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28 July 2005 - BEES Seminar
Next seminar will be held on the 28th July 2005 in Room 456 at 4.00pm. Details to be advised


04 August 2005 - BEES Seminar
Dr Ben McNeil: Ocean acidification and future climate change implications on coral reefs.


11 August 2005 - BEES Seminar
Dr Andy Green: The role of birds in limnology


18 August 2005 - BEES Seminar
Mike Sinclair: Ecosystem Based Management, a Canadian perspective


25 August 2005 - BEES Seminar
Dr Jes Sammut: Rebuilding livelihoods in Aceh's tsunami-impacted aquaculture communities


30 August 2005 - BEES Seminar
Professor Nelson Eby: Taming the killer lakes of the Cameroon volcanic line.


01 September 2005 - BEES Seminar
Anton Crouch: Biological classification and jazz musicology.


08 September 2005 - BEES Seminar
Associate Professor Ross Coleman: Herbivore-induced defence in plants: Can we generalise across habitats?


15 September 2005 - BEES Seminar
Dr Madeleine Beekman: Reproductive conflicts in social animals.


21 September 2005 - JJ Frankel Memorial Lecture
Dr John Bradshaw from Geoscience Australia will deliver the 25th JJ Frankel Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 21st September at 6pm in Biomedical Theatre D, UNSW.


22 September 2005 - BEES Seminar
Dr Wendy Shaw: Pacific Research


26 September 2005 - Johnston Chair of Water Management
A Seminar by candidates for the Johnston Chair of Water Management is being held on Monday 26th September in Room 456.


06 October 2005 - BEES Seminar
Dr Graham Thompson: Evolutionary genetics of social life - lessons from termites and bees.


13 October 2005 - BEES Seminar
Alberto Albani, Ray Merton and Ian Turner will present a seminar entitled 'Sydney's offshore sand deposits: An overview of extraction & environmental monitoring'. To be held on Thursday 13th October f.....


13 October 2005 - Women in Science - Distinguished Visitors Program
Professor Mary Scholes and Professor Janet Franklin will present back-to-back seminars on Thursday 13 October starting at 3.00pm in Matthews Lecture Theatre B. The "Women in Science" workshop will be .....


20 October 2005 - BEES Seminar
Marji Puotinen: Modelling tropical cyclone disturbance of coral reefs using GIS.


27 October 2005 - BEES Seminar
Dr Nathan Lo (University of Sydney): A brief history of Cockroaches


03 November 2005 - BEES Seminar
Thursday 3rd November: Dr Sarah Pryke


09 November 2005 - PostGraduate Research Forum
The next Postgraduate Research Forum (PRF) will be held on November 9-11 followed by a lunch-time BBQ on Friday 11 November on the lawn outside the Biological Sciences Building.


09 March 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Darren Curnoe: Current controversies surrounding the human genus. Thursday 9th March at 4.00pm.


14 March 2006 - BEES Seminar
Peter Ampt, Institute of Environmental Studies at UNSW: Kangaroos and collaboration for conservation - FATE Program progress. Tuesday 14th March at 1.00pm.


16 March 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Andreas Peuke, Frieberg University - Germany: Solute and water transport in intact Ricinus plants. Thursday 16th March at 4.00pm.


23 March 2006 - BEES Seminar
Cameron Little from the Environment Unit at UNSW: How is the School of BEES helping to protect the UNSW environment and what extra buzzing could they do? Thursday 23rd March at 4.00pm


30 March 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Matthew England, School of Mathematics: The role of the Southern Ocean in global climate and climate change. Thursday 30th March at 4.00pm.


30 March 2006 - Prize Giving Function
The School's Prize-giving function is to be held in Room 457 on Thursday 30th March at 1:00 pm


06 April 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Kathy Belov, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney: Using the genome projects to unravel the architecture of the marsupial and monotreme immune systems. Thursday 6th April at 4.00pm.


13 April 2006 - BEES Seminar
David Shannon: Following the money from illegal logging in the Asia/Pacific - regional application of the global anti-money laundering standards. Thursday 13th April at 4.00pm


27 April 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Sue Hand, School of BEES: Unravelling the last great Gondwanan mystery: the first land vertebrate fauna from the Tertiary of New Zealand. Thursday 27th April at 4.00pm.


04 May 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Erik Postma, School of BEES: Evolutionary genetics of life-history traits: Understanding variation in clutch size and laying date in a small songbird. Thursday 4th May at 4.00pm.


11 May 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Gerrit Neef, School of BEES: Aspects of the geology of Vanuatu - four expeditions to the islands of fire. Thursday 11th May at 4.00pm.


18 May 2006 - BEES Seminar
Debashish Mazumder (ANSTO): Linking coastal habitats with estuarine food webs: a stable isotope investigation of saltmarsh ecology PLUS Ron Szymczak (ANSTO): Nuclear and isotopic marine systems anal.....


25 May 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Steve Wroe, School of BEES: Bite club: Comparative bite force, geometric morphometrics and finite element analyses in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behaviour. Thursday 25th May.....


01 June 2006 - BEES Seminar
Professor Mark Kirkpatrick, University of Texas: Chromosome inversions, local adaptation, and speciation. Thursday 1st June at 4.00pm.


08 June 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Barbara Tschirren, School of BEES: How parasites shape life-histories: sex, immunity and maternal effects in a small passerine. Thursday 8th June at 4.00pm.


14 June 2006 - Post Graduate Research Forum
The next PRF will be held on June 14-16 in Room 456 . Post-graduate students and academics are expected to attend most [but not all] of the talks. Undergraduate students and researchers from outside t.....


27 July 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Brenton Ladd, School of BEES: Life in the N-Dimensional-Hyper-Volume: resource availability and the intensity of biotic interactions. Thursday 27th July at 4.00pm.


03 August 2006 - BEES Seminar
Dr Mark Baird: Why one bay in Chile produces 4% of the world's fish take (and other stories from biological oceanographic modelling). Thursday 3rd August at 4.00pm.


24 August 2006 - Research Discussion
To be led by Professor Mark Adams and Peter Banks on Thursday 24th August in Room 456.


29 August 2006 - Research Discussion
David Cohen, Paul Lennox and Colin Ward will discuss their research activities on Tuesday 29th August in Room 456 at 1.00pm


31 August 2006 - Research Discussion
Alistair Poore, Jes Sammut and Emma Johnston will discuss their research activities on Thursday 31st August in Room 456 at 4.00pm


07 September 2006 - Research Discussion
Iain Suthers and Ray Merton will discuss their research activities on Thursday 7th September in Room 456 at 4.00pm


14 September 2006 - Research Presentation Series
Peter Steinberg and Richard Kingsford will present and discuss their research activities on Thursday 14th September in Room 456 at 4.00pm


21 September 2006 - Research Discussion
Rob Brooks and Simon Griffith will discuss their research activities and initiatives on Thursday 21st September in Room 456 at 4.00pm.


03 October 2006 - BEES Research Discussion
Dr Scott Mooney will present and discuss his research activities on Tuesday 3rd October in Room 456 at 1.00pm.


12 October 2006 - BEES Seminar
Rob Brooks: Politicial Abuses of Evolutionary Biology. Thursday 12th October at 4.00pm in Room 456.


19 October 2006 - Research Discussion
Paul Adam and Steve Bonser will discuss their research activities and initiatives on Thursday 19th October in Room 456 at 4.00pm.


24 October 2006 - Research Discussion
Des Cooper, Karen Firestone and Bill Sherwin will present and discuss their research initiatives on Tuesday 24th October in Room 456 at 1.00pm.


26 October 2006 - Research Discussion
Kevin Dunn and Wendy Shaw will discuss their research activities and initiatives on Thursday 26th October in Room 456 at 4.00pm.


31 October 2006 - BEES Seminar
Rodderick Dewar - Boltzmann’s legacy : how statistical mechanics is bringing new insights to environmental science. Tuesday 31st October at 1.00pm in Room 456.


02 November 2006 - BEES Seminar
Alexei Maklakov: Sexual coevolution and the evolution of lifespan and ageing. Thursday 2nd November in Room 456 at 4.00pm


08 November 2006 - Post Graduate Research Forum
The next Postgraduate Research Forum (PRF) will be held on November 8-10 followed by a lunch-time BBQ on Friday 10 November on the lawn outside the Biological Sciences Building.


16 November 2006 - BEES Seminar
Prof. Chad Brassil: Evolution in ecological models - parasitoid behavior to the tropical diversity gradient. Thursday 16 Nov at 1.00pm in Room 456


27 February 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Tobias Uller: School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong. Sex allocation and maternal effects in lizards. Tuesday 27th February at 1.00pm


06 March 2007 - BEES Seminar
BEES Research Group presentations by Dr Paul Lennox and Dr John Triantafilis. Tuesday 6th March at 1.00pm in Room 456


13 March 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Marjetta Lee Puotinen, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong: Modelling tropical cyclone impacts on coral reefs using GIS. Tuesday 13th March at 1.00pm in Room 456.


20 March 2007 - BEES Seminar
A/Professor Alberto Albani, School of BEES: Foraminifera, facts and fiction. Tuesday 20th March at 1.00pm in Room 456.


27 March 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Moninya Roughan, School of Mathematics, UNSW: Headland circulation and larval recruitment: transport or retention in a wind-driven upwelling region. Tuesday 27th March at 1.00pm in Room 456.


03 April 2007 - BEES Seminar
BEES Research Group presentations by Dr Shawn Laffan and Professor Ross McMurtrie. Tuesday 3rd April at 1.00pm in Room 456.


01 May 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr M. Scott Harris, Associate Professor in Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina, USA: Geologic framework influences on coastal evolution, habitats and development. Tuesday 1st M.....


08 May 2007 - BEES SEMINAR
Dr Bryce Kelly, UNSW Connected Waters Initiative: Interactive Three Dimensional Geological Computer Models for Aquifer Characterisation. Tuesday 8th May at 1.00pm in Room 456.


15 May 2007 - BEES Seminar
Liza Poppert, UNSW Policy Management Unit. Seminar scheduled for Tuesday 15th May has been cancelled.


21 May 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Ian Graham, School of BEES: From the geological evolution of eastern Australia to diamond deposits of SE Kalimantan, via the Kaapvaal Craton of southern Africa. Tuesday 22nd May at 1.00pm in Room 4.....


29 May 2007 - BEES Seminar
Professor Andy Pitman, Centre for Climate Change Research at UNSW: Recent advances in climate models - their development, evaluation and use. Tuesday 29th May at 1.00pm in Room 456.


05 June 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Thomas Rayner, Research Fellow - Waterbirds, Wetlands and Rivers Research Lab: The trophic ecology of the freshwater fishes of an Australian rainforest river. Tuesday 5th June at 1.00pm in Room 456.....


12 June 2007 - Australasian Evolution Society Meeting
The University of NSW will be hosting the next Australasian Evolution Society meeting which will be held from 12-15th June 2007.


10 July 2007 - Society for Conservation Biology
The Australasian Section of the Society for Conservation Biology and the University of New South Wales will host the 'Biodiversity Extinction Crisis Conference - A Pacific Response' at the Biomedical .....


31 July 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Daniel Robinson, BEES: Bioprospecting or biopiracy? Intellectual property issues for biological resources and traditional knowledge - cases from Thailand. To be held on Tuesday 31st July at 1.00pm .....


07 August 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Simon Lailvaux - Postdoctoral Fellow, BEES: Running, jumping, and biting: a functional perspective on the evolution of male combat. Tuesday 7th August at 1.00pm in Room 456.


21 August 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Stephen Wroe: Hi fidelity 3-D computer simulation of feeding behaviour in marsupial and placental carnivores. Tuesday 21st August at 1.00pm in Room 456.


04 September 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Andy Herries: Revised palaeomagnetic chronology and its bearing on palaeo-climate, speciation and extinction of early hominins in South Africa. Tuesday 4th September at 1.00pm in Room 456.


11 September 2007 - BEES Seminar
Dr Kim Jenkins:Vanishing floodplain food webs: how river regulation breaks the chain from carbon to waterbirds. Tuesday 11th September at 1.00pm in Room 456.


19 September 2007 - JJ Frankel Memorial Lecture
‘A new look at an old fuel - can coal survive in the 21st century?’ To be given by Colin Ward, Professorial Visiting Fellow, on Wednesday 19 September 2007 at 6 pm in Biomedical Theatre D at UNSW.


02 October 2007 - BEES Seminar
Professor J. William O. Ballard: Genotype to phenotype - Mitochondria as a mod. Tuesday 2nd October at 1.00pm in Room 456.


10 October 2007 - BEES Seminar
Note new Date and Time: Dr Karen Moreno: Inside the Komodo dragon's head - A story about form, function and behaviour using computational modelling. Wednesday 10th October at 12.00noon in Room 456.


15 November 2007 - Emergent Geographies
The Honours Student Conferences of the Geographical Society of New South Wales aim to showcase honours research undertaken in university geography (and cognate areas) across the State of NSW. The conf.....


05 December 2007 - Evolution and Ecology Research Centre Seminar
The Evolution and Ecology Research Centre is hosting a distinguished visitor, Prof Hanna Kokko, who will present a seminar on Wednesday 5 December, from 4-5pm in Biomed Theatre B.


14 December 2007 - E&ERC Seminars and Awards
The Evolution & Ecology Research Centre will be hosting the first PhD exit seminars, for Rich Melvin (Ballard lab) and Felix Zajitschek (Brooks lab) on Friday 14 December 3-5pm in Bioscience 456.


01 February 2008 - BEES Seminar
Professor Marcelo Sánchez, Assistant Professor of Palaeontology at the University of Zurich: Palaeobiology and exploration for fossil vertebrates in South America. Friday 1st February in Room .....


13 March 2008 - Evolution & Ecology Research Centre Seminar
The Evolution and Ecology Research Centre is presenting a seminar by Dr Jeb Byers from the University of New Hampshire on Thursday 13th March from 4.00pm in Biomed lecture theatre F.


17 April 2008 - Evolution and Ecology Research Centre Seminar
Dr Emma Johnston: Tests of invasibility in marine systems. Thursday 17th April from 4-5pm in Biomed Theatre F.


24 April 2008 - BEES Seminar
Dr Dale Dominey-Howes: 'The Australian Tsunami Warning System - protecting Australia from waves of destruction'. To be held on Thursday 24th April from 4-5pm in Room 456.


01 May 2008 - Evolution and Ecology Research Centre Seminar
Dr Adam Chippindale: 'The Evolutionary Battle of the Sexes: Arms Race or Tug-of-War?'. To be held on Thursday 1st May from 4-5pm in Biomed lecture theatre F.


06 May 2008 - BEES Seminar
DR Peter Cook - Chief Executive Officer, Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Technologies (CO2CRC): 'Carbon Capture and Storage - Current Status' on Tuesday 6th May in Biomed Lecture Theatre B.....


07 May 2008 - Evolution and Ecology Research Centre Seminar
Seminar by Prof. Neil Loneragan of Murdoch University scheduled for 12.00pm has been cancelled.


15 May 2008 - Evolution and Ecology Research Centre Seminar
Dr Michael Gilchrist from the University of Tennessee. Thursday 15th May from 4-5pm in Biomed lecture theatre F.


22 May 2008 - BEES Seminar
Professor Des Cooper: Seminar scheduled for Thursday 22nd May has been postponed!!


29 May 2008 - Evolution and Ecology Research Centre Seminar
Two PhD exit seminars by Dr Susi Zajitschek and Dr Jason Everett. Thursday 29th May from 4-5pm in BioMed Lecture Theatre F.


24 July 2008 - E&ERC Seminar
Karl Vernes - University of New England: 'Livestock predation by large mammalian carnivores in the Kingdom of Bhutan'. To be held on Thursday 24th July from 4-5pm in BioMed Lecture Theatre C.


31 July 2008 - BEES Seminar
Paul Boon - Victoria University, Melbourne: ' Ecology and management of brackish-water wetlands of the Gippsland Lakes '. To be held on Thursday 31st July from 4-5pm in Room 456.


01 August 2008 - E&ERC Seminar
Steve Nicol - Australian Antartic Division: 'Managing a changing Southern Ocean'. To be held on Friday 1st August from 12-1.00pm in BioMed Lecture Theatre A.


07 August 2008 - E&ERC Seminar
Carolyn Hogg - UNSW: Exit Seminar 'Reproductive failure in whales'. To be held on Thursday 7th August from 4-5pm in BioMed Lecture Theatre C.


14 August 2008 - BEES Seminar
Jes Sammut: 'Redevelopment and revitalization of the brackishwater aquaculture industry in Aceh, Indonesia'. To be held on Thursday 14th August from 4-5pm in BioMed Lecture Theatre C .


15 August 2008 - E&ERC Seminar
Gianluca Maio - UNSW: Exit Seminar 'Asymmetrical Dispersal in Simulation Analysis'. To be held on Friday 15th August from 4-5pm in BioMed Lecture Theatre C.


21 August 2008 - E&ERC Seminar
Mark Browne - University of Plymouth: 'The Big Problem of Small Plastic Debris: Biological Consequences of Microplastic in Marine Habitats'. To be held on Thursday 21st August from 4-5pm in BioMed Lec.....


28 August 2008 - BEES Seminar
Scott Mooney - UNSW: 'Fire, humans and climate nexus in eastern Australia'. To be held on Thursday 28th August from 4-5pm in BioMed lecture theatre C.


04 September 2008 - BEES Seminar
Des Cooper - UNSW: 'The genetics of human homosexuality: why two archbishops and the pope are wrong'. To be held on Thursday 4th September from 4-5pm in BioMed lecture theatre C.


11 September 2008 - E&ERC Exit Seminars
Matt Hall and Clare Holleley will present their Exit Seminars on Thursday 11th September from 4-5.30pm in BioMed Lecture Theatre C.


18 September 2008 - E&ERC Exit Seminars
By Graeme Clark and Nicole Hill to be held on Thursday 18th September from 4-5pm in BioMed Lecture Theatre C.


24 September 2008 - JJ FRANKEL MEMORIAL LECTURE
Lindsay Gilligan, Director of the Geological Survey of NSW, will give the JJ Frankel Lecture from 6-7pm on Wednesday 24th September in BioMed Lecture Theatre D.


25 September 2008 - BEES Seminar
Professor Iain Suthers, School of BEES: Are fish racist? Oceanographic causes and biological confirmation of marine populations. Thursday 25th September at 4.00pm in BioMed Theatre C.


09 October 2008 - E&ERC Seminar
Peter Biro - University of Technology, Sydney: 'From individuals to populations: causes and consequences of behavioural variation'. To be held on Thursday 9th October from 4-5pm in BioMed Lecture Thea.....


16 October 2008 - BEES Seminar
Michael Kasumovic UNSW: The big, the small, and the developmentally plastic - examining the evolution of phenotypes using spiders. To be held on Thursday 16th October in BioMed Theatre E from 4-5pm.


23 October 2008 - E&ERC Seminar
Please Note: Seminar scheduled for this Thursday has been postponed until next year.


10 November 2008 - E&ERC Seminar
Professor Des Cooper: Strange sex in kangaroos and genomic imprinting. To be held on Monday 10th November from 4-5pm in BioMed C


14 November 2008 - NHRL Seminar
Barry Eakins - CIRES and NOAA: Development of High-Resolution Coastal Digital Elevation Models: Seamlessly Integrating Bathymetric and Topographic Data in Support of Tsunami Modeling. To be held on Fr.....