Managing Wetlands Workshop
The Managing Wetlands Workshop held in Canberra on 6 September was opened by National Water Commissioner Stuart Bunn and attended by over 150 people representing more than 70 organisations.
The workshop provided information and tools for wetland practitioners based on best practice scientific research and was also an extremely useful forum for knowledge exchange and networking.
Many attendees commented that the event provided a valuable opportunity to engage informally with the presenters.
- Presentation by Stuart Bunn (PDF 733KB)
- Presentation by Ben Gawne and Leah Beesley (PDF 2.43MB)
- Presentation by Jane Roberts (PDF 2.58MB)
- Presentation by Darren Baldwin - Part 1 (PDF 7.91MB)
- Presentation by Darren Baldwin - Part 2 (PDF 4.18MB)
- Presentation by Richard Kingsford - Part 1 (PDF 6.09MB)
- Presentation by Richard Kingsford - Part 2 (PDF 6.16MB)
- Presentation by Mike Ronan (PDF 4.81MB)
- Presentation by Lillian Moseley (PDF 37KB)
- Presentation by Clare Taylor (PDF 641KB)
- Presentation by Amanda Wealands (PDF 2.81MB)
To provide summarised information in an easy-to-read format, a booklet detailing the project components including details on recommendations, outputs and findings for completed projects was produced for all projects covered by the presenters.
Products from three RNWS-funded projects were launched at the workshop:
- Optimising environmental protocols to benefit native fish populations
- Water regime for wetland and floodplain plants: a source book for the Murray-Darling Basin
- Minimising environmental damage from water recovery of inlaid wetlands
The program covered other Commission projects:
- National water resource assessment using waterbirds as indicators
- National framework for river and wetland health and associated trials
- Aboriginal community engagement in water planning in NSW
- Australian environmental water management report 2010
The final session of the workshop sought input from participants about investments. Comments included:
- there is a need for a national framework or registry of research and knowledge activities in order to avoid duplication
- specialist knowledge of wetland plants is a knowledge-gap and should be an educational priority
- strategic monitoring and evaluation programs are critical to ensure a better understanding of the resources
- information explored in the workshop needs to reach senior policy makers
- the compliance and monitoring of water sharing plans is highly relevant and important.
And the winner is....
Finally, thank you to all who participated and who completed the workshop evaluation forms - the information has been analysed and has given the Commission valuable feedback.
Congratulations to Lara Johnson of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (DSEWPaC) who is the winner of the special edition "Roberts and Marston update" - the Water regime for wetland and floodplain plants: a source book for the Murray-Darling Basin book.