Applied Environmental Decision Analysis (AEDA) Research Facility

UP & COMING …

2010

18 July 2010

Introduction to and applications of the systematic conservation planning software, Marxan and Marxan with Zones - July 18, 2010, Bali Indonesia.

Instructors: Hugh Possingham (h.possingham@uq.edu.au), Carissa Klein (c.klein@uq.edu.au)

Description

We will hold a 1-day short course to introduce the Marxan software, its new developments, and novel applications applied to tropical marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Marxan is now the most widely used conservation planning software in the world and is available from http://www.uq.edu.au/marxan for free. It was used to rezone the Great Barrier Reef, the single biggest implemented systematic conservation plan in the world, and has users in 100 countries from hundreds of agencies.

The exact location of the meeting is still to be determiend but will be near Sanur. Exact times and a schedule will be posted on this web site closer to the date. The course will be free but limited to 30-40 people, depending on room size.

FULL DETAILS AND REGISTRATION OF YOUR INTEREST HERE

28 January

AEDA Communication Day

In January 2010 AEDA researchers met with DEWHA staff in Canberra to present and discuss AEDA's work since it's inception in 2007, and to discuss possible future research directions. Eight main areas were covered (see below), with time equally divided between AEDA's presentation, and discussion with DEWHA staff present.

It was an exciting day, with excellent attendance and some great discussions. All powerpoint presentations and reference papers discussed area availalbe at http://www.aeda.edu.au/DEWHA-Presentations

Start	Description	Speakers
8:00	Coffee
8:30	Long-term monitoring	David Lindenmayer
9:30	Optimal monitoring and return on investment	Brendan Wintle
10:30	Strategic Landscape Planning	Kirsten Parris
11:30	Trade-offs between CAR and Threatened species management for NFRS future acquisitions	Richard Fuller
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Fire: Methods for resolving conflicting objectives and the capacity of research to support fire management decisions	Don Driscoll
14:30	Conservation in a carbon trading world	Oscar Venter
15:30	Project Prioritization Protocol	Liana Joseph
16:30	Marxan with Zones and other Marxan advances	Matt Watts & Carissa Klein
17:30	Finish

PAST WORKSHOPS

2009
Friday 11 September 09	UQ & AEDA at the Brisbane Writers Festival Professor Hugh Possingham, Dr James Watson and Mr Oscar Ventor, discussing "Tropical Forests on the Brink"
	Coral Triangle - Interests in Conservation & Planning
June 2009	Decision Theory for Conservation Biology: Theory, examples, techniques and practice - Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Sweden
March	Fenner Conference on the Environment - the Art and Science of Good Environmental Decision-Making
2008
November	Introductory and advanced Marxan courses were held in Brisbane during November 2008. Full details of the courses, manuals, exercises and Marxan software downloads are available at www.uq.edu.au/marxan
October	Multispecies Management Workshop, Brisbane, Queensland
September	CERF Conference 2008 Info-Gap Applications in Ecological Decision Making (5 Day workshop with Prof. Yakov Ben-Haim) Brisbane.
August	Coastal-Marine EBM Tools Training for Pacific Practitioners - presenters Prof. Bob Pressey, Ms Carissa Klein & Mr Matt Watts among others Presentation on an Integrated Land-Sea Planning Toolkit and its use in Aransas County, Texas, by Kiersten Madden of the Mission-Aransas NERR, Amy Anderson of Placeways, and Ian Varley of NatureServe (September 22, 2009). In this project, three decision-support tools (Placeways’ CommunityViz, NatureServe Vista, and NOAA’s Nonpoint-Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool) were used in an integrated manner to develop alternative land use strategies that best meet ecological and socioeconomic sustainability objectives, including water quality and estuarine-marine resource objectives, for Aransas County, Texas, Aransas County is a coastal county that supports a healthy estuary with diverse and rare habitats. The county is experiencing rapid population growth, and the community is interested in protecting the quality of life, natural resources, and water quality. This presentation described the project context, how the local community is involved in use of the toolkit, and methods for using the tools in an integrated manner. A final product of the project is a toolkit that can be transferable to other locations and implementation guide. This project was funded in part as an EBM Tool Demonstration Project by the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. Download the recording of the presentation [Windows Media .wmv format]. If you are unable to download the recording, please contact us.
July	Introducing Marxan Training, Broome, Western Australia Marxan Introductory Course, BRISBANE, Queensland Market Based Instruments for Managing the Environment, Melbourne, Dr Sarah Bekessy, RMIT
June	Offsets, EPBAC and Threatened Species, Canberra ACT
May	Patch Dynamics & Conservation Planning, North Queensland Systematic Spatial Prioritisation, Assessment & Planning, Brisbane, Australia
March	Baysian Statistics for Ecologists & Environmental Management, Dr Mike McCarthy, Uni Melb Value and Impact of Ecological Field Research, Victoria, Dr Kirsten Parris
February	Climate Change & Biodiversity - Adaption in an Australian Context, Melbourne, Victoria AEDA Melbourne Node Launch, Melbourne Science & Policy, Communication Issues - Melbourne, Victoria
January	Marine conservation workshop - Orpheus Island
2007
November	Marxan & MARZONE Training, Perth, W.A. Introducing Marxan Training, Brisbane, Queensland. Science Communication Workshop - Brisbane.
September	NRM Prioritization Workshop, Perth, Western Australia. - full information
August	Optimal and Robust Monitoring for Conservation and Natural Resource - full information Info-Gap Theory and Its Applications in Biological Conservation at the University of Melbourne - full information
July	Systematic Conservation Planning workshop, conducted prior to the Society for Conservation Biology Annual conference (SCB2007) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa - full information
June	Restoration Ecology Workshop, Adelaide Systematic Conservation is Not Just Planning (workshop), Sydney - full information
May	Landscape Restoration Mini Workshop - full information MARZONE Training Course - full information Environmental And Human Land-Use Variables Associated With Animal Movement In Urbanized Areas full information Systematic Spatial Prioritisation Workshop, Bardon, Brisbane - full information Optimising Threatened Species project in conjunction with the Department of Conservation, New Zealand (DOC NZ) full information
April	Marxan 101 Introductory Training Course full information
February	A Pelagic Conservation Planning workshop full information
January	Jervis Bay Development meeting full information

2006

23 November

Decision Support Systems - Practitioner Workshop - full information