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Boom and Bust symposium

Boom and Bust: Bird stories for a dry country

Monday 12 November, 10am – 4.30pm
Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia
Free
Tea and coffee provided
Bookings essential on (02) 6208 5021.

This symposium considers the relationship between fauna, people and the environment, through stories about the ways individual bird species have responded to human-induced change. Some populations have boomed, others have busted – and some work opportunistically with the boom and bust ecology of the land itself.

Program

9.15am	Preliminary tea and coffee
Morning session	MC: Dr Libby Robin, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
10am	Welcome and outline of the principles of the symposium and the proposed book Dr Libby Robin, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
10.05am	Boom and Bust: The pulse of desert Australia Dr Mike Smith, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia
10.20am	Galah Keynote: Professor Bill Gammage, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
11.10am	Morning tea
11.30am	Night parrot Dr Penny Olsen, Botany and Zoology, Australian National University
12 noon	White-winged chough Associate Professor Rob Heinsohn, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
12.30pm	Zebra finch Short presentation by Steve Morton, CSIRO Alice Springs
12.40-1.30pm	Lunch
Afternoon session	MC: Associate Professor Rob Heinsohn, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
1.30pm	Woodswallow Dr Leo Joseph, Director, Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO
2pm	Channel-billed cuckoo Dr Deborah Rose, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
2.30pm	Grey teal Short presentation by David Roshier, Charles Sturt University, Albury
2.40pm	Afternoon tea
3pm	Pelican Julian Reid, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
3.30pm	Genyornis Dr Mike Smith, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia
4pm	Emu Dr Libby Robin, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
4.20pm	Concluding remarks (including brief comments on evolutionary strategies) Associate Professor Rob Heinsohn, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
4.30-5pm	Formal close and informal discussion



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