Keynote+speakers

__**Three interesting people from different walks of life **__  Julianne gained a Bachelor of Applied Science (Agriculture) degree in 1994, which led to many years research experience supporting Australian agriculture, including the management of insecticide resistance in sheep blowflies and grain storage insects, the development of best management practices for mice plagues in Queensland’s grain growing regions, and ongoing research on the development of mouse plague prediction models. Early plague prediction modelling results were presented at the 13th Australasian Vertebrate Pest Conference, Wellington NZ, 2-6 May 2005.
 * __Julianne Farrell: __**

After completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Forensic Sciences in 2010, Julianne begun a research Masters degree in forensic entomology, which will be completed by late 2013. The topic of this research is Insect succession in carrion in south-east Queensland and implications for the determination of post mortem intervals. It is the culmination of 2 years of field work using over 100 decomposing pigs to gather succession data, and regular visits to the Brisbane mortuary to collect insects from human remains.

Julianne will present the findings of her research, as well as some of the highs and lows in the life of a forensic entomologist, then outline the procedures for conducting forensic entomology experiments for high school science students.

Position: Physical oceanographer Field: Physical Ocean processes, Argo project Organisation: NIWA, Wellington
 * __Dr Phil Sutton: __**

Dr Phil Sutton started off studying physics at Auckland University. When it came time to specialise, he was drawn to geophysics. This uses the principles of physics to study the Earth, including the ocean and atmosphere.

Looking for a PhD topic that would combine geophysics with his love of sailing, Phil went to San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This is part of the University of California and one of the foremost oceanography labs in the United States.

Phil is now a physical oceanographer at NIWA – he studies the physical properties and processes of the ocean. Phil has made the most of his contacts around the world to remain heavily involved with what is known as the Argo project – Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean. This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean. He mostly interprets the data, but also occasionally prepares and deploys the floats.

 As well as studying global currents and climate, Phil has done smaller-scale research. This has included looking at the effect of currents and temperature on orange roughy stocks near New Zealand and how a shark that travelled from near South Africa across to Australia might have used ocean currents.

Phil’s areas of expertise include climate and its variability, ecosystems, marine physics, ocean circulation, currents and ocean climatology.

He is looking forward to being part of Constanz 13 and sharing the results of his many years of research with you as well as imparting the importance of oceans in our existence.

__**<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Dr. Paul D. Croucher, BSc (Hons), PhD, 1996 **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Paul was born and raised in Rotorua, and schooled at Malfroy, Kaitao and Rotorua Boys. I studied further at the University of Otago and ended up with a PhD in Chemistry. The beauty of a doctoral degree is the academic and intellectual freedom you get from a subsequent Postdoctoral Fellowship where I worked in a state of the art laboratory at Monash University. Despite this, I started falling out of love with pure science and decided to chase the dream of winemaking by taking an Associate Lecturer position at Charles Sturt University in NSW on the condition that they would train me to become a winemaker. However, being a new academic, a student, and a Dad, something had to give. I withdrew from my course and asked to be promoted to full lecturer status which the University initially declined. So I decided to apply for jobs. I struck one of those purple patches where I applied for 7 jobs and was offered 6. The most prestigious and would take me closer to home was Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at The University of Auckland. I couldn’t resist.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> While this was a great new chapter in my life, I felt I was being drawn away from what I loved and that was food – primarily food that has undergone the alchemy of fermentation. I struck up relationships with Villa Maria, Lion Nathan and Hort Research but factors out of my (or their) control meant that I couldn’t pursue research with them (I guess it’s hard to justify researching the merits of beer in a Pharmacy School!). So one day after writing the index in a text book (there is nothing more boring than writing an index), I threw my toys out of the cot, handed in my resignation and started Croucher Brewing (It wasn’t quite that simple but I’m paraphrasing for brevity!).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">During the company’s infancy I taught in some of the local high schools to fund my premature midlife crisis. I enjoyed the experience but managed to be kicked out of teacher training college for not completing my homework for two years in a one year course! That was the final impetus for me to put all of my eggs in the Brewery’s basket and together with my business partner drive a cool little craft beer operation – The Croucher Brewing Co.