Samford Ecological Research Facility Site Visit
How a peri urban site is addressing climate change and food security though standardised and novel monitoring technologies, and sustainable agricultural research for national understanding and global impact.
Friday 6 December, 9:00am – 1:00pm, Samford Ecological Research Facility
Delivery format: In person
Event Description
This workshop event will take place at QUT’s Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF), a 51-hectare property located in the Samford Valley, 45min from Brisbane’s CBD. The property holds the last patch of remnant Dry Sclerophyll Forest in the Samford Valley, a small area of Gallery Rainforest, currently listed as endangered, and open pastures. With the valley rapidly changing from a rural and farming environment to an urban lifestyle, SERF is a unique research facility used to monitor the impact the increased population is having on our fauna, greenhouse gases and waterways. Additionally, the rural setting enables sustainable agriculture and food security research to be easily facilitated. The diverse research projects and 24/7 monitoring of the environment are enabled by research infrastructure and support from QUT, NCRIS-enabled TERN (Australia’s ecosystem observatory), and the Australian Research Council .
The workshop includes an opportunity to walk the recently opened interactive “Engaging Science” Trail to look at the type of monitoring and educational activities being undertaken at SERF. The workshop is hosted at QUT [DR1] and will include presentations on the Australian Acoustic Observatory (a continental-scale acoustic sensor network), and sustainable agriculture (QUT researchers from the fields of sustainable agriculture, positive global change, and food security).
A bus will be leaving the W Hotel at 8:15am to arrive at SERF at approximately 9am.
Due to road works outside the W Hotel, the bus loading zone is a 250m walk (~3 minute) walk. Please meet in Brisbane Quarter foyer underneath the escalators on level 1 and staff will guide you from there. Please ensure you arrive at 8.00am as we will leave at 8:15am sharp.
The bus will collect visitors from SERF at 12:15pm to return them to the W Hotel at approximately 1pm.
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