Dear Birding Australia,
Co-organisers Libby Robin and myself were wondering if you would
possibly like to inform your members of the upcoming free Boom & Bust
Symposium: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, held at the National Museum
of Australia, on Monday 12 November from 10 am - 4.30 pm. I have listed
the program information below if you are happy to do this. Tea and
coffee is available, and if possible people should register their
attendance with myself at the National Museum of Australia (
). For more details please see
http://www.nma.gov.au/events/boom_and_bust/
Best Regards,
Elise Murphy
Coordinator
Audience Development & Public Programs
National Museum of Australia
T: +61 (0)2 6208 5231
F: +61 (0)2 6208 5148
GPO Box 1901
Canberra ACT 2601
www.nma.gov.au ( http://www.nma.gov.au/ )
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The National Museum of Australia and the Centre for Historical Research
would like to extend an invitation to you to attend our Boom & Bust
Symposium: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, on Monday 12 November from 10
am - 4.30 pm. 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. This is a free event but
please register your attendance with Elise Murphy at the National Museum
of Australia ( ) before the symposium if possible.
FULL PROGRAM: Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia (NMA)
9.15 – 10.00 am: Preliminary Coffee & Tea
MORNING SESSION
MC: Dr Libby Robin, Centre for Historical Research, NMA/ Fenner School
of Environment and Society, Australian National University (ANU))
10.00 am
Welcome and outline the principles of the symposium and the proposed
book
10.05 am
Boom and Bust: The pulse of desert Australia
Dr Mike Smith, Centre for Historical Research, NMA
10.20 am
Galah
Keynote: Professor Bill Gammage, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
11.10 am
Morning Tea, Coffee & Biscuits
11.30 am
Night Parrot
Dr Penny Olsen, Botany and Zoology, ANU
12.00 pm
White-winged Chough
Assoc. Professor Rob Heinsohn, Fenner School of Environment & Society,
ANU
12.30 pm
Short presentation on Zebra Finch (from Steve Morton, CSIRO Alice
Springs)
12.40 - 1.30 pm: LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION
MC: Assoc. Prof. Rob Heinsohn, Fenner School, ANU
1.30 pm
Woodswallow
Dr Leo Joseph, Director, Australian National Wildlife Collection,
CSIRO
2.00 pm
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Dr Deborah Rose, Fenner School, ANU
2.30 pm
Short presentation on Grey Teal (from David Roshier, Charles Sturt
University, Albury)
2.40 - 3.00 pm: Afternoon Tea & Coffee
3.00 pm
Pelican
Julian Reid, Fenner School, ANU
3.30 pm
Genyornis
Dr Mike Smith, Centre for Historical Research, NMA
4.00 pm
Emu
Dr Libby Robin, Fenner School ANU/Centre for Historical Research, NMA
4.20 pm
Concluding remarks (including brief comments on evolutionary
strategies)
Assoc. Prof. Rob Heinsohn, Fenner School, ANU
4.30 pm: FORMAL CLOSE (informal discussion – up to 5 pm)
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National Museum of Australia
Winner - Best Major Tourist Attraction 2006 and 2005 Australian Tourism
Awards
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