Weekly program guides for the weekly radio programs broadcast on the Sydney station 2SER 107.3fm and on the CBAA Community Radio Network. Click on the links to reach soundfiles and stories for individual interviews. The 2SER website now includes podcasts of programs for current and recent weeks.
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AQOB's TV Special on TVS Channel 44 in Sydney
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Banding together:
keeping track of migratory travellers
AQOB's documentary on Migratory Shorebirds will be shown in Sydney on TVS Channel 44 on Saturday 11th September at 1830 with repeats on Tuesday 14th September at 1200 and Friday 17th September at 1630. | | Join shorebird researcher, Chris Hassell and his team of enthusiastic volunteers on the shores of Roebuck Bay during a cannon netting capture.
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| Every year, Roebuck Bay on the Kimberley coast becomes home to many thousands of migratory shorebirds. Travellers from distant breeding grounds on the arctic tundra, they live a life free from winter as they
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| | chase the summer sun from one end of the earth to the other. If birds can be tagged with individual markers, then their travels can be traced across the globe. The first step is the cannon netting capture.
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| This is a coordinated and carefully planned operation where hundreds of shorebirds are safely captured, individually marked and released within the space of a few hours.
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| The DVD of the program will be available from the Broome Bird Observatory from mid September.
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AQOB Tuesday 7 September 2010 Spring and summer - sunshine and...sandflies: part of urban entomologist Bryce Peters' research is looking at ways to prevent bites from sandflies - insects that affect people usually outdoors and in and around their homes.
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Evan Quartermain, from the Humane Society International talks about their conservation grants program which are designed to give private landholders financial assistance to manage biodiversity and conservation activities on their conservation covenanted land.
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AQOB Tuesday 31 August 2010
**AQOB celebrates five years' on 2SER this week**
Many heartfelt thanks to all the wonderful, enthusiastic, wise and informed guests who have freely given their time to appear on AQOB and edit their material for the website.
That's community for you!
Join Mark O'Connor for more myths and misinformation about population management in Australia. Click here for story and soundfile.
And then out to the backyard (or even balcony) with Costa Georgiadis and learn about aquaponics. Click here for story and soundfile.
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AQOB Tuesday 24 August 2010 Two stories about managing populations today, One's about flying fox camps.
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Apparently this can be difficult but no where near the problems associated with Australia's people population.
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On the program today: A very thirsty Coorong wetland - five years without a drop of water from the Murray!
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And Growth for growth's sake: popular myths about Australia’s population predicament.
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AQOB Tuesday 10 August 2010 Frogs may like water but even they can have too much - what happens to them in a flood?
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For Sydney's Botanic Gardens, trees and flying foxes have become a heated issue (and a court case).
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How dangerous ARE our sharks? Does it depend on being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
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AQOB Tuesday 3 August 2010 Knot Happy Old China! Chris Hassell and Adrian Boyle, from the Australasian Wader Studies Group and the Global Flyways Network, outline how the booming Chinese economy is impacting on shorebird feeding grounds in that country.
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AQOB Tuesday 27 July 2010 AQOB is featuring two more of the activities of WA's Department of Environment and Conservation in the Kimberley and both are encouraging. One is how fire scarring history is helping to change how fires affects areas of The Kimberley.
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And a second is the progress being made to eradicate the infestations of the invasive rubber vine - like the Cane Toad, another unwelcome introduction originating in Queensland.
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AQOB Tuesday 20 July 2010 On the program today we‘ll be hearing from two officers from the Department of Environment and Conservation about their work in the Kimberley. One concerns managing crocodiles.
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and the other’s to do with fire management - no mean task in a region where an area about a third the size of Victoria is fire affected every year.
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AQOB Tuesday 13 July 2010 Greetings from the West Kimberley. Join us on a stroll through the Saturday markets in Broome and hear Chris Mitchell from the Kimberley Wildlife Carers chat about his experiences with rescue, rehabilitation and relocation of Kimberley snakes when they turn up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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And WA isn't just sitting back waiting for the imminent arrival of the Cane Toad - Kingsley Miller from the Department of Environment and Conservation discusses the island surveys that have been completed to facilitate possible relocation of at risk species.
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Diving with sharks – an experience that is becoming increasingly sought after, it has many positive benefits for people’s attitudes to sharks and their preservation.
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Environmentally friendly fruit fly research. Dr Marianne Frommer describes some fascinating Australian research into fruit fly control.
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AQOB Tuesday 29 June 2010 You can grow far more in a garden than plants. Costa Georgiadis sows the seeds of colour, movement and FUN – elements that will grow any season of the year.
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The Common myna (AKA Indian mynah) is here to stay it seems. Darryl Jones and colleagues at Griffith University believe that studying the birds’ roosting colonies is essential to determine the effectiveness of any control strategies.
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AQOB Tuesday 22 June 2010 Dams, coal, agriculture and water - and then there’s the environment too… NSW seems to have a few problems with sustainable, long term management of natural resources. Guests on the program discuss different areas of concern. Leigh Martin reviews first the disappointingly poor progress for the return of flows to the Snowy River and then the disturbing likelihood of the spawning of an additional very expensive white elephant – Hunter Water’s proposed Tilliga dam.
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Dr Ann Young examines further Hunter Valley environmental problems with the impact of both open cut and long wall tunnel coal mining on the region’s rivers and streams and quality agricultural land.
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AQOB Tuesday 15 June 2010 The horned turtle has been long extinct, known only through ancient fossil records so imagine the thrill of excavating midden packed with actual bones less than 3000 years old. Still extinct but this time the cause is obvious.
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What’s happening to ENSO? El Niño has been a great shaper of Australia’s predictable patterns of droughts and flooding rains and for example, of the behavioural adaptations of Australian wildlife. But now weather patterns are changing dramatically as a result of our rapid climate changes.
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Natural disasters are not all bad: Professor Chris Daniels from the University of South Australia examines the important role that natural disasters play for many species in our ecosystems.
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The social life of sharks: they may be long lived but it seems to be a pretty solitary existence.
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We're having a bit of a whinge on AQOB this week about the so called climate change 'debate'....it's difficult to understand why the words and work of so many experts and scientists are pitted equally against the occasional, very vocal squeaky wheel who is denying what science has shown. So the program is devoted to some solid, straightforward scientific findings about the role of oceans in moderating our climate. Our guest is Professor Matthew England from UNSW.
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Well spotted! Litoria castanea, a frog species thought to be extinct has recently been rediscovered.
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Think tunnels not mounds: Rarely seen by humans, termites play a mighty role in a range of ecosystems.
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Forensic entomology - just like on TV? James Wallman explores the forensic aspects of some insects and the interplay between forensic entomology and the law.
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Tracking down Petrel de Gould: Nicholas Carlile ventures into new ground looking at a close cousin to Australia’s Gould’s Petrel.
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Putting the heat on carbon capture: Dr Lukas Van Zwieten explains how biochar is made.
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Hot tips on land management in bushfire areas: Dr Danielle Clode, author of A Future in Flames, looks into land management practices that make properties in bushfire areas safer.
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People power in environmental research
Professor Chris Daniels, from the University of South Australia, details the innovative approach to research that underpins the role of the Barbara Hardy Centre for Sustainable Urban Environments.
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A jungle in every drop of sea water?
Dr Justin Seymour studies an invisible underwater environment that acts very much like the jungles on dry land.
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AQOB Tuesday 27 April 2010 The amazing Compton Road fauna crossing complex has evolved into an entire ecosystem.
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Australian shark tagging and tracking research.
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AQOB Tuesday 20 April 2010 Two serious stories on the program this week.
Breeding Cane toads have turned up in Sydney – and we don’t just mean a few of them. Comprehensive strategies are being developed for a full scale assault in the coming Spring/Summer
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That’s serious but not as complex as the confusion and community division that is escalating in the Kimberley around Indigenous land rights, culture and heritage and the proposed development of a gas precinct at James Price Point.
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AQOB Tuesday 13 April 2010 Professor Richard Kingsford, Director of the Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre at the University of New South Wales, reports on the latest of his research group's annual surveys of our waterbirds, conducted over one third of Australia’s landmass.
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Can we be prepared psychologically for bushfires? Dr Danielle Clode, author of A Future in Flames, has undertaken research for the Country Fire Authority (CFA) in Victoria, reviewing psychological preparedness for bushfires.
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AQOB Tuesday 6 April 2010 On the program today we're studying the anatomy of two kinds of wildlife.
Dr Vic Peddemores discusses those perfectly evolved creatures - sharks and rays.
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Dr Bob Birrell looks at the make up of that very large elephant in the room that could well stymie Australia's proposed approach to controlling carbon emissions.
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AQOB Tuesday 30 March 2010 We've stories about two very different kinds of wildlife on the program today.
Nicholas Carlile has some exciting findings about seabirds that visit the islands off the NSW coast.
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Dr Bob Birrell from Monash University has been tracking down a very cryptic but very large animal. It's one of those elephants that hide in the middle of the room and this one seems to have been attracted by the current debate about controlling carbon emissions in Australia. It's a long story so we'll be hearing about it from Bob over the next two weeks.
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