcomes of Savanna Burning. As the climate, topographic and desired outcomes vary from place to place, so too should the fire metrics and their thresholds. The SMERF team have been working with Indigenous and Conservation groups, but most recently with Parks & Wildlife NT to derive sub-property fire community mapping and thresholds based on their Park-level Integrated Conservation Strategies. This presentation will take you through the past and potential development of SMERF, and invite you to provide feedback to improve it further.

Dr Andrew Edwards is a Fire Ecologist and Spatial Scientist. Andrew has worked in Bushfire Research since the mid-90’s after graduating from the Northern Territory University with a Bachelor of Science (Earth Science). He first worked for Parks & Wildlife NT as their GIS support officer, was seconded to Bushfires NT to work on the West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement project and various other mapping and monitoring projects such as NAFI, including working with the Savanna Burning methods development team. Andrew was then seconded to Charles Darwin University in 2013 joining the newly formed Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research where he has continued similar projects, such as SMERF.

Presenter:  Professor Helen Verran, Senior Researcher, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University

Date: Feb 24, 2021; Mar 24, 2021; Apr 28, 2021; May 26, 2021; Jun 23, 2021; Jul 28, 2021; Aug 25, 2021; Sep 22, 2021; Oct 27, 2021; Nov 24, 2021;

Time: 3:00pm

Contact person:  Katrina Britnell, Partnerships Coordinator, Northern Institute
T: 08 8946 7468
E: katrina.britnell@cdu.edu.au

Location:  ZOOM

Northern Institute's Virtual Coffee Shop is dedicated to our HDR students (and supervisors) to keep connecting, prevent burnout and promote camaraderie.

Whether you are city-based, regional, remote or studying outside of Australia the Virtual Coffee Shop provides a platform to interact with like-minded research students to gain support, valuable advice or just a sympathetic ear. Grab a coffee and talk all things HDR with the ones who truly understand – your peers. Virtual coffee shop is held the last Wednesday of the month 3.00-4.00pm (ACST). Hosted by Professor Helen Verran.

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