Category: Blog
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ANZSEE 2013 Conference: 11-14 November, 2013
A belated shout- out on behalf of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE), who is organizing what I think will be a pretty amazing conference from 11-14 November 2013, at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in Canberra. (I might be biased – I’m the Secretary of ANZSEE and part of the…
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PhD milestone #1: Complete
Just a note to say that I completed my thesis proposal review (aka confirmation) this week. Time for a few days off!
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: Paper accepted at the 15th Annual BIOECON Conference, Cambridge
I woke to the exciting news this morning that my paper has been accepted for presentation at the 15th Annual BIOECON Conference, to be held at King’s College in Cambridge, UK from 18 – 20th September 2013. I’m looking forward to travelling to the UK, and hope to visit some of the fantastic universities and institutions while…
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Biodiversity offsets in practice: the case of the Striped Legless Lizard
Last week I joined a field trip run as part of the Biodiversity Conservation (ENVS3039) course at the ANU. The students have been introduced to the concept of biodiversity offsetting during lectures, but now they can put that knowledge into practice. As part of their assessment, the students were asked to develop a biodiversity offset proposal to compensate…
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Can we offset biodiversity losses?
This article was published in The Conversation, 6 May 2013 Update: Also republished in the Brisbane Times and SBS News Australia, 7 May 2013 Megan Evans & Martine Maron Clive Palmer’s China First Coal Project is entering the last stages of review for its proposed coal mine in Queensland’s Bimblebox Nature Refuge. As part of the Supplementary Environmental Impact…
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Calculating the benefits of conservation actions
In the new issue of Decision Point magazine, Martine Maron from UQ has penned an article on a collaboration I was involved with between researchers in the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, and the Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (DSEWPaC) staff. ………………………………………………………………………………… It’s projected that nearly a billion hectares of terrestrial ecosystems will…
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phdincanberra
I’m trying the tumblr thing again, but this time using as a way to document my PhD travels in Canberra in photos. Check it out here (there’s also a permanent link in the menu to the left): www.phdincanberra.tumblr.com
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Science and social media – why you should care (+ a rant about unreasonable blogging expectations)
Update 27/2/13: See Phil’s comment below – he recommends using active voice and first-person narrative in scientific papers – not present tense as I previously claimed Last week I gave a presentation to 3rd year students as part of a Biodiversity Conservation (ENVS3039) lecture at the ANU. Phil Gibbons (one of my PhD supervisors) is convening the course,…
Megan C. Evans 