environmental monitoring

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Visiting Professor Yalavarthy Prameela Devi – Podcast Now Available

A podcast of the talk by visiting Professor Yalavarthy Prameela Devi from Kakatiya University in India is now available.

Visiting Professor Yalavarthy Prameela Devi from the Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory at Kakatiya University in India, presented a public seminar today entitled: “Biotechnological approaches for the development of low cost field kits for environmental monitoring of toxic chemicals”.

The talk presented biotechnological approaches for the development of low cost field kits for detection, separation, identification and quantification of toxic chemicals like heavy metals, organophosphates, organochlorides.  Professor Yalavarthy Prameela Devi explained how enzymatic methods can be used in the field for monitoring toxic chemicals because of their exceptional performance capabilities, which include high specificity and sensitivity, rapid response, low cost and user-friendly operation.

Listen to the podcast and view the PowerPoint presentation.

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Seminar by Visiting Professor from Kakatiya University, India

Public seminar by visiting Professor Yalavarthy Prameela Devi from Kakatiya University, India – Tuesday 1 June. 

Visiting Professor Yalavarthy Prameela Devi from the Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory at Kakatiya University in India, will present a public seminar titled: “Biotechnological approaches for the development of low cost field kits for environmental monitoring of toxic chemicals”.

The talk will present biotechnological approaches for the development of low cost field kits for detection, separation, identification and quantification of toxic chemicals like heavy metals, organophosphates, organochlorides.

Toxic chemicals can be detected, identified and quantified by various chemical and instrumental methods, but monitoring from the environment is cumbersome, time consuming and costly.  Alternatively enzymatic methods could be used in the field for monitoring of these toxic chemicals because of their exceptional performance capabilities, which include high specificity and sensitivity, rapid response, low cost and user-friendly operation.

Join Professor Yalavarthy Prameela Devi as she explains the main principles involved in enzymatic methods for environmental monitoring of toxic chemicals.

When: 1.10pm on Tuesday 1 June.
Where: Benham Lecture Theatre, University of Adelaide.

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Hugh Possingham – Why monitor the environment?

Click HERE to download the podcast from the event with Hugh Possingham “Why Monitor the Environment?”

Professor Hugh Possingham is currently the Director of the Ecology Centre at The University of Queensland.  Hugh has over 290 publications, 5300 Web of Science citations and a lab of 32 students and staff.  Work from his lab helped stop land clearing (“the Brigalow Declaration”) in Queensland and NSW securing at least 1 billion tonnes of CO2.

We generally assume that all monitoring is good. However there are numerous examples of people monitoring things to extinction and monitoring with no clear objective. Hugh Possingham will present a completely different way of looking at environmental monitoring – using decision science thinking. This approach enables us to work out how much of our precious budget should be spent monitoring, if any! The problem with existing monitoring, aside from doing too little, is that ecologists have been trained within a classical null hypothesis testing framework – great for pure science, rubbish for solving environmental problems.

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Free Public Seminar with Hugh Possingham – Why Monitor the Environment?

Free public event with Hugh Possingham on Tuesday May 18 at the University of Adelaide.

Professor Hugh Possingham is currently the Director of the Ecology Centre at The University of Queensland. Hugh has over 290 publications, 5300 Web of Science citations and a lab of 32 students and staff. Work from his lab helped stop land clearing (“the Brigalow Declaration”) in Queensland and NSW securing at least 1 billion tonnes of CO2.

Abstract

We generally assume that all monitoring is good. However there are numerous examples of people monitoring things to extinction and monitoring with no clear objective. Hugh Possingham will present a completely different way of looking at environmental monitoring – using decision science thinking. This approach enables us to work out how much of our precious budget should be spent monitoring, if any! The problem with existing monitoring, aside from doing too little, is that ecologists have been trained within a classical null hypothesis testing framework – great for pure science, rubbish for solving environmental problems.

This event is now booked out.  You are welcome to join the waiting list and will be notified if any seats become available.

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