Public speaking

CJA Bradshaw’s public & professional speaking engagements (since 2008):

‘Not just surviving, but thriving, in academia’, Keynote Lecture, Excellence in Higher Education: Teaching and Research Forum, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait (online; 09/05/2023)
‘Controversies in conservation’, University of Canberra (online; 18/10/2022)
‘Modelling patterns of human movement in Australia since arrival to the Holocene’, University of Western Australia Archaeology Seminar Series (online; 15/09/2022)
‘Climate change and prospects of a ghastly future’, Probus Club, Adelaide (21/06/2022)
‘Environmental interdisciplinary research’, MODSIM 2021, International Congress of Modelling and Simulation ECR Event (Interdisciplinary Research to Solve Real-World Problems), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (online; 10/12/2021)
‘Giving good talk’, invited feedback session, University of Pretoria, Department of Zoology & Entomology AGM 2021 (online; 03/12/2021)
‘Pathways toward a less-ghastly future’, invited plenary, University of Pretoria, Department of Zoology & Entomology AGM 2021 (online; 02/12/2021)
‘Unveiling the environment-health nexus’, SA Node of Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Network, Adelaide (18/11/2021)
‘Controversies in Conservation’, online lecture for Understanding Environmental Complexity, University of Canberra (host: Ross Thompson) (19/10/2021)
‘How to save the Earth us‘, Global Village Speakers Series (online; 16/10/2021)
‘Episode 6: Environment & Sustainability’, Flinders Fearless Conversations series (29/09/2021)
‘Pathways to a less-ghastly future’, Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (online; 24/09/2021)
Flinders Archaeological Research Network (FASNET) ‘Pimp My Profile’ (18/08/2021)
Science in the Pub Adelaide ‘The Science of Statistics’ (human demographic projections) (06/08/2021)
‘Australia’s place in the global loss of biodiversity: inevitability of a degraded future for our children‘ (view recorded version here), Doctors for the Environment Australia (online; 24/05/2021)
‘Rapid early peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul’, Australian Indigenous Archaeology (ARC3AIA) Tutorial, La Trobe University (online; 18/05/2021)
‘Rapid early peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul‘, CABAH Seminar Series (online; 03/03/2021)
‘Modelling the ecology of the first anatomically modern humans using archaeological data’, Flinders Archaeological Science Network (05/03/2020)
‘Predicting shark bites in Australia’, National Shark Bite Mitigation Measures Workshop, Flinders University Marine and Coastal Research Consortium (04/02/2020)
‘There’s no plan(et) B‘, University of the Third Age (04/02/2020)
‘Rapid early peopling of Sahul’, Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference 2019, Surfers Paradise (12/12/2019)
‘Projecting future child health’, Climate Change and Future Child Health Symposium, Western Australian Health Transition Network, University of Western Australia, Perth (05/12/2019)
‘Projecting future child health’, Climate Change and Future Child Health Symposium, Western Australian Health Transition Network, University of Western Australia, Perth (04/12/2019)
‘Child health: socio-economics and climate change’, Climate Change and Future Child Health Symposium, Western Australian Health Transition Network, University of Western Australia, Perth (04/12/2019)
‘Science Meets Parliament‘ (South Australia) (12/11/2019)
Making Science Matter, PhD short course (run by Helsingin Yliopisto and Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet), Ekenäs Herrgård, Sweden (01/11/2019)
‘Dealing with negative feedback’, Research Centre for Ecological Change Annual Meeting, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki (25/10/2019)
‘There is no Plan(et) B’ – Australian Science and Mathematics School Sustainable Futures ‘Earth Summit‘ (25/09/2019)
Adelaide SciFight ‘Scientists should rule the world‘ comedy debate – Science Exchange (31/08/2019)
‘There’s no plan(et) B‘ – University of the Third Age, Port Adelaide (29/08/2019)
‘Modelling the rapid expansion of anatomically modern humans in Late Pleistocene Sahul’ – School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (06/08/2019)
‘Modelling sixty millennia of human expansion throughout Sahul‘ – INQUA2019, Dublin, Ireland (25/07/2019)
‘Becoming an Effective Scientist’ – CABAH Masterclass, University of Wollongong (19/07/2019)
‘Becoming an effective scientist’ – Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China (22/05/2019)
‘More than 50,000 years of ecological change by humans‘ – Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China (21/05/2019)
‘Ecosystem consequences of the peopling of Australia: 50,000+ years of change‘ – ECNU-UAlberta Joint Lab for Biodiversity Study, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (16/05/2019)
‘Opportunities to improve the future of South Australia’s terrestrial biodiversity’ – SA Department for Environment and Water (13/05/2019)
‘There’s no plan(et) B’ – Flinders University BRAVE lecture (16/04/2019)
Climate Election Candidates Forum (panel member) (14/04/2019)
Extinction Rebellion (SA) speech (22/03/2019)
‘SA | State of the Environment Report‘ – SA Division of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (21/03/2019)
South Australia Environment Protection Authority State of the Environment Report 2018 Community Forum Panel, Adelaide (21/02/2019)
‘Little corella management’ – Mount Barker District Council Public Form, Mount Barker, South Australia (05/02/2019)
‘The Effective Scientist: Steps to follow for a successful academic career’ – Australian Mathematical Society Early-Career Workshop, Adelaide (02/12/2018)
‘Minimum founding populations of the first people to colonise Australia‘ – Ecological Society of Australia Annual Conference, Brisbane (29/11/2018)
‘Becoming an effective scientist’ – BRAES Institute, University of British Columbia (Okanagan), Kelowna, Canada (21/11/2108)
Biodiversity seminar : ‘Late Pleistocene human expansion & the first wave of Anthropocene extinctions’ – BRAES Institute, University of British Columbia (Okanagan), Kelowna, Canada (21/11/2108)
Invited seminar: ‘The Great Dying: species extinctions and humanity’s peril’ – BRAES Institute, University of British Columbia (Okanagan), Kelowna, Canada (20/11/2018)
Invited seminar: ‘Unveiling the complex dynamics of Sahul’s ancient ecosystems’ – University of California at Riverside, USA (16/11/2018)
Keynote: ‘The Great Dying’ – Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education, Adelaide (26/09/2018)
Keynote: ‘Global Freshwater Crisis. Guns, germs & extinctions’ – Australian Freshwater Sciences Society 2018 Conference, Adelaide (25/09/2018)
‘Predicting sustainable shark harvests when stock assessments are lacking’ – Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting, Adelaide (03/07/2018)
‘The Effective Scientist‘ – Université Paris-Sud, France (25/06/2018)
Public lecture: ‘How destroying nature kills our children’ – University of Helsinki, Finland (21/06/2018)
‘Armageddon scribes: only transdisciplinarity will rescue conservation biology from irrelevancy‘ – Fifth European Congress of Conservation Biology, Jväskylä, Finland (14/06/2018)
‘Socio-economic determinants of environmental performance among African nations‘ – Fifth European Congress of Conservation Biology, Jväskylä, Finland (12/06/2018)
‘Socio-economic and environmental determinants of child health’ – American Thoracic Society 2018 Conference, San Diego, USA (23/05/2018)
‘The Great Dying’ – Pint of Science, Adelaide (16/05/2018)
‘The Anthropocene’, Human Evolution, UniSA, Adelaide (08/05/2018)
Book launch: ‘The Effective Scientist‘, Adelaide (16/04/2018)
‘Modelling spatial patterns of paleo-community turn-over in response to ancient human expansion’ – Statistics in Ecology and Environmental Monitoring (SEEM) Conference 2017, Queenstown, New Zealand (08/12/2017)
‘Measuring & predicting how Homo sapiens has changed the biosphere since the Pleistocene’ – Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide (12/10/2017)
‘Long-term data and the conservation of Australia’s biodiversity’ – Flinders University, Adelaide (06/10/2017)
‘Biodiversity and climate change’ – Flinders University, Adelaide (15/09/2017)
‘Degrading my daughter’s future’ – Adelaide Hills Natural Resource Centre, Norton Summit, South Australia (27/06/2017)
‘Climate change — degrading our future’ – University of the Third Age (U3A), Port Adelaide (27/06/2017)
‘Science and the media in an age of information overload’ – – Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland (21/06/2017)
‘Jigsaw Utopia: assembling a world of human & environmental well-being from current national successes’ – Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland (20/06/2017)
‘Jigsaw Utopia: assembling a world of human & environmental well-being from current national successes’ – Joint Research Centre, European Union Science Hub, Ispra, Italy (24/05/2017)
‘Lower-than-expected biodiversity impact of cats on continents’ – Joint Research Centre, European Union Science Hub, Ispra, Italy (24/05/2017)
‘Jigsaw Utopia’ – Villa Serbelloni, Rockefeller Foundation Academic Writers Residency, Bellagio, Italy (05/05/2017)
Book launch opening address for the republication of Undiscovered Australia by Sir Hubert Wilkins – Adelaide (28/03/2017)
‘A Covenant with the Animals‘ (opening address) – Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, South Australia (04/12/2016)
‘ECR Network – Publish or Perish‘ – RiAus, Adelaide (30/11/2016)
‘Climate change for non-specialists’ – Cowandilla Primary School, Adelaide (30/11/2016)
‘Pimp My Profile’ – Media training workshop for 2016 Tall Poppies Science laureates, Adelaide (02/11/2016)
‘Dealing with the media’, ‘Pimp My Profile’ & ‘Engaging stakeholders in science’ – Making Science Matter: increasing the impact of ecological findings, University of Helsinki/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences/Uppsala University, Ekenäs herrgård, Vadsbro, Flen, Sweden (17-20/10/2016)
‘Current and future human population pressures on mammals in southern Africa’ – Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, 50^th Anniversary Celebration Conference, The Kruger National Park, South Africa (13/09/2016)
‘Careers in conservation: a discussion‘ (panel) – National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India (04/08/2016)
‘Massive yet grossly underestimated global costs of invasive insects’ – Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India (03/08/2016)
‘Degrading my daughter’s future: from epidemiology to economics’ – National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India (02/08/2016)
‘Low biodiversity impact of cats on continents’ – National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India (01/08/2016)
‘Pimp my profile’ – Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (14/07/2016)
‘How climate change is degrading my daughter’s future: from epidemiology to economics‘ – New Zealand International Science Festival, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (12/07/2016)
‘Science of Sir Hubert Wilkins’ – Sir Hubert Wilkins — Republication of Undiscovered Australia, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide (04/07/2016)
‘Global ecology’ – Deakin University, Melbourne (21/06/2016)
Nuclear fuel cycle in South Australia (panel) – Invest SA Conference, Barossa Valley (03/06/2016)
‘Human population trends’ – Future Child Health and World Human Population, Peter Wall Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (19/04/2016)
‘Pimp My Profile’, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (18/04/2016)
‘Identifying cost-effective reforestation approaches for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in southern Australia’ – South Australia Natural Resource Management Science Conference 2016, Adelaide (14/04/2016)
‘Low biodiversity impact of cats on continents’ – Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra (21/03/2016)
‘Grossly underestimated global costs of invasive insects’ – Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland (07/12/2015)
‘Supercharge Your Science’ – Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (20/11/2015)
‘Increasing global costs of invasive insects‘ – Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (19/11/2015)
‘Supercharge Your Science’ – Laboratoire d’Écologie systématique et Évolution, l’Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (17/11/2015)
‘How do you like your megafauna, cooked or speared? Complex interplay of climate change & human hunting on the global megafauna extinctions of the Late Pleistocene’ – Laboratoire d’Écologie systématique et Évolution, l’Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (13/11/2015)
‘How do you like your megafauna, cooked or speared? Complex interplay of climate change & human hunting on Late Pleistocene extinctions‘ – School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland (30/10/2015)
‘Human population reduction is imperative, but not a quick fix, for global environmental problems’ – Seminar, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (18/08/2015)
‘Supercharge Your Science!‘ workshop – 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology/4th European Congress for Conservation Biology, Montpellier, France (02/08/2015)
Feral Feast (keynote) – Ngeringa Winery, Mount Barker, South Australia (26/07/2015)
‘Spatial pattern of Eurasian woolly mammoth extinctions during the Late Pleistocene based on statistical inference from fossil records’ – 9th International Association of Landscape Ecology World Congress, Portland, USA (08/07/2015)
‘Human population reduction is imperative, but not a quick fix, for global environmental problems’ – Invited seminar, Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research, Adelaide (17/06/2015)
Keynote: ‘Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems: techno-fixes like nuclear power are needed to reduce short-term impacts‘ – AusIMM International Uranium Conference 2015, Adelaide (10/06/2015)
‘The Anthropocene’ – Bioapplications 300, School of Pharmacy & Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide (20/05/2015)
‘Human population reduction is imperative, but not a quick fix, for global environmental problems’ – Harry Harris Oration, USANZ (Adelaide) (11/04/2015)
‘Energy alternatives’ – Governor’s Leadership Foundation, Leaders Institute of Australia, Adelaide (10/04/2015)
Frontiers in Marine Biology, The University of Adelaide – ‘Sharks as global custodians of marine ecosystems: threats, roles & management’ (01/04/2015)
Frontiers in Marine Biology, The University of Adelaide – ‘Tell your story: Science is only the first step’ (01/04/2015)
‘South Australia & nuclear power’ – Australian Labor Party (SA) Florey Sub Branch, 19th Annual Chinese New Year Celebration, Adelaide (01/03/2015)
‘State of the Environment Reporting’ – State of Environment Reporting Forum, SA Environment Protection Authority, Adelaide (26/02/2015)
‘Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems: techno-fixes like nuclear power are needed to reduce short-term impacts‘ – University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (09/02/2015)
‘Power to save nature: role of nuclear energy in biodiversity conservation‘ – Centre for Tropical Research seminar, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, USA (02/02/2015)
‘The bees knees: the importance of pollinators and their recent decline’ – Science in the Pub (Adelaide) (05/12/2014)
‘Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems‘ – University of Sydney (13/11/2014)
‘Whale sharks’ – undisclosed primary school (South Australia) (07/11/2014)
‘Introduction to ecological modelling‘ – Stats Solutions (Ecological Modelling Group), The University of Adelaide (07/10/2014)
‘Make Your Science Matter‘ – Workshop at Ecological Society of Australia Annual Meeting, Alice Springs (01/10/2014)
‘Power to save nature: a key role of nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation’ – Presentation at Ecological Society of Australia Annual Meeting, Alice Springs (28/09 – 03/10/2014)
‘Increasing the success of tropical reserves to protect biodiversity’ – Presentation at Fudan University Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecological Engineering, Summer School on Biodiversity and Global Change, Shanghai, China (20/08/2014)
Ngeringa Wines Feral Feast, Mount Barker, South Australia – ‘Eat a feral a week’ (27/07/2014)
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Annual Meeting, Cairns – ‘National emphasis on high-level protection reduces risk of biodiversity decline in tropical forest reserves’ (23/07/2014)
Royal Institution of Australia – Media training workshop for Tall Poppies (14/07/2014)
Undisclosed primary school, Adelaide – ‘Great Koala Count’ (03/06/2014)
National Landcare Network Annual Meeting, Adelaide – keynote address (26/05/2014)
Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (ACEAS), Grand Workshop, Shine Dome, The Australian National University – ‘CACE, the new Clean! – Abundant! – Cheap! – Exportable! energy resource for Australia . . . or maybe not‘ (invited panel discussion) (08/05/2014)
Macquarie University, Department of Biological Sciences – ‘Sampling while Australia burns: out-of-box approaches to save the world’ (invited seminar) (07/05/2014)
Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), Adelaide – ‘Be recognised as the expert: communicating science to the public and media‘ (panel; watch part 1, part 2) (01/05/2014)
NRM Science Conference, Keynote Address, The University of Adelaide – ‘South Australia’s tattered environmental remains – cohesion of effort is our only option‘ (watch) (15/04/2014)
Frontiers in Marine Biology, The University of Adelaide – ‘Sharks as global custodians of marine ecosystems: threats, roles & management’ (02/04/2014)
Frontiers in Marine Biology, The University of Adelaide – ‘Tell your story: Science is only the first step’ (02/04/2014)
Adelaide Lyceum Club, Adelaide – ‘Current state of world biodiversity: our impoverished future life support system’ (26/03/2014)
Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique & Evolution, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France – ‘Pimp my profile’ (20/02/2014)
International Master in Applied Ecology, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France – ‘Brave new green world’ and ‘Quantifying biodiversity loss and biowealth degradation’ (11/02/2014)
International Master in Applied Ecology, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France – ‘Pimp my profile’ and ‘Engaging stakeholders’ (10/02/2014)
Early-Career Researcher Work-Life Balance, Royal Institution of Australia, Adelaide – Panel Discussion (05/12/2013)
Media Training for Tall Poppies, Royal Institution of Australia, Adelaide – ‘Pimp my profile’ (28/11/2013)
Trade-offs between carbon farming-biodiversity co-benefits, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA – ‘Brave new green world: carbon pricing benefits biodiversity’ (21/11/2013)
Dangerous Ideas in Zoology, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW – ‘Splitting atoms to preserve biodiversity’ (02/11/2013)
World Vasectomy Day, Royal Institution of Australia, Adelaide – Panel Discussion (18/10/2013)
Willunga Environment Centre, Willunga, SA – ‘Current state of world biodiversity: our impoverished future life support system’ (08/10/2013)
Royal Society of South Australia Climate Change SA Symposium 2013, UniSA, Adelaide – ‘Brave New Green World: managing carbon & biodiversity together in a warming world’ (04/10/2013)
Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Palaeontology, Evolution & Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide – ‘The GRIWM: robust estimates of extinction time in the geological record’ (03/10/2013)
Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland – ‘Brave new green world: managing threatened carbon pools from the boreal to Australia’ (26/09/2013)
Making Science Matter, University of Helsinki, Finland – ‘What makes the policy wonks take notice? Applied science isn’t enough’ (25/09/2013)
Making Science Matter, University of Helsinki, Finland – ‘How to engage your audience: telling your science story in presentation’ (24/09/2013)
Making Science Matter, University of Helsinki, Finland – ‘Pimp my profile: maximising exposure of you and your research’ (23/09/2013)
INTECOL 2013, London, UK – ‘Pimp my profile’ (19/08/2013)
INTECOL 2013, London, UK – ‘Explaining range shifts in British birds‘ (19/08/2013)
26^th International Congress for Conservation Biology, Baltimore, USA – ‘The dingo absolved: human impact and carnivore extinction in the disrupted ecosystem of prehistoric Australia’ (22/07/2013)
Scientific Networking Evening, Australian Society for Medical Research & Healthy Development Adelaide, Adelaide – ‘Social and other media for scientists‘ (04/06/2013)
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China – ‘Quantifying biodiversity loss and biowealth degradation’ (29/04/2013)
Fudan University, Shanghai, China – ‘Quantifying biodiversity loss and biowealth degradation’ (26/04/2013)
Australian National University, Canberra – ‘Avoiding a collapse of civilisation Our chances, prospects and pathways forward‘ (22/03/2013)
WOMADelaide, Adelaide – ‘The elephants in the room – the limits to growth‘ (11/03/2013)
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Symposium, Canberra – ‘Brave new green world – consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity‘ (20/02/2013)
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Symposium, Canberra – ‘Bias in extinction predictions from species-area relationships‘ (21/02/2013)
Friends of Sixth Creek Catchment (elected Chair), Adelaide Hills
Australian Centre for Biodiversity, Monash University, Melbourne – ‘Rocket science? That’s easy. The mathematical challenges of quantifying and predicting global environmental change’ (23/11/2012)
Philanthropy Australia, Wyatt Benevolent Institution, Adelaide – ‘South Australia’s threatened biowealth – legacy of damage; future of recovery’ (21/11/2012)
Environment Department, University of York, York, UK – ‘Long-term ecological threats & changes in tropical protected areas’ (13/11/2012)
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK – ‘Rocket science? That’s easy. The mathematical challenges of quantifying and predicting global environmental change’ (12/11/2012)
Zoological Society of London, Symposium: Protected areas – are they safeguarding biodiversity?, London, UK – ‘Long-term ecological threats & changes in tropical protected areas’ – audio &slides (08/11/2012)
Master of Sustainability, The University of Adelaide – ‘Whither is biowealth bound on a crowded planet’ (26/10/2012)
Adelaide Hills Natural Resource Centre Annual General Meeting (invited speaker) – ‘Brave new green world: accounting Australia’s biowealth’ (02/10/2012)
Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference 2012, Portland, USA – ‘iREDD hedges against avoided deforestation’s unholy trinity of leakage, permanence and additionality’ (31/07/2012)
Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation, Centre for Research on Intelligent Systems, Monash University, Melbourne – ‘Linking demographic, epidemiological, genetic & economic models to predict ecosystem dynamics’ (09/07/2012)
Adelaide Bushwalkers – ‘How fares Australian biodiversity?’ (04/07/2012)
What about a nuclear reactor in the backyard?, Town of Walkerville – ‘Humans + nuclear energy = biodiversity‘ (09/06/2012)
Placing boreal forests on the policy agenda, Umeå University, Sweden – ‘Global estimates of boreal forest carbon stocks and predicted patterns under climate change’ (04/06/2012)
School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide – ‘Tropical Australia’s feral bovids: dispersal, disease & death‘ (11/05/2012)
Higher Degree Research Students Symposium, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University (Melbourne) – ‘Whither, whence & wherefore biodiversity goest’ (Keynote: 28/03/2012)
Murraylands & Riverland Agro-Forestry Working Group (Murray Bridge) – ‘Identifying cost-effective reforestation approaches for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in southern Australia’ (13/12/2011)
International Congress for Conservation Biology (Auckland, New Zealand) – ‘Species Ability to Forestall Extinction (SAFE) index for IUCN Red-Listed species’ (09/12/2011)
International Congress for Conservation Biology (Auckland, New Zealand) – ‘Supercharge Your Science’ (06/12/2011)
Earth Station (Belair National Park, Adelaide) – ‘So you’ve heard the science – how do we save the world?‘ (23/10/2011)
Kobe University Research Centre for Inland Seas (Kobe, Japan) – ‘Australian seaweed communities: endemism hotspots & retreat from global warming’ (20/09/2011)
Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences (Melbourne), Invited seminar – ‘Mathematical challenges of global change ecology’ (09/09/2011)
New Zealand Ecological Society, Ecology in the Heartland (Rotorua, New Zealand), Plenary – ‘Rocket science? That’s easy! – The mathematical challenges of global change ecology’ (31/08/2011)
Ecological Society of America, 96 Annual Meeting (Austin, Texas, USA), ‘Novel coupling of individual-based epidemiological and demographic models predicts realistic dynamics of tuberculosis in alien buffalo’ (09/08/2011)
Statistical Society of Australia (SA), ‘Statistical and simulation models estimating extinction time from fossil evidence: climate-driven megafaunal turnover in the Late Pleistocene’ (15/06/2011)
KeyInvest (McLaren Vale), ‘Heads in the desert sand: Why Australians should wake up to the biodiversity crisis’ (24/05/2011)
International Symposium for Biodiversity and Theoretical Ecology (Guangzhou, China), ‘Estimating extinction from fossil evidence:climate-driven megafaunal turnover in the Late Pleistocene’ (11/05/2011)
Ecological Society of Australia 2010 Annual Conference (Canberra), Australian Ecology Research Award Keynote Lecture: ‘Heads in the desert sand: Why Australians should wake up to the biodiversity crisis’ (06/12/2010)
EBS Ecology/EBS Restoration (Adelaide), Keynote address: ‘Global biodiversity crisis & erosion of ecosystem services’ (25/11/2010)
Royal Institution of Australia (Adelaide), Panel discussion: ‘Dunstan Environment Dialogues: Biodiversity begins at home‘ (24/11/2010)
Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China), ‘Global erosion of ecosystem services‘ (22/10/2010)
James Cook University (Townsville), ‘A world of hurt: global death count of environmental degradation’ (23/09/2010)
James Cook University (Cairns & Townsville), ‘Supercharge your science: Blogito ergo sum‘ (22 & 24/09/2010)
Pembroke School (Adelaide), ‘EcoMaths‘ & ‘Ecosystem Services‘ (10/09/2010)
Issues in Sustainable Environments lecture (Univ Adelaide), ‘Global erosion of ecosystem services‘ (08/09/2010)
Briefing to Honourable Paul Caica MP, South Australia Minister for Environment & Conservation (Adelaide), ‘Scientific basis for marine sanctuary zones’ (01/09/2010)
Willunga Hill Medical Entomology Symposium (Willunga Hill, South Australia), ‘Quantitative (conservation) ecology’ (17/08/2010)
2010 International Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation (Bali, Indonesia), ‘The conservation biologist’s toolbox: Standard and new tools in the analytical arsenal to save biodiversity’ (20/07/2010)
International Congress for Conservation Biology (Edmonton, Canada), ‘Global-scale evidence that environmental degradation worsens human health’ (07/07/2010)
Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity (Adelaide), ‘Accounting for uncertainty when estimating Pleistocene megafauna extinction times’ (audio; slides) (25/06/2010)
Scotch College (Adelaide), ‘EcoMaths – The numbers of life (and death)‘ (16/06/2010)
Australian Institute of Marine Science (Perth), ‘Ranking countries by the environmental impact‘ (12/05/2010)
University of Adelaide Research Tuesdays, ‘A world of hurt – the true global death count of environmental degradation‘ (11/05/2010) – listen to introduction sound bite
Frontiers in Marine Biology, University of Adelaide (lecture), “Determinants of global shark extinction” (03/05/2010)
Adelaide Phylogenetics Conference, Port Elliot, South Australia, “Accounting for uncertainty when estimating extinction times” (15/04/2010)
Australian Science Communicators National Conference 2010, Canberra, “Science blogging” (10/02/2010)
Flinders University, School of Biological Sciences seminar, Adelaide, “Extinction by numbers” (11/11/2009)
UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Thematic Reference Group (TRG) on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases, Shanghai, China, “Country rankings of environmental impact & disease risk” (27/10/2009)
Conservation Council of South Australia, Adelaide, “Climate change and Australian fisheries” (22/10/2009)
6^th China-Australia Symposium – Sustainable Coastal & Deltaic Systems, Xiamen, China, “State of the world’s oceans in the face of fishing, pollution and climate change: avoiding the Jacksonian ‘rise of slime'” (14/10/2009)
Royal Society of South Australia, Andrewartha lecture, “Extinction by numbers: mathematics of biodiversity loss” (08/10/2009)
Issues in Sustainable Environments lecture, University of Adelaide, “Extinction by numbers: mathematics of biodiversity loss and ecosystem services” (07/10/2009)
Maths-Science Life Impact, University of Adelaide, “Maths, Death, Food & Climate” (23/09/2009)
6^th National Lobster Congress, Adelaide, “Marine climate change: red or blue?” (15/09/2009)
10^th International Congress of Ecology, Brisbane, “Synergies among extinction drivers under global change” (21/08/2009)
10^th International Congress of Ecology, Brisbane, “Ranking countries by their environmental impact” (16/08/2009)
Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, Presentation on science careers for Student Careers Night (06/08/2009)
Water Centre Link Fest, “Mathematical models in conservation ecology” (31/07/2009)
Licensing Executives Society Australia & NZ, “Ranking countries by their environmental impact” (21/07/2009)
Australian Marine Sciences Association, Adelaide, “Predicting impacts of climate change on South Australian aquaculture: risk assessment, business susceptibility and ecological assays” (10/07/2009)
Australian Marine Sciences Association, Adelaide, “Greater-than-expected local extinction risk predicted for fish on small and isolated coral reefs” (09/07/2009)
Stanford University, Centre for Conservation Biology, “Ranking countries by their environmental impact” (25/06/2009)
Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, “Ranking countries by their environmental impact” (19/06/2009)
Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, “Maths, Death, Food & Climate”, World Environment Day talk (05/06/2009)
South Australia Department of Education and Children’s Services, Curriculum Services Science Symposium, “Global Amphibian Loss – bellwether of environmental degradation“(18/05/2009)
South Australian Science Teachers Association, “Global Amphibian Loss – bellwether of environmental degradation” (20/04/2009)
Conservation Council of South Australia, Webinar on marine climate change, Adelaide (15/01/2009)
Conservation Council of South Australia, Summit on Coast & Marine in a Changing Climate, Adelaide, Panel presentation (04/12/2008)
National Estuaries Network Science and Estuaries Forum, Adelaide, “Marine and estuarine ecosystems in a changing climate” (21/11/2008)
InsideOut08 – South Australian Government Public Sector Week, Adelaide, “Marine Climate Change” (19/11/08)
Inaugural Conference on Green Travel, Climate Change and Ecotourism, Adelaide, “Marine Climate Change Issues for South Australia” (17/11/2008)
National Institute of Parasitic Disease, Shanghai, China, “GIS Applications in Ecology & Environmental Science” (31/10/2008)
UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Thematic Reference Group (TRG) on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases, Beijing, China, “Global evidence that environmental degradation leads to poorer human health” (22/10/2008)
Climate Change Q & A. Sceptical Questions and the Scientific Answers, “Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change: It’s more complex (and worse) than you might think” (19/09/2008)
Presentation to the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia, “Marine climate change: implications for demographic models” (04/09/2008)
Presentation to South Australia Department of Environment and Heritage, “Dealing with marine climate change in South Australia” (28/08/2008)
Public lecture, Charles Darwin University, “Tropical turmoil: a biodiversity tragedy in progress” (15/08/2008)
Rock Lobster Industry Research Workshop, “Marine climate change in Australia” (20/06/2008)
Climate 2030 Seminar Series, “How biological mechanisms altered by global warming affect ecosystem functioning” (20/05/2008)
Climate change forum for South Australia secondary school teachers (17/04/2008)