Social license seminar series: environmental impacts of Australian agriculture
Date
8 October 2019
Time and Venues
Venues |
Local Time |
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Adelaide Waite Campus – B101-FG-R00-SmallWICWest |
12:00 pm |
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Armidale – B55-FG-R00-Small |
12:30 pm |
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Bribie Island – B01-FG-Small |
11:30 pm |
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Brisbane St Lucia QBP – Room 3.323 |
11:30 pm |
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Canberra Black Mountain – Discovery Lecture Theatre |
12:30 pm |
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Irymple (See Natalie Strickland) |
12:30 pm |
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Narrabri – Conference Room |
12:30 pm |
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Perth Floreat B46-F2-R22 Leeuwin Conference Room |
09:30 am |
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Sandy Bay (Hobart) – B2-F1-R24 River View Room |
12:30 pm |
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Toowoomba – Media Lab Room |
11:30 pm |
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Townsville (see Liz Do) |
11:30 pm |
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Werribee (Melbourne) – B01-FG-R02 |
12:30 pm |
Ed Charmley, Townsville – Environmental impacts of livestock production
Ed comes from a farming background in the UK and received his Bachelors from Aberdeen University and a PhD from The Grassland Research Institute near Reading. After emigrating to Canada he specialized in forage utilization from both grazed and conserved herbage. His particular interests lay in optimizing forage use in the diet with animal performance and beef quality.
For the last 14 years, Ed has worked for CSIRO in northern Australia where he has focused on beef production in extensive, sub-tropical rangelands and savannas. He is based in Townsville. His current research activities lie in the use of technology to record hard to measure animal and environmental variables in the field and understanding livestock methane emissions from extensive grazing systems. He has published widely in the scientific and farming press and manages a broad portfolio of livestock research within the CSIRO Agriculture and Food business unit.
Peter Hunt, Armidale – HalveChem: reducing chemical use in agriculture
Peter is a team leader in Armidale, with expertise in molecular biology, including DNA technology and genetics. He has applied these skills to study plants and animals, parasites and their hosts; addressing both basic and applied scientific questions.
Peter is currently involved in research to develop ways of more efficiently managing livestock diseases and more effectively and comprehensively monitor disease organisms. Together, these approaches will enable more effective control of these parasites and less reliance on chemicals for their control.