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11 MAY 2021


OPENING PLENARY

Conference Opening: SERA Chair Bruce Clarkson

 

Welcome to Country Aunty Bilawara Lee, Larrakia Elder

 

Assoc Prof Adriana Verges, Engaging coastal communities in the restoration of underwater forests and meadows


Human Dimensions in Restoration

sponsoredby City of Darwin

The Djurrubu Rangers Ranger Team Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, Restoring cultural values in wetlands of the Mirarr Estate

 

Rodger Barnes, Indigenous groups, rehabilitation and mine closure: exploring the Australian terrain

 

Jacob Mills, Nature-based public health interventions and the case for Indigenouslead urban restoration

 

Jackie Hartnett, Rum Jungle Land Management Trainees. Rum Jungle Mine Rehabilitation – Direct Participation in Work Delivery, a Pathway for Two-way Learning


SOILS

Haylee D’Agui, Functional and biological analysis of topsoil at mine sites in Western Australia


Leveraging Technology, Scale, and Networks for Restoration

Nardia Grant, Bringing Back the Forest: Reforestation Provides Climate Mitigation Opportunities for Mining Regions of the World

 

Nicholas Gellie, Collaborating on method development to pilot a Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) Network in Australia

 

Aaron Eger, The Kelp Forest Alliance: A Global Network for Kelp Ecosystem Restoration and conservation

 

Jaume Ruscalleda Alvarez, Near-surface remote sensing of plant condition in mine site restoration environments

 

Richard Campbell, Reef Builder: A bold plan to recover critically endangered shellfish ecosystems

 

Phillip McKenna, A Review Remote Sensing of Post-Mine Rehabilitation for Ecological Outcomes

 

Blair Parsons, New approaches to driving ecological restoration at scale in Australia’s Great Southern Landscapes

 

Tipton Hudson, Data-driven dynamic grazing decisions for increasingly variable landscapes

 

The Arts and Restoration – Linking Nature and Culture

David Curtis and William R. Jordan III, The arts – turning hearts and minds towards restoration

 
 

Narelle Vogel, People + art + wetlands = connections using creativity to interpret stories of the Landscape

 

Marcus-Rongowhitiao Shadbolt and Jamie Ataria Empowering the Indigenous voice in a graphical representation of Aotearoa’s bio-cultural heritage (flora and fauna)

 

Tein McDonald, A journey from depiction to performance art

 

Liz (BELANJEE) Cameron, Ways of art making and seeing within creative healing practices

Panel Discussion

 

Current Perspectives on Ranger Mine Restoration

Moderator Introduction by Keith Taylor

 

Megan Parry, Ranger Mine Species Establishment Research Program

 

Chris Brady, Cultural reconnection with the Ranger Project Area

 

David Loewensteiner, The Practical Development of a Reference Ecosystem to Inform Mine Site Restoration

 

Sarah Smith, Development of Fauna closure criteria for the Ranger Mine

 

Ping Lu, From a waste rock landform to a vibrant ecosystem: lesson learnt from a 12-year-long trial at Ranger uranium mine

 

Trajectories and Spatiotemporal Patterns

Katherine Harries, The ecological trajectory of 25-year-old mine rehabilitation from historical sleuthing & longitudinal survey

 

Peter Erskine, The utility of historic data to guide the rehabilitation of Ranger uranium mine

 

Dr Fiamma Riviera, Long-term patterns and drivers of recovery of Banksia woodlands restored after sand quarrying