Now that our work on the Biodiversity Assessment is more or less complete I’m now working on the Biodiversity Strategy Renewal:
In Our Environment, Our Future - Victoria’s Sustainability Action Statement (2006) the government announced that it would renew the Victorian Biodiversity Strategy 1997. The Strategy is being renewed during 2008-09.
The Strategy will be a separate […]

After a few weeks of sending off job applications with little results, I’ve managed to score an excellent job with the Victorian government Department of Sustainability and Environment. My job is primarily to work on the Victorian component of a Commonwealth report on biodiversity, called the National Land and Water Resource Audit (NLWRA) Biodiversity Assessment […]

In my spare time I’m been working on a population model for the Spot Tailed Quoll. If you don’t know what a quoll is, and want to find out, you could google it, or you could watch this video I took recently at Healesville Sanctuary. (The video is a 3.2Mb download, and you’ll need […]

This is a bit to the left of the normal themes of this blog, but is a topic I have a deep interest in…
I’m all for open, honest, and challenging debate on issues. I’m also a skeptic at heart. In this context I welcomed the publication of Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist, as a catalyst […]

Its my blog and I’ll gloat if I want to …
Today I was presented with the Bostik Australian Ecosystem Management Award for my excellent work in Restoration Ecology in 2003. I thought the prize would be a life time supply of Blu-Tack, but no luck there. Still, the $800 will go a long way to […]

Since I’m researching meteorologists, and have more than a passing interest in the environment, a few people have asked me whether I’ve seen the “The Day After Tomorrow”. Well, I finally saw it on DVD last night. What an appalling piece of crap! And pretty bad entertainment as well. I can barely believe that New […]

Two weeks since my last blog entry - time can sometimes pass so quickly. I finished my “Epistemology and Knowledge Management” discussion for the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, but I won’t put it up on my Papers and Publications page just yet. I’m not entirely happy with it in its present form, and want a […]

Its amazing how quickly a week can go by! Now I have a serious backlog of blog entries to add - is there a word for that? Backblog?
I haven’t mentioned this yet in D&D, but I’m also a busy boy studying for yet another qualification - the very Dr. Who sounding Masters of Environment degree […]