2007 Annual Report - Central Queensland University

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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
2007 Centre for Plant & Water Science Annual Report2 nd to 4 th of January 2007.David Midmore attended and was invited to present at CSIRO’s Annual Root/Soil Biology Workshop inCanberra on the 30 th January to 3 rd February 2007.Surya Bhattarai attended and presented at various meetings in Nepal from 2 nd to 27 th February 2007.Kerry Walsh attended a meeting with Zen Automation regarding potential research collaboration/RIPPapplication in Brisbane on the 16 th February 2007.David Midmore attended the AIAST National Event on ‘Education and Agriculture’ in Adelaide on the6 th to 8 th of March 2007.Kerry Walsh visited Thermo Electron Corporation to view FTNIR equipment and attended a meetingwith the Sugar Research Institute in Brisbane on the 13 th to 14 th of March 2007.Sohail Qureshi attended the Silverleaf whitefly management/Insecticide resistance in silverleaf whitefly,management of western flower thrips, management of viruses (TSWV) and CaCV & breeding ofCaCV resistant capsicums and Eggfruit caterpillar and insecticides workshops and visited CSIROregarding training in SLW Management and to discuss data analyses required for research inBundaberg and Brisbane on the 14 th to 18 th March 2007.David Midmore and Surya Bhattarai attended a GRF/RAC meeting and visited QR and oxygationresearch sites in Biloela and Banana on the 19 th to 20 th March 2007.David Midmore attended the Qld Division of AIAST AGM and a meeting with Rooftop ‘First Contact’project stakeholders and visited UQ in Brisbane on the 23 rd and 24 th March 2007.Rebecca Jolley attended meetings with Wasabi Growers and the DPI in Launceston, Tasmania on the26 th to 31 st March 2007.David Midmore, Karuna Shrestha, Din Zahid and Manouchehr Torabi visited ‘Nyang’ research site andmet with research partners/stakeholders in Emerald on the 16 th and 17 th of April 2007.Roshan Subedi and Nanjappa Ashwath met with future research stakeholders/collaborators in Moura onthe 4 th May 2007.Ben Kele attended meetings with Midell Developments Pty Ltd and DNRW in Brisbane on the 26 th June2007.Kartik Venkatraman attended the Applied Modelling of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in theVadose Zone Workshop on HYDRUS at Flinders University in South Australia on the 4 th to 7 th July2007.Surya Bhattarai attended ANSTO meetings in Sydney from the 10 th to 14 th July 2007.Tracey Howkins travelled to Brisbane to visit ENTOX UQ and attended a supervisor’s meeting on the29 th to 30 th of August 2007.Nanjappa Ashwath attended the ‘Qld Young Achievers’ Awards as a panelist on the 22 nd to 23 rd ofSeptember 2007 at the Gold Coast.Kartik Venkatraman travelled to Brisbane on the 22 nd to 23 rd October 2007 to attend and present at theEnvironmental Student Awards.David Midmore and Din Zahid attended a meeting with the Rooftops’ partners; Pacific Bamboo andGympie Forestry Research Institute in Brisbane on the 12 th and 13 th of November 2007.Kerry Walsh travelled to Bacchus Marsh in Victoria to attend a meeting regarding Colour VisionSystems on the 7 th to 9 th of November 2007.Nanjappa Ashwath attended an ARC Landfill meeting and visited the field site in Melbourne from the18 th to 22 nd of November 2007.Nanjappa Ashwath and Kartik Venkatraman attended a CQMRG workshop and various meetings inGladstone on the 29 th and 30 th of November 2007.Vicki Barden attended a Native Plant and Seed meeting with a supplier in Biloela on the 28 th November.Kerry Walsh and Nanjappa Ashwath attended a ‘Resourcing Queensland’ Flagship meeting with HOC-Richard Clegg in Gladstone on the 6 th of December 2007.David Midmore attended a GenStat Workshop in the UK in December, and an Association of AppliedBiologist meeting on “Theoretical population ecology and practical biocontrols – bridging the gap”.10
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