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Seminar series


The Schools within the Faculty run a weekly seminar series during semester on a range of research topics.

  1. Agricultural and Resource Economics
  2. Plant Biology

Agricultural and Resource Economics

  • Fridays at 12pm, Agriculture Lecture Theatre (unless otherwise specified)
  • Presenters are members of the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics (unless otherwise specified)
Date PRESENTER TOPIC
 24 JULY  Dr Senthold Asseng, CSIRO & Anne Dray, ANU SimKat: a virtual laboratory to explore climate change scenarios in the Western Australia wheat belt. 
31 july Dr Atakelty Hailu & Jeff Durkin ZANA: integrating economic and hydrologic modelling at the catchment level.
7 august

Christine Kershaw &

Donkor Addai      

Integrating economic methods into natural resource management planning and policy. 

The economics of technological innovation for adaptation to climate change by broadacre farmers in Western Australia.
14 august

Sally Marsh & Dr Donna Brennan

 Survival strategies for small/medium enterprises (SMEs) in the livestock feed sector in Vietnam.
21 august Dr Amin Mugera Technical Efficiency Analysis of Dairy Producers Under Uncertainty: A Fuzz Dea Approach
28 august Dr Markus Gandorfer, Technical University, Munich, Germany Economic Consequences of Climate Change Projections on Winter Wheat Production in Germany.
4 September Dr Chunbo Ma Class, Migration and Environmental Inequality.
11 September Mid Semester Study Break No Seminar
18 September Dr Ram Pandit Corruption and species imperilment: a cross-country analysis.
25 September Dr Markus Gandorfer, Technical University, Munich, Germany Analysing the Effect of Risk on Optimal Tillage and Nitrogen Fertilizer Intensity.
2 october Winthrop Professor, David Pannell The environmental cost of poor prioritisation of environmental projects.
9 october Md. Sayed Iftekhar Linear pricing with advanced learning rule.
16 october

Hoda Gamos & Doc Lap Tran

 

An Economic Analysis of Surveillance and Quality Assurance as Strategies to Maintain Grain Market Access.

Reservoir water management for irrigated agriculture and fishery.
23 OCTOBER  Jananee Raguragavan The value of recreation in Ningaloo.
30 OCTOBER  Tran Cong Thang Optimal investment decisions for coffee growers in Vietnam.
 7 NOVEMBER  Luke Abatania  Improving the performance of Ghanaian agriculture through efficiency analysis and whole-farm modeling.

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Plant Biology

Date Presenter Topic
6 July
 Quintino Araujo
 Linking Soil Quality and Cocoa Quality in Bahia, Brazil
13 July
 Wallace Cowling

Linkage disequilibrium - a paradox of modern plant breeding
 
20 July
 TBA
 TBA
27 July
 Dr John Bartle, DEC
 The state of woody tree cropping in WA
10 August
 Dr Jeannine Lessmann, Marine Science Program, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg
 Effect of fiddler crabs on Florida's white mangrove production

17 August 

 Professor John Pate and Dr Bill Verboom
 Plant Physiology
24 August
 Prof Hans Lambers
 Phosphorus nutrition and growth strategies of plants in the world’s most nutrient-impoverished environments
31 August
 Sheng Chen
7 September
 Grzegorz Skrzypek
14 September
 Michael Renton
  
21 September
 Geoff Fincher (Australasian Plant Phenomics Centre)
28 September
 Chai Tsun Thai 
  
5 October
 Greg Cawthray
  
12 October
 TBA
  
19 October
 Brian Vincent
  
26 October
 Foteini Hassiotou
  
2 November
 Harsh Garg
  
9 November
 Bill Loneragan
  
16 November
 TBA
  

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