A symposium entitled ‘Spatial connectivity and the management of threatened marine species’ will be hosted by Kiki Dethmers (CDU postdoc), Mark Hamann (JCU Principal Research Fellow) and Hub researcher Peter Kyne at the Society of Conservation Biology – Oceania 2012 conference to be held at Charles Darwin University on 21–23 September.   (The theme of the conference is People and Conservation in Land and Sea Country.)

The symposium will include a keynote presentation by hub researcher Mark Bravington entitled ‘Management applications of close-kin genetics; identifying spatial population structure’.

Symposium program