Many of our colleagues are currently working towards assessing the impact of the recent fires across Victoria, and will be doing so for some time.
In light of this, the organising committee of AMiV has decided to POSTPONE the conference until later in the year, likely sometime in late Autumn or Winter. More details will be provided when we confirm a new date. Stay tuned! Join us in February for the first Acoustic Monitoring in Victoria Conference to be held in the new year on 25 & 26 February 2020 at Melbourne Museum.
Jointly presented by Victorian National Parks Association, Parks Victoria, the University of Melbourne, Zoos Victoria, DELWP, and Connecting Country, this 2-day conference will bring together researchers, land managers, government agencies and community members as a way to build capacity and understanding around the current use of and potential for acoustic monitoring of Victorian wildlife. The aim will be to highlight new and ongoing research in this field but also to discuss collaborative efforts forward to maximise knowledge, audio data sharing, analysis methods and protocol standardisation. A special session on projects involving community members in data collection and analysis as well as outreach potential will be included. More details to come! Congratulations are in order (again!) for Kate who received a BirdLife Australia Travel Award this year. Kate will use the funds to travel to the American Ornithologists Society Annual Meeting in East Lansing, Michigan (USA). Kate will present her Masters work in a talk entitled, "Cockatoo screams suddenly useful: automating species recognition for conservation." Fantastic work and best of luck at the conference!
The Rowe Lab was represented by Masters student, Kate Trewin, and Victorian National Parks Association collaborator, Christine Connelly, Both presented posters on research in our lab. Kate's work focuses on developing and testing methods of automated recognition for parrots. Christine presented on progress of our Communities Listening for Nature project, specifically profiling work with the Mt. Worth community group and their ongoing acoustic monitoring program looking at bird species and revegetation.
Following in Sarah's footsteps, Kate Trewin has just received word she has been awarded a Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award for her Masters project entitled, "Developing automated bioacoustics monitoring systems for conservation of South Eastern Australian Parrots." The award funds will be used for fieldwork in the coming year and to establish a digital call library for parrots. Well done, Kate!
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