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Archive

Feb 2010	Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Taxonomic Workshop 9-10 February 2010, La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga Campus Everything you ever wanted to know about mayflies (Ephemeroptera) Nymphs: Keys to the Baetidae including the still water genera Centroptilum and Cloeon. Adults: Key to the genera of Australian mayflies and Keys to the hydraenids (Coleoptera Hydraenidae). Workshop details [external link] 'Scientists seek key to ID mayflies' The Border Mail, 11 February 2010 [pdf]

Nov 2009	Lucid Workshop 3-4 November 2009, Brisbane TRIN participants, with a range of Lucid and key building experience, attended a 2 day workshop on Lucid 3.5. The new features of Lucid 3.5 were demonstrated and lots of questions answered. It was a great hands on couple of days and a good opportunity to talk with other users and share their experiences.
Sept 2009	Darwin200 Conference 25-28 September 2009, Darwin Website --- TRIN at Floriade 18-20 September 2009, Canberra --- CERF Conference 5-16 September 2009, Canberra --- THE BACKBONE OF BIODIVERSITY Taxonomy in conservation, policy and science (Public Forum) 1 September 2009, Canberra Taxonomy provides the basis for identifying and monitoring Australia’s biodiversity and the strength to make the right decisions to conserve it. Join three speakers from around Australia who require taxonomy in their everyday work, plus a panel of biodiversity experts, to discuss how taxonomy informs environmental policy development, decision-making and natural resource management. The science of conservation Dr Stephen van Leeuwen, Program Leader Biogeography, Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia) Restoring woodland biodiversity Dr Adrian Manning, Research Fellow, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Informed decision-making Dr David Keith, Research Scientist, NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water The Forum will be chaired by Mr Gerard Early, Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Following discussions with speakers and the panel, the Forum will be open to questions from the audience. Refreshments will follow to allow the audience to meet the speakers. [POSTER pdf] Organised by TRIN and the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research.
July 2009	CERF Hub Presentations 7 July 2009, Canberra [read flyer for more details]
April 2009	TRIN Second Annual Research Forum 15-17 April 2009, Murramarang Resort at South Durras, NSW TRIN's Second Annual Forum was a great success. We covered a lot of ground and the interactions between TRIN participants and with collaborators and end users was particularly pleasing. We have some challenges ahead – and for most we have identified some ways forward. [read full report]
Feb 2009	Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Taxonomic Workshop 10-11 February 2009, La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga Campus Workshop details
Nov 2008	"Filling in the Fauna" Landscape-scale ecological restoration through re-introduction of locally extinct and rare native fauna 11 November 2008, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Gunghalin ACT The workshop was well attended by members of ACT and NSW government conservation agencies, non-government conservation bodies, and other parties involved in breeding and re-introducing fauna. Attendees were spoken to about the scale of faunal loss in NSW, and strategies that have been successfully employed, and are proposed to be employed to rectify some past losses and prevent looming losses. This was followed by two workshops aimed at outlining a strategy for increasing the role of re-introductions in conservation management. One day was always too short a time to gain resolution or form any grand strategies to increase the conservation potential of NSW habitats for fauna. However, the day formed an important step in the review process of the translocation policy for fauna in NSW, and allowed network development between managers of varied tenures. A proceedings document will be produced, and a number of important topics arising from the days discussions will shortly be placed on a website for further discussion. Further information see: 4.1: Investigation of the 'original' mammal fauna of eastern and southern Australia
Oct 2008	International Annual TDWG Conference 19-24 October 2008, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle WA Members of the Biodiversity Informatics Project gave a paper addressing the social issues affecting compliance with biodiversity data standards. The program, presentations and posters presented at the conference are available on the TDWG website. Members of the Project also attended the Faunal Collections Information Group and Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections meetings immediately prior to TDWG and the Herbarium Information Systems Committee meeting immediately after TDWG. --- Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference 28 September - 2 October 2008, Adelaide SA Members of the Biodiversity Informatics Project attended the ASBS Conference, where they presented the interim results of the analysis of taxonomic workflow and running a workshop to collect more data towards the analysis.
July 2008	National Postgraduate Training Workshop in Systematics 21-25 July 2008, The University of Adelaide, SA This workshop is designed for Ph.D. students and will include advanced level training in phylogenetic methods, mapping and GIS overlay, interactive key development, imaging techniques, nomenclature, databases, publishing results, finding a job, and much more. Workshop Information \| Flyer \| Website
April 2008	National Taxonomy Research Hub Annual Forum and Workshop 28-29 April 2008, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Gungahlin, ACT Hub participants from across the country met in Canberra for the first Annual Forum and Workshop. The breadth of research undertaken by the Hub was recognised from population genetics, through revisionary systematics, DNA barcoding, molecular phylogenetics, to phylogenomics. [read full report] --- National Taxonomy Research Hub Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop 8 April 2008, Australian National Herbarium, CSIRO Plant Industry, Black Mountain ACT Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and their project leaders met with Informatics and Communications & Knowledge Exchange teams to discuss what the hub is about and how the ECRs connect as part of it. Each ECR gave a brief summary of their research including how it will contribute to systematics and provide environmental benefits. The Informatics team presented where we are now and where we hope to be. Communication across projects was also discussed as well as the hub website and the benefits of using wikis for groups like this. The outcomes were positive, all learning from each other, having similar problems, able to share ideas, keen on idea of the wiki to facilitate collaboration between and across projects.