Monday, 25th September Australian Society for Limnology Conference 2017

Dr. Peter Yanada McKenzie

PhD/Creative Arts, MA/Fine Arts,  Fulbright Scholar 1994    Elder, La Perouse Aboriginal Community Eora /Anaiwan
Indigenous Representative, Aboriginal Arts Advisor, Practising Visual Artist.

Dr. Peter Yanada McKenzie is a well known Aboriginal person from the historic La Perouse Aboriginal community in Sydney. He has had diverse experience as a practising artist, musician, project manager, university lecturer, Aboriginal ambassador overseas, arts grant recipient, researcher and Aboriginal committee member in several organisations. His extensive area of experience in Aboriginal affairs covers Arts, History, Community affairs, Health and Education. His artistic capabilities include commercial illustration, fine arts, music (drums, guitar,vocals), designer, guitar-maker (luthier), songwriter/singer, photography, sculptor/potter, writer, video-maker, jewellery designer, potter and Curator of Aboriginal Art. Dr. McKenzie curated What is Aboriginal Art? for the 2000 Olympic “ Festival of the Dreaming” at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, and designed the National Logo for the Label of Authenticity for protection of Aboriginal cultural copyrights. He has also worked for the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Museums Association of Australia as an Information and Public Relations Officer and Liaison Officer, respectively. He was Chairperson of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative in 2000 and 2001 and Director of the Aboriginal Culture Centre in Armidale from October 2001 to April 2005. Dr. McKenzie was granted a Commonwealth Department of Education Aboriginal Overseas Study Award, which enabled him to study photography, design, printmaking and commercial illustration at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States during 1982 and 1983. He was employed as Aboriginal Liaison Officer/Exhibitions Developer at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney in 1985 and later commenced work as an Aboriginal Liaison Officer/Project Coordinator with the New South Wales branch of Museums Australia in 1987. Dr. McKenzie participated as a Photographer in the After 200 Years project that same year, working with his own community of La Perouse. In 1990 he was employed as a Project Officer/Aboriginal Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney  and curated an international Aboriginal art presentation (representing the Australian Government during  the French  Bi-Centenary celebrations) at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris for the major exhibition, “Magiciens de la Terre”, in 1989. Dr. McKenzie completed a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in 1993 and in1994.  He was the inaugural recipient of the 1994 ATSIC- Fulbright Scholarship in which he visited the USA lecturing and furthering his photographic skills. His photographic work was included in “Urban Focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia” at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra that same year. He attained a Doctorate in Creative Arts  at the University of Western Sydney in 2010. He is currently working in ceramics at his studio in Banksmeadow, Sydney.

Dr. Peter Yanada McKenzie uses the name “Yanada” as a mark of respect for his Sydney region forebears; the name means ‘New Moon’ and emanates from the Eora dialect of the Dharug Language in the Sydney region.

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• Quantifying the effects of altered hydrology and food-web structure on ecosystem carrying capacity in a floodplain river - Nick Bond
• Demonstrating hydro-ecological responses to the return of low-flows in intermittent streams - Sally E Maxwell
• Establishing the environmental water requirements for the Daly River, Northern Territory. - Alison King
• Environmental flows and ecological response: it’s not just the size of the allocation, it’s how you use it. - Brenton Zampatti
• Allochthonous carbon influx in riverine food webs; a role for environmental flows - Matthew Balzer

• Investigation of unexplained toxicity in cyanobacterial extracts - Anne E Colville
• Cyanobacterial assemblages following flooding in the Fitzroy River system, Central Queeensland, Australia. - Larelle D Fabbro
• An algal bloom early warning system for NSW using satellite and near-surface observations - Tim J Malthus
• Evolution of pollution tolerance in Australian Cricotopus midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) - Matt Krosch
• How to develop rapid and cost-effective species-based biological monitoring using high throughput DNA sequencing of DNA barcodes - Melissa Carew

• Stream nitrate uptake dynamics in a nitrogen-limited region - Ryan Burrows
• Stream Metabolism in turbid river systems in the northern Murray Darling Basin - Wing Tsoi
• Pharmaceutical impacts on biogeochemical processes in artificial streams - Stephanie V Robson
• The killing of photosynthesis at environmentally relevant pharmaceutical concentrations - an inquest! - Mike Grace

• Floods are good: evidence from a managed flood on the benefits for native wetland vegetation - Joe Greet
• Condition-states and inundation sequences: a new way of describing plant water requirements - Jane Roberts
• Flooding drives a macroinvertebrate biomass boom in ephemeral floodplain wetlands - Paul J McInerney
• Fish and flows: Delivering flows for Murray Cod and Golden Perch in the Lower Darling River  - Iain Ellis
• Waterbird recruitment and movement: Responses to flooding, stressors and threats - Heather M McGinness

• Responses of freshwater macrophytes to low concentrations of additional nitrogen - Guyo Duba Gufu
• Seed germination in response to flooding: tangled lignum (Duma florulenta) and nitre goosefoot (Chenopodium nitrariaceum) - William Higgisson
• Restoring hydraulic connectivity of a small billabong in an urban context - Bertrand Salmi
• Infrastructure modifies movement patterns of seeds drifting in lowland rivers - Daryl Nielsen
• Long term condition monitoring shows improvement in wetland vegetation - Fiona Freestone

• Elevated magnesium concentrations in tropical fresh surface waters can affect phyto- and zooplankton communities. - Tom J Mooney
• Efforts in barcoding Australia’s aquatic invertebrates: introducing the Aquatic Invertebrates of Australia (AIA) DNA database - Michael Shackleton
• Disturbing flows: recovery capacity of macroinvertebrate assemblages and traits to natural flow extremes - Daniela Cortez
• How Healthy is our Aquatic Ecosystem? Ask the Fish –  Development of a Fish Health Index for the Fitzroy Basin of Central Queensland - Evan Chua
• Inside the Australian Research Council: advice for applicants and reviewers - Ross Thompson

• Water Policy Innovation: Consideration of Cultural Flows in Decision Processes - Sarah J Baines
• Managing freshwater ecosystems in New Zealand. How to measure success? - Evan Harrison
• Fish and Flows: Developing flows for freshwater fish in NSW - Katherine Cheshire
• Critical evaluation of smartphone apps as tools for water quality monitoring in SEQ inland waters - Tim Malthus

• Zooplankton response to a hypoxic blackwater event in the Hunter River estuary - James Hitchcock
• Saltmarsh Restoration in the Hunter Estuary – a Partnership Approach - Tim Mouton
• The use of central Australian waterbodies by native and feral mammals - Jayne Brim Box

• Managing estuarine wetlands at Sydney Olympic Park requires local innovation and adaptation - Swapan Paul
• Using Wetlands to Treat and Dispose of Landfill Leachate at Sydney Olympic Park - Julie Currey
• How the swamps work, views from the Blue Mountains - Lorraine Hardwick
• Physiological tolerance and behavioural response to drought in the freshwater mussel, Westralunio carteri - Le Ma

• The recovery of riffle macroinvertebrates after river drying: the role of low flow access rules - Daniel Coleman
• Bacteria to birds: Tracing the flow of energy through a wetland to understand ecosystem responses to environmental watering - Lindsey Frost
• Effects of Simulated Browsing on Brisbane Riparian Seedlings - Amanda M McArthur
• 10 years after active and passive riparian restoration: riparian and geomorphological condition - William Higgisson
• Macroinvertebrates in tropical ephemeral streams: ecological patterns, biomonitoring and management - Leigh Stitz
• Scaling biodiversity responses to hydrological regimes - Darren Ryder
• Feral animal exclusion is key to the restoration of waterholes in central Australia - Valerie Caron
• Building a wetland inventory for NSW - Megan Powell

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A ‘meet and mix’ night at The Australian Youth Hotel is planned and organised by members of the ASL early career researcher committee and funded by ASL. This is a social gathering for early- and mid-career participants to get to know each other and network. It’s a great opportunity to see how mid-career researchers have ‘made it’ in a constantly evolving academic environment and to discuss what you would like ASL to be like in the future. Complimentary refreshments will be available. Come and meet the young members of ASL!