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Title: Applied Ecology


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Applied Ecology
  • Putting Ecology to Work in Natural Resource
    Management

2
Goals
Research
Improved understanding of ecology as a basis for
decision-making in natural resource management

3
Research Indicators
4
Goals
Postgraduate Education
Full integration of postgraduate programs with
research and consultancy activities

5
Postgrad Indicators
6
Goals
Make a Difference
Add real value to resource management agencies,
via contract research, influencing views on best
practice, contributing to the knowledge base and
frameworks in support of effective
decision-making

7
Making a Difference
Influence policy and decision-making on a broad
range of fronts
  • Environment Advisory Committee
  • Nature Conservation and Namadgi Sub-committee
  • Rural Conservation Trust
  • Flora and Fauna Committee
  • State of Environment Reporting
  • Endangered Species Recovery Teams
  • Agriculture, wildlife and fisheries advisory
    panels
  • IUCN Specialist Groups
  • World Commission on Protected Areas

8
Modus Operandi
  • Committed to broad enquiry, but with a sharp eye
    out for downstream applications

9
StrategicResearch
  • Native Grassland distribution and composition
    Williams and Sharp
  • Diet of the Striped Legless Lizard Georges,
    Osborne and Nunan
  • Ecology and distribution of the earless dragon
    Osborne, Langston, Button and Kelly
  • Distribution of the pink-tailed legless lizard
    Osborne, Williams and Jones
  • Germination of native grasses Williams and
    Reyenga
  • Tree-native pasture interactions Williams,
    Rehwinkel, Wallace, Katjiua

10
StrategicResearch
ACT PALM
Reputation
  • Wildlife Survey Techniques for Ecological
    Assessment
  • Conservation Strategies for each of Forest,
    Woodland, Grassland, Riverine, and Riparian
    Ecosystems

11
StrategicResearch
ACT PALM
Reputation
  • Principles and strategic options for native
    grasslands and threatened fauna in Gungahlin

ACT PCSdata
ACT PALMproblem
AERGanalysis
12
StrategicResearch
ACTEW
Reputation
  • Conservation of the endangered pink-tailed
    legless lizard with special reference to Lower
    Molonglo

ACT PCSmanagement
ACTEWproblem
AERGscience
13
StrategicResearch
ACT PALM
Environment ACT
ACTEW
Contract research and consultancy, influencing
best practice, supporting effective
decision-making
Reputation
Adding real value to natural resource management
14
Key elements
  • Commitment to broad enquiry as a foundation for
    application
  • Multi-disciplinary base
  • Outward-looking ethos
  • Integration of postgraduates at all levels

15
Postgraduates
  • Sarah Sharp -- Grasslands Officer, Environment
    ACT
  • Rainer Rehwinkel -- Grasslands Officer, NSW NPWS
  • Art Langston -- Experimental Scientist with CSIRO
    Wildlife and Ecology
  • Simon Holloway -- Project Officer with AGRECON
  • Penny Reyenga -- Research Officer, BRS
  • Wayne Robinson -- Lecturer in Biostatistics,
    Charles Sturt University
  • Sandra Jones -- Lecturer in Wildlife Biology,
    University of Melbourne
  • Mutjinde Katjiua -- Lecturer in Rangelands
    Management, University of Namibia
  • Donna Nunan -- PhD Candidate, Australian National
    University

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Key elements
  • Commitment to broad enquiry as a foundation for
    application
  • Multi-disciplinary base
  • Outward-looking ethos
  • Integration of postgraduates at all levels
  • Reputation for delivering knowledge in the
    context of immediate application

17
Other examples
  • Population modelling on-ground management of
    vertebrate pests
  • Trace metals managing estuaries
  • Fluvial processes managing freshwaters
  • TSD in reptiles setting environmental flows

18
Challenges
Research
  • Build our research profile while maintaining a
    balance between research of strategic value and
    research linked to immediate application.

19
Challenges
Application
  • Be more proactive in finding opportunities to
    capitalise on the new knowledge we generate and
    on our expertise.

20
Challenges
Partnerships
  • Strengthen strategic alliances with other
    organisations and individuals with complementary
    facilities and capacity.

21
Challenges
Education
  • Broaden the experience of postgraduate research
    students to include exposure to a range of
    perspectives and research cultures.

22
Challenges
Reputation
  • Actively promote our capabilities and
    achievements as a multidisciplinary research
    group to increase the opportunities placed
    before us.

23
Challenges
Autonomy
  • Strengthen our position as a well-funded centre,
    to achieve a higher level of autonomy in both
    research and postgraduate education.

24
StrategicResearch
Environment ACT
Reputation
  • Specific advice on the very fast train proposal
    and Canberra airport.
  • Recovery planning for endangered grassland
    species.
  • Advice on policy formulation through advisory
    bodies.
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