Posts from qaecologists- Predicting impacts of alien plant invasions on community diversity January 22, 2021
- Linking species distribution models with structured expert elicitation for prediction of management effects November 11, 2020
- New paper: Connectivity over a disease risk gradient enables recovery of rainforest frogs November 3, 2020
- Projecting future deaths from COVID-19 cases October 30, 2020
- COVID-19 dynamics October 20, 2020
- Recent QAECO Posts
- Virtual #ISEC2020 June 22, 2020 Michael McCarthy
- QAECO’s favourite papers of 2018 April 12, 2019 qaecology
- What is HPC and why would I use it? April 4, 2019 qaecology
- Kickstarting the year with HGAMs February 25, 2019 qaecology
- Philosophical discussions in the lab: Žižek criticises ideological ecology June 5, 2018 qaecology
Tag Archives: environmental science
A carbon code of conduct is not enough
By Hannah Pearson, Chris Baker, Natalie Briscoe, Laura Pollock and Luke Kelly. Despite our best efforts, scientists haven’t succeeded in persuading the world’s governments that reducing carbon emissions is vital for maintaining a liveable climate on earth. This might be because … Continue reading
Choose your cake and eat it too: A very QAECO morning tea
By Natasha Cadenhead How do academics forage at morning tea? Do sweets go extinct faster than savouries? Which cake should you eat? How much should you eat? How close should you be to the coffee? The exit? Yesterday we hosted … Continue reading
McKenzie Fellowships at The University of Melbourne
Professor John McKenzie was Dean of Science and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at The University of Melbourne. Recognizing his contribution to research and especially mentoring of young researchers, The University of Melbourne established an annual recruitment of McKenzie Fellows. These fellowships … Continue reading
Two jobs at Museum Victoria to work with QAECO
Two jobs have just been advertised to work on frogs with Dr Jane Melville at Museum Victoria and with QAECO principal researcher Dr Kirsten Parris. One job is a full-time position for two years as a Project Officer, and the … Continue reading
ARC-CEED Early Career Researcher Visiting Fellowships
Want to come and spend some time at some of the ARC-CEED hubs like the QAECO lab at the University of Melbourne? Well then, a CEED overseas early career researcher visiting fellowship is just the ticket. Applicants can apply to … Continue reading
Melbourne Water’s annual frog census launch
Check out this article in today’s Herald Sun where you’ll find Qaecologist Claire Keely and a friend promoting the launch of Melbourne Water’s annual frog census.
Posted in News, Qaecologists
Tagged Claire Keely, ecology, Ecology lab, environmental science, Frogs, Herald Sun, Melbourne Water, news, The University of Melbourne
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Qaecologists in the blogosphere
This week Qaecologists took to the blogosphere in droves. Senior Qaecologist Mick McCarthy has been blogging regularly on a wide range of topics from interpreting variation in data to alpine cattle grazing. Geoff Heard gave us a sneak preview of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, Blogosphere, Business, CEED, conservation, Corey Bradshaw, data, David Pannell, decline, ecology, Ecology lab, Environment, Environmental Decisions, environmental science, Geoff Heard, habitat, Ian Lunt, Impacts and Indicators, John Morgan, Manifesto, Megan Evans, Melbourne, Mick McCarthy, model, monitoring, Nature, news, QAECO, qaecology, research, science, species, The University of Melbourne, Will Morris
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Qaecologists at SCB
This week a bunch of qaecologists will be presenting their work at the Society for Conservation Biology meeting in Auckland, New Zealand. If you’re in town be sure to check them out.
Posted in Conference, News
Tagged Asterias amurensis, Auckland, climate change, conference, conservation, ecology, Ecology lab, environmental science, Jane Catford, meeting, Mick McCarthy, Nature, New Zealand, qaecology, research, SCB, science, Society for conservation biology, The University of Melbourne
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NutNet in the (Science) news
The research co-operative NutNet (which includes qaecologist Joslin Moore) is featured in the News Focus section of this week’s issue of Science. The group is conducting a worldwide grassland experiment. At each site the experiment is on a small scale, and is … Continue reading
Posted in News, Papers
Tagged data, ecology, Ecology lab, environmental science, news, NutNet, science, species, The University of Melbourne
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Qaecology Reading Group: Saccheri et al, 1998
Once a fortnight the Qaecology lab gathers round a couple of packets of Tim Tams and a pot of coffee to discuss a paper. This week the theme was extinction risk and the paper chosen was Saccheri et al’s, Inbreeding … Continue reading
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Tagged butterflies, conservation, ecology, environmental science, genetics, Nature, papers, qaecology, reading group, research, science, The University of Melbourne
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