This coming Monday (9th May) The Quantitative Applied Spatial Ecology (QASE) group invite you to a seminar by guest speaker Dr. Alan Woodley [EECS] on the topic “Ecology meets Big Data”. Environmental scientists are increasing taking advantage of much larger and more complex datasets, colloquially known as big data, than they ever have…
Pressure on Australia's biosecurity system leads to calls for reform
Over the past decade, plant bio-security research funding and management in Australia has been undertaken by the Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre (PBCRC) but this structure is set to expire in 2018. If it’s not replaced, high impact and critical research, development and extension projects could cease, and Australia’s grain…
Job Opportunity
A Research Associate position is available in the Hydrology Group, which is part of the Water Research Centre in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Australia. The 2 year research position is part of an ARC Linkage Project with DPI Water which will develop a framework for assessing future drought frequency for eastern…
Using Approximate Bayesian Computation for estimating wildlife disease dynamics
Studying and predicting emerging infectious wildlife diseases can often be challenging due to the complexity of the host-disease system and a paucity of empirical data. Researchers have recently demonstrated the use of an Approximate Bayesian Computation statistical framework to reconstruct the disease dynamics of bovine tuberculosis in…
Sub 2kg drone law amendments
Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), the main body in charge of investigating and regulating air traffic safety, have recently outlined some changes to current rules and regulations surrounding the use of UAV’s for commercial work. This could have important implications for new users. Read here for more…
Grant Hamilton speaks at World Science Festival
Dr Grant Hamilton was invited to speak at the World Science Festival in Brisbane recently. Click here to find out more.
Job Opportunity
There is an employment opportunity to work with IPRRG (International Pest Risk Research Group) member Dr Stephan Parnell at the University of Salford. Stephen Parnell (University of Salford) is currently advertising for a postdoc to join him in developing models for better pest and disease surveillance. You can read the advertisement and…
UAS4RS Conference
Dr Grant Hamilton and Jim Eldridge from the Hamilton Ecology Lab attended the 2016 UAS4RS conference where all things drones and remote sensing were spoken about and presented on. The conference showcased many projects that are currently being undertaken that are linking UAS technologies with data collection in the fields of ecological…
Society for Conservation Biology Oceania 2016 abstract acceptance
Dr Grant Hamilton and Dr Peter Baxter from the Hamilton Ecology Lab have been accepted to present their abstract and give an oral presentation at the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania meeting in Brisbane July 2016. the abstract is titled “Detecting threatened and threatening species using unmanned aerial surveillance”. This is…
Hamilton Ecology Lab memeber gets published in Nature
Hamilton Ecology Lab’s Dr Peter Baxter has very recently received notification that he has been published in Nature Communications scientific journal. This is an amazing achievement by Peter and everyone at Hamilton Ecology Lab congratulates you. Well Done! The published article was made available yesterday and provides an in depth…
Western Australia no longer free of fruit fly
Western Australia is no longer able to declare itself free of the damaging and wide spread Queensland fruit fly after an infestation was discovered in Perth’s Albert Cove. 2 Male flies were discovered in the Alfred Cove residential area in surveillance traps on the 18th November whilst another 4 were captured on the 23rd November no more…
Hamilton Lab leads way at MODSIM
The 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2015) is currently underway at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Broadbeach, Queensland and Hamilton Ecology lab is leading the way. The theme for this years global conference on modeling and simulation is ‘Partnering with industry and the community for…