Day 1: Tuesday 16 February 

Day 2: Wednesday 17 February 

Day 3: Thursday 18 February 

8:30am

Welcome to Country

• Kabi Kabi First Nation – Uncle Mick Graham
• Jinibara – Jason Murphy

Welcome to USC 

Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Helen Bartlett

Traditional Knowledge Projects

Susie Chapman (Healthy Land and Water) – host

• Midden mapping in Pumicestone – Kerry Jones and Michael Strong (Turnstone Archaeology)
• Cultural burning and landscape mapping – Kerry Jones
• Mangrove rehabilitation – Bunya Bunya Country Aboriginal Corporation

9.15am

Graham Webb (Sunshine Coast Council) – host

Walking the Pumicestone Landscape – Keynote speaker Mike Ronan (Manager Wetland Unit Department Environment and Science (DES))

8:30am

Terrestrial habitat and species

Ben McMullen (MBRC) – host

• Biodiversity values – Shannon Mooney (Healthy Land and Water)
• Northern Pumicestone Passage Core and Connecting Habitat Mapping of the Northern Pumicestone catchment – Richard Newton (SCC)
• Habitat Corridors – Bernadette May (MBRC)
• Nature conservation in the Pumicestone catchment – significant challenges with diverse solution – Deborah Metters (Land for Wildlife)
• Biosecurity priorities for the Pumicestone Catchment – Stacy Harris (DAF)
• Faunawatch findings – Dr Paul Smith (Wildlife Queensland Sunshine Coast Branch)
• Stacey Bentley (SCC)

8:30am

Knowledge informing action

Will include review of Pumicestone Action Plan 2017-2020 and new plan for 2021-2024, and lead into the development of the next SEQ NRM Plan.

6 sector groups in Pumicestone Catchment Network: State Government, Local Government, Community, Industry, NRM, Research.

Stage 1 discussions – group in sectors
Stage 2 – group as spread of sectors

• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?

 10:10am – 10:35am  – Morning tea

10:15am – 10:45am  – Morning tea

Morning tea 

10:35am

Community knowledge and stewardship

Peter Armstrong (SCC) – host

Brief presentations:

• Citizen Science – Water quality, turtles, marine debris, fauna monitoring- Diane Oxenford (Bribie Island Environment Protection Association (BIEPA))
• TS Onslow Naval Cadets Mangrove Rehabilitation Project – Ken Mewburn (Take Action for Pumicestone Passage – (TAPP))
• Koalas and freshwater streams – Bernard Keays (Glasshouse Mountains Advancement Network (GMAN))
• Fisheries of Pumicestone Passage 2021 including shell recycling and oyster gardening – Elle Veary (OzFish Pumicestone)
• Penny Limbach (Tangalooma EcoMarines)

Short videos:

• Tangalooma Ecomarines – Banksia Beach School
• Night Eyes Water and Landcarers
• Tanya Woods (Unity College)
• Beerwah Christian College

10:45am 

Agriculture knowledge and science

Rachel Abel – host

• Agroeconomic overview – Bill Johnston (DAF)
• Growcom initiatives – Lene Knudsen – (Growcom)
• Sam Pike (Sandy Creek Pineapple Farm)
• Jade King (Green Valley Finger Limes)
• Gavin Scurr (Pinata Farms)
• Matthew Heilg (GoTurf)

Panel discussion

12:30pm – 1:10pm – Lunch 

12:40pm – 1:20pm – Lunch 

Lunch 

1:10pm

Marine habitat and species

Jessica Mowat (MBRC) – host

• Dynamic changes in Pumicestone Passage sediment quality and distribution – Dr Alistair Grinham (UQ)
• Water quality Report Card and trends– Naomi Soustal (Healthy Land and Water) and David Moffitt (DES)
• Seagrass – Conor Jones (WBM)
• Jellyfish of the Sunshine Coast – Raeleen Draper (SCC)
• Lyngbya – Dr Michelle Burford (Griffith University)
• Migratory shorebird monitoring – Jill Chamberlain OAM (Wildlife Queensland Sunshine Coast Branch)
• Managing threats to migratory shorebirds in Moreton Bay – Dr Richard Fuller (UQ)
• Pumicestone Shellfish Habitat Restoration Project – Susie Chapman  (Healthy Land and Water)
• Pumicestone Fish Monitoring – Dr Ben Gilby (USC)
• Monitoring natural shellfish recruitment for Pumicestone Passage – Dr Ben Diggles (OzFish)

Professor Claudia Baldwin (USC) – host

• Inter-Urban break project – Ryan Longland (DSDMIP) TBC
• Open Space – Wesley Mortison (MBRC)

Case studies 

• Aura stormwater harvesting – Dr Jane-Louise Lampard (USC)
• Aura High Efficiency Sediment (HES) basins, community engagement – Mark Stephens (Stockland)
• Floating wetlands, Pelican Waters – Hamish Pressland (Henzells Group)
• Managing safety, productivity and stewardship in a high visitation, commercial timber plantation – Michelle McAndrew (HQ Plantations)
• Reinier Mann (DES)

3:20pm – 3:45pm – Afternoon tea 

3:15pm – 3:45pm – Afternoon tea 

3:00pm – Conference finishes 

3:45pm 

Climate impacts and adaptations

Dr Gabriel Conroy (University of the Sunshine Coast) – host

• Our Resilient Coast, Our Future – A Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategy for the Sunshine Coast – Gary Duffey (SCC)
• Moreton Bay Regional Council Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategy – Glen Dare (MBRC)
• Viewing the Pumicestone Catchment through the lens of ecosystem functions and services – Simone Maynard (USC)
• Monitoring erosion on pineapple farms using drones – Dr Javier Leon (USC)
• Bribie Island Breakthrough – Speaker to be confirmed

3:45pm

Plenary

Mike Ronan – host with the most

• Summary (from each session host)
• Opportunity to have input in the following questions for each theme:
  • What do we know well?
  • What do we know not so well?
  • Priority issues
  • What are our responses?

Poster sessions

• Quick pitch
• Each do one-slide presentation on the stage before the presentations in
• front of the posters
• Use Mentimeter to vote on pitch
• PDFs on TAPP website

5pm – Finish 

4:30pm – Finish

4:30pm – 5:30pm – Drinks