SCRC: SCRC RTG 3.11: CRC Research Travel Grant: To attend workshop at NIRS 2009 conference (Dr Malcolm Brown)
SCRC: SCRC RTG 3.1: Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) Flow of Cytometry Methods Course and Workshop (Dr Melony Sellars: Student Andrew Foote)
Final report
Develop knowledge and skills in flow cytometry to help advance the progress of my CRC project; advance my professional development; share my skills and knowledge with relevant CRC participants and projects.
Flow cytometry is a very useful tool which can be used for almost any molecular application where fluorescent stains can be used. It has the advantage of fast and accurate processing of large quantities of data, including the analysis of several different components in each of the tens to hundreds of thousands of cells processed per sample.
The objective of this travel grant was to allow the researcher to develop knowledge and skills in flow cytometry to help advance the progress of his CRC project; advance his professional development; and share his skills and knowledge with relevant CRC participants and projects.
Comparative evaluation of Integrated Coastal Marine Management in Australia - Workshop
There is widespread evidence, in Australia and internationally, of increased need for an improved, practical approach to integrated management (IM) of fisheries and other coastal marine activities that is able to fully embrace the social, economic and institutional aspects (the so-called ‘human dimensions), of management. Assessment and management systems traditionally neglect the human dimensions. Further, they treat sectors separately, often with different authorities managing diverse activities in different ways, resulting in inconsistencies in management across activities. The result is that there is almost no consideration of the cumulative social, economic or ecological impacts of multiple activities, and no way of informing trade-offs among activities in management decision-making.
Experience to date is that IM has been only partially successful. Management of multiple activities has been additive…squeezing one activity in among others (e.g aquaculture in light of others). While there are some examples of movement toward IM, these have resulted in partial or temporary success. There are examples where management has started toward IM, but progress has been stalled or has fallen back. In general, many preconditions exist, but it has been hypothesized that management is missing key aspects of intentional design that would allow IM to proceed.
The proposed workshop will bring together those with both the science knowledge and the operational knowledge of 8-10 Australian IM case studies and a few with international expertise, to evaluate and compare experience towards identifying key elements of success and failure of Integrated Management.