Happenings and seminars

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From time to time, the School awards, or administers the awards of, prizes which recognise the academic achievements of outstanding students in the school. Recipients are entitled to note their achievement in the curriculum vitae. Find out about the various prizes.

• Monday 21 July
  Professor Andrew Beer has been invited to join the Board of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) which would make him the first Australian person to be honoured – a tremendous achievement for Flinders.
  The Regional Studies Association is a learned society concerned with analysis of regions and regional issues. Through their international membership they provide an authoritative voice of, and network for, academics, students, practitioners, policy makers and interested lay people in the field of regional studies. Details of their activities include: their journals Regional Studies and Spatial Economic Analysis, quarterly newsletter Regions and annual international conferences.  Available at: http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/
  
  
• Tuesday 15 July
  New Publication: Baker, Emma (2008) Improving Outcomes of Forced Residential Relocation: The Development of an Australian Tenants' Spatial Decision Support System, Urban Studies, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 1712-1728.
  
  
• Monday 7 July
  Iain Hay was elected Vice-President (President-Elect) of the Institute of Australian Geographers at its recent annual meeting in Hobart, Tasmania. He was also admitted as one of two new Fellows of the Institute.
  
  Iain Hay delivered papers at the 2008 conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers entitled 'Issues in postcolonial networking – the case of INLT' and 'Geography's poverty - the super-rich'.
  
  
• Friday 4 July
  The School is holding a postgraduate symposium in the Conference Room of the Function Centre from 12 noon - 2.30 pm. Hugh Kearns, Head of Staff Development, will speak on mentoring from 12 noon - 1.30 which will be followed by lunch.
  
  
• Thursday 3 July
  Flinders Partners are hosting a Meet and Greet morning tea in the Social Sciences North Common Room for the staff of the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management.
  
  
• Tuesday 1 July
  Congratulations to Dr Beverley Clarke who has been promoted to Senior Lecturer, Level C.
  
  
• Thursday 26 June
  At the request of the presenters, the SGPEM seminars by Dr Jim Chalmers and Mr Hans Pieters (scheduled for today June 26 and July 3) have been postponed until Semester 2 - date to be circulated shortly. 
  
  
• Thursday 12 June
  Seminar: Amity James , PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental management, Flinders University, 'Ageing in non metropolitan regions: Intentions and realities', 1.00 - 1.50 pm, SSN 242.
  
  
• Thursday 5 June
  The School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management organised a series of events to mark World Environment Day which included the launch of a poster competition for school students (details and entry form), a special event on the Flinders courtyard and engagement with the media. Please click here (PDF 5,918KB) for photographs of our School's World Environment Day activities at Flinders University, together with other participants.
  
  
  Dr Beverley Clarke planting trees on World Environment Day, June 2008
  
  
• Thursday 5 June
  Seminar: Noel Richards, PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental management, Flinders University, 'Prescribed Burning in Peri-Urban Australia: how and why are decisions to burn made?', 1.00 - 1.50 pm, SSN 242.
  
  
• Monday 2 June
  Dr Meryl Pearce will present a paper at the Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earch conference 1-6 June at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece. Her paper is entitled 'Cultural differences in the understanding of water resource systems' and is authored by Meryl Pearce, Eileen Willis and Carmel McCarthy.
  
  Dr Simon Benger has been appointed to the SA Department of Education SACE Geography Curriculum Committee.
  
  
• Thursday 29 May
  Seminar: Dr Yan Tan, Research Fellow, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University, 'An Overview of Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project', 1.00 - 1.50 pm, SSN 242.
  
  
• Thursday 22 May
  Honours Thesis Seminars, Room 242 SSN, 1.00 pm
  

  1.00   Andrew Koerber
  Minesite Rehabilitation at Onesteel's Iron Queen, SA.
  1.20   Michael Stead
  Examining the sensitivity of select dominant tree species within the Mount Lofty Ranges (MLR) to climate change using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS)
  1.40   Nikki Anderson
  The Biological Surrogacy Issue: Choosing species for optimal habitat reconstruction in the Adelaide and Mt. Lofty Ranges
  

• Thursday 15 May
  Honours Thesis Seminars, Room 242 SSN, 1.00 pm
  
  1.00   Manal Rachid
  Identification of significant European archaeological sites in Adelaide using remote sensing
  1.20   Marissa Bertram
  Transport sustainability and accessibility at Mount Barker/Murray Bridge
  1.40   Joel Chance
  Implications of boat traffic on the short term behaviour of Bottlenose Dolphins in the Port River
  
  
  
• Thursday 8 May
  A presentation evening was held in the Function Centre of the University to congratulate students on their awards.
  
  Marissa Schaefer, Simon Benger, and Andrew Lothian presenting the EIANZ Award
  
  
  
• Thursday 8 May
  Seminar: Dr Frances Mowling, Principal Consultant, Climate Change Programs, Rural Solutions SA, 'Approaches to documenting coastlines which are vulnerable to sea level rise and storm surge', 1.00 - 1.50 pm, SSN 242.
  
  
  
• Monday 5 May
  Professor Iain Hay has been admitted as a Senior Fellow (SFHEA) of the Higher Education Academy in the UK,  a major honour  that  "recognises outstanding achievement in teaching and enhancing the student learning experience, combined with scholarship and academic leadership".  Mark Israel has also been admitted as a Senior Fellow and as far as we know he and Iain are the first non-UK people to be honoured - a tremendous achievement for Flinders.
  
  Congratulations to Iain on receiving such significant international recognition.
  
  

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