2024 Seminar Series

HIE seminar series – 2024

Dr Tegan Brown from the Victorian Country Fire Authority (CFA) presented “Quantifying the physical and chemical drivers of seasonal variability in live fuel moisture content”.
Andrew Redman from Perfection Fresh Australia presented “Quality assurance as the key to horticulture sustainability”.
Dr Dan Dixon from University of California, Davis presented “Detecting canopy-scale tree mortality and survival from California wildfires with CubeSat image time series”.
Dr Michael Calonje from the Montgomery Botanical Center, Florida presented “Cycad Research and Conservation at Montgomery Botanical Center.”
Dr. Robert Kooyman, Honorary Research Fellow at Macquarie University presented “Deep-time history shapes contemporary dynamics in the Australian Rainforests.”
Dr. Sam England from Naturkunde, Berlin Germany presented “The ecology of electricity: pollination, parasitism, predator-prey interactions”.
*Dr. Demi Sargent from HIE, WSU presented “Unravelling the components of mesophyll conductance in Gossypium sp. to improve tolerance to heat and drought stress”.
Dr. Gunnar Keppel from the University of South Australia presented “Dieback in eucalypts: understanding and managing the decline in South Australia’s iconic stringybarks”.
Dr. Ben Long from Newcastle University presented “The future of photosynthesis”.
Dr Julia Cooke from The Open University (UK) presented “Plant silicon: costs and benefits”.

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