9:30am - 9:45am - Welcome
9:45am - 10:30am - 3MT MPhil and Honours talks
- Sarah Vollert: Using a Bayesian analysis of sloppiness to inform coral reef physiology modelling
- Anita Lin: TBC
- Kanu Agarwal: Modelling crown-of-thorns starfish control effort on the Great Barrier Reef
- Kaitlyn Brown: Understanding the role of size limits in optimal fisheries management
- Montana Wickens: Counting all the fish in the sea with POMDPs
- Owen Stewart: Exploiting Community Structure to Improve Diversity Estimation
- Rachael Brock: Dangerous declines: Predicting local extinction of bumphead parrotfish in the Solomon Islands
- Tace Stewart: The impacts of compound weather events for ecological decision making
10:30am – 11:00am - Morning tea (provided)
11:00 am -12:00pm - Research talks
- Jaye Newman: Impacts of body size on population dynamics of a polyphagous pest in the local landscape
- Shamika Prasadini Kekulthotuwage Don: Accounting for demographic uncertainty in interacting species systems
- Songyan Yu: Developing best practice guidelines for lake modelling to inform quantitative microbial risk assessment
- Thomas Richards: Separating Direct and Indirect Effects of Ungulate Grazers on Population Dynamics of a Grassland Herb
12:00pm - 1:00 pm - Lunch (provided)
1:00pm - 2:00pm - Panel discussion: Pathway to Impact
- Prof Kerrie Mengersen, QUT/ACEMS
- Prof Hugh Possingham, QLD Chief Scientist
2:00pm - 2:30pm - Afternoon tea (provided)
2:30pm - 3:30pm - Research talks
- Cailan Jeynes-Smith: Modelling Global Temperature Collapses
- Meagan Carney: Modeling climate extremes in a nonstationary setting
- Mischa Turschwell: Anthropogenic pressures and seagrass trends
- Oakes Holland: Ensemble ecosystem modelling to predict invasive species impacts in the Southern Ocean
3:30pm - 4:30pm - Research talks
- Chris Brown: Just another statistic? How quantitative ecology influences ocean conservation priorities
- Luke Lloyd-Jones: Monitoring wild populations with genetic mark-recapture
- Sam Nicol: Can we predict the risk of environmental noncompliance from proponent characteristics?