Environmental Courses and Education

IWC Scholarships – Water Leadership Program

Do you work in the water industry and have a strong commitment to developing your leadership skills?

Several scholarships (full - $10,000 and half - $5,000) are now available for the next round of the IWC Water Leadership Program. Applications can be made online until 15 September 2014.

Designed for emerging water leaders at the project to middle management level, the IWC Water Leadership Program is customised for the water sector through sound research and collaboration with experienced industry practitioners.

The program helps emerging leaders to develop the abilities they need to exert influence, drive change and advance challenging integrated water management projects.

IWC Scholarships – Master of Integrated Water Management

The International WaterCentre (IWC) is currently offering several full scholarships for high calibre international and domestic candidates to study the IWC Master of Integrated Water Management (MIWM) next year.

IWC will be offering up to four scholarships for international students and two scholarships for domestic students. The scholarships for domestic students will cover the full tuition fees ($49,920) for full-time or part-time/distance study of the MIWM program.

•  Apply for a scholarship by 1 August if you are an international student or 1 October if you are a domestic student

•  Apply for the MIWM program at The University of Queensland (Australia) and commence study in February 2015

Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Workshops in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

The beginning of a new financial year means that many of you will be starting to craft your organisational sustainability reports. 

ZOOiD’s two day intensive Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Process workshops will systematically take you through how to apply the GRI’s sustainability reporting framework.

You will learn how to:

• Understand, interpret and implement the GRI G4 concepts
• Select and prepare the information to be disclosed in the final report
• Apply the Reporting Principles (Stakeholder Inclusiveness, Sustainability Context, Materiality, Completeness, Balance, Comparability, Accuracy, Timeliness, Clarity and Reliability
• Identify, prioritise and communicate with your Stakeholders
• Identify material Aspects (topics) and their Boundaries (internal and/or external to your organisation)
• Communicate your report in innovative ways
• Prepare you for future reporting cycles through continuous improvement of your processes.

Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Workshops in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

The beginning of a new financial year means that many of you will be starting to craft your organisational sustainability reports.  ZOOiD’s two day intensive Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Process workshops will systematically take you through how to apply the GRI’s sustainability reporting framework.

You will learn how to:

• Understand, interpret and implement the GRI G4 concepts
• Select and prepare the information to be disclosed in the final report
• Apply the Reporting Principles (Stakeholder Inclusiveness, Sustainability Context, Materiality, Completeness, Balance, Comparability, Accuracy, Timeliness, Clarity and Reliability
• Identify, prioritise and communicate with your Stakeholders
• Identify material Aspects (topics) and their Boundaries (internal and/or external to your organisation)
• Communicate your report in innovative ways
• Prepare you for future reporting cycles through continuous improvement of your processes.

Wetland Education and Training Workshop

‘Habitat requirements and conservation management of protected frogs in Australia'

Thursday and Friday, 7–8 August 2014

Australian frogs are under enormous pressure due to anthropomorphic activities resulting in wetland loss or modification, introduced diseases and increased predation. Commitments to ecologically sustainable development and legislation require a serious rethink of how we manage wetlands and frog habitats. Many urban, peri-urban and rural environments have suffered a decline in frog habitat, extent or quality and, as a consequence, planning for frog conservation can be a key consideration in land management. Frog habitats are often constructed as offsets for development or highly managed wetlands in urban/rural environments. Building and managing successful wetlands for frogs requires understanding of frog biology and their habitat requirements. Unless these are taken into account many Australian frog species will continue to decline, resulting in overall loss of biodiversity.

A total of 18 positions are available for the 2015 Science Graduate Program

-     12 of which are based in Regional Services.

See below for the description of each position, roles are indicative and changes may occur.

About Regional Services Division

Regional Services is DEPI's "presence" for its many programs in regional Victoria. The Regional Services teams work in each of the six DEPI regions. We value, depend on, and benefit from good relationships with Victorian communities, our stakeholders and partners. We work together across Regional Services and with DEPI's corporate and policy divisions to provide integrated and responsive delivery of DEPI services.

We are focused on recruiting graduates with a passion to work and live in regional Victoria.

2014 Writing Clear Science Workshops

Who Will Benefit?

We teach writing from a broad perspective that encompasses a wide range of science backgrounds including both industry and academic research-based projects. We teach how to design documents according to audience (e.g. industry, peer review), purpose (e.g. monitoring report, journal article) and the type of research or project problem that needs to be solved.

The Standard 2 Day Workshop

The writing workshops are usually presented as The Standard 2 Day Workshop. The modules cover all aspects of writing from discussing common problems, recommending efficient practices, improving writing style, reworking sentence structure and paragraph structure, and analysing section and whole report structure. We review the standard scientific reporting framework, how to prepare reports and papers, and discuss how to clearly and concisely communicate a research project to a chosen audience. In addition, across the two days, we conduct editing, writing and re-writing exercises, where we teach how to improve writing through effective editing skills and critical review techniques.

Master Class: Understanding Groundwater Law

This course provides an overview of the laws relating to groundwater resources in Australia with a particular emphasis on the regulatory and policy frameworks that regulate groundwater extraction, use and management at the Federal and State level. It also addresses the challenges associated with the development of catchment management systems and the concept of environmental flows.

Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Workshops in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

The beginning of a new financial year means that many of you will be starting to craft your organisational sustainability reports. 

ZOOiD’s two day intensive Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Process workshops will systematically take you through how to apply the GRI’s sustainability reporting framework.

You will learn how to:

• Understand, interpret and implement the GRI G4 concepts
• Select and prepare the information to be disclosed in the final report
• Apply the Reporting Principles (Stakeholder Inclusiveness, Sustainability Context, Materiality, Completeness, Balance, Comparability, Accuracy, Timeliness, Clarity and Reliability
• Identify, prioritise and communicate with your Stakeholders
• Identify material Aspects (topics) and their Boundaries (internal and/or external to your organisation)
• Communicate your report in innovative ways
• Prepare you for future reporting cycles through continuous improvement of your processes.

UCL releases five new Santos Scholarships for 2015

University College London (UCL) has released $600,000 in scholarship funding from Santos to attract students to its world-renowned energy and resources school in Adelaide, Australia.

Up to five fully-funded scholarships will be offered to study the flagship Masters of Science in Energy and Resources Management programme, covering the full cost of tuition for two years full time study plus a possible stipend of $25,000 per annum.

UCL Australia chief executive David Travers says the programme, now in its fifth year, is fast becoming one of the most prestigious energy scholarship programmes in the world, having attracted more than 1000 applications since 2010.

Study Environment & Land Management

Get working in the great outdoors

If the great outdoors is where you want to work, our horticulture and environment courses are a perfect choice. 

As a horticulture and environment graduate you can be lucky enough to do what you love and love what you do – a chance not offered to many. 

Swinburne's courses can lead you to a fulfilling and exciting career outdoors, whether you aspire to become a landscaper, park ranger, plant grower, waterways manager or environmental officer.