Workshops
AMSA 2019 Conference pre and post conference workshops
Please note that all workshops are only available for conference delegates. Venues, dates and cost are still to be confirmed and will be announced shortly.
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How to access and use IMOS data for your research
Since 2006, IMOS has been routinely operating a wide range of observing equipment throughout Australia’s coastal and open oceans, making all of its data accessible to the marine and climate science community, other stakeholders and users, and international collaborators.
This workshop is to assist the scientific community to discover, access, download, use and understand the potential of the data.
Presentations will be made by key leaders responsible for the collection and dissemination of the data with examples of how they have used the data sets to further their research. Hands on guided tutorials will be show how the AODN portal can be used and a summary of tools that are available to analyse the data
Objectives: Enable researchers to easily discover, access, download and use IMOS data.
Requirements (i.e. software, laptop): Participants to BYO laptop
Length: Full Day
When: Sunday 7th 10:00 – 17:00 pm
Cost: Free
Venue: Notre Dame University, Fremantle (room number to be confirmed)
Contact: Paul Thomson; paul.thomson@uwa.edu.au; Craig Steinberg; C.Steinberg@aims.gov.au,
Charitha Pattiaratchi; chari.pattiaratchi@uwa.edu.au
National AusSeabed Workshop
The AusSeabed program is a national collaborative initiative operated by Commonwealth, State and Territory entities, universities and industry. The program aims to improve the awareness, coverage, quality, discoverability and accessibility of seabed mapping data through coordination and collaboration in the Australian region. In the spirit of “collect once, use many times”, AusSeabed provides an open collaboration space where data creators and users can better connect to develop initiatives and products that will improve the quality, discoverability and accessibility of seabed mapping data.
Since 2016, AusSeabed has produced the Australian Multibeam Guidelines, a website and data discovery portal, an upcoming survey register system, a national government bathymetry priorities map, and a plan to guide the contributions of the Australian seafloor mapping community to international initiatives.
This workshop will include the AusSeabed AGM and a workshop session to finalise the AusSeabed Strategic Plan, including the program theme roadmaps. We will also discuss and finalise the user requirements and considerations for the Data Hub and continue discussions on how Australia might best contribute to international initiatives such as Seabed 2030 and mobilise bathymetry data from the Australian region.
We encourage all users and collectors of seabed mapping data to attend and join our community. We will announce and distribute the workshop agenda closer to the event and have made previous workshop minutes available here.
Length: Full Day
When: Friday 12th July 9:00-16:00
Cost: $15
Venue: The Fremantle Ports Conference room (room number to be confirmed)
Contact: Ralph Talbot Smith; Ralph.Talbot-Smith@transport.wa.gov.au, Iain Parnum; I.Parnum@curtin.edu.au, Kim Picard; Kim.Picard@ga.gov.au, Aero Leplastrier; Aero.Leplastrier@ga.gov.au
Pilbara Coastal and Marine Science Symposium
The Geological Society of Australia Inc. (GSA) and partners invite abstracts for oral and/or poster presentations for the Pilbara Coastal and Marine Science Symposium (PCMSS) on Friday 12 July 2019 at the Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle. This Symposium is linked to the Australian Marine Science Association Conference (AMSA 2019) Fremantle 7th- 11th July “Marine Science for a Blue Economy”. In this context, the PCMSS provides a region-specific exposé of this theme.
The scope of the Symposium will be the natural region of the Pilbara Coast – shown in the upper right illustration, extending from Giralia Bay in south-eastern Exmouth Gulf, through the Dampier Archipelago, to as far north as Pardoo Creek, the eastern distributary of the De Grey River delta, and includes the corridor of near-coastal islands such as the Mangrove Islands, Weld Is., Regnard Is., Dixon Is., and Depuch Is.
Themes of the Symposium will include (1) coastal geology and nearshore, geomorphology, and physical features of the Pilbara Coast, (2) coastal, nearshore, and hinterland ecology (including coastal habitats, mangroves, rocky shore, saltmarsh, seagrass, coral reefs, fish, amongst others), (3) link between geodiversity and biodiversity along the Pilbara Coast, (4) Indigenous, archaeological, and rock art aspects, (5) European colonisation and industry, and (6) conservation and management.
Objectives: The aim of the Symposium is to bring together up-to-the-present and state-of-the-art science of universities, government agencies, researchers, and industry in a symposium to share information and exchange ideas towards the understanding and better management of the Pilbara Coast. The objective also is to produce a quality refereed publication.
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Date: Friday 12th July
Cost:
$150 for AMSA delegates
$120 for AMSA members
$90 for students
Venue: WA Maritime Museum
Full day: Times TBA
Post Symposium Sundowner RSVP: pcmss-wra@iinet.net.au
AMSA WA Annual Student Workshop
Every year in June, the AMSA WA branch holds the Annual Rottnest Student Workshop. Typically, student members would go to Rottnest Island for two days where they give a presentation on their research in an informal, stress free setting (no supervisors etc.) and then hear from invited speakers on career pathways. For 2019, the AMSA WA branch have decided to hold the workshop in conjunction with the national AMSA conference. The workshop will be held at a venue close to Fremantle, will be opened up to all AMSA student members and non-members, and will have a change in presentation style (shortened snapchats) to accommodate a larger group.
The purpose of holding the student workshop every year is to give students a chance to practice presenting ahead of the AMSA conference and to become more comfortable in doing so. This is still the intent of the 2019 workshop but with an added bonus of students being able to meet and greet other students from around Australia and form a network ready to head into the conference with.
Objectives: To provide an informal environment for students to practice their talks in preparation for the conference.
Requirements (i.e. software, laptop): Presentation on a USB
Length: Full day
When: Sunday 7th July 9:00-17:00
Cost: $5 for AMSA members, $10 for non-members
Venue: Notre Dame University, Fremantle (room number to be confirmed)
Contact: Alicia Sutton alicialouisesutton@gmail.com
Conservation issues of dolphin populations in urban areas
Dolphin populations inhabiting urban areas are impacted by various anthropogenic factors. Coastal development, habitat loss, prey depletion, fisheries interaction, disturbance acoustic and vessel traffic, vessel collisions, harassment through tourism, as well as illegal feeding are among many other factors that have had effects on dolphin populations. Although impacts to individuals can readily be observed (e.g., fishing line entanglement, boat strike), how these affect a population is less apparent and can include lower reproduction rates, higher mortality from indirect causes (e.g. stress related immune suppression) and avoidance all of which may lead to a declining population. The workshop will be organised into two sections. First, we would like to discuss how researchers, policy makers and managers work (or do not work) together to achieve the objective of ensuring protection of the population using three locations where the demographic parameters for dolphin populations are reasonably well understood. Secondly, we would want to have small group discussions to facilitate effective brainstorming of solutions for improving the effectiveness of conservation of dolphin populations as well as other marine megafauna.
Objectives: With the help of a facilitator, we aim to bring together researchers, managers, NGOs and policy makers to discuss conservation issues that are recognised for marine mammal populations inhabiting urban areas; what solutions have been implemented so far and the results if any; and what else can be done to minimise those issues. A report will be written to summarise the outcome of the discussions and to provide a set of resolutions designed to specify some short- and long-term goals to help researchers, stakeholders, managers and policy makers with management strategies and decision-making.
Length: Full day
When: Sunday 7th July 9:00-17:00
Cost: $30
Venue: Notre Dame University, Fremantle (room number TBA)
Contact: Dr Delphine Chabanne, Murdoch University; Delphine.Chabanne@murdoch.edu.au
Mike Bossley (Dolphin Sanctuary, Adelaide)
Australian mesophotic ecosystems: Developing a coordinated approach to a metadata and community structure analysis, and future research
Research of mesophotic reefs has been growing strongly in Australia. In recent years there has been large rise in the number of papers published from many parts of Australia, including tropical and temperate ecosystems. It is now likely that there is sufficient data across multiple agencies to allow for comparisons of community structure across depth and latitudinal gradients. This would include data on sessile benthic invertebrates, algae, benthic fishes and pelagic fishes. This workshop aims to bring researchers together to brainstorm the idea of an Australia wide metadata analysis to scope a series of papers covering several aspects of mesophotic ecosystems across Australia. We will take advantage of existing databases such as GlobalArchive, BenthoBox and Squidle+ to identify existing data, data gaps and requirements to fill data gaps. Understanding wide-scale variations and overlaps would greatly increase the ability to make effective conservation and management actions nationally.
We invite all researchers that are interested and have access to physical, biological, geological, social or economic data from 30-150 m depths to come along and participate in this workshop. This will provide the ideal opportunity to meet and chat with other researchers working in the mesophotic zone.
Objectives:
- Develop nationwide working group (leaders and helpers)
- Brainstorm ideas for a series of papers (aims, hypothesis, research questions)
- Establish available data and begin metadata collation
- Establish timeframe
- Discuss coordinated approach to future research
Length: 2 hours
Date: Friday 12th July 9-11:00am
Venue: Notre Dame University
Cost: $10
Project Management Foundations Workshop
Description: While seldom a core consideration, all scientific investigations require some degree of administrative organisation. At the simplest level this is to ensure scientific outputs, reports or publications, are met in timeframes that are agreed and within expected budgets. However, as accountability and the complexity of programs increase, systematic approaches are required to ensure all aspects of a scientific investigation can remain on track, which in turn is important to attract new projects, maintain sufficient flow of funds to keep first-rate scientists, and to obtain and maintain the required facilities and equipment that underpin the science.
If applied correctly, effective project management offers skills, tools and techniques to meet the full range of project requirements – not just the scientific outputs. Moreover, it also allows managing project teams, including people who don’t usually work together; sometimes from different organisations and across multiple geographies. Effective project management also enables project risks to be identified and managed. Risk is the possibility that you may not achieve your scientific output, schedule, or budget targets because something unexpected occurs or something planned doesn’t occur. This workshop covers project management foundations to ensure scientists are left with a basic understanding of the principles of effective project management, as well as providing useful tools for everyday application to project managing scientific research. This workshop would also suit researchers who are transitioning between academia and industry.
Date: Friday 12th July 12-2:00pm
Venue: Notre Dame University
Cost: $10
