2007 Annual Report - Central Queensland University

2007 Centre for Plant & Water Science Annual ReportThe influence of the Centre is also indexed by the extent of involvement by Centre personnel in offcampusevents (Table 6).Table 6. Presentations at Meetings, Seminars, Conferences, Workshops and Other EventsConferences at which presentations givenSurya Bhattarai attended and presented at the Third International Groundwater Conference in India onthe 7 th to 10 th February 2007.Nanjappa Ashwath presented a paper at the Biotechnology BIOAAROHAN 2007 Conference andvisited potential collaborators at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore on the 14 th to 26 thof February 2007 in India.David Midmore presented an invited paper at the Green Roofs for Australia Conference in Brisbane onthe 22 nd and 23 rd of February 2007.Ben Kele attended and presented at the Ozwater 2007 Convention and Exhibition in Sydney on the 3 rd to9 th March 2007.Ben Kele presented two papers, one invited, at SA AEEH Conference and conducted a field trip withICEWARM students in Adelaide on the 16 th to 20 th of April 2007.Nanjappa Ashwath was an invited speaker at “Phytocapping of Landfills: A Rockhampton Experience.”WasteQ Conference in Gold Coast on the 3 rd to 6 th of June 2007.Kerry Walsh attended and presented at the NIR 2007 and visited possible French funding collaboratorson the 9 th to 24 th of June 2007 in Umea, Sweden and France.Ben Kele and Ross Percival attended and Ben was invited to present at the National SCADA Conferencein Melbourne on the 19 th to 22 nd June 2007.David Midmore and Brett Roe attended and presented an invited paper at ‘Moraitis Hydroponics 2007’Australian Hydroponic and Greenhouse Industry National Conference in Launceston on the 24 th to27 th of June 2007.Nanjappa Ashwath and Tracey Howkins attended and presented at the CI meeting, AINSE conferenceheld at AIMS in Townsville on the 12 th to 13 th July 2007.David Midmore gave a seminar to the School of Marine and Tropical Biology, JCU in July 2007.Nanjappa Ashwath was the invited Keynote speaker at the Australian Forest Growers Meeting on 11 thAugust 2007.David Midmore attended and presented at ‘Growing smarter with less water’ AuSHS/NZHS conferenceand attended IHC meetings in Christchurch from the 9 th to 17 th of August 2007.David Midmore Manouchehr Torabi and Din Zahid presented at the Australian National Committee onIrrigation and Drainage Conference 2007 in Bundaberg from the 19 th to 21 st of August 2007.Kerry Walsh and Phul Subedi presented at the 2007 Australasian Postharvest Conference in Terringal,NSW from the 8 th to 13 th of September 2007.Ben Kele, Ross Percival, Jordie Bembridge and Donna Hobbs attended the On-Site 2007 Conferenceand trade exhibitor in Armidale from the 22 nd to 30 th of September. Ben Kele was invited to give aKeynote Address.Din Zahid attended and presented a poster presentation at ECOFIZZ 2007 Conference in Sydney from25 th of September to 1 st of October 2007.Nanjappa Ashwath attended the ECOFIZZ 2007 Conference from the 26 th to 29 th of September 2007 inSydney.Sohail Qureshi and Shamsa Syeda attended the 3rd ICCE 2007 Conference in Kuwait from the 15 th to25 th November 2007.Dixie Nott attended the Ecological Society ‘Adapting to Change’ Conference and visited the MurdochUniversity for Research in Perth on the 21 st to 27 th November 2007.Subhash Hathurusingha attended and presented at the International Forestry and EnvironmentSymposium 2007 Conference in Sri Lanka from the 4 th November to 5 th December 2007.Meetings, Seminars, Workshops and Other Events AttendedAndrew Rank, Julie Rank, Peter Hicks and Grant Zhu attended a Stevia meeting in Rockhampton on the9