Technicolour deceit: a sensory basis for the study of colour-based lures.
White TE, Kemp DJ, 2015. Technicolour deceit: a sensory basis for the study of colour-based lures. Animal Behaviour 105:231-243. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.04.025. | Find with Google Scholar »
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Dear all,
Please join me for a Department meeting next week. On the agenda so far (please email me for any inclusions):
- E8C refurbishment update
- From the Committees
- Curriculum day
- 2014 Annual report
- SEM1 exam processing
- New travel policy
- HOD hand over – passing of the doe (buck)
- Academic workload discussion
cheerio
Mariella
General News and Announcements
Wednesday Seminar
Professor Elise Pendall is speaking next week, Wednesday June 3, 1-2pm E8 Tearoom
“Unexpected carbon cycle – climate feedbacks: the importance of rhizosphere mechanisms”
Details on Elise’s work are here: http://www.uws.edu.au/hie/people/researchers/professor_ellise_pendall.
Abstract:
The seasonal timing of ecosystem carbon and water exchange is a complex phenomenon that reflects the emergent sum of numerous processes going on in vegetation and soil. This seminar will examine the drivers of the seasonality of net carbon exchange, ecosystem respiration, gross primary production, and evapotranspiration in semiarid grassland exposed to simulated climate change. Initial comparisons with ecosystem phenology in a eucalypt woodland will be presented if time allows.
Earth Care Month Launch – 3rd June
Please see attached poster for details of the upcoming World Environment Day Celebration, featuring a film screening and a great line up of speakers including ABC Gardening Australia’s Costa Georgiadis.
Celebrate World Environment Day and learn about the importance of sustainability in our food production and how to consume ethically.
For bookings call City of Ryde’s customer service on 9952 8222, email, or RSVP online.
We hope you can make it!
SCB Sydney Creative Conservation – Botanical Drawing Workshop
Come join the Sydney Society for Conservation Biology continued drawing workshop series this June, our theme is plants! We will bring together the arts and sciences by choosing a group of plants or animals to draw every few months. Professional artist Peter Wale will teach us basic drawing techniques and Sydney SCB will provide some inspiration in the form of specimens and photos. (see attached for more info)
Feel free to share with any student who you think may be interested as well!
Grant Successes!
Congratulations to Gemma Carroll who one a student award from Emu – Austral Ornithology and BirdLife Australia. The money will support her study analysing hormones in juvenile penguin feathers as potential markers of heat stress.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Ms Jessica Wilks who was successful in attracting a Student Travel Grant from the Australian Government’s National Taxonomy Research Grant Programme (NTRGP) to attend the 5th Polar Diatom Workshop in Salamanca, Spain, this July.
Biological Sciences Field Work Manual
The Department of Biological Sciences fieldwork manual is now available online as a wiki at:
https://wiki.mq.edu.au/display/fieldworkmanual/Content
This has been made public so you are not required to log in. In the contents section you will find the printable version link which will down load the entire document as a PDF.
Ongoing feedback or comments are welcomed. Please email Sarah Collison.
Biology Safety Alert
1. Minutes for FSE WHS Advisory Group meeting held 30th April 2015
2. FSE Incident report Feb-April 2015
FSE Incident report Feb – April 2015 FoS WHS Minutes 30 April 2015.1- corrections
Plant of the Week
Turmeric – Curcuma longa
SAVE THE DATE for the Faculty of Science and Engineering 3MT (three minute thesis) Competition:
- WHEN: 15th July 2015 (Wednesday)
- TIME: 12pm to 2pm (doors open at 11:50am to a sharp start at 12:00pm)
- WHERE: C5C T1 Theatre
We need a departmental representative – to get an idea of what it is about
http://students.mq.edu.au/opportunities/3_minute_thesis/
Please let Adam know if you are keen! This will look great on any CV!
Jobs – Lectureship Charles Sturt
Charles Sturt University is advertising for a Lecturer in Vegetation Ecology based in Albury. The applicant will need to have a strong background in vegetation ecology, but they are also looking at other skills in restoration ecology. See the ad here: http://www.csu.edu.au/jobs/home/acad-vacancies
Money to buy books in the library!
Please let Kate Barry know if you want the library to buy books, or email directly to lib.acqdep@mq.edu.au
Glasshouse lights
As part of infrastructure upgrade 10 glasshouses will be fitted with LED lights with Red and Blue spectrum. A minimum of 600 m-2 s-1 mol light level will be maintained at all time. Here are some pictures showing first glasshouse fitted with LED lights.
Car for sale
Dear Sydney friends, I am (sadly) selling my beloved Holden Barina….it is the most loyal, fuel-efficient car. I just had it serviced this week, and everything looked perfect!
- Year: 2005
- Kms: 140000
- Rego expires September
- Price: $3500
- You can check out the ad here http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Holden-Barina-2005/SSE-AD-3428287
Contact: Dalila Rendon
rendonda@gmail.com 0408037723
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Fresh Science 2015 Fresh Science is a national competition that selects researchers with research results, an invention, or a discovery, trains them in how to tell their story, and helps them share their findings with the media and the public. We’re looking for:
Successful applicants will participate in Fresh Science 2015. First, a day of media and communication training, learning how to find the key, compelling story in their research, and how to tell that story. Then, in the following pub night, they’ll face the challenge of explaining their research. We’ll also publish short profiles on each Freshie, and we’ll pitch the best story in each state to the media. Nominations are now open and close 25 June. Fresh Science Victoria will be at Melbourne Museum on 28/29 July and is supported by Biomedical Research Victoria and the Victorian government. Then, over the following months we’ll be in:
Read more, see the current schedule, and nominate online at freshscience.org.au |
Postgraduate Top-up Scholarship in Biological Data Visualisation (CSIRO)
Read more about it here
Faculty of Science and Engineering Travel Guideline – You must read the policy
Private Travel (in conjunction with travel on official University business)
This guideline becomes effective Monday 1 June 2015.
1 . The University Travel Policy (the Policy) permits travelers seven (7) days private travel in
conjunction with travel on official University business provided:
- The number of private travel days do not exceed the number of business travel days; and
- All costs associated with the private travel are paid from non‐University funds.
- Travel Policy Key Points v2
More jobs
5 research positions in Animal Behaviour/Evolutionary ecology at the University of Cork: http://www.researchgate.net/job/842159_Research_Positions-Animal_Evolutionary_Ecology
Volunteers needed for the Australian Museum Science Festival
Want to get involved in science communication? Want to meet like minded people and rub shoulders with high profile scientists? Want to have a fun week with lots of dinosaurs and explosions? The Australian Museum Science Festival is the largest event during National Science Week. We need volunteers to help out on August 11-20th and are looking for people who are passionate about science and community engagement. Volunteers will gain experience, professional references, networking opportunities and even a free t-shirt!
For more information visit www.amsciencefestival.net or to volunteer contact Ellie Downing at the Australian Museum on scicom@austmus.gov.au
Dr James O’Hanlon
New Publications
Using Ecosystem Experiments to Improve Vegetation Models
Medlyn, B. E., Zaehle, S., De Kauwe, M. G., Walker, A. P., Dietze, M. C., Hanson, P., Hickler, T., Jain, A., Luo, Y., Parton, W., Prentice, I. C., Thornton, P., Wang, S., Wang, Y.-P., Weng, E., Iversen, C. M., McCarthy, H., Warren, J., Oren, R., Norby, R. (2015) Using Ecosystem Experiments to Improve Vegetation Models. Nature Climate Change, 5, 528–534 | Find with Google Scholar »BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants
Falster, D.S., Duursma, R.A., Ishihara, M.I., Barneche, D.R., FitzJohn, R.G., Vårhammar, A., Aiba, M., Ando, M., Anten, N., Aspinwall, M.J., Baltzer, J.L., Baraloto, C., Battaglia, M., Battles, J.J., Bond-Lamberty, B., van Breugel, M., Camac, J., Claveau, Y., Coll, L., Dannoura, M., Delagrange, S., Domec, J.-C., Fatemi, F., Feng, W., Gargaglione, V., Goto, Y., Hagihara, A., Hall, J.S., Hamilton, S., Harja, D., Hiura, T., Holdaway, R., Hutley, L.S., Ichie, T., Jokela, E.J., Kantola, A., Kelly, J.W.G., Kenzo, T., King, D., Kloeppel, B.D., Kohyama, T., Komiyama, A., Laclau, J.-P., Lusk, C.H., Maguire, D.A., le Maire, G., Mäkelä, A., Markesteijn, L., Marshall, J., McCulloh, K., Miyata, I., Mokany, K., Mori, S., Myster, R.W., Nagano, M., Naidu, S.L., Nouvellon, Y., O’Grady, A.P., O’Hara, K.L., Ohtsuka, T., Osada, N., Osunkoya, O.O., Peri, P.L., Petritan, A.M., Poorter, L., Portsmuth, A., Potvin, C., Ransijn, J., Reid, D., Ribeiro, S.C., Roberts, S.D., Rodríguez, R., Saldaña-Acosta, A., Santa-Regina, I., Sasa, K., Selaya, N.G., Sillett, S.C., Sterck, F., Takagi, K., Tange, T., Tanouchi, H., Tissue, D., Umehara, T., Utsugi, H., Vadeboncoeur, M.A., Valladares, F., Vanninen, P., Wang, J.R., Wenk, E., Williams, R., de Aquino Ximenes, F., Yamaba, A., Yamada, T., Yamakura, T., Yanai, R.D. & York, R.A. (2015) BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants. Ecology, 96, 1445. http://doi.org/10.1890/14-1889.1 | Find with Google Scholar »A champion of organismal biology
Cheng K, Ronacher B, 2015. A champion of organismal biology. J Comp Physiol A 201:513-515. doi: 10.1007/s00359-015-1004-9. | Find with Google Scholar »Path integration, views, search, and matched filters: the contributions of Rüdiger Wehner to the study of orientation and navigation
Cheng K, Freas C, 2015. Path integration, views, search, and matched filters: the contributions of Rüdiger Wehner to the study of orientation and navigation. J Comp Physiol A 201:517-532. doi: 10.1007/s00359-015-0984-9. | Find with Google Scholar »Polyandry in dragon lizards: inbred paternal genotypes sire fewer offspring
Frere CH, Chandrasoma D, Whiting MJ, 2015. Polyandry in dragon lizards: inbred paternal genotypes sire fewer offspring. Ecol Evol 5:1686-1692. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1447. | Find with Google Scholar »Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates
Maire V, Wright IJ, Prentice IC, Batjes NH, Bhaskar R, van Bodegom PM, Cornwell WK, Ellsworth D, Niinemets U, Ordonez A, Reich PB, Santiago LS, 2015. Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24:706-717. doi: 10.1111/geb.12296. | Find with Google Scholar »Ocean acidification impacts on sperm mitochondrial membrane potential bring sperm swimming behaviour near its tipping point
Schlegel P, Binet MT, Havenhand JN, Doyle CJ, Williamson JE, 2015. Ocean acidification impacts on sperm mitochondrial membrane potential bring sperm swimming behaviour near its tipping point. Journal of Experimental Biology 218:1084-1090. doi: 10.1242/jeb.114900. | Find with Google Scholar »Phosphorus recycling in photorespiration maintains high photosynthetic capacity in woody species
Ellsworth DS, Crous KY, Lambers H, Cooke J, 2015. Phosphorus recycling in photorespiration maintains high photosynthetic capacity in woody species. Plant Cell and Environment 38:1142-1156. doi: 10.1111/pce.12468. | Find with Google Scholar »Prevalence and Molecular Identification of Nematode and Dipteran Parasites in an Australian Alpine Grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis)
Umbers KDL, Byatt LJ, Hill NJ, Bartolini RJ, Hose GC, Herberstein ME, Power ML, 2015. Prevalence and Molecular Identification of Nematode and Dipteran Parasites in an Australian Alpine Grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis). Plos One 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121685. | Find with Google Scholar »Onuphis and Aponuphis (Annelida: Onuphidae) from southwestern Europe, with the description of a new species
Arias A, Paxton H, 2015. Onuphis and Aponuphis (Annelida: Onuphidae) from southwestern Europe, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3949:345-369. | Find with Google Scholar »In the Media
Mapping the reef with robotic torpedos
Marine Biologists, Liz and Josh Madin are compiling a 3-D map of coral reefs with the help of robotic torpedos.
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