Employment Opportunities
On this page you will find advertisements for employment opportunities in the fields of ecology, conservation biology, environmental sciences, marine biology, forestry etc. Job listings are updated regularly, s...

SEL (AEDA) scientists commissioned for independent report on Timor Oil slick
Drs James Watson and Liana Joseph were commissioned by the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the ARts (DEWHA) to prodice an

Australia's Declining Birds - ABC 7:30 report
Hugh Possingham and others interviewed about this including comments on Australia's National Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020

Marxan Courses November 2009
Introduction to Marxan - UQ, Brisbane:   November 25-26, 2009

Carissa Klein interviewed for the American Australian Association, Aug 09


Post Doctoral Research Fellow - Biodiversity & ecosystem Services in the context of climate change


UQ position - Prof of Applied Math/Stats/Resource Modelling
Reference No: 3020850.   Applications close 30 September 2009.

Ecology Centre members win Eureka Prize!!
L to R: Professor Hugh Possingham, Mr Brian Sherman AM (Sherman ...

**NEW BOOK ** - Spatial Conservation Prioritization, Moilanen, Wilson & Possingham - OUT NOW!


AEDA Conservation Letters paper on Reducing Emmissions & saving biodiversity hits 65+ media outlets & radio
An AEDA paper published in Conservation Letters on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) and biodiversity conservation hits 65 media outlets and radio.  Lead by Oscar Venter, an AEDA PhD student (www.aeda.edu.au), r...

Dr Kerrie Wilson - more awards!!
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Treml et al paper wins Landscape Ecology 2008 award!
Award winning research all at sea - paper wins Landscape Ecology 2008 Award  

TERN - new era of ecosystem management


MPA Principals Guidance Statement
  Scientific Principles for Design of Marine Protected Areas in Australia: A Guidance Statement

Marine Protected Areas Guidance Statement: final version for endorsement now available!


SEL in Nature News - Modelling can help conservationists ...


SEL Tiger tamers - Managing endangered cryptic species
Drs Eve McDonald-Madden & Iadine Chades discuss their research on managing endangered cryptic species while visiting a real life example

Top 50 Queenslanders - Hugh Possingham
The Courier Mail QWeekend, Top 50 Queenslanders, 21 November 2008

YouTube of Hugh at Greenfest Brisbane, Oct 08
Over three days, 10-12 October 2008, Brisbane hosted the Greenfest The festival, free to everyone, brought together music, movies, exhibitors, and speakers. Professor Hugh...

NEWS FLASH - AEDA/SIB Most Cited Author Award


MEDIA RELEASE Long Paddock Scientists's Statement
Leading scientists call for protection of iconic stock routes network. 500 ecologists and wildlife scientists today called on the Premiers of NSW and Queensland to protect the 3.2 million hectare travelling stock route network, which has nationally imp

2008 Smart State, Smart Women finalists
 QLD Sma...

Jump-start Environmental Monitoring
ECOS Science Alert article, August 2008

10th Intecol conference, workshop proposals
Workshops are now being planned for the INTECOL 10 Congress in Brisbane, Australia 16-21 August 2009. Deadling 15 July 2008 for proposals.

Marxan article - wildlife conservation
Wildlife Conservation 2.0 A new software-based approach may be the key to saving thousands of species, by Erika Check Hayden

New Marxan Web site
New Marxan Web site - http://www.uq.edu.au/marxan We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website dedicated to Marxan Software. ...

Eddie wins best student talk!


Nature Paper - What to let go
What to let go - not all species can be saved from extincion. Emma Marris talks to conservation biologists about prioritization and triage.

Smart Women - Smart State awards
Five Ecology Centre students are winners!

SRA 2007 conference papers now able to be viewed


The ecology equation - Courier Mail 17 Aug 07
Hugh Possingham likes to count his chickens before they hatch - understandable given that his illustrious scientific career began with birdwatching around the suburbs of Adelaide. Read on ......

NEW - AKF/UQ Koala Planning Guidelines 2007
New Australian Koala Foundation/Uni of Qld Koala Planning Guidelines 2007

Australian environmental research to blossom through new $6.9 million Hub
Prof Hugh Possingham heads up one of three world-class multi-disciplinary research hubs to explore Australia?s most pressing environmental challenges.

QLinks - Landcare Bulletin July Edition, 2006


Birds Queensland - 2006 Funding


ABC News in Science - The biggest bang for our conservation buck
Scientists are using mathematical formulae normally used by economists and engineers to work out which of the world's biodiversity hotspots to save first. Ecologist and mathematician Professor Hugh Possingham and team at the University of Queensland repo

UQ researchers introduce a new framework for conservation spending
University of Queensland researchers have developed a unique approach to guide conservation spending that will revolutionise the way environmental bodies allocate funding.

Part of Great Barrier Reef now 'a white desert'
New bleaching around the Keppel Islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef include this stand of staghorn corals, photographed on Feb. 22. "My estimate is in the vicinity of 95 to 98 percent of the coral is bleached in the Keppels," said Berkelmans from t

EnviroLinks Newsletter March 2006


Qlinks Landcare CONFERENCE BULLETIN


CSIRO Pressure to shun climate scientists


HUGH POSSINGHAM - WINNER 2005 SUPERVISION EXCELLENCE AWARD
Prof. Hugh Possingham has been awarded a 2005 Supervision Excellence Award

NEW SOFTWARE - P.A.N.D.A
New Software to compliment MARXAN

Conservation Leadership Programme - Closes 23rd November 2007
Call for Applications 2008 Conservation Leadership Programme Awards Deadline 23rd November 2007 The Conservation Leadership Programme (formerly the BP Conservation Programme) is pleased to announce the call for applications for 2008 CLP Team Awar

Post-doctoral research position: plant dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes
Post-doctoral research position: plant dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes – 2 years funding This post-doc is to undertake research on the effect of landscape heterogeneity on movement of the invasive Corsic...

THREE POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS - QUANTITATIVE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY