Getting to Tamaki Campus
Accommodation
Rangitoto Island Field trip
Conference Dinner
Scholarships for Student Travel Expenses

Key note speakers:

Rosemary Gillespie is a Professor in insect biology in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on understanding evolutionary patterns and processes among populations and species. Rosemary’s primary focus is on islands, particularly remote hotspot islands of the Pacific. Hotspot archipelagoes – in which islands emanate from a single volcanic hotspot from which they are progressively carried away by a geological plate – allow her to examine how communities have changed over time and thus gain insight into the nature of processes shaping communities over evolutionary time. Rosemary is the keynote speaker for the symposium on “Hotspots and Cold spots”.

Dennis O’Dowd is a Reader in Biological Sciences in the Australian Centre for Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. His current research interests include the impacts and management of biological invasions, especially on islands. An understanding of the importance of mutualism and indirect interactions in biotic communities has been a quest throughout his research career. He also has an interest in biosecurity policy and recently produced a National Threat Abatement Plan for Tramp Ants for the Australian government. Dennis is the keynote speaker for the symposium on “Island Biosecurity” and will present a paper titled “101 reasons why biosecurity is important: invasional meltdown on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean”.