Apply now! Investigate relationships between data, models, and decision support to develop guidelines and frameworks to identify, quantify, and mitigate biases.
#job #postdoctoral #Melbourne #epidemiology
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/916626/…
Christopher Baker Nic Geard

New preprint on value-of-information (VoI) analysis:

We introduce uncertainty and risk metrics, and mathematically connect VoI to optimal design!

Led by Morenikeji Deborah Akinlotan, joint w/David James Warne💉💉💉 Kate Helmstedt Sarah Vollert iadine Chadès 🌈🐾🥐☕️🏝🐠🛵 Ryan Heneghan Hui Xiao

arxiv.org/abs/2309.09452

Fabulous CSIRO Women in Technology event showcasing wonderful CSIRO #science #responsible #innovation , #biofoundry , #AI for #conservation & then an insightful conversation about the importance of #mentoring , #sponsorship & strong #women stepping up for #science #leadership Bronwyn Harch

Awesome introduction to partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) by iadine Chadès 🌈🐾🥐☕️🏝🐠🛵 et al in Methods in Ecology and Evolution 🤩 or how to solve sequential decision-making problems under imperfect observations 🤯

doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

#Rstats 📦 github.com/mhahsler/pomdp

🗞️#262-2022

A 10-step plan to protect Antarctica. 📝

Antarctica will see significant climate change impacts. #TeamCSIRO 's Josie Carwardine & iadine Chadès 🌈🐾🥐☕️🏝🐠🛵 with a team from UQ News & antarctica.gov.au have developed a 10-step roadmap to conserve the continent's biodiversity. spr.ly/60193ki63

#ICYMI : #Antarctic terrestrial #biodiversity is at risk. Jasmine Lee @Iadinec &co show that existing #conservation efforts are insufficient; simultaneous global & regional efforts are urgently needed to save #Antarctic a for future generations #PLOSBiology plos.io/3WkTS6j

Finally, this work is a contribution to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Scientific Research Program Ant-ICON! This group is dedicated to research that helps to inform conservation of all #Antarctic life and environments 🇦🇶👩‍🔬

Read more about Ant-ICON here: doi.org/10.1017/S09541…

And if you have only a minute, here’s a fantastic summary for New Scientist by the wonderful Corryn Wetzel :

newscientist.com/article/235302…

Also a nice piece by Donna Lu for the Guardian Australia that mentions the highly charismatic & adaptable nematode Scottnema lindsayae – it survives in dry and salty soils 😮! (just ask Diana Wall) 👏

theguardian.com/world/2022/dec…

There are also lots of other nice articles written by talented individuals! 👏

Love this extended piece by Nick Kilvert for ABC News and featuring Josie Carwardine:
abc.net.au/news/science/2…

It all began with a #SCARBIOL2017 workshop where an incredible group of knowledgeable & passionate #Antarctic experts dedicated themselves to the task & supported me in finishing it ever since!

I can’t thank you all enough 👏♥️

5+ years in the making! This piece really was a labour of love, begun during my PhD UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science & antarctica.gov.au, continued Monash Science & finished British Antarctic Survey 🐧!

So all in all we need a combination of global action on #climatechange and implementation of regional #conservation strategies to secure #Antarctic species for future generations!

Good for Antarctica and good for us! 🐧🐳🫶

Incredibly we can implement all strategies [not accounting for climate-mitigation costs] for a mere US$23 M annually!!! Wow😮

That’s cheaper than chips, literally… The Australian potato chip industry was valued at AUD$1.56 B in 2020, see: globaldata.com/store/report/a…

Under different budgets you should prioritise different strategies! Some of the strategies are also complementary (i.e. will work together to benefit more species)!

Protecting areas and managing new infrastructure can go hand-in-hand 🤝

Cost-benefit analysis accounted for cost & feasibility and we identified some strategies that might provide easy conservation-wins for #Antarctic species!

Minimising impacts of human activity & managing new infrastructure are cheap, beneficial, and achievable now! Let’s go 🥳

‘Managing non-native species & disease’ and ‘Managing & protecting species’ were also beneficial (but expensive)!

This includes actions like increasing biosecurity or designating species with special protection 🛡️

See Polar Alien Hunters to learn about non-natives in #Antarctica !

Influencing external policy to reduce #climatechange to levels in line with the #ParisClimateAgreement of <2° warming was by far the most beneficial #conservation strategy and would give #Antarctic species the best chance ♥️

But… it is also the least feasible.

We identified 10 management strategies that can help to mitigate these threats! 💪✅

Most of these are regional #Antarctic strategies, but the ‘Influence external policy’ strategy is about engaging with global policy with an outcome of mitigating #climatechange

We used priority threat management – a structured decision-science approach developed by Josie Carwardine CSIRO that incorporates expert knowledge & quantitative data to identify optimal threat management strategies for conserving biodiversity!

See: research.csiro.au/dsp/priority-t…