LitFuse

The South Australian Murray Darling Basin Natural Resources Management (SAMDB NRM) Board hosted a Regional Science Forum on 29 November 2007 to showcase research undertaken in the region to staff from the Board, scientists, Board members and community members.

The event was co-sponsored by the SAMDB NRM Board and the Centre for Natural Resource Science.

The common themes of the day were for investors in environmental and natural resources management to form strong partnerships between researchers and planners/policy makers, to invest in long term monitoring and to focus investment where it is likely to achieve greatest outcomes for the environment, economy and community.

Photos of the event are tagged ’samdbrsf’.

Podcasts are available for each of the speakers by subscribing to http://feeds.litfuse.com.au/litfuse in i-Tunes or equivalent, or by clicking on the individual blogs below and downloading the mp3 files one by one:

• David Wotton (SAMDB NRM Board), Welcome and introduction
• Lynette Crocker, Welcome to Country
• Wayne Meyer (University of Adelaide), The place, role and future of NRM: reflections on South Australia’s progress relative to other world experience
• Stephanie Williams (DWLBC), Natural Resource Management Research Alliance
• Qifeng Ye (SARDI), Influences of salinity and water quality on the recruitment dynamics of fishes in the Lower River Murray
• Dan Rogers (University of Adelaide), Coorong Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Ecology: Aquatic birds of the Coorong; spatial and temporal patterns
• Kate Holland (CSIRO), Response of the River Murray floodplain to flooding and groundwater management
• Stuart Pillman (DEH), Biological survey
• David Paton (University of Adelaide), Fire impacts in Ngarkat
• Brian Deegan (University of Adelaide), Coorong Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Ecology: Productivity and tropho-dynamics of the Coorong Lagoons,
• Russell Crosbie (CSIRO), Surface Water – Groundwater interactions in River Murray wetlands and implications for water quality and ecology
• Mark Lethbridge (Flinders University), Identifying high value areas for revegetation
• Damian Pearce (DWLBC), River Murray Forest Project
• Mardi van der Wielen (SAMDB NRM Board), Identify ecological responses to environmental flows in the EMLR
• Tapas Biswas (SARDI), Salinity impact on Lower Murray horticulture Stage 3: Application and knowledge transfer of DEP15 outcomes
• Rob Stevens (SARDI), Managing horticultural production under a more saline environment
• Brett Bryan (CSIRO), Lower Murray Landscape Futures
• Ross Ballard (SARDI), Mallee dryland grazing systems – Lucerne and new perennial legumes
• Mike Bennell (DWLBC), Development of multi-product biomass industries for South Australia
• Holger Maier (University of Adelaide), Sensitivity analysis of models used to predict the effects of policy decisions on salinity levels in the River Murray
• Peter Hayman (SARDI), Understanding and managing the impact of seasonal variability on the South Australian Murray Darling Basin economy, ecology and social structures
• Jeff Connor (CSIRO), Assessment of Market Based Instruments in SAMDB NRM region
• Anne Morgan (O’Connor NRM), Assessment of biodiversity auctions

This blog was written by Paul Dalby