Sydney Wetland Institute - Integrating traditional knowledge into ecological frameworks in the Pacific region
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This webinar is the 15th session run by the Sydney Wetland Institute (SWI). This is a forum to acknowledge the values and contributions that traditional knowledge offers to solving our ecological problems of today and tomorrow.
Presented by Dr Swapan Paul and Dr Philippe Gerbeaux
Dr Swapan Paul is the Manager Wetlands at Sydney Olympic Park Authority in Australia. He has been working in the Park since 1997 – prior to the hosting of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. He is a practicing ecologist with nearly 40 years’ experience in wetland construction, rehabilitation, restoration and management. He is the architect of the Wetland Education and Training Program run by the Authority, which recently has a new name – the Sydney Wetland Institute. Since its inception in 2001, Swapan has been managing the program and now leads the Institute agenda. Swapan is also an Adjunct Researcher at the Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is a PWS – Professional Wetland Scientist, the special qualification from SWS.
Joining Swapan in the webinar today is Philippe Gerbeaux, a wetland expert with good knowledge of freshwater conservation issues in New Zealand & in Oceania. He started his career with DSIR Hydrology Centre & then lived 3 years in Camargue, France, where he trained wetland site managers from all around the Mediterranean region, developing site management plans. While he was in Fiji , as Chief Technical Officer, he helped set up an IUCN Regional Office for Oceania in Fiji (2006-2009) & wrote the first (2007-2012) IUCN regional programme for Oceania. He was also the Oceania STRP networker for the Ramsar Convention (2005-2011). He has authored and co-authored several books & chapters as well as many scientific papers & reports, including ‘Wetland types in New Zealand’(2004), ‘Wetland Ecosystems Services in New Zealand’ (2014), ‘A classification of NZ’s coastal hydrosystems’ (2016). He is the Chair of the organising committee of the 11th INTECOL Conference to be held in Christchurch, New Zealand in October 2021
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