The presentations at the plenary and sessions were recorded by University of Queensland, and the video file made available to SERA. Sessions below are in chronological order.

Presentations by speakers that who did not provide permission to record their session are unavailable.

Please note, some presentations are cut short, as they exceeded the 1:30 hours recoding time allocated for each session. Audio may be compromised in some recordings due to lack of microphone access for some speakers and the audience.

25 SEPTEMBER 2018

OPENING PLENARY

Session 1 – https://youtu.be/-DPGcFLnBnI

  • Conference Welcome
  • Welcome to Country
  • Professor Jakki Mohr: Challenges in innovation in ecological restoration: Data from the U.S.
  • Professor David Lindenmayer: Key lessons from long-term research for restoration and integrating conservation and agricultural production

Session 2 – https://youtu.be/ZOALPgI7VH4

  • Maksym Polyakov: Thinking differently about restoration: economists’ perspective
  • Dr Tein McDonald: How the National Restoration Standards’ affirmation of native ecosystems as references can strengthen SERA’s function as a broad church

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION PRACTICE IN THE BIG SCRUB IN NORTH-EAST NSW – https://youtu.be/gMknJJ6yCjs

  • Saving the Big Scrub. Mike Delaney
  • Recovery processes underpinning rainforest restoration in the Big Scrub. Tein McDonald
  • Camphor conversion to rainforest: restoration of mixed rainforest and camphor laurel patches to lowland rainforest case study. Dan Cox
  • Wanganui Gorge ecological restoration – a ten-year case study in rainforest restoration in a biodiversity hotspot. Ian Stych
  • Big Scrub – making a vision of genetically appropriate seed production areas a reality. Tony Parkes

RIPARIAN AND COASTAL WETLAND RESTORATION – https://youtu.be/Ucp2JeF5KSk

  • Evolution of a riparian restoration project: stabilisation and revegetation of the Damian Leeding Foreshore. Marjolein “Mars” Oram
  • Reef Aid: restoration of wetlands and gullies in priority catchments to improve water quality in the Great Barrier Reef. Lynise Wearne
  • Case study of avifaunal diversity of wetlands in industrial and non-industrial areas, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Jagruti Rathod
  • Implementing strategic coastal wetland restoration on a catchment scale. Duncan Rayner
  • Restoring coastal wetland water quality: ecosystem service provisioning by a native freshwater bivalve. Christina Buelow
  • Remediation of legacy acid sulfate soil disturbance: East Trinity case study. Michelle Martens

THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASPECTS OF SUCCESSFUL MINE SITE REHABILITATION – https://youtu.be/KRyuklTSFLg

  • Introduction: Mine site rehabilitation – an interdisciplinary approach. Marit Kragt
  • The new standards for improving mine site restoration. Kingsley Dixon
  • Why is designing effective and efficient policies for mine rehabilitation proving to be so hard? Ben White
  • Economics to the rescue: non-market valuation of mine site rehabilitation. Marit Kragt
  • The global knowledge base on the social aspects of mine closure. Sarah Holcombe
  • A risk-based framework for completion criteria development for mine closure planning in Western Australia. Renee Young

NOVEL TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS FOR RESTORATION MONITORING – https://youtu.be/LOghq5CbCew

  • DNA metabarcoding – a new approach to fauna monitoring in mine site restoration. Paul Nevill
  • Assessing the use of metabarcoding to monitor mine site restoration. Mieke van der Heyde
  • Automated monitoring of seedling emergence and early mortality from drone imagery. Todd Buters
  • Using UAV-based Lidar to assess forest structural attributes for monitoring of restoration plantings. Nicolo Camarretta
  • Using invertebrate DNA (IDNA) metabarcoding to track restoration trajectories of arthropods across two mine site chronosequences. Kristen Fernandes

SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF RESTORATION – https://youtu.be/om_uvTnLFVs

  • Engaging schools and the community in riparian restoration – a Wilsons River case study. Georgina Jones
  • Pest Free Auckland – enabling community-led conservation. Brett Butland
  • Rehabilitating Roe 8: a standard approach to a not so standard restoration project. Tom Atkinson
  • When the funding finishes – continuing conservation efforts through community connections. Samantha Colbran
  • Six years and $250,000 – what a community group learnt from implementing a major project. Suzanne Pritchard
  • How ecological restoration can help facilitate a nature conservation culture. Todd Dudley

AQUATIC SYSTEMS RESTORATION – https://youtu.be/Ve5I1B6akxs

  • Recreating wallum wetland habitat for threatened ‘acid’ frog species. Ed Meyer
  • Integrated solutions for ecological restoration and management of tropical freshwater swamp forest. Yixiong Cai
  • Trialing stream rehabilitation tools to attenuate high nitrate loads in agricultural headwaters. Brandon C. Goeller
  • Reverting the Brisbane River Estuary from brown to blue. Jesper Nielsen
  • Using Hooded Plovers to promote restoration of lake foreshores in WA’s Great Southern. Basil Schur
  • The Mokoan Project: The ecological renewal of an ephemeral wetland system in North-east Victoria. Lisa Farnsworth

SOIL AND SOIL BIOTA – https://youtu.be/ZyLgOLmYFfc

  • Walking to scale up soil restoration by cyanobacterisation in drylands. Yolanda Canton
  • Artificially-constructed depressions provide insights into the role of soil disturbing animals in the recovery of degraded drylands. David Eldridge
  • Geochemical and mineralogical factors limiting soil structure formation in magnetite iron ore tailings. Songlin Wu
  • A question of time; Mycorrhizal community change along a restoration trajectory. Vicky McGimpsey
  • Microbial Biobanking: Cyanobacteria-rich topsoil facilitates mine rehabilitation. Wendy Williams

MINE SITE RESTORATION MONITORING – https://youtu.be/byT6BKgSZ1w

  • Mine Site Restoration Monitoring Measuring the recovery of coal mine rehabilitation following fire in Queensland using remote sensing and ground surveys. Phill McKenna
  • Developing objectives and completion criteria for post-mine landforms following silica sand mining. Andrew Butler
  • Using data from drones to derive restoration targets for Ranger Uranium Mine. Mitchel Rudge
  • Monitoring understorey from UAV-derived data: a review and future directions for monitoring ecosystem restoration. Lorna Hernandez Santin
  • Assessing understorey vegetation diversity of savanna woodland to inform mine-site restoration in Kakadu National Park. Jaylen Nicholson

SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF RESTORATION AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION – https://youtu.be/MwUCJEJKaBI

  • The capacity of restored urban forests to support native birds: Ecological or social restoration? Elizabeth Elliot-Hogg
  • Connecting restoration science, policy and industry: lessons from the WA Biodiversity Science Institute. Guy Boggs
  • Using the YouTube platform to promote Gondwana Link eco-restoration. Basil Schur
  • Creek Heroes’ are winning the battle in the City of Onkaparinga urban watercourse restoration project. Nikola Manos
  • RegenTV – a new way to share stories about restoration. Virginia Bear

Day 2 recordings