Many of you have expressed an interest in
attending the Savanna Futures Forum, to be held in Darwin on 28
February 2008. While there is no registration fee we do need to
know numbers for catering purposes, so can I ask anyone who plans
to attend to download the simple registration form from www.savanna.cdu.edu.au/news/crc_meetings.html
and return it to David Garnett either by email or fax. The agenda
is also included with the registration form.
David Garnett, PhD
CEO Tropical Savannas CRC
SAVANNA FUTURES FORUM AGENDA
- 8 am Registration
- 8.30 am Welcome — David Garnett
SESSION 1 - OVERVIEW/LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY AND HEALTH (Chair:David
Garnett)
- 8.50 am Achieving a sustainable future for Australia's
savannas: lessons from a decade of cooperative research
— Dr John Ludwig
- 9.10 Savanna carbon dynamics — Dr Dick
Williams
- 9.30 Closing the gate after the grass has bolted:
research to improve future weed management and policy
— Drs Michael Douglas and Samantha
Setterfield
- 9.50 Drivers of landscape change — Aaron
Petty*
- 10.10 Panel discussion
- 10.40 Morning tea
SESSION 2 - INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY NRM (Chair: Dr Paul
Novelly)
- 11.00 Is Heffernan right? What is the real potential for
pastoral and agricultural development in North Australia?
— Drs Neil MacDonald, Robyn Cowley and Steve
Petty
- 11.20 Fire management — Dr Jeremy
Russell-Smith
- 11.40 Monitoring and managing biodiversity —
Dr John Woinarski
- 12.00 Talking turkey about future conservation
directions: how to cater for dispersive species in a dynamic
landscape — Dr Mark Ziembicki*
- 12.20 Panel discussion
12:50 LUNCH AND BOOK LAUNCH: Future options for north
Australia by Prof. Stephen Garnett, Dr John Woinarski, Prof.
Rolf Gerritsen and Dr Gordon Duff
SESSION 3 - REGIONAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT (Chair: Dr Peter
Whitehead)
- 13.50 Outback livelihoods: continuing
conundrums— Prof. Rolf Gerritsen
- 14.10 Lessons from Ngukurr, the wrong side of the Roper
— Eva McRae-Williams*
- 14.30 What does savanna regional natural resource
management deliver? How do we know? — Cathy
Robinson
- 14.50 Enhancing community benefits from regional
development: it's not just what you do but how you do it —
Dr Natalie Stoeckl and Prof. Owen Stanley
- 15.10 Panel discussion
- 15.40 Afternoon tea
SESSION 4 - HUMAN CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT (Chair: Prof.
Stephen Garnett)
- 16.00 Job Done? Is Indigenous capacity done?
— Joe Morrison
- 16.20 Indigenous management of turtles and dugongs in
northern Australia — Dr Rod Kennett
- 16.40 Talk about a walkabout: pathways and potholes for
savanna knowledge in schools — Julie
Crough
- 17.00 There's more where that came from: future
directions for NRM Information Tools in northern Australia
— Dr Peter Jacklyn
- 17.20 Panel discussion and summary
17.50 onwards - Drinks, barbecue and further in-depth
discussion.
* Current or past student supported by the Tropical Savannas
CRC
