The Centre For Water Research

Past CWR Seminars and Talks

• CWR Seminar [18/11/2009] - On the role of the ambient fluid on gravitational granular flow dynamics, Speaker: Carolina Meruane

• CWR Seminar [12/11/2009] - 2050, Speaker: Lord Ron Oxburgh

• CWR Seminar [11/11/2009] - Prostate cancer screening: debates and answers, Speaker: Dr Peter England

• CWR Seminar [04/11/2009] - Long-term studies of California grassland: lessons for restoration, Speaker: Professor Richard Hobbs

• CWR Seminar [28/10/2009] - Building A Better Community: Connecting People and Environment In The Swan Canning River Basin, Speaker: Professor Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [21/10/2009] - Can tea really do that?, Speaker: Professor Colin Binns

• CWR Seminar [14/10/2009] - Developing a groundwater vulnerability classification for soil and regolith materials, Speaker: Professor Martin Fey

• CWR Seminar [07/10/2009] - The Optimal Design of Profitable Renewable Energy Systems; A Hamiltonian Based Approach, Speaker: Dr Franklin Horowitz

• CWR Seminar [30/09/2009] - CIBER: Honeybee research at the University of Western Australia, Speaker: Dr Boris Baer

• CWR Seminar [23/09/2009] - Galactic Archaeology and the New HERMES spectrometer on the Anglo Australian Telescope, Speaker: Professor Ken Freeman

• CWR Seminar [16/09/2009] - Hydrodynamic Stability of Offshore Pipelines, Speaker: Professor Liang Cheng

• CWR Seminar [11/09/2009] - Numerical simulation and large-eddy simulation of mixing and wall-bounded flows, Speaker: Professor Dale Pullin

• CWR Seminar [09/09/2009] - Learning based control of selective withdrawal reservoirs accounting for both quality and quantity targets , Speaker: Professor Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa

• CWR Seminar [02/09/2009] - On the non-local geometry of turbulence, Speaker: Professor Dale Pullin

• [27/08/2009] - short lectures on Large Eddy Simulation #2, Speaker: Professor Dale Pullin

• CWR Seminar [26/08/2009] - Multi-objective optimal design of water quality rehabilitation interventions in lakes and reservoirs, Speaker: Andrea Castelletti

• [25/08/2009] - short lectures on Large Eddy Simulation #1, Speaker: Professor Dale Pullin

• CWR Seminar [19/08/2009] - Community-based adaptation to climate change in coastal Bangladesh: working against the tide., Speaker: Professor Robert Pokrant

• CWR Seminar [12/08/2009] - The role of civil society groups and universities in the politics of a local and global sustainability emrgency , Speaker: Piers Verstegen

• External Seminar [06/08/2009] - Real Time, Self Learning, Adaptive Water Resource Management, Speaker: Professor Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [05/08/2009] - Raising scientific passion in children: an educator's experience, Speaker: Richard Johnson

• CWR Seminar [29/07/2009] - Engineering Solutions for Australia's Offshore Oil and Gas Developments, Speaker: Professor Mark Cassidy

• CWR Seminar [22/07/2009] - The Science of Radio Astronomy and the SKA, Speaker: Professor Lister Staveley-Smith

• CWR Seminar [15/07/2009] - Carbon Neutral in our Landscape, Speaker: Leo Kerr

• CWR Seminar [08/07/2009] - Pulling back the blue curtain: a window onto WA's marine environment, Speaker: Professor Jessica Meeuwig

• Special Lecture [02/07/2009] - Why is it important to study estuaries?, Speaker: Professor Arnoldo Valle-Levinson

• CWR Seminar [01/07/2009] - Mechanisms influencing the mixing and transport of multiple inflows into a stratified reservoir: Thomson Reservoir; Australia, Speaker: Dr Clelia Marti

• CWR Seminar [24/06/2009] - Targeting Hot Water in Sedimentary Basins: the Perth Basin case study, Speaker: Professor Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

• CWR Seminar [17/06/2009] - Carbon Trading and The Energy Economy in 2050 , Speaker: Dr Jeff Bremer

• CWR Seminar [10/06/2009] - Hydrodynamics over an estuarine scour pit , Speaker: Professor Arnoldo Valle-Levinson

• CWR Seminar [03/06/2009] - Green Civil Society in China, Speaker: Dr Jie Chen

• Proposal Defence [28/05/2009] - Control of Macrophyte Dominance in Lake Chini, Malaysia, Speaker: Zati Binti Sharip

• CWR Seminar [27/05/2009] - Fluid mechanical challenges in the design and development of modern liquid turbomachines , Speaker: Professor Chris Brennen

• CWR Seminar [20/05/2009] - Recreational fishing: cost or benefit to sustainable aquatic management?, Speaker: Frank Prokop

• CWR Seminar [15/05/2009] - Canyoneering Explorations in North and Central America, Speaker: Professor Chris Brennen

• CWR Seminar [13/05/2009] - Understanding ion channel selectivity and gating (and their application to the desalination of water), Speaker: Dr Ben Corry

• CWR Seminar [06/05/2009] - How can we make communities, healthy by design?, Speaker: Professor Billie Giles-Corti

• CWR Seminar [01/05/2009] - New strategies for managing and forecasting algae bloom occurrences and mitigatig their impact on drinking water intakes in the La Plata River Estuary, Argentina., Speaker: Cristina Silva

• CWR Seminar [29/04/2009] - SAMUEL JOHNSON; a Collector's Reminiscences, Speaker: John Byrne

• CWR Seminar [22/04/2009] - The Importance of Habitat, Speaker: Professor Don Bradshaw

• Research Proposal [21/04/2009] - Genetic Control, Production and Fate of Geosmin Produced by Cyanobacteria in Lakes and Reservoirs, Speaker: Yu Li

• CWR Seminar [15/04/2009] - Non linear and non hydrostatic dynamics of basin scale waves in stratified rotating lakes, Speaker: Alberto de la Fuente

• CWR Seminar [08/04/2009] - The amazing world of bubbles, Speaker: Professor Chris Brennen

• CWR Seminar [01/04/2009] - SymbioticA, an artistic laboratory at the University of Western Australia, Speaker: Oron Catts

• CWR Seminar [25/03/2009] - Amenity migration, rural development and water resources , Speaker: Prof Matthew Tonts

• CWR Seminar [18/03/2009] - Pathogens in drinking water, Speaker: Dr Vicky Whiffin

• CWR Seminar [11/03/2009] - The ecology and management of invasive aquatic plants, Speaker: Dr Shon Schooler

• CWR Seminar [04/03/2009] - Viral-host specificity of cyanobacteria in subtropical lakes of Australia, Speaker: Dr Christin Sawstrom

• CWR Seminar [25/02/2009] - Ecology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in the Swan River, Speaker: Dr Hugh Finn

• CWR Seminar [18/02/2009] - Climate Change: The Realities, The Challenges and The Opportunities, Speaker: Prof Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [11/02/2009] - Forty years of water quality change in Lake Erie: Modelling eutrophication, hypoxia and invasive mussel impacts, Speaker: Dr Leon Boegman

• CWR Seminar [17/12/2008] - Interplay of lake motions and horizontal transport (PhD Thesis Defence), Speaker: Patricia Okely

• CWR Seminar [03/12/2008] - Using inverse methods to estimate velocity field at small scales in aquatic systems, Speaker: Dr Ingrid Hillmer

• CWR Seminar [26/11/2008] - Indigenous people: The duties of government and industry, Speaker: Greg McIntyre

• CWR Seminar [19/11/2008] - What strategies can we use to develop a more rational, less punitive sentencing policy, Speaker: Dr David Indermaur

• CWR Seminar [05/11/2008] - Building capacity in coastal-marine research and management in the western Indian Ocean region, Speaker: Theodore Marguerite (Seychelles Meteorology Services) and Stefano Mazzilli (UNESCO/IOC)

• CWR Seminar [29/10/2008] - The study of historical floods in the context of climate variability and anthropogenic changes: Are there any similarities between the extreme floods of 1914 and 2003 in the Salado River Basin (Argentina)? , Speaker: Dr Carlos Ocampo

• CWR Seminar [22/10/2008] - High resolution oxygen dynamics in a supposedly oligotrophic reservoir, Speaker: Dr Jason Antenucci

• CWR Seminar [15/10/2008] - Predicting acid sulfate soil impacts on water quality: Application to the Lower Lakes of the Murray River, Speaker: Dr Ursula Salmon

• CWR Seminar [08/10/2008] - Methane ebullition in stratified Lake Kinneret: hydroacoustic quantification, temporal and spatial heterogeneity, Speaker: Assoc Prof Ilia Ostrovsky

• CWR Seminar [01/10/2008] - Highly resolved observations and simulations of the ocean response to tropical cyclones, Speaker: Professor Thomas Sanford

• CWR Seminar [24/09/2008] - Life in a changing climate, Speaker: Prof Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [17/09/2008] - Short-circuiting flow-paths within a reservoir: field observations and numerical modelling, Speaker: Dr Clelia Marti

• CWR Seminar [10/09/2008] - Vertical structure of residual currents in the Liverpool Bay region of freshwater influence, Speaker: Dr Florence Verspecht

• CWR Seminar [03/09/2008] - The cycling of Cu & Zn in a river affected by acid-rock drainage: Dissolved & labile concentrations, toxicity, & isotopic fractionation , Speaker: Laurie Balistrieri

• CWR Seminar [27/08/2008] - Physical limnology Canadian style, Speaker: Prof Gregory Lawrence

• CWR Seminar [20/08/2008] - Overview of dietary practice in the development of immune tolerance, Speaker: Dr Meri Tulic

• CWR Seminar [13/08/2008] - Water cycle dynamics in a changing environment: Advancing hydrologic science through synthesis , Speaker: Prof Murugesu Sivapalan

• CWR Seminar [06/08/2008] - Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in Western Australia, Speaker: Dr Stewart Dallas

• CWR Seminar [30/07/2008] - If Orchid Mycorrhizal Fungi are so specific, how do natural hybrids cope?, Speaker: Dr Penny Hollick

• CWR Seminar [23/07/2008] - Physical Limnology: A Review, Speaker: Prof Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [16/07/2008] - Holmboe's Instability, Speaker: Prof Gregory Lawrence

• CWR Seminar [09/07/2008] - Large-scale dynamics of Lake Victoria and their impact on mass exchange with Winam Gulf , Speaker: Mauricio Toro Botero

• CWR Seminar [02/07/2008] - Creating disturbances to promote diversity, Speaker: Jason Antenucci

• CWR Seminar [25/06/2008] - IMPACT OF IRRIGATION ON GROUNDWATER RECHAGE-INTEGRATED HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING APPROACH, Speaker: Dr Syed Mahtab Ali

• CWR Seminar [11/06/2008] - Connections between organism bio-molecular composition, elemental stoichiometry and growth. , Speaker: Dr Andrea Paparini

• CWR Seminar [04/06/2008] - LITTLE PENGUINS, LARGE BOATS and COASTAL DEVELOPMENT: A STORY OF COEXISTENCE?, Speaker: Dr Belinda Cannell

• CWR Seminar [28/05/2008] - Towards a self-learning environmental observing system for water quality research and management, Speaker: Matt Hipsey

• Postgraduate Research Proposal [27/05/2008] - Impacts of hurricane passage on CO2 fluxes and primary production in ocean surface layers, Speaker: Peisheng Huang

• CWR Seminar [21/05/2008] - Emerging complexities in the recovery of Canadian Shield lakes from historical acid deposition, Speaker: Professor Norman Yan

• CWR Seminar [14/05/2008] - Some Reflections on the Planetary Crisis, Speaker: Dr Malcolm Hollick

• CWR Seminar [07/05/2008] - Numerical Solution of Convection-Dominated Convection-Diffusion Equations, Speaker: Professor Song Wang

• Seminar [30/04/2008] - The International Wheat genome Sequencing Consortium, Speaker: Professor Rudi Appels

• CWR Seminar [23/04/2008] - Oxygen declines in the interior waters of the Subarctic Pacific, Speaker: Professor Frank Whitney

• CWR Special Research Seminar [15/04/2008] - Dynamical seasonal forecasting of Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching, Speaker: Dr Claire Spillman

• CWR Seminar [09/04/2008] - Three dimensional modeling approaches to water quality and fisheries issues in the Laurentian Great Lakes, Speaker: Dr Ralph Smith & Dr Luis Leon

• CWR Seminar [02/04/2008] - Simulation of the hydrodynamics and water quality on Zihuatanejo Bay in Mexico, Speaker: Dr Isabel Ramirez

• CWR Special Research Seminar [31/03/2008] - Surface wave processes in marine boundary layers, Speaker: Professor Ken Melville

• CWR Special Research Seminar [31/03/2008] - PhD Thesis Defence: Application of modal analysis to strongly stratified lakes, Speaker: Kenji Shimizu

• CWR Seminar [26/03/2008] - A bloom out of the blue: cyanobacterial evolution, physiology and toxigenicity, Speaker: Dr Francesco Pomati

• CWR Seminar [19/03/2008] - The Uruguayan Paper mill on the Uruguay River and the Hydraulic River Regime, Speaker: Dr Gabriel Raggio

• CWR Seminar [12/03/2008] - Near field flow characteristics of a hypersaline brine generated by a desalination plant, Speaker: Dr Clelia Marti

• CWR Seminar [05/03/2008] - Current and future directions for the modeling of fish and their aquatic environments, Speaker: Dr Brian Kennedy

• CWR Seminar [27/02/2008] - Wave propagation in granular materials and the weird booming of dunes, Speaker: Professor Chris Brennen

• CWR Seminar [20/02/2008] - Linking bio-molecular measurements to elemental stoichiometry in aquatic pools: from nutrients' cycles to cellular physiology, Speaker: Dr Andrea Paparini

• CWR Seminar [30/01/2008] - Satellite-derived measures of leaf area reflect annual variation in rainfall across southwest Western Australia , Speaker: Dr Richard Waring

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