National

Brief Description:

Worked with Biosis Research to develop federal guidelines for assessing the impact of proposed windfarms on bird populations.  Provided support in methodology and communication of processes and frameworks.  The guidelines use an environmental risk assessment framework to evaluate the risk and assess mitigation options.

Victoria

Brief Description:

Natural resource managers are faced with choosing between a range of decision support tools, each of which has a different focus and speciality.  This project focussed on the development of a high level framework for evaluating and communicating decision support processes and tools.  The aim is to assist in communicating decisions to stakeholders and requirements to software vendors.

Online

Brief Description:

Produced an education kit, to compliment Museum resources, combining in-class activities and online resources for educators and parents teaching about climate, weather and climate change impacts.

Tasmania

Brief Description:

Developed a robust and statistically sound methodology for assessing the potential impact of development on a region of possible indigenous heritage, whilst minimising both cost and invasive digging techniques.

Tasmania

Brief Description:

 Designed a survey to optimise the ongoing monitoring effort at a proposed windfarm, to return the best indicators of risk, whilst maintaining a focused survey effort.  The work included devising a monitoring strategy, a database and data entry template, and full statistical justification.

South Australia

Brief Description:

The understanding of the key drivers and mitigation options for collisions between aircraft and terrain in general airspace is hampered by a lack of data.  We combined data from a range of sources and developed a barrier model to assess the relative efficacy of a range of mitigation options.  This provided a robust and quantitative assessment.

Nationwide

Brief Description:

Using an innovative learning algorithm for clustering a database’s contents, we generated the “best,” most descriptive breakdown we could. This then drove decision and classifiers trees to generate risk management protocols with established, predictive triggers.  Really cool stuff.

Victoria

Brief Description:

We were not able to measure the behaviours associates with events associated with “wet” weather years due to the ongoing drought. However, we still had to do planning and approvals. So an innovative model, complying with our strict transparency philosophy, was generated that accounted for hunting prevalence, food sites and roosting sites, to still create a valid and meaningful risk analysis.

Victoria

Brief Description:

If you haven’t had the opportunity to measure a long, stable baseline, you can still use statistics to generate a meaningful safety margin. Effectively we add some wiggle to the observations, based on theory, to add a quantifiable, realistic and transparent safety margin

Tasmania

Brief Desription:

In what appears to be becoming a staple for us, our utilisation maps are now fully GIS compliant and account for and correct many observational defects. This generates fully normalised, avian preference charts for entire regions which, when linked to a proper relational database, allows for full exploration of geographical behavioural dependencies.