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Upper Mountains Community Events
Saturday 21st August 2010, from 10:30am to 4:00pm
Blackheath Community Centre, Gardners Crescent, Blackheath NSW
Community Fire Forum
The Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute and the Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre invited residents of the upper mountains to a free information forum about bushfire ecology and management in the region, with a focus on:
- Bushfire ecology and how it informs bushfire management
- Bushfire risk management planning
- Climate change implications and preparedness
- Challenges of balancing fire management for the protection of World Heritage
values with protection of human life and property
Fire Forum Collaborators:
- Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute
- NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water (DECCW)
- NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS)
- Rural Fire Service (RFS)
Forum Presenters:
- Professor Ross Bradstock, Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk Management
of Bushfires, University of Wollongong: "Bushfire risk in a changing world: consequences for our local environments"
- Dr Liz Tasker, Fire Ecology Unit, Biodiversity Conservation Science Section, NSW
Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water (DECCW):
“Monitoring fire regimes in the Blue Mountains”
- Mr Glenn Meade, Regional Operations Coordinator Blue Mountains, DECCW
- Inspector Paul McGrath, Blue Mountains region, NSW Rural Fire Service
- Ms Waminda Parker, Hotspots Project, Nature Conservation Council of NSW
Forum Presentations can be viewed by clicking on the images below:
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[ Download Bushfire Forum Flyer ]
Science Showcase
As part of National Science Week 2010, the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute and Blue Mountains Discovery co-hosted Living Science: free presentations on ecological research in the Blue Mountains.
Presentations:
- Dr Rosalie Chapple, Research Fellow, UNSW:
Modelling and managing for ecosystem change in the Blue Mountains
- Fiona Thomson, PhD student UNSW:
How do plants disperse in the Blue Mountains?
- Gilad Bino, PhD student, UNSW:
Predicting mammal distribution based on modelling habitat
- Dr Brad Purcell, Adjunct Fellow UWS:
Feral pig movement and management in the Blue Mountains and The importance of top carnivores around the world and how this can help dingo management in Australia (2 talks)
- Zoe-Joy Newby, PhD student, USYD:
Plant dieback in the Blue Mountains – the role of Phytophthora
Presentations can be viewed by clicking on the images below:
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