| Attending the SEGRA conference are (from left) Professor Colin Woodro... Attending the SEGRA conference are (from left) Professor Colin Woodroffe; the Chief Executive of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, Wendy Craik; the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Rob Whelan and conference convener, Tony Charters | 
| Professor Colin Woodroffe delivers the special Professorial Lecture a... Professor Colin Woodroffe delivers the special Professorial Lecture as part of the SEGRA conference |
Special Professorial Lecture held in conjunction with SEGRA conference
20 Sep 2007 | Bernie Goldie
The latest Professorial Lecture held at the University of Wollongong on 19 September was delivered specially as part of the 11th annual Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia (SEGRA) conference, under the auspice of the Illawarra Regional Development Board.
The SEGRA conference, which ran from 17-19 September, was entitled “Climate Change Response: the essentials”. The Novotel Northbeach was the main base for the conference on September 17 and 18, however, conference delegates relocated to the University of Wollongong for the final conference day on 19 September.
The Professorial Lecture was given by Professor Colin Woodroffe, one of Australia’s participants on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and lead author of the associated report released this month. Professor Woodroffe is Co-ordinator of GeoQuest Research Centre in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UOW.
The lecture, entitled “Climate Change and the Coast of Australia” was presented at the UniCentre Function Rooms 1 and 2.
The SEGRA conference saw leading national and international climate change experts deliver 16 hours of expert commentary, interactive workshops, practical case studies and hands-on planning tools.
Conference convener, Tony Charters, recently attended the intensive training session with climate change champion, Al Gore.
“Regional communities often hang together with a very fine balance of funding, resources and industries, and they are particularly susceptible to the sort of body-blow a shift in climate could deal them.
“There is a very real urgency for some practical tools and techniques to help communities plan, and adapt to, the impacts of changing weather patterns,” Mr Charters said.
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