School of Geography Seminar Series - Science Matters

School of Geography Seminar Series - Science Matters

Faculty of Science
School of Geography Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2015
Tuesdays, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Theatre 2, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton (except where marked * will be in Room B1.24)
Date
10 March*
B1.24
17 March
24 March
31 March
14 April
21 April
28 April*
B1.24
5 May
12 May
Title of Seminar
Speaker
Professor Ruth Fincher
School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
Ms Ainka Granderson
School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
Professor Michael McCarthy
School of Botany, The University of Melbourne
Mr Anthony Lovell
School of Ecosystem & Forest Science
The University of Melbourne
Mr Ben Iaquinto
School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Mark Burgman
School of Botany, The University of Melbourne
Professor David Karoly
School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Andrew J. Elmore
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Dr Rachel Hughes
School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
Dr Godfrey Yeung
19 May
26 May
Melbourne-Asia Visiting Fellow
Department of Geography, National University of
Singapore
Professor Mark Wang
School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
Making a home in the city of difference
PhD Completion Seminar:
Negotiating the future: meanings and politics in planning
climate change adaptation in rural Vanuatu
Optimizing searches of weeds and invasive species across
landscapes
PhD Completion Seminar:
Implications of cryptic diversity and phylogenetic
structuring in atyid shrimp of the urban streams of
Melbourne
PhD Completion Seminar:
Backpacking in an Unsustainable World: the places and
practices of mobile people
Scientific judgement
Climate change is a people problem, not a science
problem
Groundwater, Desert Ecosystems, and Global Dust
The Cambodian diaspora, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and
the 'transitional justice imaginary’
Chinese state-owned commercial banks in reform:
Inefficient and yet functional?
What causes land acquisition conflict in suburban China?
Enquiries:
Michael-Shawn Fletcher 9035 3048 msfl@unimelb.edu.au
Full program, abstracts, bios & updates: https://science.unimelb.edu.au/events