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IALE-OZ
NEWSLETTER
ISSUE
3.1 April
2002
EDITORIAL
Welcome
to the first IALE-Oz Newsletter for the year 2002. This issue
provides an update on the progress made towards the 2003 IALE
World Congress, and welcomes our new treasurer, Chris Meakin.
This is also the time of year when memberships come up for renewal.
If you need a new membership form, or wish to update your contact
details, please contact the Membership Secretary, Diane Pearson,
at: dpearson@gis.ntu.edu.auIf
you wish to provide feedback or comments to the editors, or provide
material for future editions of the Newsletter, please contact
either Amy Hahs a.has@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
or Diane Pearson (email provided above).
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Presidents
Report - Update on IALE 2003 Congress
It's now
a little over a year till the World Congress in Darwin. Time is
going quickly, but plans for the congress are well underway. Diane
Pearson has been doing a great job of putting things in place.
The conference logo and theme are shown above, and the new web
pages will be up shortly at http://iale.ntu.edu.au. In addition,
we have appointed Conference Catalysts as conference organisers,
who will be handling most of the congress logistics.
The scientific
program is also shaping up, and we have an interesting collection
of symposia being offered, as indicated in the table. We currently
have several symposia a day but still plenty of room for open
and poster sessions.
Be sure
to keep up to date with developments and make sure to plan to
be in Darwin in July next year. I hope you will consider contributing
a paper and/or helping out at the congress. If you have any ideas
concerning the congress, please don't hesitate to let me or Diane
know.
Finally,
I'd like to introduce our new treasurer for IALE-Oz. Chris Meakin
from the NT Dept of Lands Planning has kindly agreed to take on
the task, and we welcome him to the position.
IALE 2003 Darwin
13th - 17th July
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Title |
Coordinators |
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1.
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Sustainable
Landscapes and Natural Capital: Bridging disciplines, approaches
and applications
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R.
Haines-Young
& M Potschin |
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2.
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Comparative
ecology of cities and towns: Opportunities and limitations
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Mark
McDonnell
& Amy Hahs |
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3.
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The
Roles of Landscape Ecology in National and International Ecological
Assessments - Innovative Approaches and Practical Considerations
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James
Wickham
& Kurt H. Riitters |
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4.
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Landscape,
what's in it? The use of classification and typology for a
sound future management of cultural landscapes + Environmental
Classification and its applications
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Bas
Pedroli
& Teresa Pinto
Rob Jongman
& Bob Bunce |
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5.
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Reciprocal
Interactions Between Herbivores and Landscapes
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Dean
Anderson,
Monica Turner,
James Forester |
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6.
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Spatial
analysis in the 21st century - are we now capable of adequately
quantifying structure and heterogeneity?
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Richard
Aspinall
& Diane Pearson |
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7.
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Landscapes
as resource conserving systems: eco-hydrological interactions
across scales
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John
Ludwig |
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8.
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Global
change and landscape fires
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Sandra
Lavorel
& John Ludwig
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9.
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Studying
landscape change: indicators, assessment and application
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Kalef
Sepp
& Olaf Bastian |
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10.
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Agri-Environmental
schemes as real-world landscape experiments
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Felix
Hertzog |
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11.
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Key
issues and research topics in landscape ecology
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Jianguo
Wu &
Richard Hobbs |
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12.
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Concepts
and management of landscapes by Indigenous communities
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Robert
Taylor |
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13.
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Landscape
ecology between science and society - implementation of landscape
ecological knowledge into local and regional planning
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Uta
Steinhard |
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CHRISTOPHER
MEAKIN - TREASURER
Christopher
Meakin has lived in the Darwin area for the last thirty odd years.
After various career changes, which included nursing and anthropology,
but mostly Horticulture and self employment, he went back to University
(NTU) and gained a B.Sc. (Biological Sciences and GIS). Since
then he has completed a project mapping the forests and woodlands
of the NT for the National Forest Inventory, and is currently
responsible for managing the NT component of the Land Use/Land
Management Mapping Project coordinated by the Bureau of Rural
Sciences. His current interests include web technologies and quantifying
land information uncertainty. As treasurer, he will be drawing
heavily on experiences gained owning and managing a business for
6 years.
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
Savanna Landscapes
in Northern Australia - Fire and Heterogeneity
The Cooperative
Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management and the ARC Key
Centre for Tropical Wildlife Management are holding an important
conference and linked workshops on the management of fire and
its implications for wildlife. The Conference will be held at
the Northern Territory University, Darwin from 8 to 12 July 2002.
The conference
is built around two related themes. The first deals directly with
fire and management practice. It will summarise much of what is
known about fire in savannas, including fire incidence, methods
of measuring and describing fire patterns in space and time, and
the ecological and resource management implications of those patterns.
The second theme will focus more closely on the effects of fire
on wildlife habitats, and in particular the role of fire in maintaining
or damaging wildlife habitat values and implications of the associated
changes in landscape heterogeneity for the dynamics of wildlife
populations.
The insights
of a large number of experienced north Australian researchers
and resource managers will be supplemented by a distinguished
group of international guests, who will help place the north Australian
experience in a global context, by drawing on their knowledge
of recent developments overseas. In addition to the formal presentation
of a wide range of papers, there will be opportunity for less
formal interaction among participants in short workshop sessions.
The goal of these sessions will be to attempt a synthesis of formal
presentations and a statement of their implications for future
research in northern Australia.
For registration
details please go to the WebSite: www.wildlife.ntu.edu.au/activities1.html
or
Fax Julian Gorman on (08) 8946 7088 to have the details sent
to you.
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