Biodiversity Conservation and our Region Forum
Friday 18 May 2007
Registrations open at 1.30pm
Forum concludes at 4.30pm
Computing and Information Services Theatre (CT202)
The University of Newcastle
Callaghan Campus
Christopher R. Dickman
Chris Dickman is a Professor in Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney. He is the Personal Chair in Terrestrial Ecology, and Director, Institute of Widlife Research, both with University of Sydney. His career spans over 30 years and in this time, has been awarded many prizes ranging from a Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Award in 1978, through to a Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision in 2003 and most recently he was a Finalist, Botanic Gardens Trust Eureka Prize for Biodiversity Research.
Chris’ major research interest is the investigation of factors that influence the distribution and abundance of terrestrial vertebrates.
Since 1980 Chris has presented at least 90 seminars on his work at national conferences, and 38 at international meetings; 25 were invited, keynote or plenary presentations.
Chris has a total of 16 books published, 4 Monographs, 155 articles published in refereed journals since 1980, and 75 chapters published in books since 1982. These include one ‘landmark paper’ and a citation classic, and have attracted over 2,500 citations in total.
Robert Humphries
Robert is the General Manager of Eco Trades, a privately owned company established in 2005 to specialise as a biodiversity offset provider and broker in the NSW Governments new Biobanking Scheme.
Robert has over 20 years experience in the management and recovery of threatened species and endangered communities throughout NSW and Victoria. Prior to joining Eco Trades, Robert was the Manager of the Threatened Species Section of the Department of Environment and Conservation, a position he held for 10 years. During this time Robert was responsible for the environmental impact assessment of many large and controversial infrastructure projects including the Western Sydney Orbital, Sydney Water’s Northside Storage Tunnel, the Warragamba Dam Spillway, Port Botany Expansion and numerous residential developments in western Sydney, the Illawarra, Central Coast and Lower Hunter regions. He also led numerous threatened species recovery programs including the Wollemi Pine, Manly’s Little Penguins, the Green and Golden Bell Frog, Southern Brown and North Head Long-nosed Bandicoots and the endangered communities of the Cumberland Plain.
Robert was recently appointed by the Minister for the Environment to the Biobanking Ministerial Reference Group representing the NSW Urban Task Force. The Ministerial Reference Group has been established to assist in finalising the biobanking assessment methodology and regulations, review the results of the three month pilot and oversee the implementation of the scheme during the 2 year trial.
Andrew McIntyre, Manager Biodiversity Conservation Department of Environment and Climate Change
Andrew McIntyre has worked in the environment field for over 20 years. He grew up in Adelaide and spent much of his youth traipsing around the State's arid lands. A far cry from where Andrew has spent his professional life. Andrew graduated from the University of New England with an honours degree in Natural Resource Management. He worked in the field forest ecology in East Gippsland developing conservation strategies for forest fauna in particular large forest owls. Andrew joined the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in 1995 as a Threatened Species Officer, and as a project officer and manager worked on a broad range of issues relating Threatened Species conservation, including development control, forest management regulation and recovery planning. Andrew is now the Manager of the Biodiversity Conservation Section in the new Department of Environment and Climate Change, the Section focuses on conservation programs for biodiversity.
Andrew is married with two teenage children, and lives in a small village on the coast north of Coffs Harbour
