Sunday 4th December 2016
1300 | Registration Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
1800 | Welcome Barbeque Tower 6 – Melbourne Cricket Ground |
Monday 5th December 2016
0800 | Registration Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
0845 | Plenary Session Olympic Room |
Session Chairs | Cameron Gourley Deli Chen |
0855 – 0915 | Welcome to Delegates Richard Bolt Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport & Resources |
Introducing the International Nitrogen Initiative Mark Sutton |
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0915 – 0945 | Opening Address Professor Ross Garnaut AO University of Melbourne |
0945 – 1015 | Nitrogen: The historical progression from ignorance to knowledge, with a view to future solutions Professor James Galloway Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, USA |
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Methods for N footprinting of INI2016 Helen Suter |
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Conference Proceedings and Melbourne Declaration John Angus |
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1015 | Morning Tea -Posters on display Betty Cuthebert Lounge |
1045 | Plenary Session Olympic Park Room |
Overarching theme: Nitrogen at a global scale | |
Session Chairs | Shamie Zingore David Wu |
1045 – 1115 | Nitrogen management for future food security: Sub-Saharan African case-study Dr Cargele Masso Soil Scientist, Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya |
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1115 – 1145 | Global nitrogen fertiliser demand and supply: trend, current level and outlook Patrick Heffer Senior Director, Agriculture Service, International Fertilizer Association (IFA), Paris, France |
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1145 – 1215 | Nitrogen budget: a tool to validate information on nitrogen fluxes Dr Wilfried Winiwarter International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria |
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1215 – 1245 | Nitrogen use efficiency and nitrogen balance in Australian farmlands Dr John Angus CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra and E.H Graham Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga |
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Conference Dinner Update Deli Chen Field Trip Update Sharon Aarons |
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1245 | Lunch – Posters on display Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
1515 | Afternoon Tea – Posters on display Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
1900 | Conference Dinner Melbourne Aquarium |
Tuesday 6th December 2016
0730 | Field Trips Field Trips will be departing from the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) at 8am sharp. Tours will return to the MCG at approximately 5pm. |
Wednesday 7th December 2016
0800 | Registration Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
0830 | Plenary Session Olympic Room |
Overarching theme: Environmental impacts and realistic goals | |
Session Chairs | Richard Eckard Danielle Skocaj |
0830 – 0900 | Tracking nitrogen from the paddock to the reef – a case study from the Great Barrier Reef Professor Michael Bell Centre for Plant Science, QAAFI, The University of Queensland, Australia Dr Britta Schaffelke Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia |
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0900 – 0930 | Nitrogen cycling and its environmental impacts on terrestrail ecosystems in China Professor Xiaoyuan Yan Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China Professor Xuejun Liu China Agricultural University, Beijing, China |
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0930 – 1000 | Realistic nitrogen use efficiency goals in dairy production systems: a review and case study examples Dr Cecile de Klein AgResearch, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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Community Forum Update Richard Eckard |
1000 | Morning Tea – Posters on display Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
1230 | Lunch – Posters on display Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
1315 | Plenary Session Olympic Room |
Overarching theme: Nitrogen for food production | |
Session Chairs | Jan Edwards Patrick Heffer |
1315 – 1330 | John Freney Memorial Session Professor Deli Chen University of Melbourne, Australia |
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1330 – 1400 | Nitrogen and cereal production: Opportunities for enhanced nitrogen efficiency and reduced losses Dr Jagdish K Ladha IRRI, Laguna, Philippines |
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1400 – 1430 | Enhanced nitrogen fertilizer technologies support the ‘4R’ concept to optimize crop production and minimize environmental losses Dr Clifford Snyder International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), Arkansas, USA |
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1430 – 1500 | Animal production and Nitrogen: Global trends in growth and efficiency Professor Oene Oenema Nutrient Management and Soil Fertility, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands |
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Progress with N Footprinting of INI2016 Helen Suter |
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1500 | Afternoon Tea – Posters on display Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
1800 – 1930 | Community Forum The University of Melbourne Bus transport will be provided for INI participants between the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the University of Melbourne. |
Thursday 8th December 2016
0800 | Registration Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
0830 | Plenary Session Olympic Room |
Overarching theme: Future directions for nitrogen policy and practice | |
Session Chairs | Robert Edis Luke Wilson |
0830 – 0900 | Assessing the use of different policy instruments to manage the unwanted release of nitrogen Simon Upton Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
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0900 – 0930 | Economic perspectives on nitrogen in farming systems: managing trade-offs between production, risk and the environment Professor David Pannell University of Western Australia |
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0930 – 1000 | Future policy directions for improving nitrogen management Professor Mark Sutton Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), Midlothian, UK |
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Best Display Poster Award Dr Robert Norton |
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1000 | Morning Tea – Posters on display Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
1230 | Lunch – Posters on display Betty Cuthbert Lounge |
1315 | Plenary Session Olympic Room |
Session Chairs | Chris Cox Lee Heng |
1315 | Looking forward to 2030: nitrogen and global sustainability goals Professor Achim Dobermann Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK |
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1340 | Success stories of nitrogen across two decades of international conference Professor Jan Willem Erisman Louis Bolk Institute |
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Outcome of N footprinting of INI2016 Helen Suter |
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1400 | Melbourne Declaration and Summary Statement Mark Sutton and selected panelists Panelists
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Acknowledgments Robert Norton and Cameron Gourley |
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1450 | Closing remarks Deli Chen |
1500 | Conference Close |