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Current Update:
Airborne Research Australia (Flinders University) featured on ABC TV program Nexus and broadcast all over Asia
The 5 minute video was presented/edited by Flinder's Dr. Rob Morrison and is available on http://www.airborneresearch.org.au
http://www.airborneresearch.org.au/ARAbyNEXUS.wmv

Previous updates :
Flinders Airborne Research outstation at Parafield Airport
The research, led by Dr Jorg Hacker, is very much climate related and could also be
called "adventures in environmental sciences". The team recently released its Tri-Annual Report,  “a good read and not all ‘dry science’”
http://www.airborneresearch.org.au
http://www.airborneresearch.org.au/TriAnnualReport.pdf
Dr. Jorg M. Hacker, Director/Chief Scientist Jorg.Hacker@flinders.edu.au
Flinders Centre for Airborne Research/Airborne Research Australia  Flinders University
PO Box 335, Salisbury South, 5106, Australia

Premier's Science and Research Fund - Applications open .
The Premier's Science and Research Fund (PSRF), incorporating the Sustainable
Energy Research Grants Program (formerly known as SENRAC), is an initiative of
the South Australian Government and the Premier's Science and Research Council
(PSRC).
You can view the entire post by clicking the following link
http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/research/2008/07/18/premiers-science-and-research-fund-applications-open/
Important information about grant lodgement and due dates is available at the
following webpage:
http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/research/help-support/email-notice/

Adelaide Professor says extreme solutions to SA water crisis may be needed.
University of Adelaide Professor of Water Economics, Mike Young (a member of South Australia’s Sustainability Round table) has warned that SA reservoirs are less than half full, and the Murray is headed for a record low this month. We have had the fourth driest autumn and the second driest May ever recorded. Unless there are significant rains during this winter, we will need to consider drastic action including pumping recycled sewage into drinking water reservoirs and draconian water restrictions. Scientists are warning that COAG must act.
(Sunday Mail, June 22, p13; http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/24/2284434.htm)

Australian scientists issue a ‘call to arms’ for urgent climate change action.
A group, which includes some of the country's leading scientists, population and health experts, is calling for an urgent response to global warming. They say global warming is accelerating at a greater speed than previously thought and the window of opportunity for avoiding severe consequences is rapidly closing.

Climate scientist Professor Barry Brook, from the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the Adelaide University, said the most important theme coming from the statement was that global warming was happening much faster than scientists had anticipated five or 10 or even a couple of years ago.

On the other hand, there were a lot of opportunities available now to massively reduce our green house gas emissions, and do so in a very cost-effective way. He said one example was energy efficiency, that would save money while cutting emissions. The obstacles to change were not technical or economic. The technologies to implement energy efficiency and also to really scale up rapidly our use of renewable energy, such as solar and wind, were available. What was needed was the social and political will.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/14/2274752.htm

Previous Updates

Flinders staff to Canberra to advise on biofuels fund.
Flinders staff (Dr Stephen Clarke, A/Prof Wei Zhang, Dr David Kehoe, Mr Raymond Tham and Prof Chris Franco) have been invited to Canberra on 11th of June 2008 by the Federal Resources, Energy and Transport department (DRET) for a day-long workshop to
discuss a new Gen 2 Biofuels Federal fund valued at $15 million.  This in not new money, but is coming out of the $500 million Renewable energy funding announced in the last Federal Government budget.

The ARC has approved a Flinders University Linkage project, to develop new, sol-gel, storm-water treatment technologies.
Industry partners for this project are SDWA (Singapore-Delft Water Alliance), Deltares (formerly Delft-Hydraulics from Holland) and United Water International (Australia). The National University of Singapore (NUS) is also an academic partner on this project, which is valued at $730,000 (cash) with research to be carried out jointly in South Australia and in Singapore over a two year period.

The research to be carried out involves an academic and industry science collaboration across three continents, plus academic cross-disciplinary science interaction in biology and engineering from NUS and SDWA (Singapore) and Deltares (Holland). United Water International, importantly will also provide South Australian water treatment expertise and will work closely with FMC-Biotechnology and Flinders School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences. Flinders University will provide the essential biotechnology and nanotechnology research input, required for this project.

As Leader of the Materials & BioEnergy Group at Flinders University, Dr Stephen Clarke is the Lead Chief Investigator and Leader of this project. Associate Professor Wei Zhang from the Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) - Biotechnology department is also a Chief Investigator on the project, as is Dr Martin Johnston from the Flinders University School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences.

Dr Clarke has recently also been involved in other industry funded research, into desalination and into second generation biodiesel projects to develop feedstock that do not impact upon food supplies. This is the single major issue harming the growth of the biofuels industry world-wide.

There is now no doubt that the Flinders University Materials & BioEnergy Group and FMC  Biotechnology should be considered as South Australian research leaders in developing new Climate Change and Water Shortage technologies.
Email:                    stephen.clarke@flinders.edu.au

Adelaide researcher claims climate change was main cause of mega-fauna extinctions
A major study of ancient DNA has produced a grim outlook for endangered animals as a result of climate change. Adelaide-based scientist Professor Alan Cooper, the head of the Australian Ancient DNA Centre,  presented his findings to the University of Adelaide on 8 April.

He says the study has helped identify the process and consequences of extinction. Professor Cooper says his research conducted on bisons, mammoths and sabre-tooth cats produced worrying evidence suggesting climate change, tens of thousands of years ago, was largely responsible for their extinction. “Humans might have killed the last members, but it looks climate change is the thing that did all the damage in the first place," he said.

Social Science: New first year topic on offer at Flinders University in second semester:
Soci 1100 Global Climate Change – Social, Political and Economic Impacts and Responses.
For more details click here.

Flinders University Bioknowledge ASRI has invited Penny Wong to speak at Flinders in October - she's inundated with requests at the moment and there's a bit of a backlog in processing invites.

National Climate Change Adaptation Research Centre

The Howard Govt announced in Nov 200 7 that the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) will be host ed by Griffith University in consortium with Macquarie University, Murdoch University, Queensland University of Technology, the University of Newcastle, University of Southern Queensland, James Cook University and the University of the Sunshine Coa st .

The Australian National University also missed out (as well as SA) but announced in November that it and the ACT Govt would continue with the formation of a $5m climate change adaptation research centre, to be located at the University’s Fenner School of Environment and Society and the University would continue to work with its partners in the Universities Climate Consortium to build towards an integrated national effort on climate change adaptation research.

The ANU/ACT Climate Change Adaptation Research Centre will be closely linked to similar emerging research programs at Monash University and the University of Melbourne in Victoria, and at the University of New South Wales.

The three SAuniversities are preparing submissions for a similar Centre in South Australia.

Premier’s Science and Research Funds (PSRF) for climate friendly research:
a) Algae based biodiesel. A joint Flinders University/ South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) project to produce oil feedstock for biodiesel from saline River Murray water has attracted $75,514 seed funding. SARDI will grow micro-algae which will provide feedstock for the biofuel material. Two teams at Flinders University, led by Dr. Stephen Clarke, will work on the algae, one extracting substances like omega-3 oils and the other producing biodiesel.

b) $700,000 for a New Regional Sustainability Centre in Whyalla. It will focus on solar based energy for desalination and air conditioning and the mining industry’s environmental impact. A project to develop the world’s first ‘big dish’ solar power generator will be headed by Professor Wasim Saman Director of UNISA’s Institute for sustainable technologies, with a team of 100.

The Mainstreaming of Global Warming
By Raymond Loi
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Honours Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. November 2007.

The past three years have seen a significant rise in attention to global warming. Since 2005 public opinion has U turned, with discussion of climate change emerging everywhere as media attention reaches new, unprecedented heights. Although in the past sociologists have analysed the media and how ecological disasters have been represented,, this recent period has been left largely without scrutiny. Alan Mazur (1998) conducted a study that looked at the number of newspaper articles that mentioned global warming, ozone layer, and other prescient topics during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Mazur found that there was a peak in attention that was short lived, with general public sentiment slipping back into apathy by the mid 90’s.

During this most recent period of attention, there have been a number of stark differences. Through analysing the frequency and content of articles in TIME magazine, between 2004 and 2007, particular trends emerged. Frequency rose sharply. Topics that were previously devoid of any mention of global warming began to include it in their discussion, and other topics were adapted to be more conducive to discussing climate change. This process, dubbed here as mainstreaming, shows that the threat of global warming has permeated beyond just media headlines, and instead into political discussion, corporate functioning, and social discourse, including into previously unrelated topics such as disease and conflict. Additionally, this thesis looks at why there has been such an astronomical rise in public recognition, charting keystone events that have pushed this awareness along. In all, it seems evident that this current period of heightened attention will not ebb away but instead remain until proper action is undertaken to address this oncoming calamity.

For full text click here.

Healthy & Sustainable Cities & Communities Short Course
Flinders University 12-16 November
http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/PublicHealth/ShortCourses/crs_shrt.htm

Can natural systems adapt to projected climate change?

Barry Brooke, Chair of Climate Change and Sustainability at Adelaide University and an international research leader in global ecology and conservation biology
Mon. 26 November 2007 12 – 1pm Room 103 Flinders University Biology Lunch: Baguettes & Coffee

Previous update

Paper for the Solar Cities Conference in Adelaide, February 2008. By Ben Habib, Flinders University, School of Political and International Studies:

The Perceptions of climate change and peak oil among Flinders Universitystudents and their receptiveness to individualist lifestyle changes andmitigation strategies.

ABSTRACT:
Climate change and peak oil are the most important and intractable problems facing industrial societies in the coming decades. They represent the reaching of limits at sink and source of fossil fuel consumption. University students currently enrolled in undergraduate degrees will be a key demographic in making future decisions about mitigation and amelioration strategies, as well as potential leaders-by-example of carbon-neutral lifestyle change within the wider community. There has been no systematic research conducted into the attitudes of university students in Adelaide toward climate change and peak oil and their receptiveness to conservation-based lifestyle changes.

Several undergraduate students at Flinders University completed an electronic survey to identify their perceptions of climate change and peak oil. The sample group was narrowed to students within the Faculty of Social Sciences as a pilot study for an expanded research project encompassing a sample group of all undergraduate students at Flinders University. Of particular focus to this study are student perceptions of the role of technology-based efficiency measures versus conservation based on lifestyle change.

Student respondents felt unable to access high efficiency technologies because of prohibitive cost. With this in mind the survey asked participants about their receptivity to certain conservation-based lifestyle changes in the realms of transportation, consumption, and home living. Another key focus was student perceptions of the role of government versus the role of the individual in assuming leadership in executing mitigation strategies.

Whilst respondents strongly agreed that individual action was important and could make a difference, a majority also believed that governments should exhibit leadership in this area. The results of this project may have application for state and local governments in Adelaide, as well as for the higher education sector itself, in structuring climate and energy mitigation strategies and promotion of individual lifestyle changes to this particular demographic.

University of Adelaide Institute for Climate Change Launched.
‘Climate change is happening faster than the models predicted’ said CSIRO honorary fellow Barrie Pittock speaking at the launch on Monday 13 August. The models did not factor in many potential interacting positive feedbacks, (such as loss of reflecting whiteness, albedo, when ice melts) because the science was considered uncertain .
(Source: The Advertiser, 14 August p12).

New Research Institute at Adelaide University tackles climate change
Tackling climate change will be the mission of a new University of Adelaide research institute launched by Premier Mike Rann on Monday, 13 August.
The Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability (RIsCCs) will bring together researchers from across each of the University's five faculties to undertake research on reducing carbon emissions and developing adaptive strategies to respond to the anticipated impacts of climate change.
"The challenge ahead to meet the State target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is substantial and will require the application of latest understanding and development of new technologies," says Professor Barry Brook, RIsCCs Director and the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change.
"There is a lot of research across Australia on climate change but it is fragmented. The great strength and value of this new Research Institute will be in integrating research expertise from a range of different disciplines into a cohesive unit."
• The keynote speaker at Monday's launch will be renowned climate change expert Dr Barrie Pittock, CSIRO Honorary Fellow, author of the book Climate Change - Turning up the Heat, and former foundation leader of the CSIRO Climate Impact Group.
University of Adelaide Vice-Chancellor and President Professor James McWha says: "This joint initiative between the University of Adelaide and the State Government, and collaboration with industry and other research organisations, will help put South Australia at the forefront of climate change research. It will help us to capitalise on existing research strengths and develop increased capacity in emerging areas of research, which will become increasingly important as climate change affects our lives."
• Examples of research projects underway include: Investigating the impact of elevated carbon dioxide on vine growth and production. Researchers aim to create an international facility of monitored vines under elevated carbon dioxide and temperature
• Modelling ecological impacts of climate change with the view to managing species diversity
• Developing quieter, low cost, micro wind turbines
• Developing a number of combustion technologies to enhance the use of biomass fuels (renewable fuels) including the application of a new type of flame-less oxidation process
• Developing systems to utilise concentrated solar energy for minerals processing ? Establishment of an international research facility into geothermal energy
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Flinders/AINSE "Frontiers in Biodiesel" Workshop
Monday the 9th and Tuesday the 10th of July at ANSTO, Lucas Heights, NSW.

The workshop is being run jointly by the new Materials and Energy group at SoCPES from Flinders University with AINSE

See Future Page for promotional brochure and registration form (in a writable pdf format)

This workshop will focus on problems associated with feedstock, quality assurance and value-added, green biochemical plastics, pharmaceuticals and other bioproducts from biodiesel production. The Workshop will be presented by Australian and overseas experts in biodiesel and has been kindly supported by:
* The Flinders University, School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth
Sciences (SoCPES)
* The Flinders University, Faculty of Science and Engineering
* The South Australian Centre for Innovation
* The City of Onkaparinga
* The City of Marion
* Meat and Livestock Australia
* Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)

During the workshop Professor Graiver from Michigan State University will speak about the new US Biofuels Centre, the $125 million, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), soon to be established in the USA.

The US Department of Energy has provided Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison these funding resources to establish a new Biofuels Research Centre. We are now seeing far greater interest in biofuels research developing around the world, including Japan, Europe, Thailand, Singapore, and other Asian countries following this US lead.
See http://special.newsroom.msu.edu/glbrc/index.php?home for more details.

UNISA Professor calls for urgent new transport planning for Adelaide. University of South Australia Traffic Planning Professor, Michael Taylor endorsed the idea of a congestion tax and called for widespread upgrading of public transport. (Sunday Mail 24 June, p4).

The Solar Cities Third International Congress,
Adelaide, February 2008.
Main themes will be:
1 – Science, Technology & Innovation
2 – Rules, Regulations and the Market – Mechanisms to make it happen
3 – Climate Change – science, society and culture
http://www.solarcitiescongress.com.au

The Climate Change Research Network is seeking to encourage the presentation of papers at this Congress by postgraduate students. We approached the DVC Research seeking financial support from Flinders University for their registration fees and have just received the following favourable response:

Chris Marlin is keen to support the development of the climate change research network. He is particularly keen to encourage students who are undertaking research in this area. He proposes providing support in the form of 50% of the registration cost of any student who has a paper or poster accepted for the conference, as long as there is evidence of the other 50% being provided (preferably by the faculty). Current students and those who have completed their PhD within the last 12 months would be eligible.

We have also obtained agreement from the congress organisers for some postponement of their deadline for submissions:
Abstracts (250 words) from students will be accepted up until Monday 16 July. Following notification of acceptance, authors have the option to prepare a full paper for peer review or a full paper or extended abstract for non-peer review. The closing date for receipt of the full paper or extended abstract is on or before 31 August 2007.
Submission details are located at: http://www.solarcitiescongress.com.au/abstracts.htm

Professor Peter Schwerdtfeger from Flinders University in South Australia says governments need to get tougher on water wasters. He says water should be priced higher and industries such as cotton and rice probably do not suit the dry Australian climate. Professor Schwerdtfeger says governments should start spending money on effective water plans.
"One just has to look at the nation's capital cities where, apart from Perth which has recently opened its desalination plant and Melbourne, there's been no money spent on water supply infrastructure in half a century. The way in which water is used in irrigation areas has to be radically changed. Over-allocation has been around and visible for two decades, because there's been a desperate attempt to try to maintain flow. "

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1902229.htm

IPCC WG2 media briefing, including Professor Nick Harvey from Adelaide University, Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:19:09 +1000

Yesterday’s media briefing in Sydney went off well, with many more people attending than we had anticipated. We had TV crews there from Seven, ABC, SBS and The weather Channel, and journos from SBS radio, ABC radio, AAP, Reuters, the Sydney Morning Herald and Australasian Science, among others (all up, there were approx. 15 journalists in attendance). The “others” included a significant contingent from WWF (6 or so people), a small group from Climate Risk (including Director Karl Mallon, who took full advantage of the media opportunities available at the briefing) and a Greenpeace rep.

The briefing ran for 90 minutes or so, with many of the journalists sticking around to interview the authors individually afterwards. Audio files from the briefing are available at http://www.aussmc.org/IPCCWG2_Briefing.php

Pre Congress workshop report.
www.solarcitiescongress.com.au

There was a small but quite widely sourced attendance with people from Sociology, Political and International Studies, Public Health, Biology and SOCPES. Others were away in the break and sent apologies. Alison Dwyer, from the Congress organising committee, spoke about the arrangements and answered questions.

Conference fees, it was agreed, would (despite concessions) pose problems for some. It was agreed to explore the possibility of additional university funding for conference fees for students and unpaid research fellows.

Deadlines:
Abstracts by 31 May!!!
Draft papers 31 August
Final Papers 30 November,

Alison Dwyer was particularly interested in encouraging papers on nuclear power, and it was agreed to suggest to the participants in the climatechange web site debate, on nuclear power, to update and convert it into a paper.

The following tentative titles were proposed. If you have any other or related ideas for papers do let the web site know and we will put them on. It would be good if ideas could spur others on, or create linked or co-authored projects.

1. Comparing the social impacts of giving priority to nuclear, sequestration, geothermal or solar strategies.
2. Public engagement to promote lifestyle changes to reduce individuals' carbon footprints.
3. Public understandings of science.
4. The true cost of a food basket - comparison of UK and Australia.
5. What sorts of messages are getting out to the community - whether policy aligns with practice at government and industray levels.
6. Urban heat islands or some urban climate change issues in the atmospheric sciences
7. Climate, climate data, history of understanding and awareness of climate change and the IPCC.

NB latest news is reduced fee for students of $440. We will try to get universities to fund this.

The IPCC WGII SPM report will be released in Brussels this Friday. Professor Nick Harvey from Geographical and Environmental Studies at Adelaide University is one of the lead authors on WGII and will be joining some other lead authors in Sydney on Tuesday for a press briefing. This is being coordinated by Dr Susannah Eliott (CEO of the Australian Science Media Centre).

Dr. Fiona Young in Health Sciences, Flinders University, has got an industry partner for an ARC Linkage application for a PhD scholarship and is seeking co-researchers, co-supervisors. Anyone interested should contact her directly. Email: fiona.young@flinders.edu.au

Lay title: 'How many times can Torrens Island Power station be flooded before we have to switch it off?' !!

She writes:
It is for a project I know very little about! Hence I need to find people who can do /supervise the research. The Project is to examine effects of climate change on sea levels, with a focus on Australian coastline and effects on infrastructure.

I reckon the project needs the following:
1. Someone good at IT modelling, to be able to understand existing climate change models, and apply them to changes in sea levels. Aim is to produce a model relating CO2 emissions to changes in sea levels.
2. A geographer / cartographer, to be able to produce maps showing effects of sea levels on Australian coastline.
3. Also a social geographer (if such a speciality exists) to plot key infrastructure (eg power stations, water treatment, hospitals, transport, communications) and to assess / predict the effects of sea level changes on infrastructure.

I thought it might be useful to approach the team who put the CSIRO report on climate change together, thinking that they would have access to relevent models?

Visiting Scholar
Professor Rob Ball from the University of Stirling in Scotland will be at Flinders University in the School of Political and International Studies, as a visitng Adjunct Professor from mid April for about 5 months.
Extracts from Professor Ball’s letter follow:
I have made major contributions to modules on… management of sustainable development [in the MBA Public Service Management)… On the government and Policy side I think that I am quite well on top of
UK and EU policy on sustainable development, particularly with regard to Climate change (including the recent Stern report.)

I have already outlined my interest in environmental policy, I am working with an academic in Punjab Univ on NPM in Pakistan and I have a PH D student who is working on community participation. I have published quite widely on PPPs and am keen to extend this research to PPPs in Australia and have already a number of pieces of Australian literature on this subject.

If there is a slot available on your reseach work in progress seminars, I would like to present something on evaluating the effectiveness of partnership working

Rob Ball
Professor of Public Service Management
Department of Management & Organization
Tel: 01786 467366
Fax: 01786 467329
Email: rob.ball@stir.ac.uk

Climate change litigation could 'eclipse anything yet witnessed in any domestic or international jurisdiction' (acc. to 'Tort Based Climate Change Litigation in Australia', discussion paper produced by the ACF) - think bigger than tobacco/asbestos - for more info on some research recently published by Adel Uni researchers see:
http://www.presidian.com.au/product-climate-change-litigation.html
for news on recent US legal action see:
http://www.claytonutz.com/news/controller.asp?nid=885&printarticle=yes
and our faithful Aunty (before she is completely gagged):
http://abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2006/1758349.htm#

Flinders University Climate Change Network is working with the steering committee of Solar Cities Third International Congress, to take place in Adelaide in February 2008. Main themes will be:
1 – Science, Technology & Innovation
2 – Rules, Regs and the Market – Mechanisms to make it happen
3 – Climate Change – science, society and culture
The network is planning a workshop on March 30, to sound out cooperation (especially interdisciplinary) in preparing papers for it. More details later.

Dr David Patton of Adelaide University, interviewed on ABC news, supports Wellington weir and possible reconversion of the lakes to salt water. Says this will save the metre of fresh water that evaporates from the lakes each year, but Wilderness Society is sceptical of technical solutions (ABC News and 7.30 Report 7 November).

Mike Young, professor in water economics and management at the University of Adelaide, was interviewed on ABC. He said the Murray Darling basin could run dry within six months and suggested a longer term climate shift to dryer patterns (similar to those before 1950) would require major adaptation.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Water-plan-must-recognise-climate/2006/11/06/1162661581898.html

New topic at Flinders University Semester II 2007 ARCH2103 Quaternary Ecology. The topic focuses on palaeoecological reconstruction. The interaction between climatic change, major changes in plant and animal communities, and human occupation of Australia will be examined. The topic is designed for non-archaeology students who are interested in general palaeoenvironmental reconstruction methods and approaches. Dr Lynley Wallis. http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/archaeology/staff/wallis.php

Richard Leaver (Flinders University Department of Political and International Studies) gave a paper on Australian uranium policy at the International Conference on Energy Security and Nuclear Energy (Beijing 16/17 October).

Honours invitation:
Letter from Mark Lethbridge sent to Flinders students in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management

Hi,
I am encouraging students who have completed the GIS modelling topic with me and are interested in climate change to consider Honours. Our research group's focus is the likely changes in vegetation and species compositions the Mount Lofty Ranges and how this might affect conservation planning for the future.
As some of you may be aware, apart from restoration planning, I have been working with the CSIRO climate change models looking at the changes that may occur in native habitats.
Recently, I saw Al Gore's new movie "An Inconvenient truth". This was a powerful yet intellectual, well thought out movie. Unfortunately, Al Gore has been criticised for taking the ‘worst case scenario’. Maybe so, but I still urge you to go and see the movie and form your own decision (see below).
Moreover, I encourage you to take an active and enquiring approach to this important issue. Bring it to the attention of people around you, if for no other reason, to maintain healthy public debate on sustainability, conservation and climate change. To this end, I strongly encourage you to read the following articles I have cited below. These are peer reviewed papers in esteemed journals.

Mark Lethbridge
School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University GPO Box 2100
ADELAIDE SA 5001
Telephone 61 8 8201 5640
Facsimile 61 8 8201 3521

Dr Stephen Clarke of Flinders University has recently given two live radio interviews on Climate Change, specifically relating to the ARC Linkage funded Desalination project and the MLA funded Biodiesel project, currently being carried out by a research group at Flinders University. Apart from specific details on these two projects, other issues covered included scientific technologies required to overcome climate change and global warming.
* The first interview was with Radio 4BC in Queensland on Wednesday
30/8/2006 at 11.30 am.
* The second interview was with the Grant Cameron evening drive time
program on the ABC (Adelaide) radio last night (Thursday
5/10/2006) at 5.00pm.
He has also been asked to give a third live radio interview on the Flinders University Desalination and Biodiesel projects for NSW Central and Western Plains ABC radio on Wednesday (11/10/2006) at 10.00am.