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Event PROGRAM

1ST – 4TH OctoberEdith Cowan University

DAY 1

Tuesday 1ST October

DAY 2

Wednesday 2ND October

ALL DAY Fieldtrips

5 - 7 Conference Opening and WA Coastal Awards for Excellence at AQWA

8 - 8.30 REGISTRATION

8.15 - 8.30 Gather at smoking ceremony site

8.30 – 9.00 Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony – Dr Richard Walley OAM

9.10 – 9.35 Official Opening - Hon Alannah MacTiernan MLC

9.35 – 9.45 Welcome to Joondalup - Albert Jacob JP, Mayor, City of Joondalup.

9.45 – 10.30 PLENARY KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Dr Bill Hare, Director Climate AnalyticsThe Climate Crisis: Impact, Risks and Opportunities for Land, Sea and Coasts

10.30 - 10.55 MORNING TEA

10.55 - 11.00 WA Planning Commission Representative

11 – 11.45 PLENARY PRESENTATIONHeidi Taylor, Tangaroa BlueTackling Marine Debris – how citizen science has influenced policy and industry

11.45 – 1.15 BREAKOUT SESSIONS20 Min presentations followed by Q&A panel across all presentationsRoots to Shoots

11:45 – 12:05 Woodside coastal guardians – a cross-sector program

Lauren Pullella

Coastal classrooms - bringing the coast to our students, and our students to the coast

Garry Dagg

Noongar Boodja rangers - a sustainable business model

Natarsha Woods

Red card – 15 years of grass roots action

Rebecca Palumbo

12:05 – 12:25 Keeping watch on the health of Geographe Bay, South West WA - a collaborative effort

A/Prof Kathryn McMahon

Trees4Change – real experiences that make a real difference

Bruce Ivers

Introducing the Tending the Tracks Alliance

Graham Weber

Integrating training and biodiversity conservation: using multi-partner collaborations to protect and restore unique ecosystems

Dr Suresh Job, Juan Gutierrez

12:25 – 12:45 Making seagrass sexy: how to persuade everyone everywhere of the stunning importance of a random little green tinge on the horizon

Fiona West

SWCC drone command - building the next volunteer force for the environment

Jaya Vaughan

Recognised biosecurity groups - why they matter and what is there role?

Linda Vernon

What lies beyond ‘community engagement’ and ‘behaviour change’?

Dr Gaye Mackenzie

12:45 – 1:15 Q&A Panel with presenters Q&A Panel with presenters Q&A Panel with presenters Q&A Panel with presenters

2Our Coast |Our Land - Striving Together

Ngaalang booyembara|Ngaalang boodjar - Dandjoo warniny

DAY 2 – CONT’D

Wednesday 2ND October1.15 – 2.15 LUNCH

2.15 – 3.00 AFTERNOON PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKER / NRM/LANDCAREProfessor Peter Klinken, Chief Scientist of WA

Ecosystem and human health - healthy country, healthy people

AFTERNOON PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKER COASTALMatt Eliot, Damara WA

Improving the environment improves human health – how do we demonstrate that in south-western Australia?

3.00 – 3.30 AFTERNOON TEA

3.30 – 4.50 BREAKOUT SESSIONS20 Min presentations followed by Q&A panel across all presentationsCrossing Boundaries & Country Land and Sea

3:30 – 3:50 Vegetation decline in the wheatbelt of Western Australia

Dylan Copeland

Tracks across time: walking with our ancestors

Carol Pettersen, Assoc. Prof Eugene Eades

Looking after the Swan Estuary - a community group’s perspective

Margaret Matassa

Improving coastal engineering capacity at State Government levels

Tanya Stul

3:50 – 4:10 Creating a future for honeybees in Western Australia

Dr Liz Barbour

Living water: groundwater and wetlands in Gnangara, Noongar boodjar

Professor Len Collard, Professor Pierre Horwitz

Plant-herbivore interactions in a changing climate and implications for seagrass recovery

Caitlyn O’Dea

From CMPAP to CHRMAP... six years of the Coastal Management Plan Assistance Program

Vivienne Panizza

4:10 – 4:30 What is the current health of community Landcare in WA? Survey feedback 2019

Keith Bradby

Marlak Niran: returning country to bush (Noongar)

Oral McGuire, Anne Smith

TBC Examining the CHRMAP risk assessment process using the City of Wanneroo coastline as a case study

Daniel Strickland


6.00 – 7.00 EVENING PUBLIC LECTURE

Hosted by Edith Cowan University Joondalup 6.00 – 7.00

Glenda Wardle, President of the Ecosystem Sciences Council

Second Speaker TBC

What do Landcare and Coastcare need to do more than anything else in the next 2 - 5 years?



DAY 3

Thursday 3RD October8.30 - 8.45 REGISTRATION

8.45 - 8.55 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation representative

8.55 - 9.20 Hon. Stephen Dawson MLC Minister for Environment; Disability Services; Electoral Affairs

9.20 - 10.05 KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONPhil Duncan - Aboriginal Cultural Training Coordinator, Walanga Muru Macquarie University (NSW)What does strong collaboration look like?

10.05 - 10.30 Q&A: PANEL

10.30 -11 MORNING TEA

11-12.30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS20min presentations followed by Q&A panel across all presentationsOn the Edge

11:00 – 11:20 Community engagement: on the edge of the Darling Scarp

Mick Davis

Heal the land, heal the people: connecting generations to each other, and each other to country

David Collard, Daniel Mackey

Vulnerability as a positive attribute in managing the coastal zone

Dr Carmen Elrick-Barr

AusSeabed & DoTWA: collaborating to maximise Australia’s seabed mapping efforts

Ralph Talbot-Smith

11:20 – 11:40 Confidence in seed

Damian Grose

Noongar heritage and Natural Resource Management

Ken Hayward, Dennis Simmons

High-resolution monitoring to inform coastal management and hazards- examples from Mandurah

Dr Jeff Hansen

Assessment of coastal processes through remote coastal imaging

Sarah McCulloch

11:40 – 12:00 Win win restoration: conserving biodiversity and sequestering carbon at scale

Justin Jonson

Exploring earth laws and the ‘rights of nature’ - can changing the legal status of nature help us care for country?

Dr Michelle Maloney

From satellites to smart phones: using coastal imaging to quantify coastal dynamics

Dr Michael Cuttler

Understanding and predicting the long-term drivers of coastal flooding along southwestern Australia: implications for future coastal flood risk

Professor Ryan Lowe


12.30 -1.30 LUNCH

1.30 - 3.00 WORKSHOPS

1:30 – 2:15 GreenPrints—a pathway for exploring bioregional governance and living within our ecological limits

Dr Michelle Maloney

Scaling up ecological restoration across Australia’s Great Southern landscapes for wildlife habitat, regenerative agriculture and climate change

Dr Blair Parsons

Coastal and marine research - a workshop to identify and prioritize research needed to enhance coastal management WA

Prof Ryan Lowe, Dr Ingrid Sieler, Kate Sputore, Dr Abbie Rogers

Realising managed coastal retreat

Dr Garry Middle, WALGA, DPLH

2:20 – 3:00 Improving the environment improves human health – how do we demonstrate that in south-western Australia?

Keith Bradby

NatureLink Perth: connecting people to champion a biodiverse and liveable city

Dr Jane Chambers

Open Space Sessions Coast SWaP - statewide coastal community networks gathering - open session

Jo Ludbrook, Blair Darvill

3.00 -3.30 AFTERNOON TEA

3.30 – 4.30 SHORT SHARP 10 MINUTE PRESENTATIONSAll themes

3:30 – 3:40 Synergistic use of remote sensing and field data for forest above-ground biomass estimation

Professor Mui-How Phua

Caring with country and culture

Johnny Prefumo

Fostering a strong network of coastal community groups in the Peel and South West

Joanne Ludbrook

Benefits of coordination between coastal managers - Esperance Bay erosion management case study

Frederic Saint-Cast



DAY 3 – CONT’D

Thursday 3RD October3:45 – 3:55 Food Security –

Informing investment into sustainable food systems

Keith Pekin

Noongar six season walks - facilitating country and culture connections

Sharon Munro

Removing barriers for school participation in coastal and marine education through Perth NRM’s Adopt-A-Beach Program

Wayne Walters

Collaborative approach - Community values to inform the management of the City of Joondalup coastal zone

Heidi Khojasteh

3:55 – 4:05 A local business investing in on-farm landcare that makes money for the farmer: the QFH multi-parts productive landcare demonstration

Ella Maesepp

Farm dams as refuges for freshwater plants and animals in a drying climate

Karen Warner

Social inclusion - gaining new volunteers and increasing social awareness by tapping into the mental and physical health aspects of NRM volunteer opportunities

Gilda Davies

Rockingham coastal management - maintaining balance

Cory Smith

4:10 – 4:30 Q&A Panel Presenters Q&A Panel Presenters Q&A Panel Presenters Q&A Panel Presenters

6.30 -11 CONFERENCE DINNER AND 2019 WA LANDCARE AWARDSThe Marina, Mindarie



DAY 4

Friday 4TH October8.30 - 9 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

9- 9.30 MORNING OPENING AND WELCOME Hon Dave Kelly MLA, Minister for Water; Fisheries; Forestry; Innovation and ICT; Science

9.30 -10.30 PLENARY KEYNOTE - CATHY MCGOWAN AOBuilding community resilience in the face of change

10.30 -11 MORNING TEA

11-12.30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS20 min presentationsProductive Use of Resources andPolicy, Laws and Traditional Knowledges: Help or hindrance?

11:00 – 11:20 Insights from a decade of whole farm nutrient mapping

David Rogers

Landscape restoration and climate change mitigation

Ray Wilson

Community engagement in scientific assessment, management and conservation of marine biodiversity with the Reef Life Survey Foundation

Paul Day

Right-way research on Kimberley saltwater country

Daniel Oades, Dean Matthews

11:20 – 11:40 Growing a saline bush tucker industry; piecing the jigsaw together to get degraded paddocks back onto your plate.

Ella Maesepp

Wooleen Station and how Landcare can support farmers better

Dave Pollock

Sea country planning in Bardi Jawi country

Harriet Davies and Zach Ejai

Coastal adaptation - challenges and opportunities

Craig Perry, Joanne Ludbrook

11:40 – 12:00 Biochar: more than a regenerative agriculture tool

Kathy Dawson

TBC Perth coastal recreational use study - a strategic and alternative view of our coast

Dr Garry Middle

Community valuation instruments for coastal hazard adaptation planning

Abbie Rogers


12.45 - 1.30 LUNCHTIME - AUSTRALIAN COASTAL SOCIETY AGM

12.30 -1.30 LUNCH

1.30 – 2.30 FINAL PLENARY WRAP UP ON KEY QUESTIONS/ACTIONS NRM/LANDCARE STREAM

y What policy steps and support are needed for effective community NRM/ landcare efforts from now?

y What is the role for NRM/Landcare in addressing the climate crisis, how do we act and adapt?

FINAL PLENARY WRAP UP ON KEY QUESTIONS/ACTIONS COASTCARE STREAM

y What policy steps and support are needed for effective community Coastcare efforts from now?

y What is the role for Coastcare in addressing the climate crisis, how do we act and adapt?

2.30 – 3.30 KEY THREE POINTS SHARED FROM NRM/LANDCARE AND COASTAL STREAM PLENARIESCONFERENCE WRAP UP STATE NRM OFFICE DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTGOLD HAT REPORTCHAIR: FINAL WORDS

BE PART OF CREATING A LAND ART SCULPTURE AT THE CONFERENCE

Well recognised artist Elaine Clocherty will lead creation of an art piece within the topic ‘From Roots to Shoots’ using natural materials and the patterns and shapes found in nature to celebrate and highlight aspects of our coast and bushland areas.

All conference participants of any age or background can help make the artwork during the conference.

PLAY WITH YOUR CATCHMENT

A model catchment with running water and moving parts will be located in the Conference common area.



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