CIE Virtual 2021 conference

14th – 15th October

Program and important information

Table of contents
Code of conduct 1
Zoom etiquette 1
Instructions for presenters 2
Program of the conference: Thursday October 14th 3
Program of the conference: Friday October 15th 4
Keynote speakers 5-6
Photo competition and COVID games information 7 - 10
Contact information 10

Code of conduct
The Centre for Integrative Ecology Virtual2021 conference is committed in providing a safe, inclusive and
harassment-free experience for all our CIE registrants, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability,
race, ethnicity, religion, or age. All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience that
includes people of many different backgrounds. Discriminatory, derogatory or sexual language, comments
or conduct (including display of offensive images, objects or jokes) are not permitted online during the
conference. Any participants violating these rules may be asked to leave the conference and not return.

Zoom etiquette
1. Please keep your microphone muted at all times during presentations, unless you are the
session host or the speaker.
2. If you wish to and you are comfortable doing so, we invite you to keep your video
on. Seeing the audience greatly helps the speakers.
3. Refrain from interrupting during presentations. At the end of every session (about 5
presentations) there will be a dedicated time for questions.
4. Questions will be moderated by the session host. To ask questions, please use the chat
function mentioning the addressed speaker at the start of the question. The session
host will try to evenly distribute questions among speakers.
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Instructions for presenters

1. The talks cannot exceed 4 minutes and 30 seconds in length - the host will use a sound
at the 4 minute and 25 seconds mark to aid the speaker.
2. At the end of each talk, we ask the speaker to be prompt to interrupt screen
sharing, to allow the next speaker to share their screen.
3. There are 30 seconds between talks to allow for speaker changeover.
4. Speakers: please be available for the entire block of talks + questions (technical issues
may mean we need to call on you early, except for the recorded talks).
5. Questions will be at the end of each block of five talks.

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 Day 1 - Thursday
14th October
Hosts Time Speaker Title
Scarlett 08:30 Scarlett Howard Welcome
Don 08:45 Prof. Don Driscoll Opening Address: “Putting the strategy into our Strategic Research Centre”

Scarlett & 09:05 Dr Scarlett Howard & Introduction, events & games
Shefali Shefali Satish Dorepalli
Scarlett 09:15 Associate Can technological Ecosystem Maintenance and Monitoring Units (EMUs) be justified?
Professor Alan Dorin –
Guest speaker
10:15 Coffee & Chat
Session 1: Like, comment, or share (Social media and big data in ecology)
10.30 Meghan Shaw How do Australian conservation organisations use wildlife imagery for social engagement?
10.35 Anne Eichholtzer From natural to social sciences, the multiple values of Citizen Science
Scarlett 10.40 Robert Moore Social media and its role in species distribution models
10.45 Jinzhu Wang Use big earth data and machine learning to monitor and project city dynamics
10.50 Dr. Maria Palacios Swapping suits for gumboot: Executives lead a #BlueCarbonArmy of citizen science
10:55 Questions
11:10 Coffee & Chat
Session 2: Turning up the heat (Climate change & heat tolerance)
11.25 Dr. Carla Archibald Spatial and temporal trends in climate suitability for terrestrial vertebrates and vascular plants under CMIP-6 climate
scenarios

Sara 11.30 Jeronimo Vazquez- Effects of a warmer and drier climate on the early life-history stages of alpine plants
Ramirez
11.35 Emma Sumner Alpine plant thermal tolerance and growth under simultaneous climate extremes: a case study using Poa hothamensis
11.40 Hanna Scheuffele Thermal performance curves for aerobic scope in fish: flexible in amplitude but not breadth
11.45 Lorenzo Galletta The influence of parental pre-natal exposure to heat calls on thermal tolerance of their offspring
11:50 Questions
12:05 Lunch & Chat
Clare 13:00 Dr Chris Brown – Guest Just another statistic? How quantitative ecology influences ocean conservation priorities.
speaker
Shefali 14:00 Best Zoom Background
Session 3: All things COVID (Disease & immunity)
14.15 Candice Lachenicht Host genomic variation and beak and feather disease virus infection in crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans)
14.20 Grace Day Investigating the immune genes of the critically endangered Burrunan dolphins (Tursiops australis)
Sara 14.25 Nynke Raven Ecoimmunology of an endangered species, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
14.30 Dr. Antoine Dujon Sea turtles in the cancer risk landscape: a global meta-analysis of fibropapillomatosis prevalence and associated risk
factors
14.35 Berta Blanch Lazaro Beak and feather disease virus in wild crimson rosellas: persistent infection in a key reservoir host?
14.40 Nick MacDonald What in the devil makes them susceptible to cancer
14.45 Questions
15:00 Coffee & Chat
Session 4: How to be an influencer (Influences of landscapes, pollution, and environments)
15.15 Toby Ross Flyway-wide levels of pollution in long-distance migratory shorebirds
15.20 Dr. Scarlett Howard Native bee behaviour across urban landscapes
15.25 Dr. Martino Malerba Reducing methane emissions from farm dams
Shefali
15.30 Caleb Wellard Effects of early life noise exposure on the spatial learning and memory of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
15.35 Johanna Geeson Environmental influences on breeding biology and pup production in Australian fur seals
15:40 Questions
15:55 Coffee & Chat
Sara, 16.15 TBA Human library (4 zoom rooms)
Shefali,
16.30 TBA Human library (4 zoom rooms)
Clare,
Scarlett
Shefali 16:45 Shefali Satish Zoom Pictionary Challenge
Dorepalli
S Sara 17:15 Sara Balouch Wrap up

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 Day 2 - Friday 15th
October
Hosts Time Speaker Title
Scarlett 08:30 Scarlett Howard Welcome
Don 08:45 Prof. Don Driscoll Short welcome
Shefali 08:55 Shefali Satish Dorepalli Events
Clare 09:00 Dr Carly Cook – Guest Supporting managers to make evidence- informed decisions
speaker
10:00 Coffee & Chat
Session 5: Who do you think you are? (DNA and epigenetics)
10.15 Kendrika Gaur Testing the efficiency of Environmental DNA sampling compared with video-trap data: Terrestrial wildlife in the
Victorian Mallee
10.20 Anna Miltiadous From DNA to Zebra Finch: Stress and epigenetics
Sara
10.25 Eve Udino Stress and the mitochondria
10.30 Georgina Bramwell Hatchery-imposed selection does not impact the genetic diversity of Australian farmed blue mussels
10:35 Questions
Session 6: Doctor Dolittle (Understanding animals)
10.50 Cassie Speakman Developing a state-dependent life-history theory model for Australian fur seals
10.55 Batbayar Galtbalt Why are cranes in decline? Looking into past and future of the White-naped
Shefali cranes in East Asia
11.00 Dr. Alex McQueen Shrinking shorebirds
11.05 Muhammad Jawad Amphibian responses to drying: A review
Jilani
11:10 Questions
Shefali 11:25 Shefali Satish Dorepalli Scavenger Hunt!
Session 7: The roadmap ahead (Understanding, conserving, and mapping systems and networks)
11.55 Darcy Watchorn The use of artificial refuges by small vertebrates after fire
12.00 Dr. Rachael Collett Impact of the megafires and changing fire regimes on butterflies in the Australian Alps
12.05 Mitchell Johnston The impacts of prescribed burning on the diversity of fungi and vascular plants in a heathy woodland
Scarlett
12.10 Dr. Eric Treml Safeguarding marine biosecurity through an epidemiological network approach
12.15 Amy Longmuir TBA
12.20 Questions
12:35 Lunch & Chat
Session 8: How to be an influencer (Influences of landscapes, pollution, and environments)
13.30 Reihaneh Bandari System dynamics modelling of sustainability-relevant challenges at the local scale
13.35 Kyle Hilliam Identifying invasive species management opportunities in New Zealand's recreational vessel network

Sara 13.40 Dr. Melissa Wartman Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration Program
13.45 Alys Young Remotely mapping vegetation on the Tiwi Islands, NT
13.50 Beata Ujvari Coupling evolutionary and ecological perspectives to understand health and disease in humans, animals, and ecosystems
13.55 Christina Birnbaum Global synthesis of microbial communities associated with blue carbon ecosystems
14:00 Questions
14:15 Coffee & Chat
Clare 14:30 Dr Beth Fultom – Guest Overview of the latest in marine ecosystem modelling – what it can do and where the challenges remain
speaker
15:30 Coffee & Chat
Session 9: Find your niche (Ecosystems)
15.45 Clare Vernon Research in progress: a review of terrestrial indicators used in Red List of Ecosystems assessments
15.50 Dr. Paul Carnell The benefits and costs of marine and coastal ecosystem restoration
15.55 Dr. Pawel Waryszak Coastal wetlands renewal: insights from two mangrove restoration case studies towards tailored restoration response
Shefali
16.00 Michael Traurig A review of the relationship between ecosystem condition and human well- being.
16.05 Bhavendu Joshi Integrating Ecosystem services into Conservation Planning
16:10 Questions
16:25 Coffee chat and competition judging
16.40 Presentation of awards/prizes
Don 16.55 Professor Don Driscoll Closing address
Sara 17.05 Acknowledgements and thanks
Matt
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17:10 Associate Prof Matthew
Symonds

Pub quiz

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 Keynote speakers

Dr. Carly Cook, Monash University

Supporting managers to make evidence-informed decisions

Dr Carly is a Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology and DECRA Fellow

in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne,
Australia. Her research relates to the integration of science in
environmental management decisions. In particular, She is interested in
the types of evidence decision-makers use to inform their decisions and
why, the consequences of poor uptake of science on management
decisions, and the design of decision support tools. She is interested in a
range of tools for knowledge exchange, including tools for evidence
synthesis and that promote evidence-based decisions. Some of her key
research interests centre on developing decision triggers as a tool
for management, integrating evolutionary theory into conservation
management and promoting cost-effectiveness analysis as part of
evidence-based conservation.

Dr. Beth Fulton, CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere

Overview of the latest in marine ecosystem modelling – what it can do and where the challenges remain

Dr Beth Fulton is a Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Oceans and

Atmosphere, where she has spent 20 years developing various system
modelling tools for looking at marine ecosystems and sustainability.
Beth is also an Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director at the Centre of
Marine Socioecology, a collaboration between University of Tasmania,
CSIRO and the Australian Antarctic Division, which focuses on finding
transdisciplinary, equitable and sustainable solutions to the problems
facing coasts and oceans. The common theme to Beth’s work has been
on developing system-scale decision support tools in support of
sustainable management of potentially competing uses of marine
environments and adaptation to global change.

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 Dr. Chris Brown, Griffith University
Just another statistic? How quantitative ecology influences ocean conservation priorities

Dr Chris is a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University and an Australian

Research Council Future Fellow. Chris and his team in the
Seascapemodels lab work on the conservation of ocean ecosystems and
sustainable management of fisheries. His team uses advances in
statistical modelling approaches to synthesize ecological data and
inform environmental decision making. Their latest project will study the
limits to predicting the unprecedented change facing ocean ecosystems.

Chris has a PhD in Biological Science from the University of Queensland,

a BSc from the University of Tasmania, has published over 90 peer-
reviewed papers and is a former DECRA Fellow and Young Tall Poppy
Award recipient. He works closely with conservation agencies and his
engagement roles include advising Pacific Island nations on tuna fishery
monitoring, being science advisor to the Global Mangrove Alliance and
analytical advisor to the Reef Life Survey.

Associate Professor Alan Dorin, Monash University

Can technological Ecosystem Maintenance and Monitoring Units (EMUs) be justified?

Alan Dorin is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information

Technology, Monash University where he leads the Computational
and Collective Intelligence group. He researches the ways in which
technology assists discovery in the ecological sciences and in human
creativity. Through his work in Artificial Life and ecological
simulation, Alan explores the key attributes of organisms that enable
them to live in complex environments. This knowledge is used to
improve horticulture, and to assist us in understanding and
maintaining natural ecosystems. Alan promotes exploration of the
relationships between technology and human endeavour by
nurturing curiosity and encouraging students to form their own
bridges between disciplines. He is co-editor in chief of the Artificial
Life journal.

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Information on the COVID Games and the Photo Competition

Please note that the information shared below will be repeated at the start of
the conference and before each activity. Don’t feel bad if you don’t have the
stamina to read two pages of instructions right now.

Photo Competition

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Information on the COVID Games
How can we miss having happy hour, to bring back the pre-COVID fun (virtually) let’s have drinks and enjoy some
fun-filled virtual games. This year, CIE conference is again including several fun activities, where YOU can compete
for prizes!

For each activity, there is no need to be pre-registered. Just check the conference program and show up. The
instructions will be repeated at the start of each activity. All winners and prizes will be announced during the
prize ceremony on Friday October 15th at 4:40 pm

Zoom Pictionary Challenge

Let’s test our drawing skills with a crazy twist!
To participate (or just attend), show up to the Zoom session on
October 14th at 4:45 pm.

Teams will draw on the screen using whiteboard app in Zoom. You
should then see annotation tools that will let you use your mouse to
draw as you would for Pictionary. Each team will be allowed to use
the white board on its turn. The playing team has one minute to
guess the drawing. If the team does not guess before the minute
expires, then other teams have a chance to steal.

Cutest Conference
Attendant
Has your pet been paying attention to the presentations? Has your toddler learnt to say “climate change” yet?
Was your houseplant interested in Blue Carbon? Win a prize for cutest attendant!

● To participate, upload a photo of your attendant watching the conference on twitter. Use the hashtags
#CIEwhoiswatching and #CIEvirtual2021 so we can find your images.
● All pictures will be retweeted by the CIE twitter account, for all voters to easily find them.
● A twitter poll will be used to decide on the winners. The poll opens at 12pm on Friday 15th, and closes at 3pm.
We will remind you about it during the conference.

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 Best Zoom Background
Through the magic of funny backgrounds, Zoom Meetings have been
a source of entertainment in the past two years. The popularity of
the game made it to be part of our conference yet again!
●
• To participate (or just attend), show up to the Zoom session on
October 14th at2:00 pm.
• Prepare - ideally in advance - a Zoom background that you would
like to show. It can be funny, have a good story, look good… it can
be (almost) whatever you want it to be.
• Set your Zoom view to “Speakers View” (we will show you how
during theconference)
©reddit.com • When it is your turn, we will invite you to unmute yourself and say
a few words about your Zoom background (1-minute max) to
showcase it to the other attendees.

You are all adept at getting to the bottom of ecological

questions, searching for missing links or missing camera traps.
Scavenger
Now you get to put those skills to use with our Scavenger Hunt!
Hunt
Figure out the items needed for each clue and then zoom
October 15th, 11:25 am
around your homes to collect them. Type 'Done' in the chat
once you've got all the items and we'll call on you to show us
your array on camera.

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 An annual tradition, and this year will not be any different! Matthew
Symonds will host the “CIEhoot” trivia quiz, full of fun and difficult
questions. Time to establish trivia-dominance over your friends and
colleagues, and win some cool prizes!
“CIEhoot” Trivia Quiz,
à la Matthew  To participate, show up to the Zoom session on Friday October 15th at
Symonds 17.10pm
 You will do the quiz in kahoot on your computer – so you get points for
both the correct answer, and for getting the answer correct most quickly.
 Matt will ask questions and you will have multiple choice answers
(hey, multiple choice test are dead easy, right?)
 There will be prizes for the 1, 2, 3rd placed people and also, for
the 5th from bottom.

Contact information
Please contact us if you have any questions:
Clare: cmvernon@deakin.edu.au
Sara: sara.balouch@deakin.edu.au
Scarlett: s.howard@deakin.edu.au
Shefali: sdorepalli@deakin.edu.au

We are looking forward to seeing you on October 14th & 15th!

CIEVirtual 2021 Conference Organising Committee

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