Ocean observations using tagged animals
By: Roquet, F., Boehme, L., Block, B., Charrasin, J.B., Costa, D., Guinet, C., Harcourt, R.G., Hindell, M.A., Hückstädt, L.A., McMahon, C.R. and Woodward, B., 2017. | Find with Google Scholar »
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Dear all,
I hope you have enjoyed the week of shorter queues for coffee and all the rest that goes along with break weeks. Its back to the business of teaching next week.
Congratulations to our biology students who graduated this week. Congrats also to our MRes students who gave their seminars this week too.
Enjoy the long weekend.
Grant Hose
Save the Date
This coming week 2nd – 6th October
Tue 3rd: Special Seminar – A/Prof Maren Wellenreuther “Women in Science: Highlighting the changing face of evolutionary biology”; 1 – 2pm; C5C Forum Room (note: this is a new venue).
Tue 3rd: Departmental Meeting; 1pm – 2pm; E8A-280 (Biology Tea Room).
Wed 4th: Department Morning Tea; 10:30am – 11:30am; E8A-280 (Biology Tea Room).
Wed 4th: Dr Lesley Lancaster, University of Aberdeen; 1pm – 2pm; E8A-280 (Biology Tea Room).
Thu 5th: Writing Workshop; 2:30-4:30pm, E8C-212.
Following week 9th – 13th October
Wed 11th: Faculty Safety Fair; 10am to 2pm Biology Courtyard.
Wed 11th: Dr John Martin, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney; 1pm – 2pm; E8A-280 (Biology Tea Room).
Wed 11th: Department Morning Tea; 10:30am – 11:30am; W19J Tea Room (Fauna Park).
Thu 12th: Writing Workshop; 2:30-4:30pm, E8C-212.
Coming up
Every Thursday for the next few months: Writing Workshop; 2:30-4:00pm; E8C-212
Oct 19th: Maurizio Manuguerra – Commitment, engagement and learning in a large cohort of students; 4pm – 5pm; E8A-280 (Biology Tea Room).
Nov 13-14: Department Retreat for Academic Staff; venue Kooindah Waters Central Coast.
Nov 23rd: Todd Philips – Embedding Indigenous content into the Biology curriculum; 4pm – 5pm; E8A-280 (Biology Tea Room).
Dec 5th: Formal Department Meeting for Grading, followed by the Christmas Party.
Department seminar schedule
October 11th: Dr John Martin, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
October 18th: Ayesha Tulloch
October 25th: Associate Professor Carla Sgro, Monash University
November 1st: Dr Marc Seid, University of Scranton, USA
November 8th: Associate Professor Bob Wong, Monash University
November 15th: Professor Dan Blumstein, UCLA
November 22nd: Associate Professor Nathan Lo, The University of Sydney
General News and Announcements
Ally Network Training
Ally Training provides participants with an overall understanding of why LGBTIQ inclusion is important to the Macquarie University community and explores challenges often faced by people who identify as LGBTIQ and the impact of Homophobia, Transphobia & prejudice. Participants who complete the training will be able to join the MQ Ally Network if they so wish. Facilitated by Pride In Diversity.
• November 8th: 2pm – 4pm, Level 4, C5C Manly training room.
• November 22nd: 10am – 12pm, Level 4, C5C Manly training room.
Who should attend? All academic and professional staff, and students at Macquarie who are interested in creating an inclusive culture for all LGBTIQ staff members and students.
SESSION OVERVIEW
• Learn about the diversity of identities within the LGBTIQ community
• Explore assumptions, stereotypes and myths around the LGBTIQ community
• Understand why it is important to have Allies who are prepared to support students and staff who identify as LGBTIQ
• Develop your skills to actively speak out against Homophobia, Transphobia and prejudice.
REGISTRATION: Wednesday 8th November, 2pm or Wednesday 22nd November
CONTACT: Lauren Dillon (Workplace Equity & Diversity Coordinator) on 9850 1975 or lauren.dillon@mq.edu.au
Biological Sciences Administrative Requests
Please email any admin requests you have to sci.bio-adm@mq.edu.au. The email is monitored by the whole Admin Team, so your request won’t sit unanswered in a single person’s inbox should they be away or on leave. If you need to contact the individual admin staff member directly, you will find their contact details in this document.
Get Paid for Outreach Lesson Plans!
As a Department we want to offer a range of high quality learning activities, for outreach events, that are related to our research and teaching. We are looking for people to help create these lesson plans. We will pay (HDR, MRes, or excellent UG students) 10 hours at Dem rates to develop an idea into a lesson plan (please see attached form) and resources. If you are interested please contact Kath <katherine.mcclellan@mq.edu.au> or Matt <matthew.bulbert@mq.edu.au> to discuss your ideas.
Get Kids Interested in Science!
Many of you have children in day care or who attend the vacation care here on campus. The Biology Outreach Committee has been approached by Children’s Services at Macquarie to help develop science-based exploration-activities for Gumnut and Banksia Cottages, and science activities for the Junior Science Academy. If you are interested in helping to develop a science topic into an activity, Kylie Hurd <kylie.hurd@mq.edu.au> and Maria Bennett <maria.bennett@mq.edu.au> would love to hear from you! They would want to meet with you for 30 minutes to discuss how to turn your idea into 20 min day care activity, or a 30 min lesson plan for the Junior Science Academy.
STEM Speakers in Schools
What is it?
The Speakers in Schools program places Macquarie University academics in schools to connect students and teachers with researchers who inspire, inform and challenge students to question their thinking. Presentations discuss hot topics, global issues affecting society, have inspirational and significant impact for students.
How does it work?
We request that interested schools give us 4 weeks’ notice with some suggested dates, Alison Willard (FSE Future Students) will then liaise with you to see if any of those dates suit your schedule. The FSE Future Students Team provides transport for you (either someone will accompanying and drive you, or you can get a cab charge voucher).
Are you interested?
Please express your interest here:
Plant of the Week
This week’s plant of the week is Eucalyptus caesia – an exquisite mallee from isolated granite outcrops in the south-west of Western Australia. Genetic diversity of relatively isolated populations is maintained by free ranging honeyeaters. Contributed by Lorraine and Trevor Hardwick.
Did You Participate in an Outreach Activity Recently for the Department?
Don’t forget to fill in the super-quick form here – – ACCESS OUTREACH FORM HERE
2018 Ecology and Conservation Internship Program with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy
It is an opportunity for promising graduate students to gain valuable field experience in conservation research. The program is designed to introduce conservation biologists to a variety of sanctuaries with a host of different ecosystems, flora and fauna, field techniques and conservation issues. There will be 13 internships offered in 2018, varying in length from 4 – 6 months.
Click on the advertisement – 2018 AWC Ecology Internship Program or contact Chantelle Jackson or Andrew Morton from Australian Wildlife Conservancy for more information.
Additions to the Department Matters
You may have noticed that we try to keep all the articles to the same format for the Department Matters, however, rest assured, they do NOT all turn up in this format! To help keep your Department Matters looking as good as possible, when sending in additions to the Newsletter, please try to keep these formatting guidelines in mind.
- Please write in third person. The information is coming from the Newsletter, not directly from you.
- Do not use fancy text formatting. Bold heading, normal text, and only italics or bold to highlight. No font size changes will make it through, sorry.
- If sending via email, set your email output to basic. HTML output will add all sort of formatting that will have to be removed before your article can go into the newsletter.
Keeping to these guidelines will streamline your article’s addition to the newsletter. Thank you.
New Publications
In the Media
Julianna Kadar was interviewed by ABC Illawarra Breakfast
Julianna Kadar from the Department of Biological Sciences was interviewed by ABC Illawarra Breakfast in relation to a shark tag that has gone missing at Jervis Bay. See page 3 of report.
Lesley Hughes was interviewed on 3WM Radio
Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes from the Department of Biological Sciences was interviewed on 3WM Radio regarding climate change and the unusual winter weather in Australia this year.
Phil Taylor was interviewed on ABC Radio National
Professor Phil Taylor was interviewed on ABC Radio National in continuing coverage of the development of a new type of fly food that could help double the number of sterile fruit flies that are in need in science labs.