2025 Seminar Series

Date Speaker Institution Presentation title
Feb-04 Professor Richard Betts Met Office Hadley Centre /
University of Exeter
Earth system models and global climate policy questions:
How can FACE experiments help assess and improve
confidence in projections?AmazonFACE: A large-scale Free-Air CO2 Enrichment experiment in the Amazon rainforest
Doctor Anja Rammig Technical University of Munich AmazonFACE: A large-scale Free-Air CO2 Enrichment experiment in the Amazon rainforest
Feb-25 Doctor Iliane Matos Plant Ecophysiology Lab Linking the form and function of leaf venation networks
Mar-04 Doctor Mirindi Eric Dusenge The Australian National University Research School of Biology Acclimation of photosynthesis and leaf respiration to warming and elevated CO2: Results from experimental field studies in boreal and tropical regions
Mar-11 Doctor Eamonn Wooster Gulbali Institute
Charles Sturt University
Predator-prey interactions in the Anthropocene
Mar-18 NO SEMINAR
Mar-25 Doctor Orpheus Butler Griffith University Nutritional physiology of soil microorganisms: Recent advances and implications for long-term ecosystem development
Apr-01 Professor Peter Reich WSU / U Minnesota From plant traits to biodiversity-ecosystem function to climate mitigation and justice: A journey across scales, disciplines and domains
Apr-08 Doctor Dat Pham Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN) Leveraging AI solutions for quantifying carbon from space in the Asia-Pacific region
Apr-15 No Seminar
Apr-22 No Seminar
Apr-29 Doctor James Risbey and Doctor Tess Parker CSIRO Large ensemble assessment of weather and climate extremes and Drought in Australia
May-06 Doctor Maeghan Jenkins

Doctor James Barker
NSW Rural Fire Service

DCCEEW Applied Bushfire Science Program
The Australian fire danger rating system: improving the system for the future

A collaborative approach to applying fire intervals
May-13 Doctor Noriko Kanai


Associate Professor Ben Moore
Western Sydney University School of Science

Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Exploring magnetic resonance techniques in studies of plant-derived natural fibres

What exactly are plant cell walls made of and why does it matter?
May-20 Professor Brad Ripley The Rhodes University Elevated CO2 Facility The role of increasing atmospheric CO2 in woody encroachment: an experimental approach
May-25 Doctor Eddie Brzostek West Virginia University The long and winding road towards integrating plant-microbial interactions into ecosystem models
May-29 Doctor Jenny Bhatnagar Boston University The extraordinary capabilities of fungi and how we are changing them
Jun-03 Doctor Thomas Jeffries Western Sydney University The 1900 Sydney plague pandemic: environment and outrage
Jun-04 Doctor Caitlin Moore The University of Western Australia Measuring biophysical change in our native and managed ecosystems
Jun-10 Professor Jim Whelan From molecular to macro-phenotyping to provide new knowledge for plant breeding