Featuring:
Professor Richard Eckard, Director of Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, the University of Melbourne
Professor Roslyn Gleadow, Professor of Plant Sciences, Monash University
Professor Nigel Tapper, Professor of Environmental Science, Monash University and the Water Sensitive Cities Cooperative Research Centre
Dr Pandora Hope, Principal Research Scientist Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Dr Simon Cropper, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
Ms Kat Clarke, Artist, Writer & Assistant Curator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Dr Lynne Kelly, Science Writer, Author of “The Memory Code” and “Memory Craft”
Dr Duane Hamacher, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University
Moderator: Dr Meredith McKague
Dr René Van der Sant, Land Asset Practitioner, Melbourne Water
Professor Patrick Lane, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, the University of Melbourne
Mr Jason Alexandra, Managing Director, Alexandra & Associates
Ms Rachel Brown, Senior Project Officer, Hydrology & Climate Science Team, Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning
Dr Tim Peterson, Research Fellow, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Dr Bill Jackson, Environmental Consultant, Formerly Chief Executive of Parks Victoria & Director of National Parks for the State of Victoria
Mr Braden Jenkin, Institute of Foresters of Australia, Australian Forest Growers
Dr Thomas Fairman, Forest Regulation Policy Officer, Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning
Professor Patrick Baker, Professor of Silviculture & Forest Ecology, The University of Melbourne
Panellists:
Dr Amy Edwards Homeward Bound 3; Postdoctoral Research Officer, Ecology, Environment & Evolution, Latrobe University
Dr Anita Goh Homeward Bound 3; Superstars of STEM 2019; Clinical Neuropsychologist and Research Fellow, National Ageing Research Institute Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, The University of Melbourne
Dr Kudzai Kanhutu Superstars of STEM 2019; Infectious diseases physician, Telehealth Clinical lead, Deputy Medical Information Officer, Royal Melbourne Hospital. University of Melbourne
Mr Simon Pampena Discovery International’s Outrageous Acts of Science, Australian Numeracy Ambassador 2009-2017
