Event details:
- Tuesday, June 18th 2019
- 5:30 pm start
- University of Melbourne, Parkville, Biosciences 1 (G26)
- Meet other local conservation professionals and enthusiasts
- Sign up as one of our first formal members

Society for Conservation Biology
We’re very pleased to announce that our first official elections were a success, and introduce you to our 2019 committee.
Board members
Committee members
We’ll be doing some profiles on our committee members and popping them up on our webpage in the months to come. If you think you’ve got skills in any of the areas on our committee, consider teaming up with one of the lovely folk above – they’d love an extra pair of hands. Or you might have something new you want to bring to the table. Email us at melbournescb@gmail.com to get involved.
A very big thanks from the chapter president
What’s next
We’ll start to put some of the projects identified in our ‘Strategic Plan’ into action this year, as well as organise regular committee meetings and our tried and true ‘meet and greet’ dinners. We’ll also be setting up an online membership and payment system from June 2019. So stay tuned for more news on all of those fronts.
The newly formed Greater Melbourne Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology wants to hear about your local conservation projects in Victoria. It might be a research project, restoration site, conservation organisation or community group – anything related to the wide world of conservation across the terrestrial, marine and freshwater realms.
We’ll be collating brief profiles of your projects or groups and sharing them through our interactive online map, found at this link. There’s so much great work happening across Melbourne and Victoria, and we want to showcase it!
What’s in it for you? Well, you’ll get to see what conservation projects are happening next-door to your own, where you might be able to share knowledge, resources or even collaborate in the future! The possibilities are endless!
Once again, to see our interactive map of Conservation In Victoria, head to this link.
To put your conservation project on the map, please fill out the Google Form at this link.
Conservation biologists see some pretty amazing stuff on the job. Our new Instagram @scbgreatermelb gives a visual take on the lives and work of local researchers through regular member features.
Follow us to see what conservation research and management looks like across Victoria!
Our member in the spotlight this week is Lauren Tworkowski from La Trobe University. Lauren won the SCBO Best Poster Award at the 2018 Victorian Biodiversity Conference – you can check out her poster here.
How did it feel to be selected as the recipient of the SCBO Best Poster award at the Victorian Biodiversity Conference?
It felt great of course! There was definitely stiff competition, both in terms of poster design and quality of research, so I was really surprised and humbled to have been chosen. The whole point of attending and presenting at these conferences is to effectively communicate your work and get feedback, so it is great to know that my poster was well received. Makes all those long hours of formatting worthwhile!
Read the full post here at the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania’s website.