**Agenda for 17 June wider local studies online meeting** 


**Time of the meeting**

  * Western Australian 12.00 - 2.00
  * South Australia and Northern Territory 1.30 - 3.30
  * ACT, NSW, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria 2.00 - 4.00


**2.00pm** Welcome to meeting

Video of presentations  

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Acknowledgment of country (plus participants to put name/library/state/name of Traditional Owners)

**2.05pm Bill Wilkie**  Librarian and author of The Daintree Blockade: the battle for Australia’s tropical rainforest, (2017). Bill is based in Mossman and works part-time with Douglas Libraries in far north Queensland since 2006. His research received the Queensland Premier's Award in 2017 for a work of State significance. https://www.daintreeblockade.com.au/

**2.40pm Dr Farley Connelly** Dr Farley Connelly is a Wildlife Ecologist with  EnviroDNA His work focuses on the use of environmental DNA or eDNA to detect the presence of species from samples in the environment including the iconic platypus. This innovative new technology allows scientists to detect a slough of species from a single water sample and has been shown to outperform traditional methods such as sight or live capture based surveys. In his talk he will explain what eDNA is, discuss some projects he has conducted using eDNA, and detail how citizen scientists can take part in eDNA studies. 

Sites mentioned 
[[ https://www.ala.org.au |Atlas of living Australia]]

[[https://www.inaturalist.org/| iNaturalist]]

[[https://ebird.org/home | ebird]]

[[https://heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/research-projects/past-projects/framework-of-historical-themes/|Framework of Historical Themes, Victoria]]


**3.15 discussion** about collecting local studies information about the environment

What kind of environmental information do you collect about your area?	

  * Prompts - does this include local environmental plans, citizen science reports/research, heritage reports, information about local environment groups/protests, ???
  * How do you work with local environment groups to collect material?
  * How do you collect environmental information where there are protests against decisions made by the council (think back to Bill Wilkie’s presentation)


What topics would you like covered in later wider local studies meetings?
Are you willing to help plan a wider local studies meeting?