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RIEL outreach

RIEL seminar series

Lecture room with audience and seminar in progress

Every fortnight during the semester we feature a RIEL researcher or visitor. Seminars usually take place on Casuarina campus in Yellow 1.1.39 and are followed by networking opportunities. Seminars are streamed online via zoom, and recordings of past seminars are available for viewing below.

Contact us at riel.outreach@cdu.edu.au

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Upcoming seminars

DateTitlePresenterInformation

24 March 2022

Friends or foes? The social behaviours and system of estuarine crocodilesDr Cameron BakerMore information

Recordings of past seminars

Title and presenterDateRecording
From a single tree to ecosystem-atmosphere feedbacks: the use of thermal remote sensing for tree physiology research By Pavel Alekseychik PhD24 February 2023YouTube video
Fish and floodplains: drivers of barramundi migration in the Top End By Dr Brien Roberts4 November 2022YouTube video
Aligning your research for public policy impact By Dr Guzyal Hill21 October 2022YouTube video
Evolution of the Darwin Harbour Numerical Model By Dr Hemerson Tonin and Carlos Simão6 October 2022 
Sniffing out citrus canker and beyond By Dr Vinuthaa Murthy and Dr Hao Wang30 September 2022 
Monitoring Australia's Ecosystems - TERN's field program By A/Prof. Ben Sparrow (TERN)14 September 2022Youtube video
Tentegia – the world’s only dung-rolling weevils By Rolf Oberprieler, Hermes Escalona and Debbie Jennings2 September 2022Youtube video
Blue Ventures joint seminar By Jenny House and colleagues from Timor-Leste1 September 2022Youtube video
The vibrios: barometers of climate change – bacteria that love heat waves and monsoons  By Dr Anna Padovan and Prof Karen Gibb26 August 2022Youtube video
Special RIEL seminar: Fire, rain and CO2 - potential drivers of savanna woody thickening By PhD candidate Greg Barber11 August 2022Youtube video
Results of Mangrove Forest Landscape Rehabilitation (MFLR) Opportunity Assessment in Indonesia and their Influence on Policy & Practice By Dr Benjamin M. Brown29 July 2022Youtube video
Burkholderia pseudomallei in the environment of the Top End – we have only scratched the surface By Dr Mirjam Kaestli (RIEL, Menzies School of Health Research)15 July 2022 
From Darwin Harbour report cards to recycling pee on parklands: snapshots of current research by a visiting scholar from "sunny" Queensland By A/Prof Cara Beal
(Griffith University)
3 June 2022Youtube video
Recent increase in Northern Australian streamflow unmatched over the past 600 years By Phillipa Higgins20 May 2022 
A conversation about an ethical conundrum By Prof Stephen Garnett6 May 2022No video
Arrows on Maps: Five decades of angler-driven gamefish tagging in Australia By Dr Julian Pepperell22 April 2022Youtube video
The Science of Beer By Dr Dylan Irvine8 April 2022Youtube video
TERN it up: monitoring mass and energy exchanges from savanna landscapes of the NT By Prof. Lindsay Hutley25 March 2022Youtube video
A potpourri of parasites: tales from a wandering parasitologist By Dr. Diane Barton (Charles Sturt University)11 March 2022Youtube video
Groundwater sources for the Mataranka Springs By Dr. Sebastien Lamontagne (CSIRO)25 February 2022Youtube video
ARC funded Marine Megafauna Project - First Year Summary (Mid-March to December 2021) By Dr Carol Palmer28 January 2022Youtube video
The habitat requirements and potential threats of the endangered Alligator Rivers Yellow Chat Epthianura rocea tunneyi.By Robin Leppitt26 November 2021Youtube video
Black jewfish: drivers of productivity in a changing environment By Dr Joanne Randall12 November 2021Youtube video
Using technology to monitor and evaluate the restoration of Ranger uranium mine by Dave Loewensteiner – Supervising Scientist29 October 2021Youtube video
Developing effective and equitable conservation benefit-sharing mechanisms for local peoples in the Great Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania by Juma Kegamba15 October 2021No video
Plot-based vegetation classification in the Northern Territory and compatibility with National and International classification frameworks, and an introduction to the TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Program by Dr Donna Lewis - NT Herbarium1 October 2021Youtube video
Behind the Blue Curtain: A look at Australia’s Blue Carbon methodology by Prof. Catherine Lovelock29 September 2021Youtube video
Can Australia’s savanna burning emissions methods be applied in southern Africa? by Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith17 September 2021No video
Biting Midges in Australia by Dr Glenn Bellis3 September 2021Youtube video
Untangling the knot of "Wilderness" conservation Post-2020 By Katharina-Victoria Perez-Hammerle6 August 2021Youtube video

Picture a scientist (Video screening. Full video is available on Netflix.)

30 July 2021Vimeo trailer

Gender research at RIEL: the case for considering gender in environmental research

By Emily Gibson, Jenny House, Gianna Bonis-Profumo, Natasha Stacey

9 July 2021YouTube video

Trends in European freshwater fish populations and implementation of ecological risk assessment methodologies in monitoring programs

By Dr Raphael Santos

25 June 2021

YouTube video

What are Ecosytem Services?

By Kamaljit Sangha

11 June 2021YouTube video